ES2415514A1 - Guided system of localization of parking for disabled persons. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding) - Google Patents

Abstract

Method for the management and control of regulated parking for the disabled. The necessary management by users through mobile devices requires the transfer of information through general packet radio service (gprs) networks, universal mobile telecommunications system, high speed downlink packet access (hsdpa). In the guided parking location system for disabled people, the user activates the parking request on a mobile device. Remitting the identification of the vehicle, gps position, -optionally- estimated time of occupation. Receiving on your device a map with color-coded parking lots as well as any data of interest. Occupancy information is available to traffic controllers, who receive on their device, periodically or on demand, occupancy information from parking lots in their area, so that they can control parking (vehicles without a license or false license). The controllers can update the occupation information, using their devices. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)

Description

GUIDED PARKING LOCATION SYSTEM FOR DISABLED PEOPLE

GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

Guided parking location system for disabled people.

Technical sector

1O The present invention is part of the technical parking management sector.

State of the art

The location of free parking is an open problem, especially if it is due

15 control the exclusive use of a collective. There are many jobs aimed in this regard, because the work area is very wide. There are guidance systems for vehicles when they park as is the case of patents

• KR100956400, titled INTELLIGENT PARKING LOT CAMERA APPARUTUS

20 WITH MULTI FUNCTIONAL IMAGE PROCESSING MODULE ANO PARKING LOT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM USING THE SAME. Describes a system that uses cameras to detect the presence of vehicles. The invention to be protected does not require sensors or cameras.

• KR20100056832, titled A PARKING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM ANO METHOD

25 FOR GUIDING PARKING USING THE SAME, where cameras integrated in the vehicle are used so that it can park autonomously, facilitating the work for people with motor problems, or anyone in general. In the invention to be protected, it is not about expediting the parking process, but rather, the location thereof.

• KR201 00050925, titled METHOD ANO SYSTEM FOR INFORMING PARKING AREA USING PORTABLE WIRELESS TERMINAL HAVING RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION TAG, radio frequency and GPS sensors are used in this work. This work locates parking spaces based on RFID tags. Our

35 work does not need to incorporate tags of any kind to parking spaces.

• KR20090122505, PARKING CONTROL SYSTEM USING FOR BLUETOOTH and the KR20070111752 patent, entitled AUTOMATIC PARKING POSITION INFORMATION SYSTEM ANO METHOD TO USE BLUETOOTH, where also

40 of having a Bluetooth antenna in the parking spaces, the system is used to know the level of occupancy and even remember where it has been parked. But not to guide people to free places, as in our work. In addition, we also do not need to place bluetooth antennas in the car parks.

45 Other jobs help people with disabilities, as the following patents show:

• KR201 00048743, patent entitled ALARM SYSTEM USING RFID FOR THE DISABLED PARKING, which indicates how to assist in the parking process when driving a person with a disability. Our system does not

5 you need to include neither tags nor antennas in the building. Nor does it serve to facilitate the parking process, but to locate parking spaces reserved for the disabled and empower the authorities to preserve the proper use of these spaces.

• US201 0155165, entitled PARKING ASSISTANCE SYSTEM, which constitutes a

1O assistance system in the parking process, installed in a vehicle. Our system does not need to install anything in vehicles.

Others are responsible for informing the GPS about the location of the car parks (without indicating their status), as in patents. Our work, on the contrary, indicates

15 the nearest location and occupation.

• KR201 00046946, entitled SYSTEM FOR GUIDING PARKING SPACE USING NAVIGATION.

• CN101403617, titled INTELLIGENT PARKING NAVIGATION SYSTEM BASED 20 ON GPS.

• CN201119260, titled GPS PRODUCT WITH PARKING SYSTEM.

Other jobs are even dedicated to establishing payment systems and fees, for regulated parking lots, as with patents: 25

• CN1956024, titled METHOD FOR DISCRIMINATING ANO PROMPTING LEGAL PARKING AREA BY VEHICLE MOBILE EQUIPMENT GPS SYSTEM. The system described in this patent manages the legality of the car parks, for this requires the location of the legal parking positions and checks the

30 GPS position of a vehicle contrasting it with that database, thus determining the legality of the parking lot. Our system is not responsible for sanctioning badly parked vehicles, but for managing the public parking system for the disabled.

35 • ES2332562A 1, entitled METHOD FOR THE USE OF PARKING MANAGEMENT THROUGH MOBILE PHONE SMS. Where a method is proposed to pay for parking in parking spaces where parking must be paid. This system does not give information on the position of the car parks that are free. Nor does it provide guidance to

40 mms.

