Car parking navigation solutions work for both indoor and outdoor parking systems and can be created to achieve optimal performance. Thus, using a parking navigation solution means that the driver of the car spends less time searching for free parking spaces. The introduction of an intelligent parking system makes life easier for the driver and can even help increase the loyalty of your organization's employees.
Smart Car Parking System – Features
The smart parking system works on a simple principle: detecting obstacles by sending signals and receiving the same reflected signals. It may even be visual feedback. The system consists of sensors and signal interception devices that scan the area and help the driver park the car safely.
However, such smart parking systems can be designed to perform many other additional functions and thus take any business to a whole new level of productivity.
Car navigation in parking lots
Such navigation is facilitated by mobile applications that combine positioning technologies. This helps the car driver to easily navigate large parking lots, especially multi-level ones. The application is designed in such a way as to plot routes to free parking spaces and display them visually to help the driver easily find a place. The functions provided by the parking navigation app include:
- Quickly find free parking spaces;
- Simplify the search by directing vehicles according to the current occupancy of parking spaces.;
- Register the details of all vehicles entering and exiting the slots;
- Optimize traffic flow and use bandwidth in an optimal way;
- Track the occupancy of parking spaces at different levels in multi-level parking lots.
Tracking the occupancy of a parking space at different levels
When entering a multi-level parking lot, most drivers face difficulties finding free parking spaces. The driver cannot properly search for an empty space, as this takes a long time and may prevent other vehicles from entering the parking space.
Using an internal navigation application specifically designed for this purpose can solve this problem quickly and effectively. The app works to provide car owners with the latest information about available parking spaces. Drivers of vehicles can use this application to reduce fuel consumption and find an empty parking space for their cars in the shortest possible time.
The application works as follows. As soon as the device detects an empty parking space, it sends information to the cloud gateway, where this information is processed and sent to a network server. As the driver approaches the parking entrance, a notification is sent to the driver's phone with information about the nearest available space. The application can also generate a visual map and show the route leading to a closed vacant spot at a certain parking level.
Booking parking spaces
A mobile car parking application can be designed in such a way that vehicle owners can book available spaces in advance, as well as pay for them. The user interface in such an application provides an easy and convenient view of parking spaces available at different levels in a multi-level parking lot. This allows vehicle owners to easily scan parking spaces in search of vacant spaces and book the most profitable ones. The application may include a payment gateway so that users can pay for the facility in advance. Thus, the entire booking process becomes well organized, simple and fast.
The parking management app offers many advantages to parking space owners as well, namely:
- The ability to provide reports and analytics;
- The owners can change the booking rules or rates at any time.;
- Service quality improvement;
- Customer loyalty is likely to improve;
- It's easy to find any car in the parking lot.;
- Optimize the use of parking space in real time.
As is often the case with vast and huge multi-level parking lots, drivers often forget where they parked their cars. Finding a car becomes a problem, and a lot of time is wasted in the process. The use of an intelligent parking system helps such drivers to find their cars quickly. When a driver enters a parking space, an alert is sent to his mobile phone indicating the location of the car with the parking space number and displaying the shortest route. In addition, these applications can be designed for turn-by-turn navigation of the driver to the vehicle, providing the most convenient access.
Technologies used for intelligent parking systems
Smart parking systems using navigation methods use different technologies to implement software applications. Some of them are listed below.
iBeacon
It is a small network device that acts as a transmitter. It helps to detect and track smartphones. The device uses signals BLE. Drivers who have installed the mobile app on their phones receive signals from beacons. They can turn on navigation, which will gradually lead them to a parking spot. This technology, when used, ensures high accuracy and low implementation costs.
Ultra-Broadband (UWB)
UWB — это система, которая обеспечивает точное позиционирование и работает, регистрируя короткие импульсы на небольших расстояниях. Функция навигации использует маломощные метки, которые потребляют меньше энергии. Сверхширокополосные приемники, расположенные на парковочных местах или в районе этих мест, перехватывают радиочастотную модуляцию, посылаемую транспондерами.
Wi-Fi
Technology such as Wi-Fi, can be operated using the existing parking infrastructure. The system works by using tags that send signals to several access points in a parking space at once. The location is determined using the RSSI and MAC address values. There is no need for any additional equipment or infrastructure.
You can learn more about the technologies on the website Indoors Navigation.
