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US 9,058,701 B2Granted
Meterless remote parking monitoring system
Assigneefybr
InventorsEric Groft, Larry Berman
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Abstract
A meterless remote parking monitoring system, incorporating a plurality of vehicle detector and Radio Frequency Identification Reader (RFID) units deployed in individual parking spaces; a plurality of Cellular Gateway Radios, each Cellular Gateway Radio being connected to one of said plurality of vehicle detector and Radio Frequency Identification Units; a Command and Control Server; the plurality of Cellular Gateway Radios being connected to said Command and Control Server via the internet.
Claims4
A meter-less remote parking monitoring system, comprising:
- a plurality of vehicle detector and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) reader units deployed in individual parking spaces and configured for communication with at least one vehicle identification unit;
- a plurality of Cellular Gateway Radios, each Cellular Gateway Radio being connected to at least one of said plurality of vehicle detector and Radio Frequency Identification Units;
- and
- a Command and Control Server configured to
- receive a unique identification code from an RFID permit transmitted from one of the vehicle detector and RFID reader units in a parking space, and
- verify the unique identification code against a list of issued parking permits to determine that a parking permit associated with the unique identification code has
- an existing code,
- permission for a vehicle associated with the unique identification code to be parked in the parking space in which the vehicle is parked,
- not expired, and
- good standing with respect to payments for the permitted parking space.
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