Systems and Methods for Shared Parking Permit Violation Detection

A distributed mobile parking enforcement system including a plurality of mobile parking enforcement devices movable to be brought to locations where vehicles are parked to monitor and/or enforce parking regulations, the system comprising:

• at least one first mobile parking enforcement device generating first parking events, each first parking event pertaining to a respective parking instance of a parked vehicle observed by the at least one first mobile parking enforcement device and comprising first parking data including at least a vehicle identifier of the parked vehicle and one additional parking parameter observed by the at least one first mobile parking enforcement device about the parking instance of the parked vehicle and transmitting the first parking events for storage in a remote parking enforcement server;
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• a second mobile parking enforcement device separate from the at least one first mobile parking enforcement device, comprising:
• a wireless interface to obtain, from the remote parking enforcement server, a set of at least one extraneous past parking event taken from the first parking events generated by the at least one first mobile parking enforcement device;
• a data interface communicatively couplable with parking data acquisition hardware to obtain therefrom second parking data pertaining to parked vehicles observed by the parking data acquisition hardware, the second parking data comprising current parking data pertaining to a current parking instance of a nearby parked vehicle and including at least a current vehicle identifier of the nearby parked vehicle and one additional current parking parameter observed by the second mobile parking enforcement device about the current parking instance of the nearby parked vehicle;
• computer-readable memory storing program instructions;
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• a processor in communication with the wireless interface, the data interface, and the computer-readable memory. the processor being operable to execute the program instructions for:
• generating a current parking event pertaining to the current parking instance of the nearby parked vehicle using the current parking data;
• determining a parking violation by searching the set of at least one extraneous past parking event by comparing the current parking event to individual extraneous past parking events in the set of at least one extraneous past parking event to identify amongst the at least one extraneous past parking event of the set a violation parking event for which the vehicle identifier of the violation parking event matches the current vehicle identifier and for which the additional current parking parameter and the additional parameter of the violation parking event indicates a violation of a regulation;
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• generating a violation event for the nearby parked vehicle and storing the violation event in the computer-readable memory.

A method for performing parking enforcement using a distributed mobile parking enforcement system including a plurality of mobile parking enforcement devices movable to be brought to locations where vehicles are parked to monitor and/or enforce parking regulations, the method comprising:

• generating, using at least one first mobile parking enforcement device, first parking events, each first parking event pertaining to a respective parking instance of a parked vehicle observed by the at least one first mobile parking enforcement device and comprising first parking data including at least a vehicle identifier of the parked vehicle and one additional parking parameter observed by the at least one first mobile parking enforcement device about the parking instance of the parked vehicle and transmitting the first parking events for storage in a remote parking enforcement server;
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• obtaining, at a wireless interface of a second mobile parking enforcement device separate from the at least one first mobile parking enforcement device, a set of at least one extraneous past parking event taken from the first parking events generated by the at least one first mobile parking enforcement device;
• obtaining, at a data interface of the second mobile parking enforcement device, second parking data from parking data acquisition hardware communicatively couplable to the data interface, the second parking data pertaining to parked vehicles observed by the parking data acquisition hardware and comprising current parking data pertaining to a current parking instance of a nearby parked vehicle and including at least a current vehicle identifier for the nearby parked vehicle and one additional current parking parameter observed by the second mobile parking enforcement device about the current parking instance of the nearby parked vehicle;
• generating a current parking event for the nearby parked vehicle using the current parking data;
• determining a parking violation by searching the set of at least one extraneous past parking event by comparing the current parking event to individual extraneous past parking events in the set of at least one extraneous past parking event to identify amongst the at least one extraneous past parking event of the set a violation parking event for which a vehicle identifier of the violation parking event matches the current vehicle identifier and for which the additional current parking parameter and an additional parameter of the violation parking event indicates a violation of a rule;
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• generating a violation event for the nearby parked vehicle and storing the violation event in a computer-readable memory.