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A Study on Improvement of Parking Guidance System to Low-Power Operation for Green Building  

Lee, Jeong-Jun (모루시스템(주), 아주대학교 건설교통공학과)
Oh, Young-Tae (아주대학교 환경건설교통공학부)
Lee, Choul-Ki (아주대학교 ITS 대학원)
Yun, Il-Soo (아주대학교 환경건설교통공학부)
Chung, Sang-Ho (교통안전공단)
Publication Information
The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems / v.10, no.3, 2011 , pp. 1-8 More about this Journal
Abstract
The parking guidance system can increase driver's convenience with detailed parking information service, but it continuously consumes electrical energy with large amount of sensors, displays and control modules. With the increase of the demand for green and sustainable building design, it becomes a meaningful issue for parking guidance system to reduce operating power. This paper presents the preliminary design and estimated results of a parking guidance system which is optimized to reduce the power consumption mainly on detectors and displays. The system design is based on commercial wireless parking detectors, wireless-loop-detector and earth-magnetic-detector. We have performed system architecture design, communication network design, parking information service scenario planning, battery life regulation and at last operating power estimation. With the 7 years of battery replace cycle, the estimated result for power consumption of designed system was 0.33W/slot, which is 13% of the traditional system's estimation result. The estimated annual maintain cost was similar to the traditional ultrasonic sensor based system's. The low power operable designed system can be expected to reduce CO2 emission.
Keywords
Green building; parking guidance system; low power; wireless loop detector; parkdisk;
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