Parking-zone management system

• US 20070257818A1
• Filed: 04/03/2007
• Published: 11/08/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 04/04/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Siemens AG
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Braukmann, Erwin, Aubrey, Kenneth, Krebs, Tilo
• Granted Patent: US 7,889,099 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/932.200
• CPC Class Codes: G07B 15/02 taking into account a variable factor such as distance or time, e.g. for passenger transport, parking systems or car rental systems G07B15/06 takes precedence; taximeters G07B13/00; parking meters per se G07F17/24; car rental systems per se G07B15/00
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 1/30 Parking meters registering or indicating waiting time of vehicles by means driven by the vehicle G07C5/02; coin-freed parking meters G07F17/24
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/14 indicating individual free spaces in parking areas

Abstract

The invention relates to a system for the management of a parking zone with chargeable parking spaces for vehicles, in particular of a parking zone sited at or on a public road, comprising an automatic machine for the payment of a parking fee for a parking space, said machine being assigned to the parking spaces. A parking-zone management system is provided which can indicate the current occupancy status of the parking spaces of the managed parking zone in an up-to-date manner and as accurately as possible, whereby at least one vehicle detector which is configured for determining the occupancy status of the parking space is arranged on each parking space, and whereby communication means, by means of which data representing the occupancy status can be transmitted, is provided for wireless data transmission between each respective vehicle detector and the automatic parking-fee machine.

Claims

1-18. -18. (canceled)

19. A system for the management of a parking zone with chargeable parking spaces for vehicles, comprising:

an automated payment machine for the payment of a parking fee for a plurality of parking spaces;

a vehicle detector arranged on each parking space, the vehicle detector configured for determining an occupancy status of the parking space; and

a communication device that wirelessly transmits a vehicle occupancy data between each respective vehicle detector (60) and the automatic parking-fee machine.

20. The parking-zone management system as claimed in claim 19, wherein the parking zone is at or on a public road and the parking spaces are marked as defined parking bays, where the vehicle detectors per parking bay are arranged in number and position in a distributed manner such that a vehicle parked within a parking bay can be definitely detected.

21. The parking-zone management system as claimed in claim 20, wherein each vehicle detector is arranged below ground and configured such that a vehicle can roll over it.