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GPS, and the mobile phones of users will be
explored to achieve the ideal of reserving a
specific spot. The end goal of this project
is a mobile app that communicates with
a parking location service to identify and
reserve parking spaces that are closest to a
user’s final destination.
Finding space to park a vehicle can be a time
consuming and stressful process on large
university campuses and venues such as malls
and shopping centers. An ideal solution will
provide users with directions to a specific
open parking space. Installing networked
sensors in each parking space is an expensive
process that is difficult to install and maintain.
We are developing a multi-sensor based, low
cost solution to monitor parking lots and
reserve parking spaces. Cameras will be used
to monitor large parking lots and image and
video processing based solutions are being
developed to detect empty parking spaces as
well as monitor occupancy and occupancy
rates of parking lots. Sensors such as RFIDs,
Campus 2020: Automating Space
Identification and Reservation
Hari Kalva, PI
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Student: Fracisco Justo
Industry
partner
interested in
this project:
ILST Technology
and Aware
Technology
(a) Original image (b)
Processed image with
occupied and empty
space detection