The importance of our project comes from the fact that every driver suffer from the lack of parking
space in the major cities, therefore, the application - that we will design – will provide an easy, fast
and accurate way to find the closest free parking slot . The main aspects that should be covered in
the project are represented by two important factors. First, the time to find a place where you can
park your car as a driver that would tack a long time in the old fashioned way , the app will
overcome this obstacle by navigating the driver to the nearest parking slot. Second, seeking for an
empty slot would increase the fuel consumption, and as we all know the world trends to the
rationalization of fuel consumption. From a sense of responsibility we do encourage this trend, to
do so the application would lead the user throw the shortest path to the nearest free parking slot.
The overall objectives of our project are represented by the following .To begin with, deliver an
application that would help the drivers to find the closest free parking slot and navigate him to it.
Also, providing a new mechanism of payment for the parking fees throughout a prepaid cards. One
more, is to give a brief description of how crowded a street is without having to get into it ,and to
see wither there are any free parking slots or not. Finally, a webserver that would connect the
application throw the API’s –that we will develop- with the hardware that will be constructed later.
As an outline to our project, we will start developing an android based mobile application that will
connect the users with the map of the city. Also, adding the network of parking slots to the map
either with internet connection or not. In addition, choosing the best way to navigate to the parking
slots. Moreover, designing the payment mechanism that basically uses the (QR) code to handle
every slot. Furthermore, building the webserver and its API’s. Finally, connecting the webserver
with the mobile application.