Classifications

• • G06Q50/40—
• • 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

Definitions

• the invention relates to a method for the automatic detection of usage information concerning the use of a service system by a user with a user medium.
• Methods of this kind are suitable for detecting the presence of a user medium and thus also of a user within a service system. This applies, for example, the use of public transport, parking garages or leisure facilities.
• the providers of these services pursue the goal of recording the useful life and times of use of a large group of customers as inexpensively as possible.
• the users should be offered a high level of comfort through the least possible expense for the acquisition and billing of the services, so that there is a low use barrier.
• Be In / Be Out systems in which a presence signal of the user medium is detected.
• the service system records at short intervals from the user medium outgoing presence messages. Once these fail, the service system recognizes the system's exit from the user medium.
• the user medium is carried by the user and serves to identify him. It receives usage data from the service system and then sends back on this basis usage data, including the time of use and a Usage ID included.
• the service system receives the usage data of the user medium and detects which users with an active user medium are present at which time and at which location and for what duration in the system. The information is transmitted to a background system.
• the infrastructure for providing the service for example in local public transport, is equipped with service systems. If a person with a user medium stops in the coverage area and thus uses the service, the person is recorded as a user. During use, the user medium continuously recognizes the use of the services and reports this to the service system. If the user medium leaves the coverage area, this is automatically detected, the usage is completed and the usage data are ready for billing.
• the service system broadcasts data such as service IDs, location or movement data, send requests, and others to all active user media to perform the aforementioned method.
• the once-required wake-up operations, which serve to activate the user medium, are transmitted at a lower frequency.
• the present invention is therefore based on the object to provide a method for the automatic detection of user information, in which the received data from the service system data volume is lower than in the prior art and which is thus also feasible by less expensive hardware.
• This object is achieved by a method in which activation signals for activating user media and / or usage data are sent by the service system, and wherein user data is received and stored by an activated user medium and stored by a stored user User data containing usage data usage data to a recipient of the service system to be retransferred.
• the service system sends out once an activation signal to activate the user medium. Subsequently, usage data of a service are transmitted continuously and unidirectionally and received by the activated user medium.
• the usage data are decomposed by the user medium into individual usage information, which contains, for example, the usage time, a usage ID, the usage period, the usage location and / or tariff information, and stored locally on the user medium at least until a time-delayed retransfer of the usage data to the service system he follows.
• the transmission of the usage data from the user medium to the service system takes place at defined time intervals.
• the billing of the service used is due to the local capture and storage on the user medium also guaranteed if for technical reasons for a certain period of time no communication between the service system and user medium was possible, for example, because of load-related communication errors between user medium and service system occur.
• the direct feedback of the user medium to the service system required in the prior art within a few seconds is eliminated. Rather, the method corresponds to a classic broadcast method and thus gains considerable robustness with regard to the recording, storage and calculation of usage information according to origin.
• the invention provides that the usage data retransmitted by the user medium by the user medium are changed usage data of the service system.
• the user data sent by the service system is extracted by the user medium and converted into individual usage information such as the time of use, the usage ID, the service life, the place of use and / or tariff information. This results in uniform return signals of the user media, which can be easily processed by the service system.
• the user medium retransfers the usage data independently of time to the usage data received from the service system.
• the service system radiates a high frequency unidirectional activation signal and usage data, while the user medium, independently of time, sends the usage data collected during an interval to the service system.
• the required reception and data processing performance of the service system is significantly reduced. For example, if, over the course of one hour, an average of 100 active user media are present and send their presence messages on average not within a two-second interval, but within a sixty-second interval, the required reception and data processing performance of the service system is reduced by over 96%, instead of 180,000 only 6,000 attendance messages are to be recorded. At the same time, the energy consumption of the active user medium for transmissions is reduced by the same ratio, since significantly fewer presence messages have to be sent through the user medium.
• the invention further provides that the time interval between two consecutive usage data retransmitted by the user medium does not exceed a maximum period of time predetermined by the service system.
• the service system can send out a specification for the maximum permissible time span for the first and all continuous presence messages to the user media.
• This maximum allowable time will usually be in the range of one to several minutes, since it is logically based on the respective tariff system underlying intervals.
• a first presence message of the user medium must be made in the time interval before reaching the next stop.
• the continuous presence message of the user medium It has to be done so often that the smallest time interval between two stops is not exceeded.
• the maximum time span is significantly higher, for example, in a long-distance train than in a local train, since the distance between two stops is typically much greater.
• the first presence message of the user medium must be within a few minutes, for example, two minutes, since then start the billing intervals.
• the continuous billing takes place continuously every hour.
• case distinctions with more differentiated intervals can also be transmitted to the user media by the service system. For example, the interval for the presence messages may increase by 20% if the presence time in the lane exceeds a certain period of time.
• the service system transmits the usage data to the user medium at intervals of one to several seconds.
• the transmission is unidirectional. That is, regardless of the usage data returned by the user medium, the transmission intervals of the service system remain unchanged.
• the active user medium constantly receives unidirectionally the important information that it is still within the detection range.
• the termination of the service life of the service is finally recognized and stored by the absence of the service provided by the service system usage data from the user medium.
• the time of non-use data is transmitted to the service system in response to a re-activation signal.
• the presence messages are no longer recorded.
• the information gathered in the service system now allows the conclusion that the user medium has left the detection area within the last period of time.
• the user medium recognizes leaving the coverage area because the signals are missing from the service system. Then it leaves the active state and stops sending its presence signals.
• the exact time at which the detection area has been left is stored locally on the user medium, due to the absence of the regular signals of the service system.
• the user medium then sends with the first recent presence message also information about the exact time of leaving the detection area at the last use.
• the exact time of leaving is stored in the background system of the service system in addition to the already recorded presence intervals from the last use. This increases the precision of the data acquisition.
• the information received by the service system unambiguously deduces at what time the service life has started. In the case of Nah horrszugs this is done by recalculation to the last station, in which the respective user access was possible. Due to the local storage of the usage information on the user medium, the capture is ensured even if the feedback of the user medium is delayed for technical reasons.
• the user medium subsequently reports its presence to the service system within the maximum permissible period of time. These presence messages are processed, stored and evaluated in the service system. Due to the local storage of the usage information within the user medium, the successful billing of the entire service life does not depend on the fact that the presence of the user medium of the user medium are detected promptly by the service system.
• the presence reports are no longer recorded.
• the information acquired in the service system now allows the conclusion that the user medium has left the detection area within the last time interval.
• the user medium recognizes leaving the coverage area because the signals are missing from the service system. It leaves the active state and stops sending its usage data to the service system.
• the exact time at which the detection area was left is stored locally on the user medium.
• At the next access to a relevant for this information service system sends the user medium then with its first recent presence message also information on the exact time of departure of the detection area in the last use.
• the exact time of leaving the service system is stored in the background system of the service system in addition to the already recorded presence intervals from the last use.

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