Parking lot monitoring with smart cameras

In this article, we present a scenario for monitoring the occupancy of parking spaces in the historical city of Lucca (Italy) based on the use of intelligent cameras and the most modern technologies of artificial intelligence. The system is designed to use different smart-camera prototypes: where the connection to the power grid is available, we propose a powerful embedded hardware solution that exploits a Deep Neural Network. Otherwise, a fully autonomous energy-harvesting node based on a low-energy custom board employing lightweight image analysis algorithms is considered.