کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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383085 | 660801 | 2014 | 14 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
It is often frustrating for drivers to find parking spaces, and parking itself is costly in almost every major city in the world. Here we propose a crowdsourcing solution by exploiting sensors in smart-phones to collect real-time parking availability information. We design a phone-based system to track a driver’s trajectory to detect when they are about to leave their parking spot. We focus on the efficiency and accuracy of using a phone to monitor the driver’s walking trajectory, applying a waist-mounted PDR method that can measure the driver’s moving distance with a high accuracy. In addition, we design a map matching algorithm to calibrate the direction errors when the driver is in an indoor environment, using widely-available building floor plans. The results of our experiment show that we can achieve about 98% accuracy in estimating the user’s walking distance, with an overall location error of about 0.48 m.
Journal: Expert Systems with Applications - Volume 41, Issue 5, April 2014, Pages 2443–2456