CN108986237B

CN108986237B - Parking charging method and system based on block chain

Info

Publication number: CN108986237B
Application number: CN201810830821.6A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 谭智
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 2018-07-26
Filing date: 2018-07-26
Publication date: 2021-06-25
Anticipated expiration: 2038-07-26
Also published as: CN108986237A

Abstract

The invention provides a parking charging method and system based on a block chain. The method comprises the following steps: building a alliance block chain for parking resources of all public parking lots in a certain area; the method comprises the following steps that a vehicle enters a certain parking lot to obtain the license plate number of the vehicle; the vehicle exits the parking lot and first information of the vehicle is acquired; and charging by adopting a corresponding charging strategy according to the first information. By using the parking charging method based on the block chain technology, disclosed by the invention, charging can be reasonably carried out according to the carbon emission of the vehicle, the method conforms to the green trip idea advocated by the government, and the living environment can be more effectively protected.

Description

Parking charging method and system based on block chain

Technical Field

The invention relates to the field of intelligent traffic, in particular to a parking charging method and system based on a block chain.

Background

In recent years, blockchain technology has rapidly gained in popularity and is considered by many industry people to be an important engine for the fourth industrial revolution. The Blockchain (Blockchain) is an important concept of the bitcoin, which was first proposed by the minghu in 2008 and becomes a core component of the bitcoin in electronic money in the following years. It is to be understood that a "block" in a block chain refers to an information block, and a specific information contained in the information block is a time stamp. The information blocks containing the time stamps are interconnected with each other, and the chain of information blocks formed is called a "block chain".

The block chain is a distributed account book, and is a technical scheme for collectively maintaining a reliable database in a decentralized and information-removing mode. From a data perspective, a blockchain is a distributed database that is nearly impossible to alter, where "distributed" is embodied not only as a distributed store of data, but also as a distributed record of data (i.e., maintained collectively by system participants).

From a technical point of view, blockchains are not a single technique, but are the result of an integration of multiple techniques. These technologies are combined in a new structure to form a new way of data recording, storing and publishing.

In early 11 months of 2016, the biggest port in Europe, the LuteDan Port, the Dutch Bank, the Dawley-mindwellings university, the Dutch national institute of applied science, the Deshaim university of applied science, the flower trading center RoyalFloraHolland, and the like, constitute a block chain logistics research alliance, and explore the function of the block chain in the logistics field. And collaborates with the independent blockchain project of the economic affairs department of the netherlands to develop an open source infrastructure for the alliance project. The first block chain alliance specially built for the logistics field in the world is called by a subsidiary professor Johan Pouwelse of the university of Delv-Technology, and the alliance members do not independently explore the role of the block chain technology in the logistics industry, and the core is to explore the practical application of the technology.

With the rapid development of the automobile industry, the group purchasing private cars keeps growing at a high speed, and along with the rapid development of the automobile industry, all districts, units, shopping malls, even roadside private persons begin to perform 'circle of land', and a large number of facilities such as parking poles, toll booths and the like are installed, so that various states and changes of driving in and out of a parking lot are automatically sensed in real time through the comprehensive utilization of an image recognition system, a computer system and an information communication system based on camera and license plate recognition and the like, and an online and offline payment mode is combined, so that intelligent parking services are provided for public life in most cities with good economic development and city management. However, since the development speed of private cars far exceeds the development speed of urban road resources, the passing efficiency of urban cars starts to decline gradually, and a part of the decline is caused by difficulty in finding parking spaces, difficulty in parking and slow payment. How to match the scene that the traffic is mainly parking with limited parking lot resources provides a new challenge for charging, especially in the present day of advocating green travel, how to effectively encourage people to use public transport means, how to better protect our living environment, and more measures are needed.

Disclosure of Invention

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention provides a parking charging method based on a block chain, which includes:

building a alliance block chain for parking resources of all public parking lots in a certain area;

the method comprises the following steps that a vehicle enters a certain parking lot to obtain the license plate number of the vehicle;

the vehicle exits the parking lot and first information of the vehicle is acquired;

and charging by adopting a corresponding charging strategy according to the first information.

