JP2007025889A - Parking management system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To predetermine a parking position for efficiently parking a vehicle in a space matched with the model of the vehicle without making it necessary to install any special facility in the vehicle, and to achieve a function for guiding the vehicle to the determined parking position. <P>SOLUTION: A vehicle is photographed by a camera 30 at an entrance gate, and the parking position is determined by deciding the model of the vehicle from the acquired image, and a parking ticket 32 constituted of an RF tag in which the parking position is recorded is issued by a ticket issuing machine 10. The parking position is read by an RF tag reader 34 installed in the middle of a route to each parking position, and a direction where the vehicle should travel is displayed at an entrance/exit guidance board 36. When the vehicle reaches the parking position, a movable wheel stopper 20 goes down to permit parking of the vehicle only when the parking position is matched with the parking position read by an RF tag reader 18. The parking time since the vehicle enters the parking position until it leaves is counted, and when the vehicle leaves the parking position, the reservation of the next vehicle is made possible. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a parking management system particularly suitable for parking management in a large-scale parking lot.

  In large-scale parking lots such as multi-story parking lots, in order to efficiently accommodate a large number of different vehicles such as large cars, ordinary passenger cars, small passenger cars, motorcycles, etc. in a space suitable for the car type, There is a demand for a system that can reserve the corresponding parking position. In addition, it may not be easy for the user to find out the reserved parking position in such a manner, and the vehicle may be parked at a different position by mistake. Therefore, it is also demanded that only a reserved vehicle can be guided exclusively by guiding the vehicle to the parking position and a user away from the vehicle can be guided again to the parking position.

  In addition, the time from when the vehicle enters the parking lot to the exit is counted as parking time, but the time from when the vehicle is parked at each parking position until it leaves the parking position is counted as usage time. Depending on how busy the exit is, correct the unfairness that may differ depending on how crowded the exit is, or once the vehicle leaves the parking position, allow other vehicles to use before reaching the parking exit. In order to enable effective use of the parking space, a system capable of recognizing that each vehicle is parked at each parking position and that the vehicle leaves each parking position is also desired.

  Patent Document 2 below implements part of the above functions using an IC card in which user information is recorded and an in-vehicle device in which the IC card is inserted and capable of wireless communication with a management system. An example of a system is described. Patent Document 3 discloses an example of a system that realizes a part of the above functions using a vehicle-mounted navigation device that includes a parking ticket in the form of a magnetic card issued by the system and a card reader that reads information on the parking ticket. Are listed. Patent Document 4 describes an example of a system that realizes a part of the above function using a non-contact card having a wireless communication function mounted on a vehicle.

  In the systems described in Patent Documents 2 to 4, it is necessary that a vehicle using a parking lot is equipped with a facility having a required function in advance.

  FIG. 7 of Patent Document 1 describes that a parking ticket made of a non-contact type storage medium is issued. However, in this system, the parking position is not reserved in advance at the entrance according to the vehicle type, but it is left to the user of the parking lot to determine which parking position to park. The non-contact communication function of the parking ticket is used for the system to recognize in which parking position each vehicle is parked. For this reason, it is considered that these systems have not yet achieved a parking lot that satisfies the user sufficiently.

WO98 / 24081 JP 2001-167297 A JP 2001-331824 A Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 6-52000

  Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a parking management system capable of realizing the various functions described above without requiring that the vehicle using the parking lot has the necessary facilities.

  At the entrance of the parking lot, RF tag issuing means for issuing a parking ticket including an RF tag capable of communicating via radio and recording an identifier for identification with other vehicles, and at the exit of the parking lot There is provided a parking management system comprising a settlement collection means for performing settlement of a parking fee based on the parking ticket and collecting the parking ticket.

  Preferably, the system further includes a parking position determining means for determining a parking position of the vehicle, and the parking position determined for the vehicle for which a corresponding parking ticket has been issued is recorded on the RF tag.

