Parking Survey Made Efficient in Intelligent Parking Systems

The emerging of intelligent sensors results in the emergence and development of intelligent parking. Parking survey is one of the most important things for the parking managers and corresponding planners or researchers. We discuss the problem of making parking survey in intelligent parking systems where parking spaces, entrance and exit are detected to acquire the occupation of the parking. We present three possible sensor layouts and corresponding algorithms to obtain the characteristic index needed in parking survey. In intelligent parking systems, we can also do parking survey in different time and areas with the same detection data. Parking survey can focuses on parking section or a single parking space.