Hello 
I have a project to create a smart parking system platform in Belgium. I've been thinking about it for several years now, but the current circumstances related to covid-19 make me doubt. I would like to know your opinion: have the people working on this type of project been negatively impacted (decrease in their activity) since the beginning of the sanitary crisis ?
Thank you in advance for your help,
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Please tell us what you want to do. Keep cars 2 meters apart?
Monthly billing for parking?
Time in time out billing?
I would like to create an intelligent parking sensor system (with license plate recognition for example to achieve this). The aim is that with my application, users will be able to access a variety of parking spaces and see in real time which space is available (close to their location) and at what price etc.
Then, all they would have to do is reserve their space on the application and that's it. The offer I would like to propose would be similar to this : https://www.myflexipark.be/en/automatic-parking-management, but I would stand out in several ways (especially in terms of pricing).
Registration to the application would be free and payment would only be made when reserving the parking space on the application.
Do you think that depending on the type of payment I will choose, this project will be more or less viable?
Thank you in advance for your help
What part do you see an Arduino playing in this system ?
Arduino would have an important place in this project, especially with regard to the management of the cameras used and the sensors used to locate the parking spaces available on the application
An Arduino will not be able to do this [scroll down for the show
this is a multi part project.
license plate logging would need to be done with a camera. Raspberry Pi or some such.
web hosting for real time pricing and available space is also something that an ESP32 or a RPi could do
individual space availability is something the Arduino could help with, but it would be the Web Host that does the most work.
is there a general idea of how many spaces a small or medium lot would have ?
It would be possible to say
4 cars have entered the lot, but have not taken spaces
the nearest spaces to the entrance are L3-365 L4-410 and L1-172 ( Level3, space 65 )
There are currently 27 free spaces
With some programming and web development, one might be able to show a map with open spaces
as was mentioned, this is not a project that one arduino could do easily.
license plate logging would need to be done with a camera. Raspberry Pi or some such.
OpenMV. But how many cameras? Most license scans are at some point of passing, so only one camera.
Thanks for your replies. Indeed, it is a multi part project. I've just scrolled Github website, I understand better what you mean now. I like the idea of having a map showing open spaces, it will be useful to have a clear vision. Also, these kind of informations "4 cars have entered the lot, but have not taken spaces
the nearest spaces to the entrance are L3-365 L4-410 and L1-172 ( Level3, space 65 )
There are currently 27 free spaces" are exactly what I am looking for.
Not sure what the exact numbers are, but historically parking (payment) systems that involve any form of registration typically achieve about 15% to 20% of market share.
What I've yet to see is a new parking system that does not require pre-registration.
Ok I see that is quiet weak.. Needs to be a solid project !
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OpenMV. But how many cameras? Most license scans are at some point of passing, so only one camera.
Yes. Very limited field. A cattle chute. Car enters and gets a ticket or coupon. Gets plate scanned.
One for each entrance.
One for each exit.
Both front and back of car if there is no plate on the front
I can tell the OP is not a car driver or has never parked in a controlled parking garage. Cars cannot be assigned a slot, they go where they want and may not even stay there. A shopper may come to the car with a load of stuff and discover they are parked next to their enemy and move their car to a different slot. A car may enter the garage and get a cell phone call and immediately leave.
Paul
Parking is simple math.
100 cars enter every day
100 cars leave.
there is space for say, 80 cars
As one exits the lot, there is a new space available. (simple math)
an arduino in every space can say there is a car there (or not)
all report back to a central point.
say 5 cars enter and 3 cars pull out and drive to park out of the sun,
none leave the exit, so available spaces are total , less occupied, less cars not in spaces
every arduino that shows and empty space would light green on the map as available.
it's really not rocket surgery.
however, I get the feeling the OP has no experience so needs to hire people to do the work.
I think we are writing the basic spec's for the project.
as I see it ( by NO means is this perfect )
arduinos to detect car in spaces, needs some means to report back to a central computer
license plate auto-scanner and entrance and exit, probably a Pi due to more software than ESP32 (the other micro that does camera recognition)
central controller, web host and sign control.
all space devices report back arduinos report occ or not occ
plate scanners send time and data, in or out
central controller , posts number at entrance '27' available spaces
central controller, hosts website for map
If one wanted to know what plate went into what space, then a camera in each space for plate scan could replace Arduino to detect if space is occ or not occ
weather harden
all units need to be hard cable networked for power and data
all enclosures need to hardened for vandalism
speed of completion is based on the size of the team.
software for lot full is easy, would be able to help with that in this group
** premium paid service. buy a space in advance. pay extra.
** cone to 'pop-up' to show reserved and goes dark on the map. also reduces available count.
once you add features, time and money influence outcome.
plate recognition
space sensing (not the same as counting in and out of cars)
enclosure design, circuit board and sensor design
*sensor field testing
power data network design
website design
any one of these could take months.
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