The problem AUTOMATION IN PARKING USING SMART WAY solves

3.51 million cars are there in this country and this humongous fleet of cars faces a massive problem in finding parking spaces near major markets and public hotspots and hence most of the people resort to parking their cars on road which either end up in the police station, get damaged by the traffic or is stolen. Hence there is a major instant requirement for a sophisticated parking lot location system which can show the nearby parking lots along with their other details and that’s exactly what ParkKar aims to do. It acts like a bridge between the parking lot administrators and the common people by showing the people the nearest parking lot from their location and also shows the shortest distance to the lot. This app now makes it easier for people to find safe parking lots around their places of visit and hence makes it easier for them to plan their trip. It also provides the parking lot admins with more sources of income by increasing customers.

Challenges we ran into

The problems are the most common mistakes developers make in their early hackathon phase! Like how to go forward with the idea, which APIs to use for implementation (for our case-it was a Google Map API ). One of the early bugs we faced was that our Jsonweb-token Authentication kept failing which prevented users from signing in, on looking more closely the problem was that their was a mixup between the authentication for both Parkinglot and User Authentication! Their was also one more bug which we faced that req.body on our backend was as an Null Object, at last we realised that it was VSCode Bug which could be removed by clearing out the npm-cache. We Also faced some difficulties using the google api as it was our first attempt at using it.