Group Information and Project Description

Welcome to our project blog. DFC Technologies is one of the teams enrolled in the Computer Engineering Design Course at UPR-Mayaguez, which consists of members:

• Fernando A. Cuadrado – Project Manager
• Danyz Estevez
• Carlos A. Colon

This blog will document the decisions and experiences that will be made throughout the design and implementation of our term project. Team meetings will be held on the following days: Monday and Wednesday at 1:00 pm. Make-up meetings will be held on any day at 6:00 pm.

DFC Technologies will be working on a project throughout this semester. The goal of the project is to implement a system capable of detecting which spaces are available in a public parking lot via sensors and display the results, a layout of the parking lot, on a screen at the entrance of the lot. In addition to the empty parking space detection, the system will include a billing system consisting of an RFID module in combination with a high level application (GUI) and a database to effectively record the usage of the parking by the customers. The system proposed not only will be of benefit of regular customers by optimizing the process of finding a parking space and saving time, but it also will facilitate the job of public parking lot administrators.