The cameras will be connected to the city’s central computing syste
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Today, street parking meters are none intelligent devices. You are supposed to pay when you park your car
on metered streets. However, if you don’t pay then you may not get caught as it depends on the parking
enforcement employee to go around and check who paid and who didn’t. Imagine how much money the city
is losing from those who park but don’t pay.
The city though of using technology to create smart meters that will use a camera inside the meter. The
camera will capture the car plate number and time of parking. Here are the city business rules:
• The cameras will be connected to the city’s central computing system.
• Hourly parking rate= $1
• Only credit or debit cards can be used as methods of payments. Cash not accepted.
• If a customer over runs his payment time, then a ticket will be issued automatically with the overrun time plus a penalty of 25%.
• If a customer park but doesn’t pay, a ticket will be issued based on the following formula: hourly Parking time/24 multiplied by 5.
• If a car is left beyond 12PM the system sends a message to one of the city’s towing companies to come and remove it
• Paid tickets will be deleted from the system within one month from receiving the payment
• Tickets will be sent to violators using Canada post
