# US 10,839,687 B2 · Gen II meter system with multiple processors, multiple detection sensor types, fault tolerance methods, power sharing and multiple user interface methods > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,839,687 B2 - Document ID: US10839687B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 14/679,610 - Filed: 2015-04-06 - Published: 2015-07-30 - Granted: 2020-11-17 - Earliest claimed: 2009-07-10 - Assignees: fybr - Applicants: fybr - Inventors: Scott Keller; Chris Krstanovic; Tom Swiedler; David Fasciano; Eric Groft - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10839687B2 ## CPC - G08G 1/144: {on portable or mobile units, e.g. personal digital assistant [PDA]} - G07B 15/02: taking into account a variable factor such as distance or time, e.g. for passenger transport, parking systems or car rental systems (G07B15/06 takes precedence; taximeters G07B13/00; parking meters per se G07F17/24) - G07F 17/246: {provided with vehicle proximity-detectors (detecting hidden masses, e.g. metal detectors, G01V, e.g. G01V3/00; proximity switches per se H03K17/00; traffic control systems G08G1/00)} - G08G: TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS (guiding railway traffic, ensuring the safety of railway traffic B61L; arrangement of road signs or traffic signals E01F9/00; radar or analogous systems, sonar systems, lidar systems specially adapted for traffic control G01S13/91, G01S15/88, G01S17/88; {radar or analogous systems, sonar systems, lidar systems specially adapted for anti-collision purposes G01S13/93, G01S15/93, G01S17/93}) - G07B: TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS - G07F: COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS (coin sorting G07D3/00; coin testing G07D5/00; {handling coins or paper currencies apart from payment activated apparatus G07D; payment architectures, schemes or protocols G06Q20/00}) ## Abstract A parking space monitoring system, with multiple microprocessors for handling various parking space management conditions, including at least one of the following conditions: (1) Space Occupancy (vehicle detection); (2) Parking Meter Status; (3) Display of Parking Policy to Motorists; (3) Motorist User Interactions; (4) Maintenance User Interactions; (5) Radio Communications with a Central management system and Network; and (6) Coordination of the operation between various ones of the microprocessors. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A parking space monitoring system for handling various parking space management conditions, comprising: a parking space monitoring device for a parking space; a piece of electronic equipment having a plurality of microprocessors located within the parking space monitoring device, wherein the microprocessors are configured to monitor and respond to the various parking space management conditions of the parking space monitoring system; a power control mechanism configured to provide power to the piece of electronic equipment and the plurality of microprocessors; a mobile computer having a Global Positioning System (GPS) wherein the (GPS) reports in near real-time a current geographical location of the mobile computer; a remote processing center and communication network, wherein the mobile computer and the parking space monitoring device are communicably connected to the remote processing center by the communication network; and wherein the remote processing center and the parking space monitoring device are configured for dynamically determining a dynamic priority of a prospective response to various parking space management conditions, that match with parking management goals of a parking manager of the parking space monitoring system, based upon pre-determined parking space management characteristics of the parking space, the current geographical location of the mobile computer, historical various parking space conditions, and historical parking space management characteristics where the dynamically determining the dynamic priority comprises weighing at least one of the various parking space management conditions that reflects the parking management goals of the parking manager including a citation fine amount, violation type, type of equipment failure, historical usage rates in a location being monitored, meter rates, time in violation, current duration of equipment failure, type of residential or commercial parking location, charged parking rates, parking demand, turnover, parking time limits, violation fine levels, and historical violation durations, and other metrics effecting near real time exceptions from the predetermined parking space management characteristics of the parking space and which exceptions are actionable in near real time based on the current geographical location, of the mobile computer effecting a value maximizing response by a field personnel using the mobile computer maximizing the parking management goals. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The parking space monitoring system as in claim 1, further comprising a power supply and solar cells for supplementing additional power shared with at least one external device including parking meters, digital signage and other types of related user interfacing devices. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The parking space monitoring system as in claim 1 wherein the prospective response to the various parking space management conditions comprises current violations, maintenance issues or meter collection requirements. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The parking space monitoring system as in claim 1 wherein the (GPS) of the mobile computer reports the current geographical location of the mobile computer in order to receive instructions from the remote processing center with respect to current violations, maintenance issues or meter collection requirements that are most proximate to the field personnel using the mobile computer. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The parking space monitoring system as in claim 1 wherein the (GPS) of the mobile computer reports the current geographical location of the mobile computer in order to receive instructions from the remote processing center with respect to current violations, maintenance issues or meter collection requirements that are highest priority. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The parking space monitoring system as in claim 1, further comprising a plurality of mobile computers used by field personnel of the parking space monitoring system, wherein the mobile computers and remote processing center are arranged so that remote access is provided for observation of a location of each of the field personnel in a monitored parking space, based on at least part of aggregate data, and identification of an emergent condition at a different location and for direction of a field personnel to the different location in response to identification of the emergent condition. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The parking space monitoring system as in claim 1, further comprising a separate device employing at least one of an induction loop, magnetometer, RADAR, ultrasonic, infrared viable means, and a radio, said separate device monitoring a parking space's occupancy and communicates the parking space's occupancy status either directly through at least one of the radio, the communication network to which the separate device is connected, and by the remote processing center. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The parking space monitoring system as in claim 7 wherein the separate device is installed below grade in the parking spaces of said parking space monitoring system. ### Claim 9 (depends on 7) The parking space monitoring system as in claim 7 wherein the separate device is installed in the parking space monitoring device. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The parking space monitoring system as in claim 1, wherein the parking space management conditions include at least one of the following conditions: Space Occupancy; Parking Meter Status; Display of Parking Policy to Motorists; Motorist User Interactions; Maintenance User Interactions; Radio Communications with a Central Management System and Network; and coordination of the operation between the plurality of microprocessors. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) The parking space monitoring system as in claim 1 wherein the networked mobile computers and remote processing center are arranged so that remote access is provided for observation of a location of each worker in a monitored parking space, based at least in part on the last transmission of GPS data, and identification of an emergent condition at different locations and for direction of a worker to the different location in response to identification of the emergent condition. ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) The parking space monitoring system as in claim 1 wherein the parking management goals comprise revenue maximization and space availability maximization.