AutoPark (2nd place winners during RUHacks)

Amazon Go for Parking Lots

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