Intelligent Car Parking Management System On FPGA Rehanullah Khan a , Yasir Ali Shah b , Zeeshan Khan c , Kashif Ahmed ad , Muhammad Asif Manzoor c , Amjad Ali a a Sarhad University of Science and IT, Peshawar, Pakistan b Institute of Business & Management Sciences, AU, Peshawar, Pakistan c UET, Peshawar, Pakistan d iFahja Limited, Peshawar Abstract— Car parking has become an immense issue, especially in big cities. There are two main reasons: Firstly, the growth in population, secondly, the security. Moreover, the car theft has become an evil art haunting drivers. In this paper, we provide an interface and a software/ hardware module for Intelligent Car Park Management System (ICPMS). The ICPMS will provide an extensive management for vehicles including parking facilities and security. The ICPMS is validated using a test case scenario and extensive experimentation proves the feasibility of the approach. Index Terms—Car park management system, Verilog HDL, wireless sensor network, FPGA. I. INTRODUCTION Due to the technological innovations man is leading a comfortable life. But at the same moment these advancements have at times become troublesome. The number of people using their own cars has increased exponentially in the past ten or fifteen years. The car parking has become an immense issue especially in big cities. Two main reasons can be cited for this. One reason is the growth in population and the other is the security. Car theft has become an evil art nowadays. Now the question arises, is it possible to introduce such a system that would solve all these issues and will be intelligent too. We have provided an interface and software/ hardware module which is validated using a test case scenario. The extensive experimentation proves the feasibility of the approach. ICPM solves all the issues related to car parking such as finding free parking slots, improved invoice system and certainly the security issues. The work is aimed at providing such a system that would be feasible in the third world countries like Pakistan. Our approach is cost effective and it covers all the features of a complete intelligent car parking management system. The central idea of the project came from the troubles we face in parking our cars in our daily routine. The inspiration was always there but it required a rock-solid approach. The nuisance of parking cars is escalating day by day. Indeed a good design was required. For that a literature survey was done so as to confirm that that this effort should not be a repetition of anything accomplished before. The reference paper [1] is about the Car-Park Occupancy Information System. This is implemented in Matlab and used cameras for finding the free parking slots. With this system, images captured by a surveillance camera were processed in real-time to identify the occupancies of the parking lots. This occupancy information is further processed by a central control unit and distributed to display panels located at strategic locations at the parking area. The drivers can easily find a vacant parking lot based on the information displayed on the panels. An approach using WSN (Wireless Sensor Network) based intelligent car parking system [2], in which wireless sensors are deployed into a car park field, with each parking lot equipped with one sensor node, which detects and monitors the occupation of the parking lot. The status of the parking field detected by sensor nodes is reported IJCSI International Journal of Computer Science Issues, Vol. 10, Issue 1, No 3, January 2013 ISSN (Print): 1694-0784 | ISSN (Online): 1694-0814 www.IJCSI.org 171 Copyright (c) 2013 International Journal of Computer Science Issues. All Rights Reserved.