Vehicle Parking Space Locator with Surveillance System (V-Locator)

Vehicle Parking Space Locator with Surveillance System is developed to help
drivers to locate available parking space in a parking area using their mobile devices
via Bluetooth application. The system will provide information about the location of
the parking space as well as the image of the parking area. The objective of the
service is to enhance the existing parking system, to provide better service for
drivers in searching of available parking space, and to utilize the Bluetooth
application in mobile devices as the medium of the services. The service also looks
forward in reducing the traffic congestion, high C02 emission, and the drivers'
precious time which are derived from parking surveys activities. The methodology is
based on the Rapid Application Development (RAD) model, which is the
enhancement of waterfall model, since it is the most appropriate model to be used
for fast project development and delivery if high quality system at low cost of
investment. The service is hope would benefits mobile users and drivers in lowering
thier fuel consumption, saving cost of services, and reducing user's time for parking
surveys. The system will be integrating Visual Basic.NET with Matlab 7.0 tools.
When a client/mobile user requests for available parking space information from the
system via Bluetooth application, the system would respond to the request by
providing the image of the current parking lot as well as the exact locations
information. The parking area would be captured using Visual Basic.NET and the
captured images would be processed using Matlab Image Processing Toolbox.