EP3223248A1 - System und verfahren zur verwaltung eines parkplatzes - Google Patents

System und verfahren zur verwaltung eines parkplatzes Download PDF

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EP3223248A1
EP3223248A1 EP16161342.7A EP16161342A EP3223248A1 EP 3223248 A1 EP3223248 A1 EP 3223248A1 EP 16161342 A EP16161342 A EP 16161342A EP 3223248 A1 EP3223248 A1 EP 3223248A1
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  • the present invention concerns a system for the management of a parking.
  • the invention is used in large public and/or private facilities (stadiums, shopping centers, airports, car parks, etc.) provided with a space intended for vehicle parking.
  • the invention is above all used in fee car parks, wherein the users can make use of the parking depending on the payment made before or after the vehicle has been parked.
  • Fee car parks are known in which the users can park their own vehicles for a given parking time.
  • the parking payment is made in advance by means of tickets valid for a given time interval (for example, one hour, one day, etc.), which have to be left in full view inside its own vehicle.
  • a given time interval for example, one hour, one day, etc.
  • Such a managing system produce huge disadvantages for users, who always are forced to overpay or are likely to be fined in case wherein the vehicle stays parked inside the parking longer than planned, as they don't known the parking duration a priori.
  • car parks which have means for baring and/or allowing the vehicle transit (usually automatic barriers) through the entrance and exit ways of the parking.
  • the entrance way is opened to allow the vehicle entry after an admission ticket has been withdrawn (sometimes being coin-like) and dispensed at the parking entrance.
  • the parking entrance time is registered.
  • the exit way is kept closed to prevent users from leaving the parking without paying for the parking time. Therefore, inside this type of car parks there are one or more places for paying for the parking time.
  • the payment points are provided with an automatic dispensing machine in which a ticket withdrawn at the entrance can be inserted; afterwards, the user pays the parking depending on the time passed from the parking entrance, the dispensing machine dispenses another exit ticket through which the exit way will be opened.
  • the parking time charged to the user will be calculated as the amount for a maximum parking time (for example, a parking time of 24 hours).
  • a maximum parking time for example, a parking time of 24 hours.
  • the operations of entrance ticket withdrawal and exit ticket insertion, in order to respectively open the entrance and exit ways of the parking slow down the flow of vehicles entering and exiting the parking, thereby causing long queues sometimes creating inconveniences and traffic congestion, most of all in case of car parks of large size adapted to accommodate a great number of vehicles.
  • the presence of barriers entails considerable costs for the making and maintenance thereof, in addition to determine a parking area completely closed to traffic in which the fee car parks are arranged.
  • Object of the present invention is to solve the afore mentioned problems and to provide a system and a method for the management of a parking, which are able to speed up the entrance in the parking and the exit therefrom of vehicles and, at the same time, allow simplifying the payment operations for users also in car parks without entrance/exit ways, such as parking places at the street side.
  • Further object of the present invention is to provide a system and a method for the management of a parking, which are able to calculate the real parking time of vehicles housed inside the parking itself, by keeping the entrance and exit ways of the parking always open and free for the car passages.
  • the system allows managing a parking comprising a plurality of parking places for vehicles.
  • the system comprises a numberplate detector designed to read the numberplate of vehicles parked in said plurality of places.
  • the system comprises a control unit designed to receive said numberplate read by said numberplate detector and transmit it to a parking recording server.
  • the control unit being further designed to transmit an end-of-parking message to said server when said numberplate is no longer detected by said numberplate detector.
  • the system for the management of a parking allows always keeping open the entrance and exit ways of the parking or, alternatively, regulating the parking bay not having entrance/exit ways such as car parks at the street side, i.e. parking with no entrance/exit ways.
  • entrance/exit ways such as car parks at the street side
  • the parking amount can be paid at the end, by paying depending on the real parking time.
  • the numberplate detector comprises at least one video camera arranged to frame said plurality of places of said parking.
  • said at least one video camera is movable along at least one path between said plurality of places.
