Automated Vertical Car Parking System: A Step Towards Smarter Cities

With the rapid acceleration of urbanization, the urban population density has increased, and the traffic congestion and parking problems have become more and more serious. A flat parking has become more and more separated from the requirements of modern cities, particularly, for megacities with few land supplies. Automated Vertical Car Parking System (AVCPS) works on multi-car able spaces, enabling parking in a small area. The paper explores the role of automated vertical parking system in accelerating smart city construction from technical principle, advantages, application status and future direction.

Technical principle and operating mechanism

Well integrated SiloPark with Automated vertical parking system is a mechanism that provides high-tech robotic functions for an intelligent parking facility storing motor vehicles in a shaft like structure using vertical space. The underlying principle for automated parking systems is that the vehicle will be transported into a designated parking space by means of mechanical devices and computer control systems automatically[11]. In general a system have the following components:

Lift system: It is the system which is responsible for transporting vehicles in vertical to the different plant.

Space Shuttle: utilized to shift autos horizontally between Parking Spaces

Control system — Use sensors, cameras and computer algorithms to continuously monitor the vehicle’s position relative to the obstacle field and optimize the parking process.

Reception: The vehicle can be parked and picked-up by the car owner using a touch screen or a mobile app.

This system only requires the owner to drive the car to the parking lot entrance, and all subsequent work is done automatically by the system. After you pass the identity verification, the system will take to leave the car in a little time.

Benefits of automated vertical car parking systems

Use space efficiently

Because of the fast growth in urbanization, it lead to the traditional flat garage need a large amount of land resources, and high-rise parking system can greatly enhance the space utilization rate, so through the development of a higher level. Also, The vertical parking system of parking space utilization range is 3 - 5 times of the traditional parking lot, very suited for the scarce urban center area land resources.

Reduce parking time

It saves car owners precious minutes of parking and retrieval time by using an automated system that balances the parking spots to optimize space. In a traditional parking lot, the car owner would spend a considerable amount of time looking for an available space, while it is completely computer-controlled in a vertical parking system, in which the owner has to wait a couple of minutes to park or get his car.

Improve security

Since it is fully automated, human error is reduced with a vertical parking system. By developing fall protection devices, fire alarm devices and real-time monitoring in the vehicle storage area, and integrating more features, automobile storage will be safer.

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Analysis by pending application case status

At present, automatic vertical parking systems have been implemented throughout the world, especially in developed nations like Japan, Germany, and America. Among the most common use cases are:

Tokyo, Japan

Tokyo is a city with one of the highest population densities in the world and has exceedingly scarce land resources. In order to ease the parking concentration in the downtown area, and has advocated the primary vertical slew of parking system. One building in the Ginza office district, a vertical parking garage, accommodates more than 200 cars on one-fifth the footprint of a conventional garage.

Berlin, Germany

You will do some nice things with the Berlin City government as smart city construction, vertical car parking system as a major element. New handling robot devices greatly shorten the vehicle access operation time, which takes only 90 seconds, greatly improves the efficiency of vehicle parking.

Shanghai, China

Shanghai, one of China's largest economic centers, is also actively exploring vertical parking systems in the coming years. To give an example, it has been spread by parking lots in Pudong New Area, which have realized 24-hour unattended operation with the help of an intelligent management system and offered nearby residents and enterprises with convenient parking service.

Challenges and solutions

Although automated vertical parking systems come with hundreds of benefits, there are still some hurdles to overcome before its acceptance and implementation:

High initial investment cost

Development of technology and the acquisition and maintenance of equipment makes vertical parking systems expensive. Public-private partnerships (PPP) enable sharing the risks associated with investment, thus allowing governments and businesses to mitigate this.

Technical complexity

However, they area lot of care in terms of their function, since the mechanics and electronics of the equipment operation of aerial parking systems, when it fails, can paralyze the entire complex. So, the system reliability and maintainability are of Prime Facie Importance. The designed system should add a redundancy mechanism that can regularly upgrade the optional equipment and should be repaired in the optional equipment.

User acceptance

And some owners do not want to leave their vehicle in an automated system that they may not trust will not damage the vehicle when it’s parked. Integration of smart cities and the prospective future

The automatic vertical parking system will be more smart and more efficient with the rapid development of the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence and big data technology. Vertical parking systems will not be an isolated vs— they are designed to be integrated with other smart city infrastructure in the future like:

Intelligent Traffic Management System: Vertical parking systems can share information with urban traffic management platforms, which re-calibrates the parking strategy in real time according to traffic constraints.

Charging Infrastructure for new energy vehicles: new energy vehicle charging piles are built in the vertical parking lot, this provide one-stop service for new energy vehicle owners.

Shared parking platform: Optimize the allocation of parking resources by big data analysis and make parking Spaces share and use efficiently.

conclusion

As an intelligent management tool, the automated vertical parking systemcan not only save space and improve the efficiency of parking but also is a key support for the construction of smart cities, and it is an innovative solution to the parking problem in modern cities. However, with the promotion of the progress of technology and policy support, vertical parking system and equipment should be an important part of urban traffic management in the future, residents will be able to more convenient, safe and green parking services.