To manage a plurality of parking spaces, one or more images are acquired, with each parking space appearing in at least one image. Periodically acquired images of occupancy and identity are used in directing a customer to a parked vehicle. Periodically acquired mages of just occupancy are used in controlling respective environmental aspects, such as illumination and ventilation, of the parking spaces. For these purposes, the images are classified automatically as “vacant” or “occupied”, and are displayed along with their classifications so that the classifications can be corrected manually.

Lighting fixture data hubs and systems and methods for use. An example of a data hub may include an annunciator configured to generate a first indication and a second indication, one or more sensors configured to detect between one or more vehicles and one or more pedestrians and potential convergence thereof within a zone in a vicinity of the data hub and to emit one or more signals corresponding to said detection, and a gateway in communication with an on-board processor and the annunciator, the on-board processor configured to wirelessly receive and analyze the one or more signals, communicate said one or more signals to the gateway so that the gateway can generate the first indication or the second indication in response to the one or more signals. Data hubs may also include a sensor unit housing and/or a light source.

A parking lot guidance system includes: a determination unit configured to determine whether the parking lot is in a congested state based on a result of detection from a detection unit; a selection unit configured to select a predetermined number of empty spaces in the parking lot based on a determination from the determination unit; and a display unit configured to display the predetermined number of empty spaces. The selection unit selects the empty spaces from further inside in an extending direction of the vehicle passage in a first parking block which is a parking block including an empty space and being closer to a facility entrance provided at a position different from that of a parking lot entrance of the parking lot out of a plurality of parking blocks along a plurality of vehicle passages when the determination unit determines that the parking lot is in the congested state.

A parking recognition server of a personal mobility device and a method thereof are provided. The parking recognition server includes a processor configured to determine whether a personal mobility device is parked in a parking area, and a storage configured to store data and an algorithm run by the processor and a usage history for each user who uses the personal mobility device. The processor may be further configured to predict a destination and a movement path of a user for the usage history for each user, and determine a device candidate group having a high probability of being parked in the predicted destination based on a degree of overlap between the predicted movement path and an actual movement path of the user.

Various arrangements for monitoring occupancy of multiple parking spaces are presented herein. Arrangements may use a radar-based vehicle detector that comprises a radar antenna that has a field-of-view of a portion of a parking facility. Multiple parking sensors may be present that monitor parking spaces outside of or obstructed from the field-of-view. A parking host system may be present that communicates with the radar-based vehicle detector and the plurality of parking sensors and determines in which parking space a vehicle has parked.

According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for parking allocation is provided. The embodiment may include measuring a plurality of network optimization factors corresponding to a given area. The embodiment may also include mapping a plurality of priority factors for network optimization across the given area. The embodiment may further include identifying one or more mobile nodes within the given area. The embodiment may also include selecting a location for each mobile node based on one or more priority factors. The embodiment may further include transmitting an instruction directing the mobile node to the location.

A computer-implemented method for performing smart building automated check-in includes receiving a digital image of a visiting user; receiving a visited user selection; and transmitting a notification to a computing device of the visited user, the notification including an identifier of the visiting user. A smart building automated check-in system includes a processor; and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the system to: receive a digital image of a user; receive a visited user selection; and transmit a notification to a computing device of the visited user, the notification including an identifier of the visiting user. A non-transitory computer readable medium includes program instructions that when executed, cause a computer to: receive a digital image of a user; receive a visited user selection; and transmit a notification to a computing device of the visited user, the notification including an identifier of the visiting user.

An intelligent lock database system based on uniquely marked location and longitude and latitude, the area contains a number of uniquely marked locations, and the ID locations are bound with the longitude and latitude of the ID locations one to one and stored in the table of ID locations and longitude and latitude of ID Locations in the database: the ID mobile phone can open or close the ID intelligent lock through the server only when the longitude and latitude of the ID location correspond to the longitude and latitude of the ID intelligent lock one to one and when the longitude and latitude of the ID location correspond to the longitude and latitude of the ID mobile phone one to one; the ID mobile phone is uploaded to the server, and the server compares the longitude and latitude of the ID mobile phone.

A method for dynamically configuring as required the layout and number of parking spaces for various types of vehicles includes acquiring types of vehicles entering a parking lot, the parking lot comprising at least two types of parking spaces, and determining whether available parking spaces as currently laid out match the types and numbers of types of vehicles entering the parking lot. Available parking spaces can be provided or rearranged to match the vehicles entering the parking lot if there is a sufficiency of space to accommodate and match the plurality of vehicles to enter the parking lot.

A smart parking system and method are disclosed which includes a plug-and-play and point to multipoint (PnP&P2MP) based internet of things (IoT) parking sensors, gateway managers, and user devices that can share information via a network. The information is used to preserve parking spaces, calculate minimum parking search time, and establish a dynamic queuing system to achieve high throughput, avoid traffic congestion and time losses.