Parking Lot Sensor

This repository contains

• sensor.ino - Code that reads distance from an Ultrasonic sensor to determine if a parking spot is occupied or not.

• main.py - FastAPI server that

  • recieves requests from the board regarding the current parking lot status.
  • serves a frontend to check status of parking lot
  • notifies users regarding free spot through email

Steps to run

• Connect the board and laptop to same network
• Run ipconfig on PC to get PC's IP.
• Edit serverName in sensor.ino to reflect the current PC's IP
• Create virtual env and install requirements from requirements.txt

python -m venv env
.\env\Scripts\activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

• Run python server using uvicorn main:app --host 0.0.0.0
• Compile and Upload sensor code from Arduino IDE