Park Shark Overview
The Park Shark system aims to provide students with accurate information about the parking availability in the school's parking garages. The Park Shark system uses a combination of computer vision and ultrasonic sensors to monitor the parking spots throughout the garage. Each computer vision module will monitor three parking spots at a time. The sensor modules will monitor the parking spots that are not within the camera's field of view and all the parking spots on the roof of the parking garage. The information about the spot's availability from the sensor modules is then relayed wirelessly via Bluetooth to the computer vision module. The information gathered from both modules is then transmitted to the database over Wi-Fi. The parking availability throughout the garage can be viewed in real-time on the website and mobile application. Utilizing the Park Shark system will reduce the amount of time to find a parking spot. By implementing a multi-sensor system, the required amount of hardware necessary to monitor the parking spots and overall cost of the system will be reduced.
Team Members
From left to right:
Keegan Conway, a computer engineering student,
programmed the computer vision algorithms for the camera
sensing unit, created the parking information database, the
Park Shark website, and created an API to communicate the
sensors' occupancy information to the server backend.
Contact: keegsconway@gmail.com
Beatriz Jimenez, an electrical engineering student,
designed the printed circuit board layout and assembled the
three circuit boards used in the demonstration of the project, in
addition to handling the budget and logistics of ordering parts
and manufacturing the circuit boards and housing.
Contact: beaj1195@gmail.com
Travis Bangs, a computer engineering student, worked on
the firmware design and programming of the ultrasonic sensing
units and their Bluetooth connections, and assisted with the
hardware schematic design for the wireless ultrasonic sensing
units.
Contact: bangstk@knights.ucf.edu
Marcelino Galarza, a computer engineering student,
designed and programmed the server backend, and mobile
application of the Park Shark system, creating the user
interface and database interaction.
Contact: marcelinogalarza8@gmail.com