SFPark lets you know the street with free parking spaces

Gadgets and cars Javier Penalva on April 30, 2011 | 18: 49 To vote this post connect with Facebook Connect

San Francisco, which, in 2008 installed sensors to warn drivers where had vacancies in its streets, has advanced quite these years SFPark system with the help of connections to the Internet, because they are integrated in the car or on the phonethe drivers have.

SFPark combines a series of sensors placed where the vending machines that act as detectors of occupation of the square. The information is collected in real time and applies to Google Maps, place which from SFPark website or from your mobile phone via a free application, we can consult the availability of parking. So, just a look to the phone in a quick stop to get closer to one or another area of the city where it is more likely that there are free parking places.

Detectors of occupation in places: each plaza parking has to be in the soil, a wireless detector (is a simple metal detector) that indicates if it is free or busy. This information is transmitted to a centralized system which is updated information instantaneously Street to street.

If you want to know all the details of this initiative, in Motorpasión future they have all the information and an interesting reflection on the future of the car park, with details of variable rates according to demand in the city of USA.

In Motorpasión future | SFpark, find somewhere to park on the internet.

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