Parking payment transactions
OwnerBrock Watsoninventor
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Abstract
Systems, methods, and apparatus are described that enable a serial bus to be operated in one or more modes that employ additional wires for communicating data. A method includes a method includes providing a first interrogating signal configured to cause a controller in a vehicle that is entering the parking facility to monitor status of the vehicle while the vehicle is present within the parking facility, and measure a duration of time in which the vehicle is parked within the parking facility. The method further incudes providing a second interrogating signal when the vehicle is exiting the parking facility, the second interrogating signal being configured to cause the controller to transmit information that includes the duration of time in which the vehicle was parked within the parking facility.
Claims20
A method for tracking a vehicle in a parking facility, comprising:
- accumulating measurements in the vehicle, the measurements being derived from one or more sensors to obtain one or more time series of measurements;
- generating training and calibration information from the one or more time series of measurements using a processing core configured for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning;
- using a processing circuit of the vehicle that is calibrated by the training and calibration information to generate decisions indicative of state, status and mode of operation of the vehicle from a time series of measurements collected from sensors while the vehicle is present within the parking facility;
- receiving, at the vehicle, a first interrogating signal as the vehicle enters the parking facility through an entry point of the parking facility;
- transmitting a unique vehicle identifier corresponding to the vehicle in a response to the first interrogating signal;
- receiving a second interrogating signal at the vehicle when the vehicle is within the parking facility or exiting the parking facility through an exit point of the parking facility;
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- responsive to the second interrogating signal, transmitting from the vehicle:
- the unique vehicle identifier;
- and
- historical information based on the state, status and mode of operation of the vehicle indicated by decisions generated by the processing circuit from the time series of measurements generated while the vehicle is present within the parking facility, the historical information including locational information indicating locations or changes of location of the vehicle within the parking facility as recorded by the vehicle.
A system provided in a vehicle for tracking the vehicle within a parking facility, comprising:
- buffers configured to accumulate measurements derived from one or more sensors and further configured to provide one or more time series of measurements to a processing core configured for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, the accumulated measurements including vibration measurements;
- a processing circuit calibrated by training and calibration information generated by the processing core and configured to generate decisions indicative of state, status and mode of operation of the vehicle based on the one or more time series of measurements;
- a wireless communication interface;
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- a controller configured to:
- transmit a unique vehicle identifier corresponding to the vehicle after detecting a first interrogating signal when entering the parking facility through an entry point of the parking facility;
- receive a second interrogating signal at the vehicle when the vehicle is within the parking facility or exiting the parking facility through an exit point of the parking facility;
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- transmit information in response to the second interrogating signal, including:
- the unique vehicle identifier;
- and
- historical information based on the state, status and mode of operation of the vehicle indicated by decisions generated by the processing circuit from the time series of measurements collected from sensors while the vehicle is present within the parking facility, the historical information including locational information indicating locations or changes of location of the vehicle within the parking facility and recorded by the vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.