EP1525433A1 - Benutzerführungssystem in einem zahlstellennetz - Google Patents

Benutzerführungssystem in einem zahlstellennetz

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EP1525433A1
EP1525433A1 EP03787839A EP03787839A EP1525433A1 EP 1525433 A1 EP1525433 A1 EP 1525433A1 EP 03787839 A EP03787839 A EP 03787839A EP 03787839 A EP03787839 A EP 03787839A EP 1525433 A1 EP1525433 A1 EP 1525433A1
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terminal
user
guidance system
guidance
information
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French (fr)
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Thierry Machicoane
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Parkeon SAS
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Parkeon SAS
Schlumberger Systemes SA
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    • GPHYSICS
    • G08SIGNALLING
    • G08GTRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS
    • G08G1/00Traffic control systems for road vehicles
    • G08G1/14Traffic control systems for road vehicles indicating individual free spaces in parking areas
    • GPHYSICS
    • G01MEASURING; TESTING
    • G01CMEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; GYROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY OR VIDEOGRAMMETRY
    • G01C21/00Navigation; Navigational instruments not provided for in groups G01C1/00 - G01C19/00
    • G01C21/20Instruments for performing navigational calculations
    • GPHYSICS
    • G07CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07BTICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B15/00Arrangements or apparatus for collecting fares, tolls or entrance fees at one or more control points
    • G07B15/02Arrangements 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
    • GPHYSICS
    • G07CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07FCOIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F17/00Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services
    • G07F17/24Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for parking meters
    • G07F17/246Coin-freed apparatus for hiring articles; Coin-freed facilities or services for parking meters provided with vehicle proximity-detectors

