Smart Parking System Alerts Your Phone of Open Spots

Starting this fall, San Francisco will begin a trial involving wireless parking sensors in 6,000 of its 24,000 metered spaces, reports Switched, enabling antsy drivers to be alerted via street signs or cell phones when a spot becomes available.

According to Core77, they may even be able to pay for the parking with their cell phones, and add to the parking meter from their phones without returning to the car.

The NY Times explains that the device, called a “bump,” is battery operated and intended to last for five and 10 years without service. From the street the bumps form a mesh of wireless Internet signals that funnel data to parking meters on to a central management office near the San Francisco city hall."

[via Switched]

emily | 9:43 PM | New SMS Services |
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