Night Parking Detection

A parking-monitoring device for monitoring at least a parking space at night, comprising:

• a camera located on a fixed structure, wherein said camera captures a sequence of images of at least a light of a vehicle, but cannot acquire the details of said parking space under the ambient lighting;
• a processor coupled to said camera, wherein said processor determines the parking state of said parking space from a track of said light obtained from said sequence of images, without using the output of any vehicle indicator.