None of them reports on the availability of regulated and reserved parking for people with disabilities. Keep in mind that when a disabled person looks for a place to park, it doesn't work for anyone. It is necessary, if possible, to park in the places enabled for them since the large spaces are the ones that allow the vehicle to enter and exit if they use wheelchairs. There are jobs that

each sensor square is provided to inform about its status, this is expensive and impracticable in our country. They can be found described in the patents

• KR1 00789099, entitled PARKING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR THE

5 HANDICAPPED ANO METHOD THEREOF. This patent presents a method and a system to manage parking areas for people with disabilities. This method and system requires the installation of sensors and labels both in vehicles and in parking spaces. This system is intended for closed environments, controlled by a barrier, which opens

1O when in the presence of a disabled vehicle. At the entrance of the latter, you are indicated (wirelessly) where there are parking spaces. Our system does not require stickers or detectors. In addition, our system is useful for cities and not closed environments. In addition, our system provides guidance to parking lots and empowers security forces and bodies to control

15 parking spaces.

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KR20050046183, entitled MONITORING SYSTEM ANO METHOD FOR THE HANDICAPPED PARKING ZONE. Again, sensors are required. Guided parking is not provided. Neither empowers the complaint system.

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JP2002305797, entitled PARKING SPACE CUIDE BROADCAST SYSTEM FOR

20 PHYSICALLY-HANDICAPPED PERSON. It requires a complex and expensive sensor system for each place to be included in the system.

• DE4138723, entitled ORGANIZATIONAL ANO TECHNICAL SYSTEM FOR PARKING SPACE SUPERVISION. Requires connection to the vehicle's GPS and

25 of the installation of devices both in the parking space and in the vehicle. It is presented as a traffic balancing system to direct it towards free parking positions, but it is precise as it has been said, that devices are installed both in the parking lot and in the car.

30 Guided parking location system for people with disabilities procedure presented, offers the following advantages over the aforementioned patents:

• Parking does not need investment to install occupancy sensors. Therefore the

35 parking spaces can be included 1 removed from the system at no cost.

• The system does not use special communication networks or specific sensors. Use data networks for mobile telephony. And it uses the available capacities of each user terminal, mobile.

40 • The system installation is centralized (a server) and its maintenance is scalable and cheap.

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The management computer application can be free or proprietary.

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The users vehicle does not require investment or extra installation. The system is independent of the characteristics of the vehicle.

45 • The user does not need to remember where the parking spaces reserved for the group are located, in this case, disabled.

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The user is certain that the information that comes to him is robust and updated.

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The security forces and bodies can control the occupations of disabled places at all times, enforcing the ordinances

5 in force, without more than visualizing the information that reaches their systems (vehicle computer, mobile devices, etc.) and checking that the parked vehicle is the one that is informed and that it also belongs to a user with disabilities.

• The municipalities can make a real management of these parking lots, 1 Or checking which areas are most requested and acting accordingly.

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The invention contributes to the integration in the city of people with disabilities.

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With all this, it is intended to facilitate the mobility of the disabled person, one of the objectives that have been prioritized in our society for a few years. The different authorities have promoted a set of initiatives

15 trying to carry out this objective in the best possible way, but the control of the good use of the reserved places has always been an inconvenience. One of these initiatives is the reservation of free parking spaces specially dedicated to the occupation of citizens with different disabilities. These places, located in strategic places, allow these citizens to access services,

20 leisure, etc., which would otherwise complicate its operation.

Description of the invention

The guided location and parking control procedure reserved for 25 disabled people, which is presented, includes:

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Parking areas duly marked and registered through your GPS position.

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Mobile device equipped with GPS and composed of sensors such as

30 accelerometers, touch interfaces, electronic compasses and ultimately any sensor that allows and complements the interaction between the user and the mobile device.

• It is possible to exploit the presence of electronic compasses for the guidance system

dictated, if GPS is not present, and even when it is present, it can be used to complement it.

• Computer system composed of a database management system, a web server, accessible through web services, high-availability Internet connection line to enable a communication line based on the TCP-IP protocol between the server parking and device management

40 mobiles

• Urban map management system based on GPS information.

The method we propose requires the intervention of the disabled person, by following an easy application procedure that has as

The result was the offer by the system of the places where the available places are located, arranged in order of proximity to the individual, as well as their guidance using urban maps, towards them.

This invention also converts the method of controlling parking spaces for the disabled into a proactive procedure, since when a disabled person finds an unauthorized vehicle occupying a space, he can activate a warning that

5 will be distributed to urban traffic controllers to review that position.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

Next, an embodiment of the invention will be described, as

1O illustrative and non-limiting example of it. For the best understanding of what is described herein, some drawings are attached in which, by way of example only, figure 1 is included.

A system configuration step for each user's mobile device is involved,

15 which includes the vehicle information, the disabled license that the user will use, and other information of interest. The software application that is part of the system will collect all the information of the sensors present in the device to offer different modes of interaction between the user and the system.

20 The intervention of the individual on the proposed system raises the possibility of three scenarios:

one.

Search for a parking space for the disabled.

2.

Occupation a place for the disabled.

3.

Liberation of a place for the disabled.

