DocumentCode :
1875503
Title :
Sensor fusion based energy efficient and sustainable smart parking system
Author :
Shahzad, Gul ; Ahmad, Arbab Waheed ; Heekwon Yang ; Chankil Lee
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Commun. Eng., Hanyang Univ., Seoul, South Korea
fYear :
2015
fDate :
1-3 July 2015
Firstpage :
100
Lastpage :
104
Abstract :
With the rapid increase in urban population and hence the automobiles, parking has emerged as a resource with fair amount of energy consumption, air pollution and traffic congestion in almost every major city around the globe. Therefore, its efficient management in terms of both energy and space is not only necessitated to save a lot of energy, but also plays a pivotal role to obtain environment friendly green cities. In this article, we proposed a smart energy efficient parking system, which integrates the image recognition techniques for license plate recognition, infrared sensor for group control and wireless sensor network (WSN) for intelligent light emitting diode (LED) lighting. The system offers better guidance to parking position, controls LED lights based on traffic distribution for maximum energy efficiency, and offers enhanced security as compared to its counterpart conventional system. The system is built on ZigBee based Wireless Mesh network (WMN) nodes equipped with image sensor and RF module. The vehicles in the parking lot are detected and recognized using the grid based algorithm and license plate image recognition. The concept of zoning or lighting group control algorithm is integrated with moving object tracking algorithm to control the array of lights to attain the maximum energy efficiency and reduced Greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions. In comparison to conventional parking and normal lighting, the proposed system presents the substantial amount of energy savings, less environmental pollution and enhanced surveillance. Moreover, the embedded advantage of improved reliability, reduced maintenance and low cost due to smart control suggests very satisfactory and optimistic results for future implementation of the system as an integrated part of smart cities.
Keywords :
Zigbee; air pollution control; energy conservation; image fusion; image recognition; image sensors; infrared detectors; light emitting diodes; lighting; object tracking; traffic control; wireless mesh networks; wireless sensor networks; LED lighting; ZigBee; energy efficiency; energy savings; enhanced surveillance; environmental pollution; group control; image sensor; infrared sensor; intelligent light emitting diode lighting; license plate image recognition; moving object tracking; reduced greenhouse gas emissions; sensor fusion; smart control; smart energy efficient parking system; sustainable smart parking system; wireless mesh network; wireless sensor network; Energy efficiency; Licenses; Light emitting diodes; Lighting; Vehicles; Wireless sensor networks; Zigbee; Energy Efficiency; Group control; Image recognition; LED Intelligent lighting; Smart parking; Wireless sensor; ZigBee;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Communication Technology (ICACT), 2015 17th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Seoul
Print_ISBN :
978-8-9968-6504-9
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/ICACT.2015.7224766
Filename :
7224766
Link To Document :
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