The management center of each public parking lot is used as a public node, and the control center of the traffic management department is used as a private node.

In one embodiment, the management center of each public parking lot can be arbitrarily accessed as a public node, and the control center of the traffic management department can be accessed as a private node only by authorization.

Wherein the first information at least comprises: the vehicle displacement and the license plate number of the vehicle.

Wherein, the license plate number of acquireing the vehicle specifically includes:

and sending the license plate number to a block chain server, stamping a time stamp on the license plate number, and packaging the license plate number into a first message.

The acquiring of the first information of the vehicle specifically includes:

and the road side unit at the exit of the public parking lot acquires the automobile displacement and the license plate number of the automobile, sends the automobile displacement and the license plate number to the block chain server, and encapsulates the automobile displacement and the license plate number into a second message.

Wherein, according to the first information, charging by using a corresponding charging policy specifically comprises:

sending the second message to a verification server of the control center;

the authentication server verifying a carbon emission standard of the vehicle;

and charging by adopting a corresponding charging strategy according to the carbon emission standard of the vehicle.

The charging by adopting a corresponding charging strategy according to the carbon emission standard of the vehicle specifically comprises the following steps:

if the carbon emission standard of the vehicle does not exceed the standard, sending a first response message to the block chain server;

if the carbon emission standard of the vehicle exceeds the standard, sending a second response message to the block chain server;

and the block chain server adopts different charging standards according to different response messages.

Wherein, the license plate number of the vehicle is obtained by the camera shooting unit.

Wherein the first information of the vehicle is acquired by a road side unit.

The invention also provides a parking charging system based on the block chain, which comprises the following components:

an in-vehicle device for providing vehicle-related information;

the camera shooting unit is used for acquiring the license plate number of the vehicle;

a road side unit for acquiring first information of the vehicle;

an authentication server for verifying a carbon emission standard of the vehicle;

and the block chain server is used for processing the charging information of the vehicle and charging.

By using the parking charging method based on the block chain technology, disclosed by the invention, charging can be reasonably carried out according to the carbon emission of the vehicle, the method conforms to the green trip idea advocated by the government, and the living environment can be more effectively protected.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram of a blockchain-based in-vehicle device consistent with an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram of a block chain based parking charging system consistent with an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 3 is a flow chart of a block chain based parking charging method consistent with an embodiment of the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENT (S) OF INVENTION

In order to make the technical solutions of the present invention better understood, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

The terms "first," "second," "third," "fourth," and the like in the description and in the claims, as well as in the drawings, are used for distinguishing between similar elements and not necessarily for describing a particular sequential or chronological order. It will be appreciated that the data so used may be interchanged under appropriate circumstances such that the embodiments described herein may be practiced otherwise than as specifically illustrated or described herein. Furthermore, the terms "comprises," "comprising," and "having," and any variations thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, system, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of steps or elements is not necessarily limited to those steps or elements expressly listed, but may include other steps or elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus.

Various aspects of the present disclosure are directed to methods and apparatus for block chain based parking charging. The methods and processes disclosed herein are applicable to all Radio Access Technologies (RATs) using suitability. Examples of suitable RATs may include, but are not limited to: GSM, UMTS and LTE. Specifically, various aspects of the present disclosure enable different charging standards to be used depending on the carbon emissions of the vehicle.

It should be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are merely illustrative of the invention and are not intended to limit the invention.

Fig. 1 is a conceptual diagram depicting an example of a hardware implementation for an in-vehicle apparatus 100 using a processing system 114. In accordance with various aspects of the disclosure, an element, or any portion of an element, or any combination of elements may be implemented with a processing system 114 that includes one or more processors 104. For example, the in-vehicle apparatus 100 may be an in-vehicle apparatus as illustrated in any one or more of fig. 2. Examples of processor 104 include microprocessors, microcontrollers, Digital Signal Processors (DSPs), Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), Programmable Logic Devices (PLDs), state machines, gated logic, discrete hardware circuits, and other suitable hardware configured to perform the various functions described throughout this disclosure. That is, the processor 104, as used in the in-vehicle apparatus 100, may be used to implement any one or more of the processes described below and illustrated in FIG. 3.

