Design and management of an intelligent parking lot system by multiple camera platforms

Parking in the city has been a major problem in modern days. An efficient way to manage the parking lot and to improve the safety of the driver is very important. Traditional parking lots commonly use security camera, ultrasonic sensors or infrared ray sensors to manage the parking lots. However, these systems are not only expensive but time consuming. Therefore, we present a hybrid intelligent parking system, which is able to inform the drivers where is the empty parking space, lend the drivers to easily record where they parking, provide remote monitoring, and offer the parking spot leading service when drivers forget where they parked. In addition, the security guard of the parking lot could provide the functions of remote monitoring, detection and monitoring of parking in the personal sites, and fire detection. This system also employs the micro aerial vehicle (MAV) as mobile monitoring in the indoor environments instead of monitoring by fixed cameras. Through this paper, we demonstrate our system from both driver's view and security guard's view.