Classifications

• • G—PHYSICS
  • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
  • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
  • G07F7/00—Mechanisms actuated by objects other than coins to free or to actuate vending, hiring, coin or paper currency dispensing or refunding apparatus
  • G07F7/08—Mechanisms actuated by objects other than coins to free or to actuate vending, hiring, coin or paper currency dispensing or refunding apparatus by coded identity card or credit card or other personal identification means
  • G07F7/0866—Mechanisms actuated by objects other than coins to free or to actuate vending, hiring, coin or paper currency dispensing or refunding apparatus by coded identity card or credit card or other personal identification means by active credit-cards adapted therefor
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
  • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
  • G07B15/00—Arrangements or apparatus for collecting fares, tolls or entrance fees at one or more control points
  • G07B15/02—Arrangements or apparatus for collecting fares, tolls or entrance fees at one or more control points taking into account a variable factor such as distance or time, e.g. for passenger transport, parking systems or car rental systems
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
  • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
  • G07F17/00—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services
  • G07F17/24—Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for parking meters
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
  • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
  • G07F7/00—Mechanisms actuated by objects other than coins to free or to actuate vending, hiring, coin or paper currency dispensing or refunding apparatus
  • G07F7/08—Mechanisms actuated by objects other than coins to free or to actuate vending, hiring, coin or paper currency dispensing or refunding apparatus by coded identity card or credit card or other personal identification means
  • G07F7/0873—Details of the card reader

