A remote test method for parking detection system based on magnetic wireless sensor network

摘要

With the number of vehicles increasing, the parking problem becomes more and more serious. In recent years, many parking detection systems have been installed to solve parking problems. During system installation, system test is important, but onerous. However, very few publications have discussed this issue so far. This paper proposes a remote test method for parking detection system based on wireless sensor network. The idea of the proposed method is as follow. After sensor nodes are deployed, they start to work and enter test mode. In test mode, they send test packets wirelessly to a remote server via some wireless routers for testing. The test packets can then be analyzed in the system control center to find out possible problems remotely. The proposed method includes two stages: vehicle detection algorithm test and network reliability test. It has been conducted in a parking lot. The experimental results show that the proposed system test method is valid and very useful in the setup of a parking detection system.