In this example, the processing system 114 may be implemented using a bus architecture, represented generally by the bus 102. The bus 102 may include any number of interconnecting buses and bridges depending on the specific application of the processing system 114 and the overall design constraints. The bus 102 links together various circuits including one or more processors, represented generally by the processor 104, a memory 105, and a computer-readable medium, represented generally by the computer-readable storage medium 106. In addition, bus 102 may link various other circuits such as clock sources, peripherals, voltage regulators, power management circuits, and the like, which are well known in the art, and therefore, are not described in any further detail. Bus interface 108 provides an interface between bus 102 and transceiver 110. The transceiver 110 provides a means for communicating with various other apparatus over a transmission medium. Depending on the nature of the device, a user interface 112 (e.g., keypad, display, speaker, microphone, joystick, touch screen, and touch pad) may also be provided.

In one or more examples, the processor 104 may include cell selection circuitry configured for various functions, including, for example: it is determined whether a cell is suitable for camping. For example, the cell selection circuit may be configured to implement one or more of the functions described below in connection with fig. 3.

The computer-readable storage medium 106 may be configured to operate with the processor 104 to perform functions throughout the present disclosure. In one or more examples, the computer-readable storage media 106 may include various routines that, when executed, configure the processor 104 to perform various functions described below in connection with fig. 3.

The processor 104 is responsible for managing the bus 102 and general processing, including the execution of software stored on the computer-readable storage medium 106. The software, when executed by the processor 104, causes the processing system 114 to perform the various functions described below for any particular apparatus. The computer-readable storage medium 106 may also be used for storing data that is manipulated by the processor 104 when executing software.

One or more processors 104 in the processing system may execute software. Software should be construed broadly to mean instructions, instruction sets, code segments, program code, programs, subroutines, software modules, applications, software packages, routines, subroutines, objects, executables, threads of execution, procedures, functions, etc., whether referred to as software, firmware, middleware, microcode, hardware description language, or other terminology. The software may reside on computer-readable storage medium 106. Computer-readable storage medium 106 may be a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. By way of example, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium may include a magnetic storage device (e.g., hard disk, floppy disk, magnetic strip), an optical disk (e.g., Compact Disc (CD) or Digital Versatile Disc (DVD)), a smart card, a flash memory device (e.g., card, stick, or key drive), a Random Access Memory (RAM), a Read Only Memory (ROM), a programmable ROM (prom), an erasable prom (eprom), an electrically erasable prom (eeprom), a register, a removable disk, and any other suitable medium for storing software and/or instructions that may be accessed and read by a computer. The computer-readable storage medium 106 may be located within the processing system 114, may be located external to the processing system 114, or may be distributed across multiple entities including the processing system 114. The computer-readable storage medium 106 may be embodied as a computer program product. By way of example, a computer program product may include a computer-readable storage medium having packaging materials. Those of ordinary skill in the art will recognize how best to implement the described functionality presented throughout this disclosure depending on the particular application and design constraints imposed on the overall system.

The various concepts presented throughout this disclosure may be implemented in a wide variety of telecommunications systems, network architectures, and communication standards. Fig. 2 is a functional block diagram depicting a blockchain-based parking charging system, in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure. Referring now to fig. 2, by way of an illustrative example and not by way of limitation, a blockchain-based parking charging system is presented, comprising:

an in-vehicle device for providing vehicle-related information;

a road side unit for acquiring first information of the vehicle;

In an embodiment of the present invention, the image capturing unit may be a general camera, which has only a photographing function, or may be a camera with a photographing function. The acquired image is directly identified, or the acquired image can be sent to a network terminal, and the equipment of the network terminal identifies the image by using a corresponding algorithm, so that the license plate number is identified. The camera unit is used for acquiring basic information of the vehicle at an entrance of the parking lot.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the device on the network side may be connected to the camera unit in a wired or wireless manner. The device at the network end may be a management center of a parking lot. The camera unit is connected with and controlled by a management center of the parking lot.

