System for managing parking spaces using artificial intelligence and computer vision

A parking space management system, comprising:

• a plurality of parking meters, each of the parking meters including a respective main body, processor, sensor and transceiver, the sensor of each said parking meter configured to sense visual information relating to one or more parking spaces associated with the respective parking meter, and the transceiver configured to externally transmit the sensed visual information;
• and
• a backend server configured to remotely control a selected one or more of said plurality of parking meters, the backend server further configured to:
• receive the transmitted sensed visual information from at least one of the parking meters;
• process the received sensed visual information via computer vision to determine an occupancy status of the one or more parking spaces associated with said at least one of the parking meters;
• control said at least one of the parking meters to display a first status notification indicative of the determined occupancy status of the one or more parking spaces associated with said at least one of the parking meters;
• and
• establish a reservation for a selected parking space and control the parking meter associated with the reserved selected parking space to display a second status notification indicative of the reservation.