  • said at least one numberplate detector comprises a processing unit to process the images acquired by said at least one video camera, said image processing unit being designed to optically recognize the characters included in said acquired images.
  • said at least one video camera is connected to said at least one image processing unit by means of at least one radio communicating module.
  • Such an embodiment allows aiding the installation of one or more video cameras, most of all in case of systems according to the present invention and provided with a great number of video cameras and/or in case of the embodiments in which at least one video camera is movable.
  • control unit is further designed to transmit the time of the first and the last detections of said numberplate to said server. In this way it is possible to associate the time with the acquired images and to calculate precisely the real parking time of the vehicle inside the parking area.
  • Another object of the present invention is a method for the management of a parking provided with a plurality of parking places for vehicles.
  • the method comprises the steps of:
  • said step a) is carried out by means of at least one video camera arranged to frame said plurality of places of said parking.
  • said step a) comprises a step of a1) moving said at least one video camera along at least one path between said plurality of places.
  • step b) the time of the first detection of said numberplate is transmitted to said server, and during said step c), the time of the last detection of said numberplate is transmitted to said server.
  • a system 10 for the management of a parking 1 is shown.
  • the parking 1 comprises a plurality of parking places 2 for the vehicles 3 (for example cars, mopeds, vans, etc.).
  • vehicles 3 for example cars, mopeds, vans, etc.
  • vehicle is meant a generic transport means provided with a licence plate (required by law).
  • the system 10 comprises a numberplate detector 4 designed to read the numberplate 8 of the vehicles 3 parked in the places 2 of the parking 1.
  • the numberplate detector is designed to not detect the number plates of moving vehicles.
  • the numberplate detector is designed to detect the numberplate of stationary vehicles (i.e. not moving), more preferably of vehicles parked for at least a predetermined time interval (for example five minutes).
  • the system 10 further comprises a control unit 5 designed to receive the numberplate 8 read by the numberplate detector 4 and transmit it to a parking recording server S.
  • the servers S can be a local or remote server.
  • the control unit 5 is preferably connected directly to the server S by means of cables (for example by means of one or more LAN cables).
  • the unit 5 and the server S communicate preferably through the Internet.
  • the control unit 5 is further designed to transmit an end-of-parking message to the server S when the (previously detected) numberplate 8 of a vehicle 3 is no longer detected by the numberplate detector 4.
  • the system 10 allows always keeping open the entrance and exit ways of the parking 1 or, alternatively, regulating the parking bay not having entrance/exit ways such as car parks at the street side. In particular, thanks to the present invention, there is no need of opening and closing an entrance or exit way of the parking each time a vehicle 3 is entering the parking or exiting therefrom.
  • the numberplate detector 4 preferably comprises at least one video camera 6 arranged to frame the places 2 of the parking 1.
  • the video camera 6 is communicating with the image unit processing 7. Images acquired by the video camera 6 are then sent to the processing unit 7 designed to recognize the characters included in the afore said images.
  • the image processing unit runs an algorithm for the optical character recognition (OCR) allowing the detection of the number plates 8 of the vehicles 3 parked inside the places 2 of the parking 1.
  • OCR optical character recognition
  • the images acquired by the video camera 6 will include the characters of the number plates 8 of the vehicles 3 parked inside the places 2 framed by video camera 6.
  • the images of the numberplate are preferable processed by the image unit processing 7 (for example by applying digital filters for adjusting image contrast and/or brightness) and are preferably converted to coded characters (for example in ASCII ones).
  • all places 2 of the parking 1 are framed by the video camera 6. Therefore, in case in which the image processing unit does not detect any number plates (i.e., the processing unit 7 does not recognize even a character sequence associable with a numberplate 8) from the images acquired by the video camera, this will mean that there are no vehicles 3 parked inside the parking 1.
  • control unit 5 transmits the number plates 8 coded by the processing unit 7 to the server S for the parking registration.
  • control unit 5 can be provided with a database in which all the number plates detected by the detector 4 are stored.
  • control unit 5 is designed to receive an enabling message from the server S, confirming that the detected numberplate is allowed parking.