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  • the present invention relates to a system for guiding a user in a network of payment terminals and in particular of parking fee payment terminals.
  • the present invention relates more particularly to a guidance system intended to allow a user to easily find a payment terminal.
  • a motorist having parked his vehicle in a paid parking space is able to find his vehicle when he has forgotten the parking place of said vehicle, or even when he wishes to benefit from the the shortest route to reach his vehicle.
  • the present invention also relates to the means implemented by said system according to the invention.
  • the present invention relates more particularly to the payment terminals used and in particular the payment terminals for parking cars on the road.
  • the parking meter type system consists of a terminal in which the motorist wishing to park must pay (by coins, cards, etc.) for an amount corresponding to the desired parking time.
  • a display mechanism placed on the terminal then shows an index corresponding to the paid parking time. This index will then disappear as time goes by.
  • the control of such a system is simple since it is enough for the surveillance officers to look at the position of the index to know if the vehicle occupying the location controlled by the terminal in question is in violation or not.
  • the user receives in exchange for payment of the desired parking time (payment made using coins, an adapted payment card, mobile phone, etc.) a ticket with various printed information including the authorized parking time limit.
  • the user must place this visible ticket behind the windshield of his vehicle.
  • the surveillance officers then check in parked cars the presence of a ticket and the indication appearing on the ticket of the parking time limit.
  • parking meters or parking meters the vehicle of the user is always in the immediate vicinity, that is to say less than a hundred meters, of the device which made it possible to pay. the parking right.
  • the user must come to seek, sooner or later, his vehicle or to pay a new fee before the expiration of the acquired parking right, under penalty of taking the risk of seeing his vehicle in violation and being subject to a ticket.
  • the user therefore has an obligation to remember the location where he parked his vehicle.
  • This forgetting phenomenon is even more important when the user is in another city than his own, or even abroad, and therefore he knows little or nothing about the topography of the places.
  • the present invention therefore proposes to allow a user, having used a payment terminal to pay his parking fee, to find the location of his vehicle if necessary. With such an invention, the user can find the parking location of his vehicle.
  • the system for guiding a user in a network of payment terminals delivering goods or services, such as parking meters intended for the payment of parking fees is characterized in that all or part of the terminals of the network include first means capable of providing the user with location information for these terminals.
  • the means capable of providing the user with location information equipping the terminals of the network cooperate with the payment means equipping these same terminals, so that the location information are only provided to the user after having made the payment for a good or service on these terminals.
  • the location information of the network terminals consists of a unique identification code for each of the terminals.
  • the location information of a terminal is printed on a ticket issued by printing means equipping this terminal.
  • all or part of the terminals capable of providing the user with location information of these terminals include appropriate writing means, allowing the transfer of location information from these terminals in the appropriate memories of a microprocessor card of the user, of the contactless or contactless type, such as a payment card.
  • all or part of the terminals capable of providing the user with information on the location of these terminals comprise appropriate transmission means, of radio frequency type, allowing transfer by radio transmission of the location information of these terminals in the memories of a terminal adapted to the user, such as a mobile telephone, for example in the form of a voice telephone call or in the form of a SMS or e-mail written message.
  • all or part of the terminals of the network comprises second means capable of providing guidance information allowing the user to reach from each of these terminals, another terminal of the network, said second means comprising means for acquiring location information of this other terminal provided by the user.
  • the means equipping a first terminal of the network and capable of providing guidance information making it possible to reach from this first terminal a second terminal of the network cooperate with the payment means equipping the first terminal, so that the guidance information is only provided to the user after having made the payment for such a service on the first terminal.
  • the acquisition means comprise a man-machine interface, such as a keyboard, on which the user can enter said location information of a terminal which he wish to join.
  • the acquisition means comprise a microprocessor card reader making it possible to retrieve the location information of a network terminal in the appropriate memories of a microprocessor card.
  • the user of type with or without contact, such as a payment card.
  • the acquisition means comprise appropriate reception means, of radio frequency type, allowing the downloading by radio transmission of location information of a terminal from a terminal user-friendly communication, such as a mobile phone, for example in the form of an SMS type message.
  • the guidance information making it possible to reach a terminal of the network is printed on a ticket issued by printing means equipping the terminal delivering this guidance information.
  • the guidance information making it possible to reach a terminal of the network is displayed on an appropriate screen fitted to the terminal delivering this guidance information.
  • the guidance information making it possible to reach a terminal of the network is communicated by voice synthesis means equipping the terminal delivering this guidance information.
  • all or part of the terminals delivering guidance information include appropriate transmission means, of radio frequency type, allowing remote transmission to a terminal adapted for the user.
  • appropriate transmission means such as a mobile telephone
  • guidance information making it possible to reach a terminal of the network, for example in the form of a voice telephone call or also in the form of a written message of SMS type or of email type.
  • the location and / or guidance information includes the address of the terminal.
  • the location and / or guidance information includes a map of the district concerned by the terminal.
  • the guidance information includes the description of one or more route (s) making it possible to reach, from the terminal delivering this information, the terminal that the user wishes to reach .
  • the guidance information comprises the plan of one or more routes allowing to reach, from the terminal delivering this information, the terminal that the user wishes to reach .
  • Figure 1 is a schematic view of a parking meter implementing the method according to the invention.
  • FIG. 1 where only the elements necessary for understanding the invention have been shown, 2 payment terminals X and Y have been shown which in this case are parking meters.
  • These parking meters X and Y belong to a network of parking meters meshing an agglomeration and managed by an operator such as a private organization or even a municipality.
