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PARKING LOT

  • US 20120236149A1
  • Filed: 03/05/2012
  • Published: 09/20/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/17/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A parking lot with a plurality of parking spaces for vehicles that have license plates with optical character recognition (OCR)-readable license numbers and onboard units with radio IDs that can be read out via radio, comprising:

  • a central computer for storing parking space reservations each comprising an indication of a parking space, a vehicle license number and an assigned radio ID;

    a radio beacon for the parking spaces that is positioned at an entrance of the parking lot for reading out the radio ID of an entering vehicle and signaling the radio ID to the central computer; and

    at least one camera unit for each parking space for reading the license number of a vehicle parked therein by OCR and signaling the license number to the central computer, wherein the central computer is configured to check whether for a given radio ID signaled to the central computer, the vehicle license number assigned thereto in a stored parking space reservation is subsequently signaled by the camera unit of said parking space, and to log instances in which said vehicle license number is not subsequently signaled by said camera unit.

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