User assistance system for an interactive facility

In combination with a parking garage with multiple parking spaces on multiple levels, the improvement parking assistance system, which comprises:

• a station associated with a plurality of parking spaces on multiple levels and including a light fixture, said light fixture being adapted to illuminate a portion of said parking garage and to receive input signals identifying the occupied/unoccupied status of individual parking spaces, store said data and output said data;
• a wireless vehicle detector associated with said light fixture and directed towards at least one parking space for determining the presence or absence of a vehicle therein;
• a signal producing device connected to said vehicle detector and adapted for providing an input signal to said light fixture, said input signal identifying the occupied/unoccupied status of a parking space;
• a motion sensor associated with said light fixture and adapted for providing input corresponding to motion in the vicinity of said light fixture, said motion sensor being adapted to detect movement of a vehicle or a person;
• a system processor connected to said light fixture and adapted to receive data input signals therefrom, said system processor storing three-dimensional GPS coordinates associated with said parking spaces, the occupied/unoccupied status of same and the corresponding movement of vehicles and/or people in the vicinity of same;
• an external communications transmitter associated with said system processor and adapted for transmitting parking space status signals including GPS coordinates associated therewith;
• a receiver associated with a parking garage user and adapted to receive signals from said transmitter, said receiver including output adapted for communicating parking space status information to the user;
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• an emergency assistance communications device associated with said receiver and adapted for said user to summon emergency assistance in response to a predetermined output signal therefrom.