The public service project
The overall project in this example is to implement a self-driving, home-to-homeless-shelter delivery service:
- Families at homes have clothing and food they would like to give to others that need them.
- The self-driving car can be started at a distance and goes to homes and takes the goods to the shelters.
- The self-driving car does not need to have a base. It can park anywhere, go anywhere, and refuel at service stations with automatic electric recharging.
In this chapter, we will focus on the self-driving car when it has finished a delivery and is looking for a parking lot with a parking space. We will need the information to make decisions.
Some IoT projects plan to put sensors on every parking space and send the information to control centers. The city council finds that too expensive. Instead, the city council has decided to use a more cost-effective solution. A webcam will be installed on all the possible parking lots...