A system is for monitoring arrival of a vehicle at a given location. The system includes a server, and a vehicle sensing device. The vehicle sensing device is configured to sense arrival of the vehicle to the given location, and to transmit information about the vehicle to the server in response to sensing arrival of the vehicle to the given location. The server is configured to determine a context of the vehicle based upon the information about the vehicle, and take action based on the context of the vehicle. The system may be installed at parking lots, shipping yards, restaurants, stores, and other locations.

A vehicle control device is a vehicle control device mountable in a vehicle and including an acquirer configured to acquire positional information of a frame line of a second parking frame from other vehicle stopped at the second parking frame adjacent to a first parking frame at which the vehicle automatically parks, and a calculator configured to calculate a position of a frame line of the first parking frame on the basis of the positional information of the frame line of the second parking frame acquired by the acquirer.

A parking management system and methods of operation are disclosed. In one variation, a computer-implemented method comprises receiving positional data concerning a listing location from a listing client device; establishing a radius boundary based on the positional data; filtering one or more databases using the radius boundary to determine an amount of parking spaces listed and the amount of parking spaces reserved within a preset time period; calculating a location-specific transaction rate using the amount of parking spaces listed, the amount of parking spaces reserved, and the preset time period; determining a recommended listing price based on the location-specific transaction rate; and transmitting the recommended listing price to the listing client device.

A parking control system of a parking facility, the parking control system including: an acquisition unit configured to acquire behavior information on a user; an estimation unit configured to, based on the behavior information, estimate a probability of vehicle exit performed by the user; and an execution unit configured to, based on the probability, perform a process related to vehicle exit in the parking facility.

A parking management apparatus capable of starting management of a parking service without requiring use of ancillary facilities of a parking lot is provided. A parking management apparatus that manages a parking service, including: a position information acquisition unit that acquires position information of a vehicle; a destination information acquisition unit that acquires destination information of the vehicle; a creation unit that creates vicinity parking lot information of a vicinity of a destination provided to the vehicle based on the position information of the vehicle, the destination information of the vehicle, and wide-area parking lot information; and a management unit that specifies a parking lot where the vehicle has entered based on the position information of the vehicle and the wide-area parking lot information or the vicinity parking lot information and starts the management of the parking service in the parking lot.

A system includes a processor and a memory in communication with the processor, the memory storing instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to receive from a portable device coupled to a vehicle one or more images and at least one sensor datum, compute based, at least in part, upon the one or more images and at least one sensor datum a pose estimate of the vehicle, identify based, at least in part, upon the pose estimate a geofence containing the pose estimate; and if the geofence comprises, at least in part, a parking zone, transmit a parking validation to the portable device.

The present disclosure provides a method for managing a parking lot in a smart city based on an Internet of Things, which is executed by a management platform. The method comprises obtaining a user position of a user platform based on a service platform, determining a candidate parking lot that meets a preset condition; determining time when a vehicle to be parked arrives at the candidate parking lot based on the user position; determining free parking space information when the vehicle to be parked arrives at the candidate parking lot; determining recommendation information based on the free parking space information; and sending the recommendation information to the user platform based on the service platform.

The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for recommending a parking lot in a smart city and an Internet of Things system, implemented based on a management platform of an Internet of Things system for recommending a parking lot in a smart city. The method includes: determining an arrival duration of a user reaching at least one candidate parking lot and a prediction time period corresponding to each candidate parking lot in the at least one candidate parking lot based on a user request; determining an occupation rate of the candidate parking lot during the prediction time period; and determining a recommended parking lot at least based on the occupation rate of the candidate parking lot during the prediction time period and parking lot information of the candidate parking lot.

Provided is an automatic parking service causes a vehicle that has arrived at a platform to enter one parking space among a plurality of parking spaces by autonomous driving and that causes the vehicle parked in the parking space exit the platform by autonomous driving. A congestion degree of a platform requested to be used in an entry-exit time zone specified by a user that uses the automatic parking service is determined when an entry-exit request in which one platform among the plurality of platforms is used is received from the user. The use of another platform is proposed to the user when the congestion degree of the platform requested to be used is high, the other platform having a lower congestion degree than the platform requested to be used.

Parking space selection and navigation systems and methods are disclosed. One or more computing devices are configured to receive a search request from a first user device to secure a parking space for a vehicle, which includes one or more listing parameter, secure a first parking space stored in a database based on the search request, and determine a first listing value for the first parking space. The computing device(s) are configured to receive information associated with a second parking space and determine a second listing value for the second parking space. The computing device(s) are configured to determine that the second listing value is greater than the first listing value by a predefined value, transmit a message to the first and second user devices, and automatically transmit information relating to the parking reservation to a navigation application to update a destination associated with the second parking space.