As part of the Smart Eco-Park PIT-UAS project, which consists on the innovative design and implementation of a building prototype that integrates diverse models oriented to incorporate both sustainability and the Internet of Things (IoT) in urban complexes, an homonymous mobile application has been developed, such app complements the functions of the high technology parking lot built in the facilities of the Technological Innovation Park (PIT, Parque de Innovación Tecnológica), belonging to the Autonomous University of Sinaloa (UAS, Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa).

The aforementioned mobile application fulfils three functions, allowing the users to: 1) control vehicular access remotely, 2) visualise the location of available parking spaces in the high technology parking lot, in the previous moments of the arrival to the place, 3) automatize the vehicular access, by lifting, via mobile telephone, the parking lot’s electric barrier gate. Therefore, with this system the ingress of automobiles is secured to be controlled and organized.

Thanks to the IoT’s incorporation to its functioning, such system offers the possibility of knowing in real time, even previously to the ingress in the parking lot, the availability of the parking spaces. This, through an interactive map that shows the information about the occupied and available spaces.

Smart Eco-Park is nowadays executed in this university research center and its design and implementation were on charge of an interdisciplinary team composed of a software architect, programmers, graphic designers, electronic engineers, among other specialists.

By last, it is noteworthy that the interdisciplinary collaboration, one of the PIT-UAS’ methodological pillars, facilitates the execution of such innovative sustainable project, same which sets the technological basis for its implementation on a broad scale and marks the beginning of its adoption in Sinaloa and in Mexico.

Written and translated by Belem Ruiz (Edition and Communication, PIT-UAS).