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🇩🇪 Aachen

ACUP Smart Parking Sensors

From 2020 to 2021, a federally funded €100,000 research project mounted 41 video-based sensors on streetlights in two Aachen districts (about 650 spaces) to track parking occupancy in real time; the resulting live feed still runs through the city's geodata portal and mobility dashboard today.

Live 📅 since 2020

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🚲 MobilitySmart parkingSensors & IoT
Scale🏘️ District
Cost≈€100K (BMDV mFUND grant)

📖 Terms in this entry: Adaptive traffic signals · Digital twin · LoRaWAN

Sources

↗ RWTH Aachen ISB – ACUP project page (authority)Research institute's own project page: 41 sensors, two districts, Oct 2020–Dec 2021, listed under finished projects.
↗ BMDV – mFUND project ACUP (authority)Federal ministry's mFUND page: ~€100,000 funding, and confirms real-time occupancy data for the two districts remains available via Aachen's geodata portal and mobility dashboard after the project ended.

This overview was generated with AI from the public sources listed above and checked against them before publication. It has not had a complete human fact-check — treat it as a starting point and follow the sources.

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🇩🇪 Smart Parking & Digital Twin · Bad Homburg Bad Homburg upgrades meters with rebates and self-service kiosks; Aachen instead reads occupancy live from 41 streetlight-mounted cameras. 🇩🇪 Aachen Mobility Dashboard · Aachen ACUP's 41 streetlight sensors are the live feed still running through Aachen's own mobility dashboard today. 🇺🇸 SFpark Demand-Responsive Parking · San Francisco Aachen's video sensors from 2020 still run; San Francisco's comparable meter sensors were retired in 2013 for payment-data pricing instead.

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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “ACUP Smart Parking Sensors” — Aachen, Germany. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/aachen-smart-parking-acup/ (last verified 2026-08-02). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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