ParkSense

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  Landing Page

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  User Dashboard

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  Admin Dashboard

Inspiration

Urban drivers often spend 15–30 minutes searching for parking, even when parking spaces exist. Most current solutions are reactive, showing only live availability and forcing users to drive, wait, and circle. We wanted to solve parking as a planning problem, not a last-minute discovery problem. This led to ParkSense — a system that predicts parking availability ahead of time using AI.

What it does

ParkSense is an AI-powered smart parking platform that predicts parking availability 30–120 minutes in advance.
It helps users find parking faster and helps administrators manage capacity, pricing, and demand more efficiently through real-time and predictive dashboards.

How we built it

ParkSense was built using:

• Frontend: Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS
  
• Backend & Database: Firebase Firestore
  
• Authentication: Firebase Auth
  
• AI & Intelligence: Google Gemini API
  
• Cloud & Hosting: Firebase and Google Cloud
  

Gemini is used to analyze historical parking data and contextual signals to generate demand forecasts and actionable insights for both users and admins.

Challenges we ran into

• Designing meaningful predictions with limited real-world data
• Structuring Firestore for both real-time updates and analytics
• Balancing MVP scope with feature completeness
• Integrating AI insights in a way that is explainable and useful

Accomplishments that we're proud of

• Built a working end-to-end MVP with both user and admin dashboards
• Successfully integrated Gemini-powered intelligence
• Designed a scalable architecture suitable for multi-city deployment
• Demonstrated measurable impact through predictive parking metrics

What we learned

• Predictive systems provide far more value than reactive ones
• AI is most effective when paired with clear UX and dashboards
• Gemini enables rapid experimentation with real-world AI features
• Building for both users and administrators unlocks operational impact

What's next for ParkSense

• District-level admin management for city-scale control
• IoT and CCTV integration for real-time slot detection
• Advanced Gemini-powered multimodal predictions (traffic, weather, events)
• Smart city and municipal integrations
• City-wide parking heatmaps and analytics

Built With

• firebase-auth
• firebase-firestore
• google-gemini-api
• next.js
• react
• tailwind-css
• typescript