David Miles

 Index 1GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE ON STREET SYSTEM3 1.1SYSTEM COMPONENTS5 1.1.1OUTDOOR WIRELESS SENSOR6 1.1.2COMMUNICATION INFRASTRUCTURE6 1.1.2.1DATA CONCENTRATOR6 1.1.2.2REPEATER7 1.1.3WIRELESS SIGN.7 1.1.4MANAGEMENT AND APPLICATION SOFTWARE8 1DESCRIPCION GENERAL DEL SISTEMA ON STREET3 1.1ELEMENTOS DEL SISTEMA5 1.1.1SENSOR OUTDOOR WIRELESS6 1.1.2INFRAESTRUCTURA DE COMUNICACIÓN6 1.1.2.1CONCENTRADOR DE DATOS6 1.1.2.2REPEATER7 1.1.3CARTEL WIRELESS.7 1.1.4SOFTWARE DE GESTIÓN y APLICACIONES8 1. GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE ON STREET SYSTEM The On Street System is an Intelligent and Guided Parking System that is built in and controllable through management software. The On Street platform has the strategic objective of promoting an urban development model based on the “Smart City” concept or intelligent city that is able to manage, in a sustainable manner, the parking services based on information and communications technologies. This way cities are encouraged to enhance their concept of sustainability and are recognized as innovative, agile and efficient administrations. The Intelligent Outdoor Parking System On Street’s aim is to recognize the availability of free parking space and inform about it in real time. The On Street solution helps to improve mobility, parking space rotation and efficiency, outdoor parking zone productivity, and takes care of the environment at the same time. The system should offer real time information about the parking space occupation, through a system of sensors and wireless panels strategically installed. The user is guided in a quick and efficient manner to a free parking space, since detailed and precise information is being given to him about the situation of each of the spaces being supervised. The installed sensors, through terrestrial magnetic field variations detection technology, receive the occupancy information in real time about the availability of each space or parking area. Such information is transmitted to hierarchically superior elements (Data concentrators or “DC”) using ISM radiofrequency bands (RF, Europe 868 – 870 MHz). The emitted information by the sensors will be received by Data Concentration units (DC). These units have the objective of checking the parking space status or transit of the sensors, executing the algorithm of detection verification. This way the information is received about the parking spaces status from the sensors, and the information is centralized by hierarchical level, which updates the information about the free parking spaces in real time without having to process the information in the central control. The Data Concentrator equipment will have Ethernet or 3G/4G data connectivity. The system will be intelligent: The concentrating units should be able to supervise the parking space status and guide the vehicle in an independent manner, allowing, during any situation, the global functioning of the system. The system is adjustable and useful in planning parking spaces, it is able to adapt to any type of architecture, and helps increase every one of its elements in a simple manner. The data Concentrator equipment should be able to receive the information from the sensors and at the same time allow the connection with Repeating equipment (by means of wired or solar supply), in order to increase the communications signal range of the wireless system. Once the information is collected, it will be sent to a central server where the Middleware (Apps Server) and the data base are located. The System should allow its management though a physical Server (non attended) where the data Base installation will take place (BBDD) and through “Cloud” storage services for the BBDD installation, which converts the Server in attended, providing greater flexibility, efficiency and maintenance, as well as automatic security copies and service quality guarantee. This server will be in charge of collecting information about the availability and rotation of parking spaces and provide all the processed information to the driver, be it through web portals, mobile device applications or information totems, guiding the driver in a quick and efficient manner towards a free parking space. Figure 1: Logical Architecture of the System At the application level, the system should offer: 1. A web application to manage the infrastructure: Device status supervision. Alerts visualization. Search filters. 2. Mobile application (IOS and Android) directed to the final user (conduits) to ease the search of parking. The guarantee of the exactness of the information about parking spaces and free or occupied zones will have a reliance above 95%. 1.1 SYSTEM ELEMENTS The different elements that make up the On Street system are: Outdoor wireless sensor. Communication infrastructure: Data Concentrator. Repeater (solar or wired). On Street wireless sign. Management and integration software. Applications. 1.1.1 OUTDOOR WIRELESS SENSOR It’s a wireless sensor that has the main function of providing other devices of superior level (when they request it) information about the status of the parking space that is monitored. The information accuracy about parking spaces and free or occupied zones is given by the supervision of the outdoor Wireless sensors, offering a reliability superior to 95%. The system’s sensors will be placed above each one of the parking spaces that the project includes and, with terrestrial magnetic field variation detection technology, will receive the information in real time about the occupation of each parking space or area. These sensors should offer: Terrestrial magnetic field variation detection technology, with A reliability superior to 95%. Communication capacity with different frequency bands, (868 MHz / 915 MHz / 433 MHz). 5 year battery supply life with status transmission. Protection grades IP67 and IK10. TPU or similar abrasion resistance. Compressive fracture resistance factor (charge test): A15 or superior. Ideal to install in saline environments and those with continuous exposure to UV rays. Easy installation through chemical tail and without civil labor. Environmental specifications Temperature range to function -20 to +60ºC Storage temperature range -30 to +70ºC Mechanical specifications Weight 500g Diameter 15,8cm Base material TPU + Fiber 1.1.2 COMUNICATION INFRAESTRUCTURE 1.1.2.1 DATA CONCENTRATOR Centralizing device of all the elements installed on site and of the information given by them by hierarchical level. This device checks the status of occupancy or transit with the hierarchically inferior elements; groups and manages this information; propagates it to superior levels and receives configuration orders necessary for proper parking direction. The Data Concentrator will be able to perform the function of directing in an automatic manner and will permit the design of adjustable and useful planning solutions for parking zones. It will also come with Ethernet and/or 3G communication capacity. The data Concentrators will offer: Communication capacity with different frequency bands, (868 MHz / 915 MHz / 433 MHz). Ethernet 10/100, 3G/4G and RS-485 communications interface. Two USB expansion ports. Multiple expansion port: digital series/ES. RS232 series expansion