long story short, I'm new to the iphone development stuff. What I need is to build an iphone app that finds the empty spot in my school's parking lot. I'm doing this as graduation project. Could anyone please tell me what tools I need to do such thing so, that would be my research starting point.
long story short, I'm new to the iphone development stuff. What I need is to build an iphone app that finds the empty spot in my school's parking lot. I'm doing this as graduation project. Could anyone please tell me what tools I need to do such thing so, that would be my research starting point.
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More information is needed.... for example, have you signed up to be a developer? Have you downloaded XCode and the SDK? How are you planning on finding an empty spot in a parking lot? And so on....
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I already have the xcode, SDK and the license. How am I planning on finding an empty spot in a parking lot? that's I don't know. I will appreciate any suggestions.
I already have the xcode, SDK and the license. How am I planning on finding an empty spot in a parking lot? that's I don't know. I will appreciate any suggestions.
If this was your idea for your graduation project, you might have bitten off more than you can chew. In order to find the location of individual parking spots, you're going to need some sort of sensor in each parking spot (ideally weight, but you could do it with some sort of mini laser-based proximity sensor facing upwards, or possibly with a light sensor under where the car will be parked). Those sensors should then update their status with a server somewhere, which your app can then connect to in order to establish whether any of them are currently empty.
If you scoped your app back to just informing the user whether there are any spaces available in the lot, that is simpler, but would rely on having some sort of barrier or ticket system that counts cars in and out of the lot.
A final thought is that if this is purely theoretical, you could simply simulate your parking lot virtually (a top down view perhaps) and randomly fill it up and empty it as time passes. Then your app would be able to pretend that it's connecting to a server and functioning live.
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No they don't, most of the cars have permits and a police officer would drive around to identify which car is parked in the right lot as permitted.
Well, you could have two apps (or one app but with different login permissions) - one for the officer that allows him to view the parking lot and tap on spaces to toggle their status (filled or not filled), and a general user of your app would then be able to view this same parking lot map and see which spots are full.
The data would need to be on a server somewhere, but should be quite simple... you could use a SQL database to store the state of each spot perhaps.
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If this was your idea for your graduation project, you might have bitten off more than you can chew. In order to find the location of individual parking spots, you're going to need some sort of sensor in each parking spot (ideally weight, but you could do it with some sort of mini laser-based proximity sensor facing upwards, or possibly with a light sensor under where the car will be parked). Those sensors should then update their status with a server somewhere, which your app can then connect to in order to establish whether any of them are currently empty.
If you scoped your app back to just informing the user whether there are any spaces available in the lot, that is simpler, but would rely on having some sort of barrier or ticket system that counts cars in and out of the lot.
A final thought is that if this is purely theoretical, you could simply simulate your parking lot virtually (a top down view perhaps) and randomly fill it up and empty it as time passes. Then your app would be able to pretend that it's connecting to a server and functioning live.
Mattw, I like the idea of having a sensor in each lot. since most of the lots at the school are in closed buildings, I would implement a laser based - sensor to count the cars at the gate of a parking lot. I will also try to get how many cars could be in one lot. and then calculate every time that a car lose a spot. the information will be sent to to a server. the server is connected with the app.
Don't get me wrong, this sounds like a fun project (and Radio Shack will be happy too), but it's not for the novice....
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It's fun but I'm more worried about coding because I don't know anything about c-objective. all I know is java ! would you recommend any books to guide me through this project (e.g. a book that teaches me how to build an app from scratch by taking me on a tour to explore Xcode and c-objective )
It's fun but I'm more worried about coding because I don't know anything about c-objective. all I know is java ! would you recommend any books to guide me through this project (e.g. a book that teaches me how to build an app from scratch by taking me on a tour to explore Xcode and c-objective )
The app part of this is easy. The hard part will be building the hardware for the parking lot that wirelessly communicates with a server... have you ever done that before? And then, of course, you'll have to have your server up and running and read to receive the data and requests....
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The app part of this is easy. The hard part will be building the hardware for the parking lot that wirelessly communicates with a server... have you ever done that before? And then, of course, you'll have to have your server up and running and read to receive the data and requests....
Quoted for truth. The iPhone part will be easy compared to having a weatherproof terminal that reads whether a car is parked in a spot - for multiple parking spots.
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