As a capstone to my college career, I led a team to create a system to monitor the occupancy of a parking garage at the University of Tennessee. Commuter parking was a frustrating experience due to the fact that the university sold more parking passes than it had parking spots, and we felt that knowing the real-time occupancy of a given garage would be helpful.
This project turned out to be a unique blend of hardware and software, and presented unexpected real-world and human factors. The finished solution involved a series of ultrasonic sensors that would identify vehicles entering and leaving the garage, and push the count to a website that would update in real time. Please see the links below for the full report.
