CN220340714U

CN220340714U - Curb camera and parking management system

Info

Publication number: CN220340714U
Application number: CN202321245820.8U
Authority: CN
Inventors: 冯彦刚
Original assignee: Beijing Zhumengyuan Technology Co ltd
Current assignee: Beijing Zhumengyuan Technology Co ltd
Priority date: 2023-05-22
Filing date: 2023-05-22
Publication date: 2024-01-12
Anticipated expiration: 2033-05-22

Abstract

The utility model relates to a curb camera and parking management system, it adopts with each equipment detachable setting in each position of shell to make convenient replacement when equipment breaks down, reduce maintenance time and cost. Compared with the prior art, the road curb equipment needs to be taken out from the road curb firstly, and then corresponding parts are replaced by disassembling the road curb, so that the difficulty in later maintenance of the road curb camera is reduced.

Description

Curb camera and parking management system

Technical Field

The application relates to the technical field of parking management, in particular to a curb camera and a parking management system.

Background

The existing road parking charge generally adopts the arrangement of a license plate recognition device on the side edge of a road. Usually about one meter in height and powered by dedicated power supply lines. The license plate recognition device needs to be trimmed for a power supply line in the construction process, public facilities such as a road surface can be involved in the trimming process, and the installation process is time-consuming and labor-consuming. The license plate recognition device after being installed is extremely easy to scrape and touch in the vehicle parking process, and is easy to damage.

Disclosure of Invention

The technical problem to be solved by the application is to provide a curb camera and a parking management system aiming at the defects of the prior art.

The technical scheme for solving the technical problems is as follows:

a curb camera, characterized in that:

it comprises a shell;

the shell comprises a base and an upper cover plate, and the upper cover plate is detachably arranged on the base;

the lower surface of the base is a plane in the horizontal direction; the upper surface is at a fixed inclination angle in the horizontal direction; a first groove, a second groove, a third groove below the second groove and an image hole communicated with the third groove are sequentially arranged in the base;

the image acquisition unit is arranged in the third groove through the image hole and is connected with the processing unit which is also arranged in the third groove;

the processing unit is connected with a communication unit which is also arranged in the third groove, and a communication antenna of the communication unit is arranged in the second groove; the processing unit is also connected with an energy storage battery arranged in the first groove;

the storage battery is connected with a solar cell panel arranged on the upper cover plate and is also connected with the image acquisition unit and the communication unit;

the upper cover plate covers the first groove.

The shell is made of one of high-strength aluminum alloy, aluminum-magnesium alloy or cast iron.

The image hole is obliquely arranged on the side face of the base to form an inclined groove corresponding to the upper plane of the base, and the upper edge of the inclined groove forms a shielding for the image acquisition unit to prevent wind and rain from invading the image acquisition unit.

Transparent protection plates are arranged on the shells corresponding to the image acquisition units.

The transparent protection plate is made of one of transparent glass or transparent plastic glass plates.

And a protection plate is arranged above the second groove, so that the influence on the signal transmission of the communication unit is reduced.

The material of guard plate adopts one of glass, plastics glass board and plastics.

The curb camera also comprises a vehicle sensing unit for identifying whether a vehicle exists on the parking space.

The vehicle sensing unit adopts a laser sensor and/or an ultrasonic sensor.

A parking management system, characterized by:

it includes the said curb camera.

The beneficial effect of the curb camera that this application provided lies in: according to the curb camera, all the devices are detachably arranged at all the positions of the shell, so that the devices are convenient to replace when the devices fail, and maintenance time and cost are reduced. Compared with the prior art, the road curb equipment needs to be taken out from the road curb firstly, and then corresponding parts are replaced by disassembling the road curb, so that the difficulty in later maintenance of the road curb camera is reduced.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application, the following description will briefly introduce the drawings that are needed in the embodiments or the description of the prior art, it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present application, and that other drawings may be obtained according to these drawings without inventive effort for a person skilled in the art.

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of a curb camera according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of the overall structure of a curb camera according to an embodiment of the present disclosure from top to bottom;

fig. 3 is a schematic view of a top-down dispersion overall structure of a curb camera according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 4 is a schematic view of the overall structure of a curb camera according to an embodiment of the present disclosure from bottom to top;

fig. 5 is a schematic view of a structure of a curb camera according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 6 is a schematic diagram of a curb camera according to another embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 7 is a schematic diagram of a parking management system according to an embodiment of the present application.

Detailed Description

In the following description, for purposes of explanation and not limitation, specific details are set forth, such as particular system configurations, techniques, etc. in order to provide a thorough understanding of the embodiments of the present application. It will be apparent, however, to one skilled in the art that the present application may be practiced in other embodiments that depart from these specific details. In other instances, detailed descriptions of well-known systems, devices, circuits, and methods are omitted so as not to obscure the description of the present application with unnecessary detail.

