System for monitoring arrival of a vehicle at a given location and associated methods

A vehicle sensing system, comprising:

• a plurality of vehicle sensing devices, each vehicle sensing device of the plurality of vehicle sensing devices comprising:
• at least one wireless transceiver configured to communicate a first signal with a wireless device of a user in a vehicle;
• at least one vehicle detector comprising:
• a magnetometer configured to detect a change in a magnetic field and generate magnetometer data based on the change, the change in the magnetic field caused by the vehicle;
• and
• an accelerometer configured to detect vibrations and generate accelerometer data representative of the vibrations caused by the vehicle;
• a processor connected to the at least one wireless transceiver and the at least one vehicle detector, and configured to:
• receive (i) the magnetometer data and (ii) the accelerometer data;
• detect a direction of travel or a speed of travel via the at least one vehicle detector in response to the accelerometer data, and detect entry of the vehicle into an area via the at least one vehicle detector in response to at least one of (i) the magnetometer data and (ii) the accelerometer data, the vehicle detector comprising the magnetometer and the accelerometer is installed at a parking lot;
• determine information about the vehicle in response to the detecting the entry of the vehicle, the information comprising a response of the mobile wireless electronic device to a prompt transmitted by the wireless transceiver requesting payment for a parking space;
• and
• transmit the information about the vehicle to a server using the at least one wireless transceiver;
• and
• an output device connected to the processor, wherein the processors of the plurality of vehicle sensing devices are configured to cooperate, using their respective wireless transceivers, to determine a position of the wireless device in communication with at least one of the vehicle sensing devices via wireless communications, and to direct a respective user of the wireless device to an authorized parking space via their respective output device.