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Automated multistoried car parking system

3.2. Keyboard, indicator & beeper

In this section,12 switches are connected in matrix form and it has three LED’s , RED, GREEN&YELLOW. The person, needed to enter the password has to wait until the GREEN LED glows and when it glows, he has to press the “START” button first. This time the RED LED glows. Then the person has to enter the password. As soon as it is entered, the program checks it with the already  stored passwords. If it is correct, YELLOW LED glows. If the entered password is wrong, beeper starts beeping signifying the incorrectness of the password entered. Circuit diagram of keyboard is shown bellow.                                                       
                                                                                                        

   

                             

The indicator section contains 2 LED’s , RED & GREEN  which are present in all the floors. RED LED signifies that the lift is presently busy and shall not entertain any car to enter but if GREEN LED glows, it suggests that the lift is ready and the car can enter the particular floor. Beeper and LED's are connected to port C upper of 8255.

One more advantage of beeper is that; when a person tries to enter the lift irrespective of finding the display section to be FFF (means the floors are already filled), program sends a signal to Beeper section and it starts beeping indicating that he is not supposed to enter the lift since all the floors are already filled.

 3.3. Lift and motor section

In lift section, there is a light beam and LDR   to know whether a car has entered the lift or not. When the GREEN LED of indicator section glows, that means the lift is ready for the car to enter. When the car enters the lift, the light beam falls on LDR present in the lift gets cut and it gives a signal that a car has entered the lift. Then program decides which floor lift has to go and gives a signal to motor section. Circuit diagram of sensor present in lift is shown bellow. 


 

The motor section is a mechanical part of the model  which is used for taking the lift up/down. When the lift has to go up, program gives the signal and the motor rotates clockwise and if it has to go down, it rotates anticlockwise. First 4 pins port A is connected to motor. Power transistors must be connected to drive the motor. Circuit diagram of this section is shown bellow.    

 

3.4. Sensor section

Sensor section contains   LDR's .These LDR's are connected to each floar to give information if any car has to come down.  When a person needs to come down from a particular floor to ground floor, he is expected to focus the headlight the car onto the LDR placed in that floor. When light falls on LDR its resistance decreases. Hence IC 555 triggers and gives a signal. Program identifies that signal and  gives a signal to motor section. The circuit diagram sensor is shown bellow. In this project same circuits is connected to three floors. This circuit is different if you compared with that of lift sensor shown above.   

              

3.5. LCD Section:

In this project LCD is used to display some messages which is useful to car owners. Here 2X16  LCD ( Liquid Crystal Display) is used. This is used to display messages like

         WELCOME TO CAR PARKING SYSTEM

         LIFT IS BUSY PLEASE WAIT

         PLEASE ENTER YOUR PASSWORD

        Circuit diagram of LCD section is shown bellow. LCD is interfaced with 8051 microcontroller.

Click here to study more about interfacing LCD to 8051.


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