New applications of sensor technology in smart parking at foreign airports

With the rapid growth of the national economy, the number of cars has been rising steadily. The huge number of cars shows the strong economic development of our country and the improvement of people's quality of life, but it also causes a series of traffic problems, such as traffic congestion, road safety, parking difficulties, etc., especially parking difficulties, which has become a common problem in major cities. How to focus on solving this problem has become a key area of ​​concern for all sectors.

With the rapid development of science and technology, the smart parking industry has become a hot topic to improve the parking environment and meet parking needs. The intelligentization, informatization and standardization of the parking industry have also been rapidly developed and widely used, presenting a scene of flourishing and contending. Next, Gongcai.com will take you to the smart parking of foreign airports to see the application of sensor technology in it.

In recent years, as the number of people choosing air travel continues to increase worldwide, the number of available parking spaces has continued to decrease. How to make more effective use of limited space has become an urgent problem for airport management to solve. Let's take a look at how San Antonio International Airport and New Zealand solve this problem?

It is reported that in Texas, the San Antonio International Airport garage has five floors and more than 5,400 parking spaces. It is difficult to find a parking space easily. However, installing smart sensors can help passengers easily find available parking spaces in a short time, thanks to the M4 Parking Guidance System (PGS) of Park Assist installed in the San Antonio International Airport garage. The M4 PGS is equipped with smart sensors that rely on cameras . When passengers return to the garage, they can use the Park Finder application on the mobile client. After entering the license plate number, the M4 PGS can quickly search the database and use license plate recognition (LPR) technology to find the exact location of the vehicle. The parking management department can also ensure that the parking lot is in good order by using the Park Alerts software. The software can send an automatic alarm signal to the parking management department when the vehicle is parked improperly.

New Zealand uses 450 vehicle detection sensors to help smart parking at the airport! Smart Parking has been committed to continuously improving the quality of parking services through technological innovation. Its smart parking sensors and integrated smart parking services have been used in 17 countries. Recently, Smart Parking signed an agreement with Queenstown International Airport to use the Smart-Cloud management platform as a comprehensive management platform for airport parking data and flight information data. The parking optimization project extracts flight information to the SmartCloud management platform, associates it with parking data, and then comprehensively analyzes the two sets of information to help the airport better understand the operation of the parking lot and predict the surge in demand, so as to guide and encourage passengers with long-term parking needs to park their cars outside the airport to reduce the parking pressure at the airport.

In contrast, in China, as security technology matures, smart parking technology is used to "check the parking status of parking lots in advance, automatically identify parking time, and pay by yourself", which effectively solves social problems such as slow parking, slow payment, difficulty in parking, and difficulty in finding cars caused by heavy traffic in parking lots in public places such as shopping malls and airports. It will improve the parking efficiency of parking lots and alleviate the problem of "difficulty in parking and finding cars". Optimize the resources of parking lots.

Based on the parking lot environment, the ultrasonic sensors recommended by Gongcai.com technicians for use in the parking guidance system include (but not limited to) MB1004, HG-C40U, and LiDAR sensors TFmini.

The general composition of the parking guidance system is: ultrasonic sensor → processor → display. The ultrasonic sensor detects the use of parking spaces, sends this information to the processor, and displays it through the parking indicator light. The processor calculates the internal algorithm and displays the parking space use status at the parking lot entrance or internal display screen, or sends the data to the user's mobile terminal through the cloud to provide users with clear guidance.