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SF uses wireless sensors to enable smart parking

By Mark Vanderbeeken - July 13, 2008

in Tech

This fall, San Francisco will test 6,000 of its 24,000 metered parking spaces in the nation's most ambitious trial of a wireless sensor network that will announce which of the spaces are free at any moment.

Drivers will be alerted to empty parking places either by displays on street signs, or by looking at maps on screens of their smartphones. They may even be able to pay for parking by cellphone, and add to the parking meter from their phones without returning to the car.

Read full article [New York Times] Technical article [RFID Journal]

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This will increase the amount of people they fine. I can just imagine it now as soon as the meter ticks over and the car hasn't been moved, a swarm of ticket writers appear from every conceivable place and write out that fat ticket and slap it on your windscreen...
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