  • a characteristic allows simplifying the parking payment for the users who have previously registered themselves in the server, for example by providing personal data to be associated with one or more number plates 8 and the modes for automatically paying the parking.
  • control unit 5 is further designed to transmit the time of the first and the last detections of the numberplate 8 to the server S. Therefore, per every detected numberplate, a real parking time is determined, during which the vehicle 3 makes use of the parking 1. Depending on the parking time, it is therefore possible to impose a determined rate in order to calculate the amount the user will have to pay.
  • the system 10 can provide for at least one payment point being present inside the parking 1, for example in order to allow the parking payment to users non-previously registered in server S.
  • the payment point is provided with at least one interface (for example a display and/or a keyboard and/or a touch-screen) by which the user can input the numberplate 8 of his own vehicle and end the parking time to pay.
  • the parking time will be the time interval intervening between the first detection of the numberplate 8 and the payment acknowledgment.
  • the rate imposed to non-registered users could be different with respect to the rate imposed to users previously registered in server S.
  • the video camera 6 is communicating with the processing unit 7 by means of a radio communicating module 6a, 7a.
  • the communicating module comprises a transmitter 6a connected to the video camera 6 and designed to transmit the images acquired by the video camera 6, and a receiver 7a connected to the image processing unit. Additional embodiments can anyway provide for the video camera 6 and the processing unit 7 being communicating one another through communication cables (for example of RCA type), still falling in the protection scope of the present invention.
  • the places 2 of the parking 1 are arranged in a herringbone pattern, i.e. with the longitudinal axis of each single place 2 of the parking 1 not coincident one another.
  • the system 10 comprises a plurality of video cameras 6 arranged so that all the places 2 of the parking 1 are framed. Such a characteristic allows a more reliable detection of all the number plates 8 also in large car parks in which there are a high number of places 2.
  • each video camera 6 is provided with a radio transmitter 6a designed to send the acquired images to a radio receiver 7a.
  • each transmitter 6a is preferably designed to transmit the images on a respective radio communication channel. In this way, all the images acquired by the plurality of video cameras 6 can be sent to the receiver 7a with no mutual interference.
  • the system 10 is provided with at least one video camera 6 movable along at least one path 9 between the places 2 of the parking 1.
  • the path 9 is arranged so that the video camera can frame all the places 2 of the parking.
  • the path can comprise straight and/or curved stretches.
  • the path can be closed so that one or more video cameras 6 moving along the path 9 would cover cyclically the path without inverting the movement direction.
  • the path 9 is straight and the video camera is moved in the two movement directions denoted by the arrow F.
  • the video camera 6 is preferably moved by carrying out a succession of quick movements.
  • the video camera is moved from a first position, in which part of the places 2 of the parking are framed by the video camera, to at least one second position, in which the video camera frames at least one place different from places framed in the first position.
  • the video camera 6 is preferably kept stationary between a movement and the other one, for a given interval time (for example 10 seconds). Further embodiments can anyway provide for at least one video camera 6 being moved along the path 9 continuously, preferably at moderate speed, or in general at speed suitable for acquiring images correctly, i.e. so that the characters of the number plates 8, included in the images, can be correctly recognized.
  • the movement of the video camera 6 can be carried out, for example, by means of one or more linear electric motors driven by the control unit 5.
  • the path 9 (for example a track) is provided with proximity sensors (for example ultrasound sensors, photocells or additional proximity sensors known in the art) to detect the presence of the video camera and/or detect the position of the video camera along the path 9.
  • proximity sensors for example ultrasound sensors, photocells or additional proximity sensors known in the art
  • the method comprises the steps of:
  • the step a) is carried out by means of at least one video camera 6 arranged to frame a plurality of places 2 (preferably all the places 2) of the parking 1.
  • the step a) comprises a step of a1) moving the video camera 6 along at least one path 9 between the plurality of places 2.
  • the time of the first detection of the numberplate 8 is transmitted to the server S, and during the step c), the time of the last detection of the numberplate 8 is transmitted to the server S.

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