US 8,884,785 B2Granted

Enhancements to meterless remote parking monitoring systems

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InventorsEric Groft, Kirby Andrews

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Abstract

A remote meterless parking monitoring system including a plurality of individual parking spaces, a plurality of vehicle detector/RFID units for monitoring the status of the individual parking spaces; at least one Gateway device responsive to the plurality of vehicle detector/RFID units; a Command and Control Server for employing numerous security provisions at least including encryption of data, Virtual Privacy Networks, firewalls and authenticated connections and responsive to data from said Cellular gateway via the internet; and the Command and Control Server uses the status of each space and the ID from the motorist's RFID tag to cross reference data according to a Policy database and identifying the motorist through a Motorist Database including information about the motorist's mailing address, vehicle payment account balance or other information.

Claims10

Dependent claims

A remote meterless parking monitoring system comprising:

at least one vehicle detector associated with at least one parking space;
an RFID reader coupled to the at least one vehicle detector, the RFID reader being arranged to read RFID tags of the at least one parking space and RFID tags of other parking spaces different from the at least one parking space of parking spaces;
and
a Command and Control Server responsive to data, received through a gateway, from the at least one vehicle detector and the RFID reader;
where the remote meterless parking monitoring system is programmed so that the at least one vehicle detector detecting a new vehicle causes the RFID reader to wake and the RFID reader is programmed to read all of the RFID tags in a reading range of the RFID reader and communicate data from the RFID tags to the Command and Control Server,
where the command and control server includes a Parking Policy Database and a Motorist Database and is configured to, upon arrival of the new vehicle in the at least one parking space, cross reference the data from the at least one vehicle detector and the RFID reader with a status of each parking space and an ID from a motorist RFID tag according to the Parking Policy Database and identify a motorist through the Motorist Database, and determine a parking space location and time allowance of the at least one parking space from an associated policy in the Policy Database and a vehicle payment account balance in the Motorist Database for the motorist.

3 more elements

A method in a remote meterless parking monitoring system for assigning parking policies to parking spaces, the method comprising:

starting an occupant monitoring process;
waking an RFID Reader with a Vehicle Detector in response to detecting a vehicle in a parking space;
determining with the RFID Reader all readable RFID Tags in proximity to the parking space;
transmitting an RFID Reader determination to a Command and Control Server;
determining an RFID Tag for a Motorist in the parking space;
determining with the Command and Control Server if one of the readable RFID Tag is associated with the Motorist, where the Command and Control Server is responsive to data, received through a gateway, from the at least one vehicle detector and the RFID reader;
if no RFID tag exists in a parking space, issuing a violation alert;
if the one of the readable RFID tags is associated the Motorist, determining the motorist from a motorist database using an RFID tag ID of the RFID tag;
and
finding an associated Parking Policy assignment from an assignment table;
determining, upon the detection of the vehicle in the parking space, a parking space location and time allowance from the associated Parking Policy and a vehicle payment account balance in the motorist database for the motorist;
and
if the motorist is not permitted in the parking space location, issuing a violation alert.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/710,054Filed 10 Dec 2012 · continuation
Priority: 10 Aug 2009
Published: US 2013/0103460 A125 Apr 2013
Granted: 11 Nov 2014
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification11 codes

G06K 7/10366
Sensing by radiation using wavelengths larger than 0.1 mm, e.g. radio-waves or microwaves: the interrogation device being adapted for…
G06Q 20/3278
Short range or proximity payments by means of M-devices: rFID or NFC payments by means of M-devices
G06Q 30/0284
Price estimation or determination: time or distance, e.g. usage of parking meters or taximeters
G06Q 50/40
Information and communication technology [ICT] specially adapted for implementation of business processes of specific business sectors, e.g.…:…

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Application61/272,028Us provisional application · filed 10 Aug 2009
Application12/805,595Parent of this continuation · filed 6 Aug 2010
US 2013/0103460 A1Pre-grant publication · published 25 Apr 2013
US 8,330,624 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2011/0063079 A1Published application
US 8,884,785 B2This patent

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