AUTOMATIC PAYMENT SYSTEM FOR THE URBAN PARKING PHASES OF VEHICLES USING RADIO FREQUENCY (RFID)

• US 20100253482A1
• Filed: 09/25/2009
• Published: 10/07/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/06/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Onsom SL
• Original Assignee: Onsom SL
• Inventors: CATALA MORA, Bernat, PARDO CALDERON, Vicente
• Application Number:
  US12/567,272
• Publication Number:
  US 20100253482A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/10.400
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07703 the interface being visual
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07769 the further communication means being a galvanic interface, e.g. hybrid or mixed smart cards having a contact and a non-contact interface
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/127 Shopping or accessing services according to a time-limitation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3278 RFID or NFC payments by means of M-devices
• 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: G07F 17/0014 for vending, access and use of specific services not covered anywhere else in G07F17/00 meter-controlled dispensing of liquid, gas or electricity G07F15/00
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/24 for parking meters
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/246 provided with vehicle proximity-detectors detecting hidden masses, e.g. metal detectors, G01V, e.g. G01V3/00; proximity switches per se H03K17/00; traffic control systems G08G1/00

Abstract

An automatic payment system for the urban parking phases of vehicles using radio frequency (RFID), contemplating the implementation of a hybrid card for radio frequency identification (RFID-smartcard) which is installed inside the vehicle, integrated by blocks into which the system, together with the communication protocols used, has been divided, and has a series of buttons and an LCD display for the user to interact with the system without needing any other additional device and in which an ultra high frequency (UHF) RFID tag reader/writer, together with a passive tag adhered thereto, is placed, the objective of which will be to read and write the necessary data on the passive tag, which can in turn be read by an external, portable, neither fixed nor stationary RFID reader.

Claims

1. An automatic payment system for the urban parking phases of vehicles using radio frequency (RFID), comprising an electronic card which is installed inside the vehicle and which is characterized by having:

an LCD display (3) for the user to interact directly with the system also;

an ultra high frequency (UHF) RFID tag reader/writer (4) together with a passive tag (5) adhered thereto and with the interposition of a smart transmitter/receiver (transceiver) (8) with UHF RFID technology;

an RFID reader/writer (4) the objective of which will be to read and write the necessary data on the passive tag (5), which can in turn be read by an external RFID reader (6) and with an interface (7) which allows communicating with the SmartCard reader/writer (4) following the ISO 7816 protocol.

2. The automatic payment system for the urban parking phases of vehicles using radio frequency (RFID) according to claim 1, characterized by being a portable, neither fixed nor stationary, reader.

3. The automatic payment system for the urban parking phases of vehicles using radio frequency (RFID) according to claim 1, characterized in that the communication between the passive tag (5) and the card (1) or between the tag (5) and the external RFID reader (6) follows the ISO 18000-6c protocol.

4. The automatic payment system for the urban parking phases of vehicles using radio frequency (RFID) according to claim 1, which interface is characterized in that it will serve to modify internal data of the actual card (1), such as for example the total balance, charging information and other different operations.

5. The automatic payment system for the urban parking phases of vehicles using radio frequency (RFID) according to claim 1, for the physical connection between the different components and on the coding of the data in the passive RFID tag, characterized in that the coding of the information contained in the tag (5) will subsequently be read by an external RFID reader (6).

6. The automatic payment system for the urban parking phases of vehicles using radio frequency (RFID) according to claim 1, which card of the system is characterized in that it comprises a set of buttons (2) interacting on a general microcontroller (9) for the activation thereof.

7. The automatic payment system for the urban parking phases of vehicles using radio frequency (RFID) according to claim 1, which connection of the RFID-smartcard interface is characterized in that it comprises the following components:

10;

RFID transmission board.

20;

RFID reception board.

30;

main control board with the connector to the smartCard (1).

40;

RFID insulation board.

50;

antenna with the RFID tag (5).

60;

power supply board.

70;

fusion board in charge of the connection between the main board and the RFID components.

80;

connector to the smartcard.

8. The automatic payment system for the urban parking phases of vehicles using radio frequency (RFID) according to claim 1, which card is characterized in that it comprises a (9V) power source connected to the actual battery of the vehicle or to small solar energy photovoltaic panels or any other charger.