Park Here! a smart parking system based on smartphones' embedded sensors and short range Communication Technologies
By Rosario Salpietro, L. Bedogni, Marco Di Felice, L. Bononi. 2015
88 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Nowadays, the convergence of Internet of Things (IoT) networking and mobile applications is favoring the deployment of novel and advanced smart parking systems through which users can be informed in real-time about the presence of vacant parking spots close to their destinations. In this paper, we provide an example of such opportunity, by describing Park Here!, a novel mobile application that aims at mitigating the overhead caused by parking spot seeking operations in urban areas. Our solution targets common city environments, where no per-spot sensors are available, and there is no remote service allowing the reservation in-advance of a parking spot. For this scenario, we propose a novel algorithm for the automatic detection of parking actions performed by the user, through the analysis of smartphone embedded sensors' (accelerometer/gyroscope), and of the Bluetooth connectivity. Once a parking event has been detected, an adaptive strategy allows disseminating the information over the target scenario, using a combination of Internet connection to a remote server, and Device-to-Device (D2D) connections over WiFi Direct links. Preliminary experiments demonstrate the accuracy of the proposed algorithm in correctly identifying parking events in an automatic way, and hence in notifying information to other potentially interested users.
Subfields: Building and Construction, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Transportation
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Citations in the corpus
- A survey of data fusion in smart city applications (2019, neutral): “[140] 4 1 4 4 1 3 Autonomous Vehicle Controlling [55], [88] 3,4 1 2,4 5 4,1 1 Smart Grid and Power Utilities [101], [141] 3 1,4 1 4,5 3 1 Solar Farm [105] 3 3 2 2 5 4 Smart Metering [27], [42] 1,2 1 1 1,2 1 1,3 Communication (5G) [47], [48] 2 1 1 1,5 1 1 Communication (WSN) [142] 4 1 2,3 4 1 1 Drone”
- A Survey of Smart Parking Solutions (2017, methodology): “PhonePark [81] and Park Here!”
- ParkUs: A Novel Vehicle Parking Detection System (2017, methodology): “(Salpietro et al. 2015) utilised an accelerometer as a well as a gyroscope sensor in order to detect parking activity.”