Automated Parking System

The purpose of this paper is to present the concept and the implementation of a fully automated and intelligent parking system, based on prediction through probability algorithms. The work consists in a complete mechatronic structure conceived to find the most suitable parking place for each customer and automatically place its car in the corresponding position. Both HMI and web based user interaction was taken into consideration. An algorithm based on Markov models is implemented in order to interrogate the status of the parking system and to provide a probability based prediction to the customer in order to visualize the estimated number of free places over a period of the next 20 minutes.