Is video sent anywhere?

No. The live picture is served only by the camera's own dashboard on your local network. Nothing is uploaded unless you add an output to the Node-RED flow yourself.

How reliable is the free/taken status?

A state change must hold for 15 frames before it shows, which filters pedestrians, shadows and brief obstructions. If spots still flicker, raise the Confidence threshold on the dashboard. Validate with your own site's lighting before relying on it.

How many spots can one camera watch?

The flow is designed for three adjacent spots per camera. For a longer row or several rows, use one camera per group of three.

How should the camera be mounted?

Facing the row at a slight angle, as a front view rather than straight down. Choose a well-lit spot; daylight and good lighting give the best results.

Can the status go to a parking sign, app or management system?

The shipped flow shows status on the dashboard only. The flow runs in Node-RED on the camera, so you can add an MQTT or HTTP output node to forward spot status to other systems.

Which reCamera models work?

reCamera 2002 series (2002w with WiFi, HQ PoE) and reCamera Gimbal run the same flow and model.

AI Parking Slot Monitor

See which parking spots are taken and which are free — real-time detection with reCamera, no server needed

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Reusable Site Templates

A short row of parking spaces where one camera can see every spot from the front.

Small parking lots — point the camera at a row of spots and see which ones are free on the dashboard.
Garage entrances — show arriving drivers how many spots are free before they drive in.
Reserved spots — watch VIP or accessible spaces and notice when they are taken.

Not a fit: large lots seen from high above, rows longer than three spots per camera, or unlit sites at night. For those, use more cameras or per-spot sensors.

How it works

Parking slot monitor device composition: one reCamera 2002 serves the dashboard to a phone or computer browser over HTTP

The whole system is one reCamera. It captures the picture, runs the parking model, decides which spots are taken and serves the dashboard. No server, no cloud account. Any phone or laptop on the same network opens the dashboard in a browser.

reCamera 2002 series (2002w with WiFi, or HQ PoE) or reCamera Gimbal.

Mount it facing the row of spots at a slight angle — a front view, not a top-down view.
Frame up to three adjacent spots.
Choose a well-lit position; results are best in daylight or under good lighting.

During setup the camera connects over USB-C (default address 192.168.42.1), then runs on WiFi or Ethernet.

The parking model and the decision logic both run inside reCamera.

The model finds vehicles in each spot in the frame.
A spot changes state only after 15 consecutive frames agree, so pedestrians walking past, shadows and brief obstructions do not flip it.
Confidence and IoU sliders on the dashboard tune detection for your site.

Deployment installs the detection flow and the model on the camera. The camera service restarts once, which takes about 90 seconds.

How well it works

Scope: capabilities and limits of the shipped flow on reCamera 2002 series.

What it does: shows each of up to three adjacent spots as free (green) or taken (red) on a live dashboard, with the number of free spots. A change is confirmed over 15 frames before it appears, which filters out passers-by and shadows.

Limits: designed for three adjacent spots per camera in a front-facing view. Works best in daylight or well-lit sites. Spot numbers follow left-to-right order in the frame, so relabel them if the camera is moved.

What you get out of it

Once deployed, the camera serves the dashboard itself.

Address	Content
`http://<reCamera-IP>:1880/dashboard/preview`	Live detection picture, per-spot free/taken markers, free-spot count, spot label input, Confidence and IoU sliders
`http://<reCamera-IP>:1880`	Node-RED editor with the parking flow, for adding outputs such as HTTP or MQTT

The dashboard opens from any device on the same network. No login to a cloud service is involved.

How to deploy

Check the setup and its product list, then follow the deployment guide.

Deployment Options

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FAQ

No server. Detection, the spot decision and the dashboard all run on reCamera. The internet is needed only once, during deployment, to download the model.

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