  • the same park can include several tens to several thousand parking meters depending on the size of the city or the agglomeration concerned.
  • the use of payment terminals of the parking meter type is not limiting of the present invention.
  • These parking meters are regularly distributed, for example every fifty meters, along the sidewalks of streets subject to paid regulated parking.
  • the parking meters X and Y furthermore comprise a certain number of means making it possible to carry out the essential functions of a parking meter, that is to say payment means, such as an electronic memory card reader or with microcontroller and / or a coin or token collection device, means for entering information, such as a keyboard or a scroll wheel, associated with a display screen, in particular for selecting the parking time, means of printing, in particular provided for the edition of parking tickets intended to be arranged behind the windshields of parked cars, a time generator, electrical supply means, etc.
  • a central unit or microcontroller with appropriate software ensures the operation of the parking meter and its various peripherals.
  • the microcontrollers of the parking meters X and Y are equipped with a specific program, capable of determining the information necessary for the location of the parking meters, and intended to provide the user with this information.
  • the progress of this program corresponds to the progress of the method according to the invention.
  • a user who has parked his vehicle in a place where parking is chargeable goes to the nearest parking meter X in order to pay the parking fee.
  • the parking meter X offers the user the possibility of locating this parking meter.
  • the localization program determines the information necessary for this localization, such as, for example, the building number and the name of the street where the parking meter X is located, information which is simply recorded in the non-volatile memory of the parking meter X.
  • the parking meter X simply prints it on a specific ticket intended for the user distinct from the parking ticket to be placed behind the windshield of the vehicle of the user.
  • this information is printed after the parking ticket which then comes in two pre-cut parts, the user only having to separate the two parts to arrange the parking ticket in his car and keep the location information on him.
  • the format for issuing location information may be more advanced. So, if the parking meter X has a graphic printer, the location information can take the form of a detailed map of the district, with precise indication of the exact location of the parking meter X.
  • the user retrieves and keeps the ticket containing the location information. He can then freely and serenely go about his business without worrying about having to remember his parking place. Later, when he wants to find his vehicle, he will then only have to consult the location ticket.
  • a variant of the embodiment of the invention described above consists in communicating as location information an identification code of the parking meter X.
  • This unique identifier or order number between one and the number of payment terminals constituting the network of terminals, can be printed instead and in addition to the location information previously mentioned.
  • the user After printing the location ticket, the user collects and keeps his location ticket. He can then freely and serenely go about his business without worrying about having to remember his parking place.
  • the location function This function subject or not to a prior payment, then triggers the progress of the aforementioned program.
  • the program in question invites the user to enter, using a keyboard provided for this purpose, the unique identifier of the parking meter X, printed on the location ticket.
  • the location program determines, using this unique identifier, the shortest route T ⁇ (X) making it possible to reach, from the parking meter Y, the location of the parking meter X, and therefore the vehicle sought.
  • This route T ⁇ (X) can be determined by the location program by means of a simple reading, in non-volatile memory of the parking meter Y, from a table providing the route T ⁇ (X), according to the identifier unique of the parking meter X.
  • this table could consist of a simple dictionary giving, for a given terminal Y, as a function of the identifier of the destination terminal X, the shortest route to reach this terminal X, in a specific format not specified within the scope of the invention.
  • the route could consist of a list of streets to take to reach the location of terminal X.
  • the parking meter Y simply prints it on a ticket intended for the user.
  • the delivery format of the route T ⁇ (X) may be more advanced.
  • the route T ⁇ (X) can take the form of a detailed map, with precise indication of the respective locations of the parking meters X and Y.
  • the parking meter X records its unique identifier in the memory or in a dedicated file of the user's smart card, at a given time of the '' step of payment by the user of his parking right.
  • the user collects his smart card. He can then freely and serenely go about his business without worrying about having to remember his parking place.
  • the program in question then invites the user to insert his smart card into the card reader provided for this purpose.
  • the smart card Once the smart card has been correctly inserted into the reader, the latter reads, in the memory or in the dedicated file of the smart card, the unique identifier of the parking meter X.
  • the unique identifier of the parking meter X is then transmitted to the localization program which determines, using this information, the shortest route T ⁇ (X) making it possible to reach, from the parking meter Y, the location of the parking meter X , and therefore the vehicle sought.
  • This T ⁇ (X) route can be determined by the localization program by means of a simple reading, in non-volatile memory of the parking meter Y, from a table providing the T ⁇ (X) route, as a function of the unique identifier for time stamp X.
  • the route T ⁇ (X) having been determined, the parking meter Y simply prints it on a ticket intended for the user.
  • the delivery format of the route T ⁇ (X) may be more advanced.
  • the route T ⁇ (X) can take the form of a detailed map, with precise indication of the respective locations of the parking meters X and Y.
  • the present invention relates to any payment terminal network and not only to the parking space payment terminal networks.
  • the present invention can be applied to public telephones, ticket vending machines, automatic vending machines for drinks, etc.
  • the communication of location and / or guidance information can use a radio frequency type transmission (GSM, WIFI,. ..).
  • the terminals are equipped with transceiver means, of radio frequency type, allowing the transfer by radio transmission of location and guidance information between the terminals and a terminal adapted to the user, such as a mobile telephone, for example in the form of a voice telephone call or also in the form of a written message of SMS type or of email type.

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EP03787839A 2002-07-31 2003-06-26 Benutzerführungssystem in einem zahlstellennetz Withdrawn EP1525433A1 (de)

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FR0209791 2002-07-31
FR0209791A FR2843192B1 (fr) 2002-07-31 2002-07-31 Systeme de guidage d'un usager dans un reseau de bornes de paiement
PCT/FR2003/001974 WO2004017023A1 (fr) 2002-07-31 2003-06-26 Systeme de guidage d'un usager dans un reseau de bornes de paiement

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