Handy P@rking Overview

handyparking Kick-off Meeting - June 2014
Kick-off Meeting
CRS4, June 2014
Progetti Cluster Top Down - LdA 6.1.1.A - POR FESR Sardegna 2007/2013

Context
- Follow up of Sardegna DistrICT
- Mixes know-how from previous projects: CreaTiVù,
NotreDAM, Sastria and Voiceid
- Smart Cities and infomobility

Context, cont’d
Relevant experience in:
- Web and mobile development
- Feature extraction and
Pattern recognition algorithms
http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/19997-neural-network-for-pattern-recognition-tutorial

Traffic flows to/from Cagliari city
P.U.M. - Urban Mobility Plan 2009 -
Cagliari

Traffic flows to/from Cagliari city, cont’d
P.U.M. - Urban Mobility Plan 2009 - Cagliari

Traffic flows to/from Cagliari city, cont’d
every morning in Cagliari, the number of in/out cars
increased by 38,000 units, equivalent to 50 hectares!
74
football fields

Types of Parking Areas in Cagliari
In Cagliari, parking of private cars is possible according to
different modes:
○ on the open road
○ on the road paid parking
○ off-road, in garage
○ off-road in free areas

Parking offer in Cagliari

Parking offer in Cagliari
- Underuse of close garages, in some cases only 20% of
available lots is occupied
- Greater traffic flow in the central areas
- Heavy traffic due to the continuous search for a parking

Aims of the Project
- to encourage the use of public transport in the urban
centre areas, to find parking in areas close to the bus
stops
- to increase the use of close garages
- to limit the traffic conditions suggesting where to park

User Story 1: Going to Restaurant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNtFBUvC8nY

User Story 2: Going to a Meeting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_1HgGKta58

Aims of the Project, cont’d
Problem:
finding a parking (close to a place)by smartphone
Open issues:
1. Where will I find parking?
2. Can I have guarantee of a parking when I arrive?
3. Can I have access to a garage in a simple way?
http://www.clipartbest.com/

Aims of the Project: solutions
Solution 1: monitoring of free access parking areas
providing statistics-based recommendations to users
Solution 2: remote reservation of controlled access
parking services

Solution 1
Monitoring: a camera captures video of free access
parking areas. Images are processed by computer vision
algorithms to check parking lots availability
http://www.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/

Solution 1
A statistical percentage of parking chances is calculated
and notified through a map to the end users

Solution 2
Reservation
from a mobile phone
the car driver chooses from a set
of parking services

Solution 2
Reservation
The car driver reserves a parking lot
He can be sure the service
has a lot for him

Solution 2
Reservation
When he reaches the parking, his car plate is read and he’s
allowed to
automatically access
http://www.gsma.com/

Architecture
& modules

Architecture
User
Applications
Parking
Lots
HandyParking Core
ARP IPM
Internet

Architecture
User Applications

Architecture
Core

HP Core exposes a set of APIs to interact with the
monitoring systems (IPMs) and park reservation/access
systems (ARPs)
HP Core (1)
HP Core
R
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T
A
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HTTP
IPM
ARP

HP Core (1)
HP Core manages the user accounts, connection to
payment services, authorizations, communication and API
for mobile and web apps
HP Core

HP Core (1)
Open
Parking1
Open
Parking1
Close
Parking2
Close
Parking3
Close
Parking3
Close
Parking3
Close
Parking2
Close
Parking3
HP Core collects data
from all the parking
information sources

HP Core (2)
Open
Parking1
Open
Parking1
Close
Parking2
Close
Parking3
Close
Parking3
Close
Parking3
Close
Parking2
Close
Parking3
- Accepts queries for parking
statistics from web or mobile
apps
- Works as a broker for:
● reservation
● payment
● tracking time
● in/out car flows

Architecture HP Core

Architecture
ARP

ARP - Automatic Reservation Platform
- Works integrated with the Parking Service system
- Interacts with existing cars in/out access system
- Communicates with HP Core through the APIs
API REST
ARP
HP Core
HTTP

ARP - Automatic Reservation Platform
- Accepts the reservation requests from HP
- Allows reservation owners
to enter by car plate
- Communicates to HP Core
an updated lots availability
ARP

Parking Service Requirements
1. Install an ARP system for his service
1. Allow the ARP system to interact with the existing
counting/access/exit system
1. Install a camera for car plate reading
ARP

Architecture
IPM

IPM - Intelligent Parking Monitor
- Works on free access
parking lots (i.e. squares,
roads, boulevards, …) with
the aim of providing
information about parking
availability.
RfidSensors Computer Vision
- a variety of technologies

- IPM captures and processes real time shots of free
access parking lots
IPM

- It sends to HP Core the results using its API
IPM
HP Core
Availability

- The algorithm creates a vocabulary of vehicle features
- Multiple types of vehicle features
points of interest lines and arcs color histogram

- Haar-like features or LBP (L2BP) features
1 2
3 4
1
11 42
413
V

IPM - Intelligent Parking Monitor (Samples)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AJMNzdzi1whttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMCD2QI8bwQ

Many instances can be installed in different places to
monitor different areas
HP Core

Architecture
Parking Lots
1.. N
ARP
1 .. N
IPM
1 … N
(Admin)
Manage

Architecture
Car Driver
Applications
Parking
Lots
HandyParking Core
Internet

Third parties extensions
Third parties can develop (and sell) their own IMP, ARP or Mobile
apps just using the APIs to pull/push data from HP Core
Handy P@rking 1.0
Core Services: Data, Search, File Storage, Authentication ...
Platform API REST API
Extensibility
ARPIPM
External
Applications

Third parties extensions
Data specification is open, it’s easy to add parking
information to existing apps to improve the current service
(food, shopping, travel, ...)

Development
& open-source

Development & results: open-source
HP Core code will be released under an open-source license
and its development will be open, too
REST API
HP Core

Open-source: MIT License
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
THE SOFTWARE.

Open-source: MIT License

Development & Results: repository
● git on GitHub/Bitbucket: free to use for public projects
● web and terminal-based tools

Development & Results: repository
● public repository: branch, fork, watch, notifications, project
pages, releases, collaborators, ...

Open Data?
5stardata.info

Open Data?
● Do we want to release data as “open”?
● Which data? Parkings, stats, usage,...
● How? CSV, JSON, CC0 license, ...
● Who & Where? Partners? API? URI?
Centralized vs. Federated, ...

Contacts
Sito web: http://handyparking.crs4.it
Email: handyparking@crs4.it
Facebook: HandyParking-fanpage
Youtube: HandyParking Project

Thank you!
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