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1. A method for locating vacant parking places comprising:
receiving, by a processor: 1) one or more camera images of at least one side of a road from at least one wireless mobile device of at least one first user associated with a vehicle passing along the road, and, 2) location data from corresponding location analyzers of the at least one mobile device; detecting and locating, by the processor, a vacant parking place along the road by processing the received images and location data; providing, based on the processed images and the location data, processed information comprising a size of the located vacant parking place so as to be a suitable parking place for multiple vehicles, the size including the length of the located vacant parking place; and, obtaining, by a mutual database associated with a server, via an online connection, the processed information and the location data from the processor, and the-location of the vacant parking place; receiving, by the server, data from a vehicle searching for a vacant parking place; analyzing, by a processor associated with the server, the received data to locate a vacant parking place corresponding to the size of the vehicle searching for the vacant parking place; and, a processor associated with the server causing sending the location of the vacant parking place, via an online connection, to a wireless mobile device associated with at least one second user seeking to park along the road. |
