Ready for Production?

You've explored the IoT dashboard. Now understand what changes when moving to a production deployment managing real car parks.

This is guidance, not implementation. Use this information to inform your smart parking strategy and technical planning.

Scale Considerations

The demo handles one car park. Production systems need to manage multiple locations with thousands of sensors and historical analytics.

Multi-Location
Multi-car park support: routing by topic prefix (carpark/london/bay/A1)
Sensor Scale
Thousands of bays: partition Timestream tables by location
Peak Handling
Peak hour handling: Lambda concurrency and QuickSight capacity
Data Retention
Historical data: 90-day memory tier, 2-year magnetic retention

Customization Options

The demo uses default settings. Production deployments are customized to your council's specific car park layouts, alert thresholds, and branding.

Customization Description Effort Estimate
Zone Config Zone configuration: Define zones, levels, and bay numbering schemes 1-2 days
Thresholds Alert thresholds: Customize warning (80%) and critical (95%) levels 2-3 days
Branding Dashboard branding: Add council logo, color schemes, custom layouts 1-2 weeks
PGS Integration Integration: Connect to existing parking guidance systems (PGS) 2-4 weeks

Cost Comparison

Costs scale with sensor count and dashboard users. Here's a comparison between this demo and a typical production deployment (1000 sensors, 5 dashboard users).

Service Demo Costs Production Costs (1000 sensors)
AWS IoT Core $50-150/month (1000 sensors)
Amazon Timestream $200-500/month
AWS Lambda $20-50/month
Amazon QuickSight $250-500/month (5 users)
Total No cost to your council $520-1,200/month
Note: Production costs vary based on sensor update frequency and dashboard usage patterns.

Security Checklist

The demo prioritizes ease of exploration. Production deployments need additional security measures for IoT device management and data protection.

Certificate-based device authentication
IoT policies restricting topic access per device
VPC endpoints for Timestream access
QuickSight row-level security for multi-tenant
CloudTrail logging for all API calls
Encryption in transit and at rest

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