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US 2021/0005083 A1Published application
Parking application and management system
AssigneeHoneywell International Inc.
InventorHimanshu Khurana
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Abstract
Devices, methods, and systems for parking management are described herein. One device includes instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to receive a first indication via a mobile device that a user intends to park a vehicle in a parking spot of a parking area, display directions to an available parking spot in the parking area via the mobile device, receive a second indication via the mobile device that the user has parked the vehicle in the available parking spot, and provide a third indication via a different mobile device that the available parking spot is no longer available.
Claims20
A system for parking management, comprising:
- a first reader associated with an entrance of a parking area and configured to determine that a vehicle has entered the parking area;
- a second reader associated with an exit of the parking area and configured to determine that the vehicle has exited the parking area;
- a plurality of beacons associated with the parking area;
- a computing device, configured to:
- receive an indication of the vehicle entering the parking area from the first reader;
- determine an available parking spot in the parking area;
- track a location of the vehicle in the parking area based at least in part on communications between the plurality of beacons and a mobile device associated with the vehicle;
- receive an indication from the mobile device associated with the vehicle that the vehicle is parked in the available parking spot;
- receive an indication of the vehicle exiting the parking area from the second reader;
- and
- determine a length of time the vehicle spent in the parking area based on the indications from the first reader and the second reader.
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A system for parking management, comprising:
- an entrance license plate reader associated with an entrance of a parking area, the entrance license plate reader is configured to read license plate numbers of vehicles entering the entrance of the parking area;
- an exit license plate reader associated with an exit of a parking area, the exit license plate reader is configured to read license plate numbers of vehicles exiting the exit of the parking area;
- one or more tracking license plate readers each positioned at a fixed position within the parking area, the one or more tracking license plate readers configured to read license plate numbers of vehicles at each respective location in the parking area;
- a computing device, configured to:
- receive an indication of a vehicle entering the parking area from the entrance license plate reader;
- determine an available parking spot in the parking area;
- designate the available parking spot as a held parking spot for the vehicle;
- track a location of the vehicle in the parking area based at least in part on license plate numbers read by the one or more tracking license plate readers in the parking area;
- provide turn-by-turn directions to a mobile device associated with the vehicle to guide a user of the mobile device to the held parking spot;
- receive an indication from the mobile device associated with the vehicle that the vehicle is parked in the held parking spot;
- receive an indication of the vehicle exiting the parking area from the exit license plate reader;
- in response to receiving the indication of the vehicle exiting the parking area, designate the parking spot previously held by the vehicle as an available parking spot.
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A method for parking management, comprising:
- receiving an indication of a vehicle entering a parking area from an entrance license plate reader;
- determining an available parking spot in the parking area;
- tracking a location of the vehicle in the parking area based at least in part on communications between a plurality of beacons associated with the parking area and a mobile device associated with the vehicle;
- receiving an indication from the mobile device associated with the vehicle that the vehicle is parked in the available parking spot;
- receiving an indication of the vehicle exiting the parking area from an exit license plate reader;
- and
- determine a length of time the vehicle spent in the parking area based on the indications from the entrance license plate reader and the exit license plate reader.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.