Case Study Of 5BY2 Fully Automated Parking Puzzle System
5BY2 – Fully Automated Parking “Puzzle System”
5BY2 is a company located in Amsterdam that has developed a very unique parking system, described as a “puzzle system”. The system requires an average of 15 m2 per car, a 60% improvement over a conventional parking layout[1]. By designing the layout of each level or floor of the parking system to resemble a sliding puzzle, where one “tile” shifts around at a time to make room for a new car or to retrieve a target parked car, this parking system is highly space efficient compared to almost any other parking system in the world.
The 5BY2 system also benefits from being able to accommodate any sort of general outer shape, which can even differ from level to level[1]. The outer shape in this case means …show more content…
Potentially, if the target car for retrieval is deep in the puzzle on that particular level, meaning it is located many “tiles” away from the centre elevator shaft, it would take great amounts of shifting the other cars around to finally bring the desired car platform to the lift and bring it up to the customer on the ground level. The amount of time it would take to acquire a car would increase almost exponentially as the “puzzle” became becomes more and more complicated on a level of the parking …show more content…
When a car is in the process of storing, it can simply be lowered in down into the system as the space will be empty. However when a car must be retrieved, the whole system, including all the parked cars within, must be rotated until the target car is reached in line with the lift shaft, after which it may be moved up to the ground level for the customer[3]. This Levelparker system is also relatively simplistic and bears no complications, but the obvious disadvantage is the potential time it would take to retrieve one car, depending on just how many cars the system is able to
5BY2 is a company located in Amsterdam that has developed a very unique parking system, described as a “puzzle system”. The system requires an average of 15 m2 per car, a 60% improvement over a conventional parking layout[1]. By designing the layout of each level or floor of the parking system to resemble a sliding puzzle, where one “tile” shifts around at a time to make room for a new car or to retrieve a target parked car, this parking system is highly space efficient compared to almost any other parking system in the world.
The 5BY2 system also benefits from being able to accommodate any sort of general outer shape, which can even differ from level to level[1]. The outer shape in this case means …show more content…
Potentially, if the target car for retrieval is deep in the puzzle on that particular level, meaning it is located many “tiles” away from the centre elevator shaft, it would take great amounts of shifting the other cars around to finally bring the desired car platform to the lift and bring it up to the customer on the ground level. The amount of time it would take to acquire a car would increase almost exponentially as the “puzzle” became becomes more and more complicated on a level of the parking …show more content…
When a car is in the process of storing, it can simply be lowered in down into the system as the space will be empty. However when a car must be retrieved, the whole system, including all the parked cars within, must be rotated until the target car is reached in line with the lift shaft, after which it may be moved up to the ground level for the customer[3]. This Levelparker system is also relatively simplistic and bears no complications, but the obvious disadvantage is the potential time it would take to retrieve one car, depending on just how many cars the system is able to