  The vehicle using the parking lot has the necessary equipment by issuing an RF tag that records the parking position of the vehicle determined at the entrance of the parking lot as a parking ticket. Without needing to be guided to the parking position, to park only the reserved vehicle exclusively, to count the actual parking time at each parking position, store service information It is possible to realize various functions such as paying the parking fee in consideration.

  FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a parking management system according to an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, a ticketing machine 10 provided at the entrance of the parking lot, a settlement machine 12 provided at the exit, and a back lamp sensor 16, an RF tag reader 18 and a movable wheel stopper provided at each parking position 14, respectively. And the parking controller 22 which controls them is mutually connected by the local area network (LAN) 24. Further connected to the LAN 24 is a POS system 26 of a store with a parking lot. In the vicinity of the parking lot entrance gate 28 and the ticketing machine 10 provided at the entrance of the parking lot and controlled by the parking controller 22, a camera 30 for taking an image of a vehicle that intends to use the parking lot is installed. Data of an image taken by the camera 30 is input to the ticket issuing machine 10. In the middle of the route from the parking lot entrance to each parking position, a large number of RF tag readers 34 for reading the information of the parking ticket 32 consisting of the RF tag issued by the ticket issuing machine 10 are provided, and the entrance / exit guidance guide plate 36 corresponding to them. Many are provided. The RF tag is a transponder formed as an IC chip, which receives a read signal from the RF tag reader, converts it into electric power, and transmits the tag identification data recorded in the memory of the RF tag using the electric power. It is.

  FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a processing flow from when the vehicle stops at the entrance gate until parking is completed. This process is executed when the parking controller 22 detects that the vehicle has stopped at the entrance gate. The determination that the vehicle has stopped at the entrance gate is made based on the image acquired by the camera 30. Based on the vehicle image taken by the camera 30, the size of the vehicle (vehicle type / case) is determined, an empty parking position corresponding to the determined vehicle size is searched (step 1002), and the result of the search is determined based on the driver of the vehicle. To display. When a license plate that holds vehicle inspection information, that is, a so-called smart plate is attached to the RF tag built in the vehicle, the vehicle type can be determined by reading out the vehicle inspection information therefrom. If the driver selects one of the presented parking positions (step 1004), the selected parking position is determined as the parking position of the vehicle, and if there is no selection, conditions such as the number of floors and the distance to the doorway are set. A parking position is determined according to a predetermined priority order that is considered (step 1006), and an RF tag in which information on the determined parking position is written is issued from the ticket issuing machine 10 as a parking ticket 32 (step 1008). At the same time, the parking lot entrance gate 28 is opened, and the determined parking position is displayed on the parking position guide display board 38 (FIG. 1).

  When the vehicle advances toward the displayed parking position and passes through the vicinity of the RF tag reader 34, the RF tag reader 34 reads the parking position written in the parking ticket 32, and is provided corresponding to the read RF tag reader 34. The direction in which the vehicle should travel is displayed on the entrance / exit guidance guide plate 36 (step 1010).

  When the back lamp sensor 16 detects the lighting of the back lamp that is turned on when the vehicle reaches the parking position and puts the gear in the back, and detects the intention to park (step 1012), the RF tag reader 18 records it on the RF tag. The read parking position is read, and if the read parking position matches, the movable wheel stopper 20 is lowered to enable parking (step 1014). When parking completion is detected (step 1016), counting of parking time is started (step 1018).

  The detection of the completion of parking and the detection of exiting from the parking position described later are realized by detecting the behavior of the vehicle with a camera, an infrared sensor, a sensor for detecting light shielding, etc. provided at each parking position. be able to. In addition, the detection of the back lamp lighting is incomplete in a parking lot that is not designated for back parking, and is difficult to apply. In this case, the above camera, infrared sensor, and sensor for detecting light shielding are replaced. be able to.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the processing from the start of parking at the parking position to the completion of parking performed by the parking controller 22. This process is started when parking at the parking position is completed (determined based on an image from the camera, or determined based on detection of the corresponding RF tag by the RF tag reader 18).
When parking at the parking position is detected, guidance to the exit is performed using a pedestrian simple display board (not shown) (step 1100). When detecting that the user has exited the parking lot based on reading of the RF tag by the RF tag reader provided at the exit (step 1102), the parking controller 22 records the exit (step 1104). This makes it possible to restrict entry unless an RF tag with an exit record is detected when a person enters the parking lot, thereby improving the security of the parking lot.

