METHOD FOR CONTROLLING ENTRY AND EXIT TO PARKING GARAGES AND PARKING FACILITIES

• US 20150095123A1
• Filed: 08/06/2014
• Published: 04/02/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/06/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SKIDATA AG (Thales SA)
• Original Assignee: Christian Wenninger
• Inventors: WENNINGER, CHRISTIAN
• Granted Patent: US 9,965,902 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/13
• CPC Class Codes: G07B 15/00 Arrangements or apparatus for collecting fares, tolls or entrance fees at one or more control points handling coins or valuable papers, e.g. banknotes, G07D; apparatus for vending or hiring articles or services activated by coins, credit cards, paper currency or the like G07F7/00, G07F17/00
• CPC Class Codes: G07B 15/04 comprising devices to free a barrier, turnstile, or the like turnstiles with registering means G07C9/10; coin-freed aspects G07F17/00

Abstract

As part of the process for controlling entry and exit in parking garages and parking facilities, the entrance or exit, in front of which a vehicle stands, is determined on the basis of a location determination of the vehicle, where the location information shall be transmitted by means of the mobile device via a wireless or mobile phone standard to a server, which is capable of controlling the parking barriers of entrances and exits after locating the vehicle, where in the case that the owner of the mobile device is already registered on the server, the user ID is also sent to the server and in the case that the owner of the mobile device is not registered on the server, the registration is done by means of the mobile device via the connection to the server and a user ID is assigned after registration, where the entrance or exit, in front of which the vehicle stands, is determined on basis of the data of location determination in the server, where a ticket in electronic form linked with the user ID is sent to the mobile device of the user in the case of an entrance or stored in the server and the parking barrier or access control device assigned to the determined entrance is actuated in order to allow the entrance, where it is determined for the case of an exit, whether the parking fee has been paid and in case of paid parking fee the parking barrier or access control device assigned to the determined exit is actuated in order to allow the exit.

Claims

1. Method for controlling entry and exit in parking garages and parking facilities, wherein the entry or exit, in front of which a vehicle stands, is determined on the basis of a location determination of the vehicle, where the location information shall be transmitted by means of the mobile device via a wireless or mobile phone standard to a server, which is capable of controlling the parking barriers of entrances and exits after locating the vehicle, where in the case that the owner of the mobile device is already registered on the server, the user ID is also sent to the server and in the case that the owner of the mobile device is not registered on the server, the registration is done by means of the mobile device via the connection to the server and a user ID is assigned after registration, where the entry or exit, in front of which the vehicle stands, is determined on basis of the data of location determination in the server, where a ticket in electronic form linked with the user ID is sent to the mobile device of the user in the case of an entrance or stored in the server and the parking barrier or access control device assigned to the determined entrance is actuated in order to allow the entrance, where it is determined for the case of an exit, whether the parking fee has been paid and in case of paid parking fee the parking barrier or access control device assigned to the determined exit is actuated in order to allow the exit.

2. Method for controlling entry and exit in parking garages and parking facilities, according to claim 1, wherein the position determination by means of a GPS module of a mobile device located in the vehicle and/or is performed via a GSM positioning in the event that the mobile device features a mobile telephone functionality.

3. Method for controlling entry and exit in parking garages and parking facilities, according to claim 1, wherein the location determination is done by scanning a QR-code attached to or provided at the entrance or exit containing the location coordinates or the location designation via the mobile device.

4. Method for controlling entry and exit in parking garages and parking facilities, according to claim 1, wherein the location determination is done by evaluating the local Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) connections of the mobile device.

5. Method for controlling entry and exit in parking garages and parking facilities, according to claim 1, wherein a customer medium that can be connected with the mobile device is used the location determination for the purpose of data communication, which commonicates via a. built-in RF transceiver with at least one reading device assigned to a parking barrier or access control device in a predetermined frequency range, where the location information of the entrance or exit or the parking barrier is transmitted by the reading device to the customer medium, if the customer medium is detected by the reading device, which is transmitted from the customer medium to the mobile device, from which it is then forwarded to the server.

6. Method for controlling entry and exit in parking garages and parking facilities, according to claim 1, wherein a proactive location determination, is carried out, where as soon as the mobile device of a user approaches an entry or exit of a parking garage or a parking facility below a predetermined distance, the user is asked over a corresponding software in his mobile device, whether he wants to enter or exit, where a connect to the server is established to transmit the location information and the user ID in the case of an affirmative answer.

7. Method for controlling entry and exit in parking garages and parking facilities, according to claim 1, wherein the payment of parking fees by means of the mobile device via the connection to the server or that the parking fees are paid at a parking ticket machine, where the ticket number of the electronic ticket and/or the user ID are transmitted from the parking machines to the parking machines via an NFC-interaction between the mobile device and the parking machines or by scanning the electronic ticket implemented as QR-code or as one-dimensional bar code, where if the parking fees have been paid, the payment process is linked to the user ID or the number of the electronic ticket and stored in an appropriate database of the server, so that if the vehicle is standing in front of an exit, the server controls the corresponding parking barrier in the opening direction after the transmission of the location information and the user ID and/or the nvumber of the electronic ticket,

8. Method for controlling entry and exit in parking garages and parking facilities, according to claim 1, wherein the need for a registration is omitted, where a biunique number of the mobile device is used as user ID.