Programming Floor Plans

iParkings is not only composed by standalone sensors, there is lots more behind that, a series of computers that studies each component, and decides what to show in each display, then we have also a series of databases that will record each movement of each parking bay, with this info the parking will evaluate assistance, time customers stay at shops, etc.
Part of the implementation consists in programming each parking zone, numbering each bay, and identifying it on a floor plan as we show below.

Identifying each parking bay over floor plan.

Punta Carretas Shopping Mall Update 4.12.2010

iParkings at Punta Carretas Shopping mall is about to change the way customers find place at the parking. We already turned on some zones to test the impact this system will have, and we got some interesting changes, congestion inside the parking is almost gone, and we know that as soon users become familiar with this system, no more congestions will occur, inside pollution and fuel consumption will be reduced in about 60%. Customers will be more happy and will have more time inside the shopping.

In this final stage, we will inter-communicate each one of the parking zones, using a BUS connection method, passing through 800 parking sensors, 800 led lights, 30 data controllers and collectors, 17 inside led displays, 40 outdoor led modules (each totem has 8 light displays), 5 totems, lots of information will be driven through this communication cable, about 200Mb (200 high quality images) per hour...
Wiring each zone together has to be made very carefully, taking care to always respect Bus topology, getting away from possible electrical interferences, and assuring that each change on a sensor will get instantly processed by the servers that will then change the display panels.

Just to understand more, we are attaching how this connection will be made through zones.