Inspiration
Parking at places busy places like costco is frustrating. If there was a application to book parking stalls in advance, myself, and others could better plan when to shop and avoid the annoyance of arriving to a location just for all parking spaces to be taken.
What it does
PyPark is a smart parking tool used to make parking in advance easier with a simple to use website and realtime communication between the software and hardware components
How we built it
PyPark's Web application is build using flask, a python library for building web applications. The web application communicates serial data to and from the arduino to indicate various states of the parking stall, such as reserved, taken and free. From the web application users can reserve the spot and use a RFID card to confirm they booked the parking stall upon arrival.
Challenges we ran into
Serial communication with web application, also learning how to use and write HTML, and bootstrap.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
learning how to implement a project that involves multiple languages as well as a softaware and hardware component.
What we learned
how to use arduino uno and various tools that comes with its starter kit like ultrasonic sensors, RGB LED, and RFID cards and readers.
What's next for PyPark
change hardwired serial communication to wireless communication.
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