Demo Abstract: Building a Smart Parking System on College Campus

Parking shortage is a common problem for U.S. colleges and universities, one of the major solutions is to equip existing parking lots with smart parking systems. While various smart parking systems have been developed to provide parking monitoring and guidance, the central problem is how to make the tradeoff between the cost, accuracy and reliability. In this demo, we present our system that integrates IoT sensors and surveillance cameras to count vehicles at a parking structure. The accompanying website provides real-time parking space availability, floor-level capacity estimation and parking occupancy prediction. Overall, we plan to share our experiencing on building a low-cost yet reliable smart parking system on college campus.