Parking management and navigation
AssigneeBeken Corporation
InventorsJie LI, Weifeng WANG
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Abstract
Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for parking management and navigation. One method includes operations for determining an availability of a parking space having a parking space ID, obtaining a radio-frequency ID associated with a vehicle occupying the parking space, and communicating the parking space ID and the radio-frequency ID to a storage device via a self-organized network formed by multiple parking space terminals. Further, the method includes operations for providing navigation to a vacant parking space and providing navigation to a parked vehicle.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- determining a first availability of a first parking space, the first parking space having a first parking space ID, the first availability of the first parking spaces being either vacant or occupied, the first parking space being one of a plurality of parking spaces;
- obtaining a first radio-frequency ID (RFID) associated with a first vehicle and a first user device in response to determining that the first parking space being occupied by the first vehicle;
- re-determining the first availability of the first parking space within a pre-specified length of time to confirm that the first parking space is still being occupied by the first vehicle;
- and
- communicating the first RFID and the first parking space ID to a storage device via a self-organized network formed by a plurality of parking space terminals.
A system, comprising:
- a hardware processor;
- a parking space detector;
- an RFID reader;
- a Bluetooth antenna;
- and
- a storage device storing instructions that, when executed by the hardware processor, configure the system to:
- determine, by the parking space detector, a first availability of a first parking space, the first parking space having a first parking space ID, the first availability of the first parking spaces being either vacant or occupied, the first parking space being one of a plurality of parking spaces;
- obtain, by the RFID reader, a first RFID associated with a first vehicle and a first user device in response to determining that the first parking space being occupied by the first vehicle;
- re-determine, by the parking space detector, the first availability of the first parking space within a pre-specified length of time to confirm that the first parking space is still being occupied by the first vehicle;
- and
- communicate, by the hardware processor, the first RFID and the first parking space ID to a storage device via the Bluetooth antenna and a self-organized network formed by a plurality of parking space terminals.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, the computer-readable storage medium including instructions that when executed by a computer, cause the computer to:
- determine a first availability of a first parking space, the first parking space having a first parking space ID, the first availability of the first parking spaces being either vacant or occupied, the first parking space being one of a plurality of parking spaces;
- obtain a first RFID associated with a first vehicle and a first user device in response to determining that the first parking space being occupied by the first vehicle;
- re-determine the first availability of the first parking space within a pre-specified length of time to confirm that the first parking space is still being occupied by the first vehicle;
- and
- communicate the first RFID and the first parking space ID to a storage device via the Bluetooth antenna and a self-organized network formed by a plurality of parking space terminals.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.