Method and device for generating toll information in a road-toll system
First Claim
1. A method for generating toll information from movements of vehicle devices in a road-toll system that comprises at least one toll center and a plurality of connected, geographically distributed beacons for short-range radio communication with the vehicle devices, the method comprising:
- providing, in a memory of a first beacon of the geographically distributed beacons, a first set of location data of one or more stationary toll-requiring geo-objects, other than the first beacon, in a local environment of said first beacon;
providing, in the memory of the first beacon, a second location data set of one or more stationary toll-requiring geo-objects in a local environment of a second beacon of the geographically distributed beacons, the second location data set also stored in a memory of the second beacon and being different from the first location data set;
recording, in a vehicle device, a sequence of position data of said vehicle device;
when said vehicle device is in the transmitting/receiving range of said first beacon, receiving the first and second location-data sets from said first beacon in the vehicle device;
comparing the position-data sequence with the received location-data sets in the vehicle device for geographical similarity to generate toll information therefrom; and
when said vehicle device is in the transmitting/receiving range of the first beacon or the second beacon, transmitting the toll information from the vehicle device via the first beacon or the second beacon to the toll center.
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Abstract
A method for generating toll information for vehicle devices in a road-toll system with a toll center and geographically distributed radio beacons. The method includes providing a set of location data of toll-requiring geo-objects from the respective local environment of a beacon in this beacon, recording a sequence of position data of a vehicle device in this vehicle device, if the aforementioned vehicle device is in the transmitting/receiving range of a beacon: receiving the location-data set from this beacon in the vehicle device, comparing the position-data sequence with the received location-data set in the vehicle device in order to generate toll information therefrom, and if the above-mentioned vehicle device is in the transmitting/receiving range of a beacon: transmitting the toll information from the vehicle device via the beacon to the toll center. The invention further relates to a vehicle device, a beacon and a monitoring device for such a road-toll system.
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11 Claims
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1. A method for generating toll information from movements of vehicle devices in a road-toll system that comprises at least one toll center and a plurality of connected, geographically distributed beacons for short-range radio communication with the vehicle devices, the method comprising:
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providing, in a memory of a first beacon of the geographically distributed beacons, a first set of location data of one or more stationary toll-requiring geo-objects, other than the first beacon, in a local environment of said first beacon; providing, in the memory of the first beacon, a second location data set of one or more stationary toll-requiring geo-objects in a local environment of a second beacon of the geographically distributed beacons, the second location data set also stored in a memory of the second beacon and being different from the first location data set; recording, in a vehicle device, a sequence of position data of said vehicle device; when said vehicle device is in the transmitting/receiving range of said first beacon, receiving the first and second location-data sets from said first beacon in the vehicle device; comparing the position-data sequence with the received location-data sets in the vehicle device for geographical similarity to generate toll information therefrom; and when said vehicle device is in the transmitting/receiving range of the first beacon or the second beacon, transmitting the toll information from the vehicle device via the first beacon or the second beacon to the toll center. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A vehicle device for a road toll system comprising:
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a satellite-navigation receiver for generating a sequence of position data; a first memory for storing the position-data sequence; a short-range transceiver for radio communication with a first beacon of a plurality of geographically distributed beacons when the vehicle device is in the transmitting/receiving range of said first beacon; and a second memory for holding at least two location data sets of one or more stationary toll-requiring geo-objects, other than the first beacon, in the environments of the first beacon and one or more adjacent beacons, the at least two location data sets including a first location data set of one or more stationary toll-requiring geo-objects, other than the first beacon, in a local environment of the first beacon, and including a second location data set of one or more stationary toll-requiring geo-objects in a local environment of a second beacon; wherein one or more of said at least two location data sets is received by the short-range transceiver from said first beacon, wherein the vehicle device is configured to; compare the stored position-data sequence with the received one or more of said at least two location data sets of said one or more stationary toll-requiring geo-objects for geographical similarity to generate toll information therefrom, and to transmit said toll information via the short-range transceiver to said first beacon or the second beacon when the vehicle device is in the transmitting/receiving range of said first beacon or the second beacon. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11)
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