US 2018/0025550 A1Published application

Parking meter system

AssigneeMunicipal Parking Services, Inc.

InventorsThomas G. Hudson, Joseph M. Caldwell, II, Richard C. Gage

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Abstract

A parking meter includes a housing, processor, memory, network interface, display screen, first camera facing outward from the first side of the housing, second camera facing outward from the housing towards a parking space, and a payment acceptor. The meter is configured to sense a vehicle's presence in the parking space, capture an identification of the vehicle, transmit the identification to a remote networked computer system, determine that a parking violation has occurred, transmit the notice to the remote computer system, accept payment of fines, transmit notice of fine payment to the remote computer system, reset the parking time period to zero upon the vehicle's exit from the parking space, and receive updated parking rate parameters by the processor from the remote computer system via the network interface.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A parking meter, comprising:

a weather resistant housing, the housing having a first side and a second side;
a processor disposed inside of the housing
a memory disposed inside of the housing and coupled to the processor;
a network interface disposed in the housing and coupled to the processor;
a display screen disposed in the housing and facing outward from the first side of the housing;
a first camera disposed in the housing and facing outward from the first side of the housing, the first camera coupled to the processor;
a second camera disposed in the housing and facing outward from the second side of the housing towards a first parking space, the second camera coupled to the processor;
wherein the processor is configured to:
recognize when a vehicle first occupies a vacant space;
determine that a parking violation for the vehicle has occurred;
transmit notice of the parking violation to a remote computer system via the network interface, the notice including an identification for the vehicle and a time of the violation;
and
receive an updated parking rate parameter from the remote computer system via the network interface.

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Facts

Application: 15/714,916Filed 25 Sep 2017
Priority: 25 Jan 2013
Published: 25 Jan 2018
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

G07B 15/02
Arrangements or apparatus for collecting fares, tolls or entrance fees at one or more control points: taking into account a variable factor such…
G07F 17/246
For parking meters: provided with vehicle proximity-detectors
Y02T 10/70
Other road transportation technologies with climate change mitigation effect: energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries
Y02T 10/7072
Other road transportation technologies with climate change mitigation effect: electromobility specific charging systems or methods for batteries,…

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