Human beings waste on average 25 day of their lives looking for parking spots.
We made that statistic up - but it sure seems like it sometimes, doesn't it?
We thought we ease some of your suffering by creating a hardware/software solution that could take you directly to the best available parking spot. We built a car detecting sensor on the Spark Core platform, and wrote code to publish sensor readings through a web API. A network of these sensors, all connected via multiple Spark Cores, communicate to the central server, which keeps tabs on the parking lot. A web app makes it easy to see where the open parking spots are and even navigate to the closest one from your current location.
For this proof of concept, we built the system on a table top scale, but the idea behind it is definitely scalable. Also, with a wider selection of electronic components, we thing the cost of these sensors could be driven down to under $10/sensor, making it very practical to implement on real parking lots.
Finally, we think that a service like this will become even more necessary in the future, when self driving cars start joining us in our quest for parking spots.
ParkMe is a solution that can save both humans and robots the time that is wasted looking for a parking spot.
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