Infrastructure
Smart Parking System
An automated parking management system tracking vehicles and managing bookings.
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Booking Errors
100k+
Cars Tracked
Execution & Architecture
Context
Security personnel were manually recording license plates, leading to bottlenecks.
The Challenge
Integrating live video feeds with a payment system while minimizing lag.
Scale
100,000+ cars, multiple locations.
Strategy & Safety
Constraints
- Preventing double-bookings
- Video synchronization
- Revenue tracking
Key Tradeoffs
- Designed the system to reject bookings under load rather than risk data inconsistency.
- Prioritized core reliability features over experimental analytics.
Structural Decisions
Transactional locking
Implemented locking mechanisms to prevent assigning a single spot twice.
Unified camera protocol
Developed a communication layer to interact with various camera brands.