Real-Time Parking Availability Overlay on Navigation Maps
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Solution Overview
Problem
Identifying parking availability in parking facilities is often time-consuming and inefficient, leading to motorists potentially missing available spaces and causing increased traffic and emissions.
Innovation Solution
A system comprising user devices, sensor devices, a controller device, and an app server that communicates to provide real-time parking availability information on a map, allowing users to quickly locate available spaces based on criteria such as distance and location, using sensors to detect vehicle presence and transmit data for overlay on navigation systems.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of time
If motorists manually search for parking facilities, then they may find available parking spaces, but the process is time-consuming and tedious
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary detection of parking space availability using sensor devices before motorists arrive at parking facilities. Availability information is pre-processed and made accessible through the communication network, so motorists receive ready-to-use information without needing to manually search or wait at facilities.
Solution Approach 2:
A communication network acts as an intermediary between sensor devices at parking facilities and user devices of motorists. The network transmits parking availability information from sensors to motorists in real-time, eliminating the need for manual information gathering and providing direct access to accurate parking status data.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If motorists search extensively for parking, then they may find suitable spaces, but vehicle traffic and emissions increase
Solution Approach 1:
Sensor devices continuously monitor parking space occupancy and provide real-time feedback to the communication network, which relays updated availability information to motorists. This feedback loop ensures motorists receive accurate, current information about parking spaces, enabling them to make reliable decisions without extensive searching that would increase emissions.
3Ease of operation
If parking facilities do not provide availability information, then system complexity is reduced, but motorists cannot efficiently locate available spaces
Solution Approach 1:
Parking facilities use automated sensor devices to self-detect and self-report their occupancy status without requiring manual intervention from facility staff. The sensors automatically transmit availability information through the communication network to motorists, enabling efficient parking location while keeping operational complexity minimal and automated.
Data Source
AI summary
A device may receive map data that identifies a parking facility located in a particular geographic area; identify the parking facility based on the map data; receive parking data that identifies an available or an unavailable parking space located in the parking facility; combine the map data and the parking data to form combined data; and provide the combined data for display. The combined data may cause a map of the particular geographic area to be displayed. The map may have a representation of the parking facility, a representation of a number of available or unavailable parking spaces in the parking facility, or a representation of an entrance of the parking facility.