It should be understood that the terms "comprises" and/or "comprising," when used in this specification and the appended claims, specify the presence of stated features, integers, steps, operations, elements, and/or components, but do not preclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, integers, steps, operations, elements, components, and/or groups thereof.

It should also be understood that the term "and/or" as used in this specification and the appended claims refers to any and all possible combinations of one or more of the associated listed items, and includes such combinations.

As used in this specification and the appended claims, the term "if" may be interpreted as "when..once" or "in response to a determination" or "in response to detection" depending on the context. Similarly, the phrase "if a determination" or "if a [ described condition or event ] is detected" may be interpreted in the context of meaning "upon determination" or "in response to determination" or "upon detection of a [ described condition or event ]" or "in response to detection of a [ described condition or event ]".

In addition, in the description of the present application and the appended claims, the terms "first," "second," "third," and the like are used merely to distinguish between descriptions and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance.

Reference in the specification to "one embodiment" or "some embodiments" or the like means that a particular feature, structure, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment is included in one or more embodiments of the application. Thus, appearances of the phrases "in one embodiment," "in some embodiments," "in other embodiments," and the like in the specification are not necessarily all referring to the same embodiment, but mean "one or more but not all embodiments" unless expressly specified otherwise. The terms "comprising," "including," "having," and variations thereof mean "including but not limited to," unless expressly specified otherwise.

It should be noted that, the curb camera provided in the embodiment of the present application is disposed on a curb beside a parking space in a road, and detects vehicles on a current or next parking space one to one, and obtains a photo of the detected parking space and uploads the photo to a cloud recognition server for image recognition, thereby realizing automatic detection of the parking space. The solar energy self-circulation system is matched with solar battery power supply and wireless network communication to achieve the self-circulation of service states without electricity, network, field maintenance. Because the trimming is not needed for the power supply circuit, the installation process is simple and convenient, and the influence on the appearance of the city is avoided. The mounted curb camera is small in appearance and only paved on the curb, so that the curb camera cannot be scraped in the vehicle parking process, and is difficult to damage.

Furthermore, the curb camera can also identify vehicle information aiming at the photo of the detected parking space, and the vehicle information is transmitted to the cloud identification server for statistics and processing of vehicle data.

As shown in fig. 1-5, an embodiment of the present application provides a curb camera 100,

it comprises a housing 1;

the shell 1 comprises a base 11 and an upper cover plate 12, wherein the upper cover plate 12 is detachably arranged on the base 11;

the lower surface of the base 11 is a plane in the horizontal direction; the upper surface is at a fixed inclination angle in the horizontal direction; the first groove 111, the second groove 112, the third groove 113 below the second groove 112 and the image hole 114 communicated with the third groove 113 are sequentially arranged in the base 11.

The image acquisition unit 2 is installed in the third groove 113 through the image hole 114 and is connected to the processing unit 3 also provided in the third groove 113;

the processing unit 3 is connected on the one hand to the communication unit 4 which is also arranged in the third recess 113, and the communication antenna of the communication unit 4 is arranged in the second recess 112; the processing unit 3 is also connected with an energy storage battery 5 arranged in the first groove 111;

the energy storage battery 5 is connected to the solar panel 6 provided on the upper cover plate 12, and also to the image acquisition unit 2, the processing unit 3 and the communication unit 4.

The upper cover plate 12 covers the first groove 111.

In summary, according to the curb camera provided by the embodiment of the application, each device is detachably arranged at each position of the shell, so that the device is convenient to replace when the device fails, and maintenance time and cost are reduced. Compared with the prior art, the road curb equipment needs to be taken out from the road curb firstly, and then corresponding parts are replaced by disassembling the road curb, so that the difficulty in later maintenance of the road curb camera is reduced.

In the above embodiment, the first standard connector is used between the image capturing unit 2 and the processing unit 3, and the first standard connector may be used, and includes, but is not limited to, an FPC (Flexible Printed Circuit, flexible circuit board) or an FFC (Flexible Flat Cable ) connector, which may be selected according to the need, and is not limited herein. A second standard connector is adopted between the energy storage battery 5 and the processing unit 3 and the solar panel 6, and the second standard connector can be a DC connector, and can be selected according to the need, and is not limited herein. A second standard connector is adopted between the communication unit 4 and the communication antenna thereof, and the second standard connector can be an SMA connector (SMA, subMiniature version a) which is not limited to but can be selected according to the requirement. All adopt standard connector between above each part to after above each part damages, replace corresponding part can, need not to carry out operations such as field welding again, reduce maintenance work load, improve work efficiency.

In the above embodiment, the material of the casing 1 may be one of high strength aluminum alloy, aluminum magnesium alloy or cast iron, and may be any material as required, but is not limited thereto.

The range of the fixed inclination angle of the upper surface of the base 11 of the housing 1 may be determined according to actual needs, and is not limited herein.

The lower surface of the base 11 of the housing 1 is provided with a plurality of grooves, thereby reducing the total weight of the housing 1 while improving the bearing capacity of the housing 1.