The management centers of all parking lots in a certain area constitute a common node. These management centers may be configured in a server manner, may have input and output devices such as a display screen, a keyboard, a mouse, and the like, and have a wired or wireless communication interface to communicate with the outside.

All management center servers are connected with the block chain server in a wired or wireless mode.

In one embodiment of the present invention, the management center server sends the acquired license plate number information to the blockchain server.

The blockchain server stamps a timestamp on the license plate number information and encapsulates the license plate number information into a first message.

In the embodiment of the invention, the blockchain server is used for performing corresponding charging processing according to the front and rear timestamp information and the self information of the vehicle.

In an embodiment of the invention, the road side unit is located at an exit of the parking lot. And the road side unit interacts with the vehicle-mounted terminal to acquire information of the vehicle, wherein the information comprises information such as the engine model and the like.

Then the road side unit sends the acquired vehicle information to an authentication server of a control center of a traffic control department through a management center server, and the authentication server uses the acquired vehicle information such as the engine model and the like to verify the information such as the discharge capacity and the like of the vehicle on one hand so as to obtain the carbon emission information of the vehicle; on the other hand, it is verified whether the information acquired from the in-vehicle terminal of the vehicle is identical to the information stored in the authentication server of the traffic management department.

If the information of the vehicle is inconsistent with the information stored in the verification server of the traffic management department, sending prompt information to a management center, and simultaneously sending alarm information to a control center of the traffic management department: the vehicle is suspected to be a fake-licensed vehicle.

If the information of the vehicle is identical with the information stored in the authentication server of the traffic control department, the carbon emission standard is verified.

The charging is performed in stages according to the carbon emission standard of the vehicle. If the vehicle is an overproof vehicle, if the parking time of the vehicle is longer, the charge is lower, so that the effective parking time of the vehicle is rewarded; and if the vehicle is not out of standard, charging according to normal standard. And the standard of charge for a vehicle that is out of compliance is typically higher than for a vehicle that is not out of compliance. Because the vehicles exceeding the standard are rejected vehicles, the environment is more polluted if the vehicles are driven.

It is to be understood that, when the processor in the server described above executes the computer program, the functions of the units in the corresponding server embodiment may also be implemented, and are not described herein again. Illustratively, a computer program may be partitioned into one or more modules/units, which are stored in a memory and executed by a processor to implement the present invention. One or more modules/units may be a series of computer program instruction segments capable of performing specific functions, which are used to describe the execution process of the computer program in the reading position obtaining apparatus on the storage client side. For example, the computer program may be divided into units in the above-described reading position acquisition apparatus on the storage client side, and each unit may realize a specific function as described in the above-described corresponding reading position acquisition apparatus.

The server device may be a desktop computer, a notebook, a palm computer, a cloud server, or other computing device. The server device may include, but is not limited to, a processor, a memory. It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that the processor and the memory are merely examples of a computer apparatus and do not constitute a limitation of the computer apparatus, and may include more or less components, or combine certain components, or different components, for example, the computer apparatus may further include input and output devices, network access devices, buses, and the like.

The processor may be a Central Processing Unit (CPU), other general purpose processor, a Digital Signal Processor (DSP), an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), an off-the-shelf programmable gate array (FPGA) or other programmable logic device, discrete gate or transistor logic, discrete hardware components, etc. The general purpose processor may be a microprocessor or the processor may be any conventional processor or the like, the processor being the control center of the computer device and the various interfaces and lines connecting the various parts of the overall computer device.