  When an RF tag with an exit record is detected by an RF tag reader provided at the entrance of the parking lot when a person enters the parking lot, guidance to the parking position of the vehicle is performed using the pedestrian simple display board (step 1110). When the user leaves and re-enters, guidance can be provided via a mobile phone possessed by the user in place of or in combination with guidance by the pedestrian simple display board. When the user performs shopping or the like, service information is written to the RF tag, or RF tag identification information and service information are sent from the POS system 26 (FIG. 1) to the parking controller 22 via the LAN 24. .

  When it is detected that the vehicle has left the parking position (step 1112), the movable wheel stopper is raised (step 1112) to prevent parking, and at the same time, the counting of the parking time for the RF tag is stopped (step 1116). . Thereby, including the time until the vehicle passes the exit, the parking position can be made empty, and the parking reservation of another vehicle can be accepted (step 1118).

  FIG. 4 is a flowchart of processing performed by the parking controller 22 when the vehicle that has exited the parking position passes through the parking lot exit. This process is executed when the parking ticket 32 is inserted into the checkout machine 12. First, it is determined whether the service information 1202 is recorded in relation to this parking ticket (step 1202). This service information is, for example, a record that a user who has a parking ticket issued to a parked vehicle at a store with a parking lot shopping. This service information is obtained through cooperation with the POS system 26 (FIG. 1) via the LAN 24 with shopping information associated with an RF tag specified by an RF tag reader (not shown) provided at a checkout office of the store. Then, the settlement machine 12 can recognize it by transferring it to the settlement machine 12 or by directly writing the shopping information into the parking ticket 32. If the service information is recorded, the parking fee is reduced or made free according to the amount of money (step 1204). Then, fee collection processing (fee collection, confirmation, receipt issuance, gate opening) is performed. Further, a collection process is performed to reuse the parking ticket 32 that has been settled (step 1206).

It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the parking management system which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the flow of a process after a vehicle stops at an entrance gate until parking is completed. It is a flowchart which shows the flow of the process from completion of parking to leaving. It is a flowchart which shows the flow of a process at the time of a vehicle passing a parking lot exit.

Claims (7)

RF tag issuing means for issuing a parking ticket including an RF tag that is capable of communicating via radio and recording an identifier for identification with another vehicle at the entrance of the parking lot;
A parking management system comprising a payment collection means for collecting a parking fee based on the parking ticket and collecting the parking ticket at an exit of the parking lot. A parking position determining means for determining a parking position of the vehicle;
The parking management system according to claim 1, wherein a parking position determined for a vehicle for which a corresponding parking ticket is issued is recorded on the RF tag. At the entrance of the parking lot, the camera further includes a camera for taking an image of the vehicle,
The parking management system according to claim 2, wherein the parking position determination unit determines a parking position of the vehicle based on an image of the vehicle taken by the camera. A first RF tag reader that reads data recorded in an RF tag that is provided in the middle of the route from the entrance to each parking position,
The parking management system according to claim 2 or 3, further comprising guide means for presenting a route to a parking position recorded in the RF tag detected by the first RF tag reader. A second RF tag reader that is provided at each of a plurality of parking positions and reads data recorded in an RF tag existing in the vicinity;
Parking restriction means for allowing parking at the parking position only when the parking position recorded on the RF tag read by the second RF tag reader matches the parking position corresponding to the second RF tag reader; The parking management system of any one of Claims 2-4 which comprises.   The parking management system according to any one of claims 2 to 5, further comprising a parking time counting unit that counts the time from when the vehicle enters the parking position to when it leaves the vehicle, in association with the RF tag. Means for storing store service information in association with the RF tag;
The parking management system according to any one of claims 2 to 6, wherein the settlement collection means settles a parking fee in consideration of the service information.

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