The shapes of the first groove 111, the second groove 112, and the third groove 113 may be determined according to need, and are not limited herein.

The image hole 114 is formed in a side surface of the base 11 to form an inclined groove corresponding to the upper plane of the base 11, and the upper edge of the inclined groove forms a shield for the image acquisition unit 2 to prevent wind and rain from affecting the image acquisition unit 2. This kind of design mode of this application, it is inside the shell to place the image acquisition unit in prior art relatively, forms the mode in darker hole between shell and the Ma Yalu stone, can effectively avoid artificial or the strong wind to scrape the rubbish, blocks up the camera in the image acquisition unit 2 to increase the work of manual maintenance.

Mounting holes 115 for fixing itself are also provided on both sides of the base 11, and the curb camera 100 is mounted on the curb stone through the mounting holes 115.

In the above embodiment, the image obtaining unit 2 may be a camera, including but not limited to, a depth camera, and an infrared camera, where the camera needs to reach an outdoor industrial level index, and the selection of power consumption, pixels, precision resolution, and size may be determined according to practical requirements, which is not limited herein.

Transparent protection plates are arranged on the corresponding shells 1 of the image acquisition units 2.

The transparent protection plate material may be, but not limited to, transparent glass, transparent plastic glass plate, etc., and may be selected according to the needs, and is not limited herein.

In the above embodiment, the processing unit 3 is configured to control the image acquisition unit 2 to acquire the image on the parking space, and transmit the image to the server through the communication unit 4 for subsequent processing, including, but not limited to, identification, timing, and charging for the license plate number in the image. The processing unit 3 may also receive instructions of the server through the communication unit 4, which is not limited herein.

The architecture of the processing unit 3 may be, but not limited to, ARM, MIPS, etc., and the SOC model is not limited to one of TMS320DM8127 or Hua hi3516d, and may be any type as required, and is not limited herein.

In the above embodiment, the communication unit 4 may include, but is not limited to, a wireless communication module, and the wireless communication module may include, but is not limited to, a 3G module, a 4G module, a 5G module, and a WIFI module, which may be determined according to need and is not limited herein.

A communication unit 4 for transmitting the image on the parking space acquired by the image acquisition unit 2 to the server, so that the server performs subsequent processing on the image, including, but not limited to, identifying the number of a vehicle license plate on the parking space, timing and charging for the number of the license plate, and the like.

In the above embodiment, the protection plate is disposed above the second groove 12 where the communication antenna of the communication unit 4 is located, so that the influence of the metal housing on the wireless signal transmitted by the communication unit 4 can be reduced.

The material of the protection plate can be selected according to the needs, including but not limited to glass, plastic glass plate, plastic and the like, and is not limited herein.

In the above embodiment, the energy storage battery 5 may be a ternary lithium battery, a lithium iron phosphate battery, a nickel chromium battery, or the like, as needed, without limitation.

In the above embodiment, the solar cell panel 6 may be used including, but not limited to, a single crystal silicon cell panel, an amorphous silicon cell panel, a chemical dye cell panel, etc., and may be used as needed, without limitation.

As shown in fig. 6, the curb camera 100 further includes a vehicle sensing unit 7 for recognizing whether a vehicle is present on the parking space.

The vehicle sensing unit 7 may include, but is not limited to, a laser sensor and/or an ultrasonic sensor, and may be of any type and type as required, and is not limited thereto.

A parking management system 200 includes a number of curb cameras 100.

As shown in fig. 7, a parking management system 200 according to an embodiment of the present application includes a curb camera 100.

In addition, the term "and/or" herein is merely an association relationship describing an association object, and means that three relationships may exist, for example, a and/or B may mean: a exists alone, A and B exist together, and B exists alone. In addition, the character "/" herein generally indicates that the front and rear associated objects are an "or" relationship.

It will be clear to those skilled in the art that, for convenience and brevity of description, specific working procedures of the above-described system, apparatus and unit may refer to corresponding procedures in the foregoing system embodiments, which are not repeated herein.

The present utility model is not limited to the above embodiments, and various equivalent modifications and substitutions can be easily made by those skilled in the art within the technical scope of the present utility model, and these modifications and substitutions are intended to be included in the scope of the present utility model. Therefore, the protection scope of the utility model is subject to the protection scope of the claims.

Claims

1. A curb camera, characterized in that:

it comprises a shell;

the upper cover plate covers the first groove.

2. A curb camera according to claim 1, wherein:

3. A curb camera according to claim 1, wherein:

4. A curb camera according to claim 1, wherein:

5. A curb camera according to claim 4, wherein:

6. A curb camera according to claim 1, wherein:

7. The curb camera of claim 6, wherein:

8. A curb camera according to claim 1, wherein:

9. A curb camera according to claim 8, wherein:

the vehicle sensing unit adopts a laser sensor and/or an ultrasonic sensor.

10. A parking management system, characterized by:

comprising a curb camera as claimed in any one of claims 1-9.