The invention relates to a system which consists of at least one street-lighting device, a camera system mounted thereon, a recognition unit, a transmission unit and a mobile display device. The camera system is designed to provide image indicators of parking spaces within a parking lot. The recognition unit is designed - to store the geographical coordinates of parking spaces present in the visual range of the camera system, - to assign, depending on the image indicators, to each parking space a respective occupation status, said status specifying whether the respective parking space is available or occupied, - and to provide the transmission unit with the respective occupation status of at least the available parking spaces and the associated geographical coordinates, the transmission unit being designed to transmit the respective occupation status at least of the available parking spaces and the associated geographical coordinates to the mobile display device.