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AutoPark (2nd place winners during RUHacks)

Amazon Go for Parking Lots

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Problems

  • Kiosks and gateway employees add labour costs
  • Paper tickets have an environmental impact
  • Tickets are easy to lose
  • Automated systems still require labour to check tickets on dashboards
  • One can take multiple tickets to try get the latest time

Solution: AutoPark

  • Android system that uses cameras to take a of the vehicle on entry and exit of the parking garage, recording time for payment purposes
  • Stores pictures on Amazon S3
  • Uses Machine Learning (Google's Tensorflow) to determine similarity between vehicles
  • Swipe your credit card using Square Payments reader on entrance and you are paid on exit
  • Keep track of remaining spots

Features

  • If you avoid the camera on the way out, you are charged the maximum

  • Being an Android app, it receives Over The Air Updates via the play store

  • Compatible with wide amount of Android-supported devices that already have cheap, high-quality cameras

  • Closed Circuit Camera can be used for surveillance by law enforcement

Future Innovations

  • NFC payments support
  • More memes
  • Broadcast available quantity of spots online
  • A real gate

Objects for database

  • Vehicle inside lot:
    • Credit Card: will most probably be stored through payment processor
    • Plate Number
    • Time In
    • Time Out: optional
  • Lot data:
    • Available Spots
    • Max Spots
    • Pricing Structure

Setup

  1. Install the Android apk onto your phone
  2. Open http://park4pepe.com/
  3. Put your square reader into your phone

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