Abstract: A parking bay monitoring system for electric vehicles includes a main unit for each parking bay, a router being housed in the main unit and connects to a network, at least one digital camera mounted in a position to take digital images of a parking bay, wherein the digital images are transmitted via the router to a central server for analysis by a visual recognition framework to generate a detection result. The system further includes a charging unit, wherein real time data relating to charging is logged and transmitted to the central server, wherein an occupancy status for each parking bay is generated based on the detection result and said data. The system generates a list containing the occupancy status of each parking bay and the said list being accessible by at least one terminal connected to the network.