Definitions

• parking meters designed to manage 5, 10, 20 or even 30 or more parking spaces have appeared. They are used to manage these spaces by issuing a paper ticket as a witness to the payment of the parking tax. Generally, this light clearly indicates the hourly parking limit. In most cases, the user is required to place this indicator behind his windshield so that the supervisor can verify compliance with the payment and the parking time limit. In some cases, the parking spaces are numbered. The customer enters the number on the parking meter. The latter will be reported on the witness ticket. Sometimes, it is necessary to place this witness behind the windshield of the vehicle, in the past, the customer can keep the ticket in his pocket, the supervisor having a means of knowing the time limits corresponding to the various tickets issued. Generally, these parking meters accept cash payments. For the past ten years, they have also accepted payments using magnetic cards and electronic chips.
• the present invention aims to replace the paper tickets that parking meters deliver during payments by electronic chip card by control means available to customers and supervisors, this in order to reduce production costs and 'operation of parking meters which no longer have a printer or paper to re-supply periodically and to facilitate the activity of supervisors.
• the traditional paper parking ticket, proof of payment is replaced by an electronic ticket, real or reconstituted, linked to the whole "payment action - card - parking meter" and whose image similar to that of '' a paper ticket can be presented at any time on the screen of a parking meter simply by inserting the payment card while for the supervisor, the image of the monitored parking spaces and their state are presented on the screen of the parking meter which allows, at a glance, to know the state of the park monitored and no longer requires the analysis of tickets deposited behind the windshield of each vehicle while also eliminating the operation deposit these tickets, necessary in most other systems used.
• This operation is made possible by the fact that the paper ticket is replaced either by an electronic ticket "image of the paper ticket” and deposited in the electronic chip card and / or by the reconstitution of the parking operation from the identifier or other information contained in the electronic chip card and in the ticket machine used to pay for an operation.
• the images of the tickets presented on the screen of the parking meter contain the same information as those of a paper ticket, namely the time limit for the parking operation and the indication of the relationship between this ticket and the location of the parking space or vehicle. This way of reassuring the customer insofar as he permanently holds proof of payment.
• the electronic chip card used is private, that is to say specific to the city's parking system and contains, in electrical form, a copy of the traditional paper ticket securely entered by the parking meter.
• the customer can verify his ticket by presenting his card on one of the parking meters of the same family.
• the smart card can store one or more tickets, the number being fixed beforehand.
• the electronic smart card is of the banking or financial debit or credit institute type, or electronic wallet. In these cases, it stores, for each transaction, the linked monetary information consisting of the payment receipt containing the amount of the transaction, the currency of the transaction, the date and time, the identifier of the type of equipment or customer debtor and the number of the debtor device.
• the parking ticket is reconstituted from the information contained in the card and in the parking meter and the image of the ticket is presented on the screen.
• all parking meters in the same family can contain the list of parking meters in the same fleet with their number and the work zone as well as the various rates corresponding to the various zones.
• a customer presents his bank card used to pay for a parking transaction on other equipment of the same family, he can easily reconstitute the ticket. parking according to the elements contained in the card and in its memory and thus present on the screen, the reconstituted ticket.
• the electronic smart card is of the banking or financial debit or credit institute type, or electronic wallet combining the banking information of the transactions described above and having additional memories enabling the copy of the registered parking ticket (s) to be accommodated securely by the parking meter.
• the electronic chip card is of the private type without memorizing historical or monetary data. Generally and for security reasons, this type of card has an individual number.
• the parking meter will memorize the characteristics of the parking transaction as well as that of the means of payment. It will keep in memory the recordings of the last hours or last days. Therefore and each time a customer presents this type of card on the same parking meter, the information corresponding to this card will be sought in the record table and presented on the screen in the form of a parking ticket image.
• these parking meters can be networked and thus make it possible to present the images of all the tickets on all the parking meters of the same family.
• the parking meter will be arranged so that the supervisor has the information necessary to check the parking status of each vehicle in the park in question.
• the parking meter presented is a model placed on the roadside and controlling eight places numbered from 1 to 8 with markings on the ground and on the device.
• Fig 1 shows the parking meter with its parking ticket display screen.
• the box 1 there, the information on the tariff 2, the electronic display screen 3 with enlarged views 12 and 13 presenting the information displayed when a customer inserts a card containing a parking ticket, the buttons selection of a parking space 4, the entry slot for electronic chip cards 5, a function keyboard 6, the parking meter number 7, the cards accepted by way of example, including the private card known as Park- Card 8, the bank card known as Bank-Card 9, the City card known as City-Card 10 and the card of the transport company with proximity coupling known as Transpo-Card 11.
• Power can be supplied by a solar collector 14.
• the device can also be equipped with an antenna 15 for radio or telephone links.
• Fig. 2 shows an enlarged view of the front panel of the parking meter.
• Figs 3 and 4 show the displays when there is no card in the reader, while Figures 5 to 9 show this same display when there is a card and during the transaction.
• • Fig 3 shows the display in neutral state.
• the lower part shows the status of the places monitored with a + when the time paid and in progress, a T when it has expired for a few minutes and a - when the time paid is largely out of tolerance.
• This information is mainly intended for the supervisor.
• the + will advantageously be replaced by an icon representing a car, the T by this flashing icon and the - by an icon representing a target seat.
• Fig. 4 is that corresponding to pressing one of the selection keys. In this case, the detail of the state of the place whose balance of the time paid is presented there. This display will only be present for a few seconds before switching to the neutral display corresponding to fig. 3.
• Fig. 5 shows the screen when a customer inserts his card without having selected a seat.
• the parking time limit as well as the designation of the place which in this case corresponds to the fourth place of the device number 1228. You could also see the vehicle registration number or any other identifier entered on the card.
• Fig. 6 is that corresponding to the start of a transaction.
• the customer has introduced his card after selecting seat number 5. He can also do so in reverse order.
• the display shows the card balance and invites the customer to give duration pulses.
• Fig. 7 is that corresponding to a duration pulse.
• the card balance is reduced and the corresponding limit is displayed with the indication of the duration to pay and the corresponding amount and invites the customer to press the button
• Fig. 8 corresponds to a second pulse of duration.
• Fig. 9 is the one presented after the customer has pressed the "confirm" button and the amount has been debited from the card. We see the parking limit as well as the duration and a thank you message as a closing of the transaction.
• Fig. 10 represents the hardware of the parking meter with a central unit called CPU, of the working memory, generally of RAM, containing the various transactions, the program memory generally of EEPROM, the quartz generator of the time base, the display of the matrix type, the keyboard, the card readers for contactless and contactless cards, the security SAM corresponding to the issuing institutes having signed a work authorization contract with their cards, a modem for line connection telephone, another modem for connection via the hertzian way as well as the power supply of the parking meter which generally is given by the network when the telecommunication is made by telephone or solar line when the telecommunication is ensured by hertzian way. This same information can also be transferred by an electronic capture card manipulated by the operator. • Fig.
• the coin counter has the same front image as the card counter and has the same functions. It also allows payment by currency and in this case, systematically issues a ticket.
• the mixed parking meter displays the ticket on its electronic display and can, on customer request, issue a receipt or paper copy of the ticket displayed.
• Fig. 12 shows a section of roadway with parking spaces and parking meters located on both sides.
• the parking meters with card C are combined there with the mixed parking meters C + M thus making it possible to accept payments by card and currency and this for a lower installation cost than the installation of mixed parking meters only, the latter must be of robust and anti-vandal construction
• this combination also makes it possible to obtain paper receipts for card payments this by presenting a card having been used for a payment on one of the mixed parking meters.
• This organization is particularly well suited to recent developments in “local radio” transmission means of the so-called Bluetooth type. Indeed, a radio mini-network can be organized between the few parking meters with C card and the mixed parking meter attached to them, the whole forming a coherent cell that can be connected to a more general communication network.
• All the devices of the same family or all the cells can be networked so that a ticket issued on one of the parking meters is known on all the parking meters of the same family and thus available when a customer enters his card on any device of the same family.
• These devices also serve as bridgeheads for cell phone payments.
• One of the cases consists in equipping each device or each cell with a telepayment receiver such that when a telepayment is carried out, the information on the state of the place is recorded or available on the parking meter, this in order to allows the supervisor and / or the client to locally check the payment status for the parking action.

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