System to control and supervise vehicle transit in the public parking areas

• US 6,426,707 B1
• Filed: 06/21/2000
• Issued: 07/30/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 06/21/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Quality Informatoins System SA
• Original Assignee: Quality Informatoins System SA
• Inventors: Prieto, Javier Riesco, Prieto, Pablo Riesco
• Primary Examiner(s): LA, ANH V
• Application Number:
  US09/598,409
• Time in Patent Office: 769 Days
• Field of Search: 340/932.2, 340/933, 340/928, 340/5.61, 340/5.24, 340/5.71, 340/6.1, 340/6.2, 705/13, 116/33, 194/302, 235/384, 235/375, 235/382
• US Class Current: 340/932.2
• CPC Class Codes: G07B 11/00 Apparatus for validating or cancelling issued tickets
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 2009/00793 by Hertzian waves
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/242 provided with token dispensing devices

Abstract

SYSTEM TO CONTROL AND SUPERVISE VEHICLE TRANSIT IN THE PUBLIC PARKING AREAS, consisting of the implementation of hardware and software permitting at the entrance of a public car park, the association of the radio-frequency identification device code located in the vehicle with the ticket dispatched or the used card. At the car park exit, this system permits to detect ticket and/or card exchange between different vehicles and accordingly to prevent the theft of a vehicle by using a ticket or card different from that related to said vehicle. Likewise, it detects and prevents the execution of fraudulent operations derived from exchanging tickets and/or cards.

Claims

1. A method for controlling vehicular access and egress from a parking facility comprising the steps of:

providing a controllable entrance gate;

providing a ticket dispenser proximate to said entrance gate;

detecting the presence of a vehicle at said entrance gate;

reading a radio frequency identification code from the vehicle;

printing and dispensing a ticket that includes a ticket identifier and said radio frequency identification code;

providing a controllable exit gate;

providing a ticket reader at said exit gate;

detecting the presence of a vehicle at said exit gate;

reading a radio frequency identification code from said vehicle at said exit gate;

reading the radio frequency identification code from said ticket at said exit gate; and

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automatically opening the exit gate if the radio frequency identification code read from said ticket matches the radio frequency identification code read at the exit gate.

2. The method of claim 1 including the additional steps of:

triggering an alarm if the radio frequency identification code read at the exit gate does not correspond to the radio frequency identification code read at the exit gate.