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Method for monitoring a parking facility

  • US 10,140,793 B2
  • Filed: 10/22/2015
  • Issued: 11/27/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/26/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for monitoring a parking facility, which has an area exclusively reserved for autonomously driving vehicles, the method comprising:

  • receiving, via a communication interface, an access request to access a vehicle, associated with a person, for the reserved area;

    checking, via the processor, whether the person is authorized for accessing the reserved area;

    granting, via the processor, the access if the person is authorized for access, wherein the access is not granted if the person is not authorized; and

    monitoring, via the processor, a behavior of the person in the reserved area;

    wherein the monitoring includes a check to determine whether the person moves toward the vehicle associated with the person that is parked in the reserved area and/or whether the person moves in the reserved area along a path specified for the person and/or whether the person moves toward a vehicle not associated with the person that is parked in the reserved area and/or stops at this vehicle and/or accesses this vehicle,wherein an entrance and/or an exit of the reserved area is monitored to determine unauthorized entries and/or exits, andwherein a parking position of a vehicle associated with the person that is parked in the reserved area is communicated to the person.

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