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BluePark: tracking parking and un-parking events in indoor garages

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Finding a parking spot in a busy indoor parking lot is a daunting task. Retracing a parked vehicle can be equally frustrating. We present BluePark, a collaborative sensing mechanism using smartphone sensors to solve these problems in real-time, without any input from user. We propose a novel technique of combining accelerometer and WiFi data to detect and localize parking and un-parking events in indoor parking lot. We validate our approach at the basement parking of a popular shopping mall. The proposed method outperforms Google Activity Recognition API by 20% in detecting drive state in indoor parking lot. Our experiments show 100% precision and recall for parking and un-parking detection events at low accelerometer sampling rate of 15Hz, irrespective of phone?s position. It has a low detection latency of 20s with probability of 0.9 and good location accuracy of 10m.

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ICDCN '16: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking
January 2016
370 pages
ISBN:9781450340328
DOI:10.1145/2833312
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  • (2021)ML Classification of Car Parking with Implicit Interaction on the Driver’s SmartphoneHuman-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 202110.1007/978-3-030-85613-7_21(291-299)Online publication date: 26-Aug-2021
  • (2020)Survey of Smart Parking SystemsApplied Sciences10.3390/app1011387210:11(3872)Online publication date: 2-Jun-2020
  • (2018)WiParkFind: Finding Empty Parking Slots Using WiFi2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)10.1109/ICC.2018.8422973(1-6)Online publication date: May-2018
  • (2017)Lessons learnedProceedings of the 29th Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction10.1145/3152771.3156172(533-537)Online publication date: 28-Nov-2017
  • (2017)ParkmasterProceedings of the Second ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing10.1145/3132211.3134452(1-14)Online publication date: 12-Oct-2017
  • (2017)Your Search Path Tells Others Where to ParkProceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies10.1145/31309421:3(1-27)Online publication date: 11-Sep-2017

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