ParkTor (Parking Locator)

Abstract

ParkTor is an android application that came into existence upon realizing the persistence of the issue of of software andthe parking space availability and the need to address that issue through the use the already available technological resources in anhardware technology. The main goal was to use efficient manner as to solve the common problem that most of us have to face on a daily basis. We brainstormed and researched on the potential solutions of how the parking issue could be resolved. of an external camera that would be placed in a real environment which and send the coordinates to the server. When the retrieve the coordinates of the available parking At first, we proposed the use Id capture the video of the designated parking areawou requests for a parking space, the application will and show user the real time location of the parking slot. Next, upon user request, a GPS navigation from their current location to the desired location of the user space would be displayed to the user on the screen available parking space. Upon thorough study of the project and considering the unavailability of the environment to deploy narrowed down our scope to the use of a dummy model and the camera of the laptop. This facilitated a comparatively effective implementation of our concept. our project, we whether the specified slot is have planned to We devised the project that detects a parking location and notifies the user single parking slot, but weoccupied or vacant. Our project currently focuses rmhance our project and bring variation to it by expanding the scope and implementing it in such a way external camera is used to capture the video of the whole area and have concluded our project such that it on a that a wider area is covered, an multiple parking slots are managed simultaneously. For detects a parking area and notifies the user now, we about its status whether it’s empty or filled.