port. Low maintenance cost. 1.1.2.2 REPEATER Equipment with the ability to increase the signal range to On Street Wireless communications. The equipment will receive the information from the sensors by RF, through ISM bands, and will retransmit it to the next Repeating or Concentrating device. The Repeaters will be powered by solar sheets and will function in total dark conditions of up to 2, 7 days or more. The equipment should offer: Communication capacity with different frequency bands, (868 MHz / 915 MHz / 433 MHz). IP65 grade protection. Possibility to install equipment powered by solar energy. Prepared with integrated battery chargers in order to offer total energy autonomy without the need of permanent power supply (maximum 4 h/day). Power supply in total dark conditions of 2, 7 days or superior. Possibility of direct electric supply for solutions in places with adverse lighting conditions. Being Plug and Play without the need of configuration nor use. Easy installation on facades, street poles or existing urban buildings. Low maintenance cost. 1.1.1 WIRELESS SIGN High visibility display that has the objective of guiding vehicles to parking spaces on public streets with a dynamic indication of the number of free parking spaces available and guiding the driver in the direction that he should go. Ethernet, WI-Fi or 3G/4G data connectivity. Direct communication with sensors/repeaters through RF: 915MHz or 433 MHz High brightness LED technology with high visibility including conditions with direct sun exposure. Automatic light intensity regulation in function with the environmental light. Dynamic visualization of free parking space through 3 digits. Minimum digit size: 60mm x 120mm. Flexible number of lines by sign (1-2 lines). Font and/or symbol personalization. Ready for uninterrupted function (24h/365 days). Special construction material for exteriors (polycarbonate or similar). Protection against impact and UVA radiation. 1.1.2 MANAGEMENT AND APP SOFTWARE The SmartCity guidance solution should be made up of a group of tools and/or software applications that satisfy the minimum requirements that are expressed as follows and that refer to the use that is done to the system from different user profiles. SoftareManagement software It will be a web application that will be able to be executed from the most recognized commercial navigators Firefox, Explorer and Safari It will allow its execution in remote mode though a navigator from any mobile device with internet access. It will make monitoring possible, in real time, from the instant occupation status and function of all the field equipment that make up the guided system: communications infrastructure, signs, sensors, etc. The time elapsed between the moment in which a status change is produced on site and the moment in which this change is reflected in the application, won’t be in any case superior to 30 seconds. It will have a management and notification system of events/alarms It will allow to filter the equipment’s presentation based on different search criteria: occupied/free, incident, free spaces, and private spaces. It will display information regarding to the percentage of occupation of determined areas/zones. It will allow the enquiry of the battery status of the sensors installed on site. It will display the geographical location of the equipment through a map mode interface, on which it will be possible to perform control operations: zoom and movement The format and/or resolution of the data of availability represented will adapt to the level of zoom that the user has applied to the map. It will have a calculation unit and statistics presentation referring to the total of spaces that the user selects. They will include, at least the following: occupation percentage, number of rotations, medium occupation time, and availability.* Its design will allow to easily include the presentation of availability and/or status of third party parking systems through the exchange protocols that are given for that purpose. It will inform the number of free spaces shown in each of the signs integrated in the solution It will have an iconography that will allow to distinguish clearly the representation of the different types of parking available: free public spaces/pay, private parking spaces, loading/unloading spaces, taxi spaces, special spaces. Beginning January’15 Final user agreement It will show graphically the number of available spaces to park through a map type interface. The format and/or resolution of the availability data represented will adapt to the level of zoom that the user has applied over the map. Besides showing parking availability data in absolute value, the application will represent graphically information regarding the occupation percentage. It will allow the user to mark the GPS position of his vehicle It will allow the user to introduce the maximum parking time of his vehicle. It will notify the user in case that the maximum parking time is near to finish. The time of pre notification will be configurable by the user. It will guide the user from his GPS position to the point where his vehicle is located, having that this position had been previously marked. The user will be given signal access until the vehicle is reached through an automatic jump to navigation software from a third party. It will allow the user to mark the liberation of the parking space that was occupied. It will allow to establish different criteria to filter the parking searches: payment plazas, free, taxis, ticket dispensers, etc. It will have a unit that will allow the user to grade a determined space according to a rank (1-5 stars, for example). The application will show the average grade given by the users to a space or group of spaces that the user selects. It will have an iconography that will permit to distinguish clearly the representation of different types of available parking: free public plazas/payment, private parking plazas, loading/unloading spaces, taxi spaces, special spaces… It will be able to be executed in IOS and Android devices. Communications data bases/API The data from the system will be stored in a data base that will be distributed in physical and/or logical form on different servers. The API of communications with the field elements will be based on exchange data files XML, JSON type, Web Services or similar. The specification of such files will be public and, for that, will be able to be used by third party systems to exchange data with the offered solution. The data base will be prepared to store information of interest from third party parking systems: private parking, ticket dispensers, PGS, etc. Software de gestión y visualización multi-target para satisfacer las necesidades específicas de los agentes implicados en la gestión de la movilidad de la SMART CITY Características técnicas: 1. Aplicación web para gestionar la infraestructura con funcionalidades adaptadas a Ayuntamiento & Operador: Monitorización del estado de dispositivos Visualización de alertas Filtros de búsqueda Información actualizada al momento Información fácilmente integrable en otros sistemas y formatos 2. Aplicación móvil (IOS y Android) dirigida al usuario final (conductores) para facilitar la búsqueda de aparcamiento. 1.1.3 APLICACIONES Pendiente INFO