Underground Automated Car Parking System: Addressing Security Concerns

To the growing demand, ground parking in urban areas is unable to satisfy due to the accelerated urbanization and very limited land resources. An underground automatic parking system, as an important part of throughout transportation and traffic control, has gradually show its energy saving and space saving advantages. Other, to a large extent, the automatic parking system is widely used, but it also has many security risks. The effective management of these security issues, are emerging as a key area of research and practice today. Works aimed to analyze the safety of the underground automatic parking system from the perspectives of technology, management and law, to put forward countermeasures and suggestions.

Technical security issues

System fail and data security

The underground automatic parking equipment is composed of a series of complex mechanical equipment and computer control system. Once a failure with technical nature occurs, it may lead to paralysis of the whole system and even safety accidents. Exploitation of control vulnerabilities may lead to vehicle output damage (e.g., robot arm failure) or render old control systems obsolete. Therefore, the technical challenges to overcome are system robustness and data safety.

Reliability of Sensors and monitoring systems

Mostly these systems consist of integrated comprehensive sensors and monitors for monitoring vehicle position, system status & environment changes and these elements are working together on the mechanical parts. However, it depends on the accuracy of the sensor and the reliability of the monitoring system to ensure the security of the system. For instance, false or missed sensor alarms may lead to incorrect positioning of the vehicle, which, in turn, may cause an accident. So, one of the major challenges limiting the safe operation of these systems is the reliability of these sensors and monitoring systems.

Reinforcing the Emergency Response Mechanism

The emergency handling mechanism of an automatic parking system is a primary guarantee for handling emergencies. It should act immediately to protect vehicles and personnel in the event of emergencies such as fires, earthquakes, etc... Nevertheless, some systems do have shortcomings in their emergency response mechanisms, and this challenge has yet to be effectively addressed. Therefore, how to build a perfect emergency treatment mechanism has become an urgent technical problem to be solved.

Security problems at the management level

Training and management of operators

Although automated parking systems reduce interaction with humans significantly, operator management and training is still essential to the successful deployment of the system, since efficient managing element systems represent—in the perspective of operator utilization—the first step toward establishing a facility. The operators should have a professional technical knowledge and the ability to deal with emergencies, and they should be able to deal with various emergencies in the operation of the system. Even those current parking system operators have also lack in systematic training in handling emergency operations. So Enhance the training of operators and management is The job of the management level.

Regular systems maintenance and overhaul

Because the automatic parking system daily maintenance and overhaul is to ensure that the system long-term stable operation and the key. However, the maintenance of many parking systems lags and fails to discover potential safety hazards and solve them in time. If such as mechanical equipment wear, electrical aging and other problems are not timely solved, it may cause a system failure, a safety accident and the like. Therefore, scientific maintenance and maintenance system is an important management measure.

Improve user education and increase security awareness

Users are important agents of the automated parking system, and their behavior can directly affect how safe the system is. But most of the people don't know how to work automatic car parking system and the security measures which lead them to do errors or to behave incorrectly which we get security threats. Therefore, it is up to the management focus and strengthen the user train and user security awareness.

Legal aspects of security

Strengthening of legislations and regulations

Due to the imperfect existing laws and regulations on underground automated parking system, in addition to the absence of safety standards and division of responsibility, on the one hand, we should understand that the insurance compensation of the existing existing investment of enterprises, on the other hand, but also minority investors working hard to make money, have been buried in institutional arbitration, the company find the point to the attempt to make a bid. For instance, there is no law regulating how to define liability on damaged vehicles or injured passengers due to system failure, and how to take compensation. Therefore, in terms of rule of law, the task of constructing the relevant laws and regulations, clarifying the responsibilities of relevant subjects is a heavy task.

Formulation and implementation of safety specifications

Automated parking system safety relies heavily on essential safety standards. But, the uniform safety standards of many parking system and enforcement of laws are not deficiencies, which the safety hazards cannot be effectively controlled at this stage as showed in Table 6. Therefore, at the legislative level, the near-homogeneity of security standards and measures to strengthen law enforcement represent the most effective solutions.

Accountability and compensation mechanism

In the safety accident of automatic parking system, the determination of identity and reasonable compensation is the legal premise to solve the problem. For example, in terms of the damage caused by system failure (in vehicles), the relevant tort liability is expected to define the responsibility of the system supplier, operator or user, and the loss in case of damage should be clearly stipulated by laws. Therefore, establishing a sound mechanism for accountability investigation and compensation is an important legal task.

conclusion

The underground automatic parking system is an important component of modern urban traffic management, and the safety of its automatic parking system cannot be ignored. From three aspects of technology, management and law, the system stability, data security, emergency processing mechanism, operator training, daily maintenance, user education, laws and regulations improvement, safety standard formulation and implementation, responsibility and compensation mechanism, are all need to be solved the problem. Only in these aspects can we take a firm hold of underground automatic parking system safely into the operation, for urban traffic management more than can provide strong support.