🚗 Parking IoT System – SLIoT 2025 Challenge

An IoT-powered Smart Parking System built for the SLIoT 2025 Challenge.
This project integrates IoT devices, GPS, and a React Native mobile app to help users identify available parking slots in real-time. The system is backed by Firebase for seamless data storage and synchronization.

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📌 Project Overview

Traditional parking systems often lead to congestion, time waste, and frustration due to the lack of real-time availability updates.
Our solution leverages IoT devices embedded at parking slots that send GPS-based status updates (occupied/free). These updates are processed and displayed on a React Native Expo app, allowing drivers to easily locate available slots.

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✨ Features

• 📍 Real-time Parking Slot Tracking – IoT devices update slot availability via GPS.
• 📱 Cross-platform Mobile App – Built with React Native (Expo) for Android & iOS.
• 🔥 Firebase Database – Manages and syncs real-time parking data.
• 🛰 GPS Integration – Maps available slots to actual locations.
• ⚡ User-friendly Interface – Simple, intuitive UI for quick parking slot identification.

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🏗️ Tech Stack

🔹 Mobile App

• React Native (Expo)
• Firebase SDK (Realtime Database / Firestore)

🔹 Backend & Database

• Firebase Realtime Database

🔹 IoT Devices

• GPS-enabled IoT modules (slot detectors)
• Communication to Firebase via Wi-Fi/LoRa/other IoT protocol

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📲 Installation & Setup

1️⃣ Clone the Repository

git clone https://github.com/yourusername/parking_iot_last.git
cd parking_iot_last