FIND ME A PARKING SPACE
The mad dash for that last parking space is about to go ballistic. Engineers at Boston University and networking firm BBN Technology have designed a wireless network that will send details of the nearest vacant parking spot to an in-car receiver.
Delegates to Mobisys, a mobile technology conference in Boston this week, heard how parking meters of the future could be equipped with an embedded computer, a sensor to detect when a vehicle is parked in the space next to it, and a short-range radio transmitter. The transmitters would link the computers into a peer-to-peer…
