Riyadh Smart Parking
Our vision aims to raise the quality of life and we had planned smart cities from scratch but what about the current cities the residents of Riyadh suffer from extreme traffic and spend hours circling the block searching for a open park which wastes time money and is bad for the environment. 30-50% of traffic is causing by not being able to park and due to Riyadh lack of proper city planning and radid increase in inhabitants especially after allowing women to drive and as the car being the main way of transportation finding a open park could be a nightmare for some. We have approached this problem from the technological perspective by developing a free application for Riyadhs inhabitants that's main goal is to navigate each driver from their current location to the best open park possible in the shortest time possible but what dirstinguishes us from similar apps in the literature is that we provide the time of departure for each park as well as the ability to book suck parks even if it is ahead of time via a interactive live map. The technology's that we used are the cellar censor that will track the users location and the ultrasonic sensor to track the occupancy of the parking in case the driver doesn't have the app but in which case will case will not be able to provide booking features. We have struggled in the lack of expertise and experience and in motivating the drivers to input correct data about there time of departure we also didn't have enough time to validate our project For future work we will validate our project and we plan on making the detection of the time of departure automatic as well as vobering all kinds of parks. We plan on expanding the scope of target users to include institutes as well because with time the app will have collected enough data to help institutions provide better parking such as ruch hours parking scope percentage of booked parking etc we also plan on benefiting more from the cellular secsor to link data with the persons phone like certain access to private parks like disabled parking or home parking or private hotel offices parking etc