A Vehicle Parking Detection Method Based on Correlation of Magnetic Signals

Recently, significant research efforts have been focused on vehicle parking detection due to fuel consumption and traffic congestion. Many solutions have been successfully applied in indoor parking lots. However, due to the strong noise disturbance in outdoor parking environment, the detection accur...

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Main Authors: Hongmei Zhu, Fengqi Yu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2015-07-01
Series:International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/361242
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description Recently, significant research efforts have been focused on vehicle parking detection due to fuel consumption and traffic congestion. Many solutions have been successfully applied in indoor parking lots. However, due to the strong noise disturbance in outdoor parking environment, the detection accuracy for on-street parking is still a challenging task. In this paper, we propose a vehicle parking detection method by the use of normalized cross-correlation (NCC) of magnetic signals generated by magnetoresistive sensors. In the proposed method, the sensed signal is correlated with a reference. If the result is greater than a threshold, a pulse is generated. One of the primary factors that affect the accuracy of the NCC-based detection is the choice of reference which is obtained by using a k -means clustering algorithm in this paper. Compared with the-state-of-the-art vehicle detection methods, the proposed method is competitive in terms of cost, accuracy, and complexity. The proposed method is simulated and tested on the Xueyuan Boulevard, University Town of Shenzhen, Nanshan, Shenzhen, China. The experimental results show that the proposed method can provide the detection accuracy of 99.33% for arrival and 99.63% for departure.
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spelling doaj-art-07f9397d17c2466688e3dd6579fc1f392025-02-03T01:30:43ZengWileyInternational Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks1550-14772015-07-011110.1155/2015/361242361242A Vehicle Parking Detection Method Based on Correlation of Magnetic SignalsHongmei Zhu0Fengqi Yu1 The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT 999077, Hong Kong The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT 999077, Hong KongRecently, significant research efforts have been focused on vehicle parking detection due to fuel consumption and traffic congestion. Many solutions have been successfully applied in indoor parking lots. However, due to the strong noise disturbance in outdoor parking environment, the detection accuracy for on-street parking is still a challenging task. In this paper, we propose a vehicle parking detection method by the use of normalized cross-correlation (NCC) of magnetic signals generated by magnetoresistive sensors. In the proposed method, the sensed signal is correlated with a reference. If the result is greater than a threshold, a pulse is generated. One of the primary factors that affect the accuracy of the NCC-based detection is the choice of reference which is obtained by using a k -means clustering algorithm in this paper. Compared with the-state-of-the-art vehicle detection methods, the proposed method is competitive in terms of cost, accuracy, and complexity. The proposed method is simulated and tested on the Xueyuan Boulevard, University Town of Shenzhen, Nanshan, Shenzhen, China. The experimental results show that the proposed method can provide the detection accuracy of 99.33% for arrival and 99.63% for departure.https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/361242
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A Vehicle Parking Detection Method Based on Correlation of Magnetic Signals
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