Dynamic Street-Parking Optimisation

Abstract

An instrument to improve the quality of life in large cities, helping to reduce the car traffic, is presented in this paper. It will result in a mobile guidance software that will help the drivers looking for a parking place to find it efficiently. SmartPark relies on available parking information systems, as well as on new sensors or even on social data inputs. A fixed magnetic on-street sensor and a video processing smart camera have been developed and prototypes of both devices were tested. Their data is available through a cloud-based Internet of Things infrastructure and continuously updated every few seconds. Databases will be built over time enabling data mining methods to infer parking availability models over time which will be used, eventually, by the algorithms feeding the mobile application.