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I'm not sure if you need to measure each parking place or only at the entrance. If it is a drive thru it seems like 2 ir sensors like what are used in tv remotes and tv's would work. Spacing is such that if both are blocked it is a big car. If only one at a time is a small car.
For your situation, a simple 2mH - 10mH inductor in the ground, and fed with 20kHz is all you need to detect a car. The spacing of the inductors will detect length and this will determine size. If you have 3 inductors in alignment, you can also determine length as you know the speed of the vehicle.
Seems these schemes will require infrastructural changes,which may not be feasible in my current scenario.
The ir is simple. Just an ir source at 40KHZ and the off the shelf TV detector. Detect the absence of pulses. The whole thing is less than $10. But, your problem is more complex. You don't know how far into the space the car is. Is it correct to assume that length is the factor you want to check? If so what is the tolerance?
Boncuk said:here is a cheap and reliable solution for your problem.
Yes the car can be considered available in a fixed parking spot of maybe 10ftx10ft so any ir detector should work IMO
Good enoughAlthough throwing in another beam wont hurt.