The memory may be used to store computer programs and/or modules, and the processor may implement various functions of the computer device by executing or executing the computer programs and/or modules stored in the memory, as well as by invoking data stored in the memory. The memory may mainly include a storage program area and a storage data area, wherein the storage program area may store an operating system, an application program required for at least one function, and the like; the storage data area may store data created according to the use of the terminal, and the like. In addition, the memory may include high speed random access memory, and may also include non-volatile memory, such as a hard disk, a memory, a plug-in hard disk, a Smart Media Card (SMC), a Secure Digital (SD) card, a flash memory card (FlashCard), at least one disk storage device, a flash memory device, or other volatile solid state storage device.

For convenience of understanding, a specific flow in the embodiment of the present invention is described below, and with reference to fig. 3, a block chain-based parking charging method in the embodiment of the present invention is described, where an embodiment of a block chain-based parking charging method in the embodiment of the present invention may include:

In the embodiment of the invention, the charging strategy is determined according to the carbon emission of different vehicles.

In the embodiment of the invention, all the nodes are in an architecture form of an alliance block chain. The control center of the traffic management department is used as a private node and cannot be accessed randomly, and the information between public nodes is shared mutually. Therefore, the parking spaces can stop in the whole area, and information can be shared among the parking lots, so that the situation that the parking spaces in a certain time period in a certain area are not enough is relieved.

In the embodiment of the invention, the automobile displacement can be obtained through information such as the engine model of the vehicle and the model of the vehicle.

In the embodiment of the invention, the stamping of the time stamp information is an important technical content of the block chain technology. By the difference between the two pieces of time stamp information of the entrance and exit of the parking lot, the parking time of the vehicle in the parking lot can be known.

The acquiring of the first information of the vehicle specifically includes:

The first message and the second message share one block on the block chain server, so that the time stamp information of the front and the back of the same vehicle is obtained.

sending the second message to a verification server of the control center;

the authentication server verifying a carbon emission standard of the vehicle;

In a certain embodiment, carbon emissions criteria may be used as a measure of billing criteria.

In one embodiment, carbon emissions may be used as a measure of billing criteria.

The above first and second response messages are merely exemplary. In order to embody different standards, a third response message and a fourth response message can be adopted, so that the third charging standard and the fourth charging standard are used, and the purpose of flexible management is realized.

Wherein the first information of the vehicle is acquired by a road side unit.

The present invention also provides a server-readable storage medium for implementing the function of storing a client side, on which a computer program is stored, the computer program, when executed by a processor, the processor being operable to perform the steps of:

The acquiring of the first information of the vehicle specifically includes:

sending the second message to a verification server of the control center;

the authentication server verifying a carbon emission standard of the vehicle;

In this disclosure, the word "exemplary" is used to mean "serving as an example, instance, or illustration. Any implementation or aspect described herein as "exemplary" is not necessarily to be construed as preferred or advantageous over other aspects of the disclosure. Likewise, the word "aspect" does not require that all aspects of the disclosure include the discussed feature, advantage or mode of operation. The term "coupled" is used herein to refer to a direct or indirect coupling between two objects. For example, if object a physically contacts object B, and object B contacts object C, objects a and C may still be considered coupled to each other even though they are not in direct physical contact with each other. For example, a first chip may be coupled to a second chip even though the first chip is never in direct physical contact with the second chip. The terms "circuitry" and "electronic circuitry" are used broadly and are intended to encompass both hardware implementations of electronic devices and conductors (where the performance of functions described in this disclosure is achieved when the electronic devices and conductors are connected and configured, without limitation to the type of electronic circuitry), and software implementations of information and instructions (where the performance of functions described in this disclosure is achieved when the information and instructions are executed by a processor).

One or more of the components, steps, features and/or functions illustrated in figures 1-3 may be rearranged and/or combined into a single component, step, feature or function or embodied in several components, steps or functions. In addition, additional elements, components, steps, and/or functions may be added without departing from the novel features disclosed herein. The apparatus, devices, and/or components shown in fig. 1-3 may be configured to perform one or more of the methods, features, or steps described herein. The novel algorithms described herein may also be efficiently implemented in software and/or embedded in hardware.

