Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Gunjan Desai

Anil K Kumar

Alin L D'Silva

Chethan Makam

Radoslaw Wilk

John R Canada

Umesh Saraki Munireddy

Alan T Hopper

Heedoo Moon

An exemplary parking facilitation system includes a plurality of parking space devices disposed at different parking spaces within a parking area and a parking management system configured to control operation of, and to exchange data with, the parking space devices. Each of the parking space devices respectively includes a processor, a vehicle presence detector configured to determine whether any vehicle is parked in a parking space at which the parking space device is disposed, and a parking availability indicator configured to visually indicate an availability status of the parking space. The parking availability indicator is positioned at a height greater than that of any vehicle that the parking space is configured to accommodate so as to be concurrently visible, with parking availability indicators of other parking space devices, from various locations within the parking area at which drivers attempting to locate available parking spaces are to be located.

Systems and methods for managing and tracking space availability

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Morris Plains, NJ, United States of America

Gunjan Desai