Place-Status Management System, Radio Tag Reader, and Managing Apparatus
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Abstract
A radio tag is arranged in each of a plurality of radio tag areas. The radio tag areas can be parking lots. A radio tag reader is configured to perform radio communications with the radio tags. The radio tag reader performs radio communications with each radio tag and based on the radio communication determines whether an object, which can be a vehicle, is present in the radio tag area corresponding to the radio tag.
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22 Claims
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12. A place-status management system that detects presence or absence of an object in a management area to manage a use status of the management area, the place-status management system comprising a plurality of radio tags, a plurality of radio tag readers, and a managing apparatus, wherein
each of the radio tags being arranged in each of a plurality of radio tag areas obtained by dividing the management area, each of the radio tag readers being capable of performing radio communications with radio tags arranged in each of a plurality of communication areas obtained by grouping a specific number of the radio tag areas, each of the radio tag readers holding, for a corresponding communication area, radio-tag registration information indicative of a correspondence of each radio tag and a radio tag area in which the radio tag is arranged, and each of the radio tag readers performing radio communications with the radio tags arranged in the corresponding communication area based on the radio-tag registration information to thereby determine presence or absence of an object in each of the radio tag areas in the corresponding communication area, and the managing apparatus generates place status information indicating the presence or absence of the object in each of the radio tag areas in the management area based on a result of determination made by each of the radio tag readers.
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21. A radio tag reader comprising:
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a radio communication unit configured to perform radio communication with a plurality of radio tags, each of the radio tags being arranged in each of a plurality of radio tag areas obtained by dividing the management area, the radio communication unit capable of performing radio communications with radio tags arranged in each of a plurality of communication areas obtained by grouping a specific number of the radio tag areas;
a storage unit that stores therein radio-tag registration information indicative of a correspondence of each radio tag and a radio tag area in which the radio tag is arranged; and
a processing unit that accesses the radio tags registered in the radio-tag registration information to determine whether there is a object in the radio tag area corresponding to the radio tag.
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22. A managing apparatus used in a place-status management system that manages a use status of the management area, the place-status management system including
a plurality of radio tags, each of the radio tags being arranged in each of a plurality of radio tag areas obtained by dividing the management area; - and
a radio tag reader capable of performing radio communications with the radio tags to thereby determine presence or absence of an object in each of the radio tag areas, wherein the managing apparatus generating place status information indicating the presence or absence of the object in each of the radio tag areas based on a result of determination made by the radio tag reader.
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