It is to be understood that the specific order or hierarchy of steps in the methods disclosed herein is merely one example of exemplary processing. It should be understood that the specific order or hierarchy of steps in the methods may be rearranged based on design preferences. The accompanying method claims present elements of the various steps in a sample order, and are not meant to be limited to the specific order or hierarchy presented unless explicitly stated to the contrary.

The foregoing has outlined various aspects in order that those skilled in the art may be able to practice the various aspects described herein. Various modifications to these aspects will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art, and the generic principles defined herein may be applied to other aspects. Thus, the present invention is not limited to the aspects shown herein, but is to be accorded the full scope consistent with the disclosure, wherein reference to an element in the singular is not intended to mean "one and only one" unless specifically so stated, but rather "one or more. The term "some" refers to one or more unless specifically stated otherwise. A phrase referring to "at least one of a list of items" refers to any combination of these items, including a single member. For example, "at least one of a, b, or c" is intended to cover: a; b; c; a and b; a and c; b and c; a. b and c. All structural and functional equivalents to the elements of the various aspects described throughout this disclosure that are known or later come to be known to those of ordinary skill in the art are expressly incorporated herein by reference and are intended to be encompassed by the claims. Furthermore, nothing disclosed in this application is intended to be dedicated to the public regardless of whether such disclosure is explicitly recited in the claims. Furthermore, no element of any claim should be construed in accordance with clause 6 of U.S. patent Law 112, unless the element is explicitly recited in the language of a "functional module" or in a method claim, the element is recited in the language of a "functional step".

While embodiments of the invention have been shown and described, it will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that: various changes, modifications, substitutions and alterations can be made to the embodiments without departing from the principles and spirit of the invention, the scope of which is defined by the claims and their equivalents.

Claims

1. A blockchain based parking charging method, comprising:

building an alliance block chain of parking resources of all public parking lots in a certain area, wherein a management center of each public parking lot is used as a public node, and a control center of a traffic management department is used as a private node;

the vehicle exits the parking lot, and first information of the vehicle is acquired, wherein the first information at least comprises: the vehicle displacement and the license plate number of the vehicle are obtained through the engine model of the vehicle and the model information of the vehicle;

charging by adopting a corresponding charging strategy according to the first information;

the acquiring of the first information of the vehicle specifically includes: the road side unit at the exit of the public parking lot acquires the automobile displacement and the license plate number of the automobile, sends the automobile displacement and the license plate number to the block chain server, and packages the automobile displacement and the license plate number into a second message;

wherein, according to the first information, charging by adopting a corresponding charging strategy specifically comprises:

sending the second message to a verification server of the control center;

the authentication server verifying a carbon emission standard of the vehicle;

2. The blockchain-based parking charging method of claim 1, wherein obtaining the license plate number of the vehicle specifically comprises:

3. The blockchain-based parking charging method according to claim 1, wherein charging using a corresponding charging policy according to the carbon emission standard of the vehicle specifically includes:

4. The blockchain-based parking charging method of claim 1, wherein a license plate number of the vehicle is acquired by a camera unit.

5. The block chain-based parking charging method according to claim 1, wherein the first information of the vehicle is acquired by a roadside unit.

6. A blockchain based parking charging system according to the method of any of claims 1 to 5, comprising:

an in-vehicle device for providing vehicle-related information;

a road side unit for obtaining first information of the vehicle, the first information including at least: the vehicle displacement and the license plate number of the vehicle are obtained through the engine model of the vehicle and the model information of the vehicle;

a block chain server for processing charging information of the vehicle and charging;

the system comprises a plurality of block chain servers, a plurality of parking area management units and a plurality of communication management units, wherein the block chain servers are used for establishing alliance block chains for parking resources of all public parking lots in a certain area, a management center of each public parking lot is used as a public node, and a control center of a communication department is used as a private node;

sending the second message to a verification server of the control center;

the authentication server verifying a carbon emission standard of the vehicle;