ParkEazy

ParkEazy is a mobile application to connect commuters to safe, secure, and digitized parking spaces within their city.

Contents

• Motivation
• Features
• Project Setup
• User Interface
• Usage
• Contributors
• Contributing
• LICENSE

Motivation

India is developing at a very rapid speed today resulting in great urban expansion. There are more people commuting than ever before and traffic in metros has risen to record levels

Some of the major problems faced by people who commute in their own vehicle are:-

• Unnecessary wastage of fuel, time, and effort while searching for safe parking spaces within a city.
• Lack of commercial parking lots within a city.
• Fear of vehicles being towed away by law enforcement officers.

Features

• Search parking slots on the app and book online instantly.
• Pay hourly, weekly and monthly rates.

Project Setup

Clone the repositories to your local system
https://github.com/ParkEazy/parkeazy-api
https://github.com/ParkEazy/parkeazy-userapp

Navigate to the cloned repo
cd parkeazy-api

Create a copy of the .env.example file and rename it to .env
cp .env.example .env

Replace the placeholder credentials in the .env file with your credentials

Install project dependencies
npm install

Start server in development mode
npm run dev

Start server in production
npm start

PS : To get a FAST2SMS API key, signup for a FAST2SMS account here.

User Interface

Usage

• This App will work only on devices with Android 7.0 (API level 24) and above, so make sure you having the compatible device.
• After installing the App, Enable the Location from the Accessibility Settings.
• Log-in using your phone number and enter the valid OTP.
• Complete your profile by entering your name and email address.
• You can see the nearby parking slots along with their rates.
• Parking slots for different vehicles can be checked by selecting the right icon.
• Particular parking slots can be searched using search bar.
• Clicking the rate icon of nearby parking slots can show the details, like name, contact, address, time taken to reach, and number of slots left
• Add details of your vehicle. Where do we add more vehicles?
• Select remember me for future use and click on book now.
• Confirm the details and pay for the transaction.
• Upon successful payment, you’ll receive a receipt with all the documents.
• Current booking and previous booking can be viewed in notifications or in Profile -> My Bookings.
• Profile can be seen and edited in the profile section of the application.
• You are good to go.

Contributors

• Heenal Shah
• Nishi
• Kisan Shah
• Nilesh D

Contributing

Please feel free to fork, comment, critique, or submit a pull request in any of the two repositories.

LICENSE

This project is open-source and available under the MIT License.