Smart Parking

IEEE acknowledges the constant expansion of the university. The regents are keen on adding more departments, more buildings, and more students all the time. The amount of land that UCSD has is limited. This can only lead to a situation where parking will become increasingly difficult for students.

Gilman Parking offers one of the best locations to park on campus because of its close proximity to most of the lecture halls. But with UCSD's limited parking, it is often fully occupied. There is always the "S and B spots full" sign that students often ignore and end up driving up 4-5 floors to discover that there really are no space. Wouldn't it be nice to know about the parking availability before wasting your time in driving all the way up to the roof?

Smart Parking is an aid to transportation problems. By programming and interfacing PIC microcontrollers to piezoelectric and 900MHz RF radios, the Smart Parking Team’s goal is to design a system to monitor and display the number of available parking spaces in the parking structure.