25 4. Report by an urban traffic agent or driver.

In the first case the individual, acting on his mobile device in a gestural manner, will connect to the server at the request of a place and with this operation, without any further intervention, the system will collect its location and additional information such as

30 disabled license, vehicle, etc- and will return to your device a visual information -which can also be dictated if the electronic compass exists or through the CPS coordinates- of the location of the squares on a map, by means of the which can be guided in a guided way to that place, of the available ones, that is of interest.

35 In the second scenario, the individual has the obligation to indicate to the system the occupation of the place, by means of a simple action on his mobile device. The action, both in this case and in the previous one, is based on the use of easy-to-use gestures by people with disabilities, either by shaking the mobile device (using the accelerometer) or through tactile gestures on the screen of the

40 device if it is tactile (and lacks an accelerometer) or with the long press of a predefined key before conventional devices. If the place is occupied by an unauthorized vehicle, the disabled user can launch a CPS beacon from his device that will be picked up on the server and will be directed to the terminals of urban traffic agents or controllers. If the user occupies the place, the system

45 will register as occupied and also save the occupant's data, as well as the estimated time that will be in the parking lot, sent by the user. The state of the square in successive requests to the server will be configured with the color red.

In the third scenario, the user must inform that he releases the parking notwithstanding the

5 method contemplates that if this step is ignored by the user, it is the mobile device who after registering sensitive variations in the GPS position or after the estimated time has elapsed, will require the user an action (movement, gesture, etc.) to confirm that it releases Square. Therefore, this information is sent and registered on the server.

1O In the fourth scenario, it is an urban traffic controller or agent who can contrast and update the system of occupation of places, updating its status on the server.

In any case, the performance on the mobile device is implemented to be

15 as easy as the slight agitation of it. The accelerometer incorporated into the system, if present, will be responsible for transferring the movement to the developed software and part of the computer system, installed on the user's mobile device that will connect via IP with the application located on the server, registering that position or place as occupied, or requesting a place that is available (coding is included

20 the location of the individual and other data of interest). In the absence of it, the touch interface is used either, or as mentioned above, quick key combinations.

A mobile device (2), used by a driver with a disability (1) capable of performing the functions of communication with the server (3) that is part of the computer system 25, as well as displaying the geographical maps of the urban area where they locate the reserved car parks (4). This device (2) will also be the receiver of the information sent by the server, will show on the maps the location of the parking spaces that are free (green symbol), as well as those that are occupied (color Red). Those newly released, or released

30 automatically by the system will be marked with orange. (4)

The mobile device must be equipped with CPS and CSM technologies (CPRS, UMTS, HOSPA, ...), useful for connecting to the Internet network, which allows starting the location sufficiently accurate for the purposes we intend, of the person

35 carrier of the device.

This device, operated by the person with disabilities, will send to the server, using CPRS / CSM / UMTS / HDSPA networks, information on its location that when received by the server, will be interpreted as a demand for free space (if the location of the

40 person is not coincident with that of the square) or occupation of the square, otherwise.

The reception in the server of the information sent by a mobile device, causes the signaling in the system of occupied square, if it is the case, or triggers the consultation of free places that are located in a certain radius of proximity to the user. The server then sends this information to the mobile device that initiated the query via the Internet.

5 The user will then be able to consult (by visual or auditory means) on the screen of his mobile device, the locations of the free places located in the plane. Also and according to the functionality of the mobile device, the user can be guided to the nearest free places or simply have information about the layout on the map of the same.

The proposed method also incorporates safety features in the application of the process, so as to avoid, as far as possible, the forgetfulness on the part of the user, both of informing of the occupation of the place, as of its release. In the first case, the software integrated in the mobile device will alert the user asking 15 occupied space ?, after checking the coincidence between the GPS coordinates of the device position and the information sent from free places by the server. In the second case, you will make a similar question asked about the possible release of the place, if you verify that a reasonable time has elapsed based on the estimated information of the parking duration (provided by the user). The user

20 will only have to answer in the affirmative, if that circumstance occurs, in the first case, and affirmative or negative in the second case. Before the negative response the system will continue to ask periodically, unless the user voluntarily avoids it, selecting this option (prolonged parking situation).

Claims (10)

1. Location procedure, and indication of the occupancy of parking spaces through a configurable interaction on mobile devices, based on the information provided by a management system. The procedure is S comprised of the following phases: • Definition of the meaning of each gesture, depending on the sensors that It incorporates the mobile device. It is only done the first time the method, or by express will. • Sending the request to locate a parking space, by 10 of the user, through a gesture or action that the mobile device recognizes and that has been previously configured according to the sensors that the device has. The chosen sensor picks up the gesture and formalizes the request, via the Internet, to a parking management server. • Processing the request on the management server. The server refers to: 15 through the Internet and to the device that has required it, using the signaling on a GPS map, the parking spaces. Priorities are those that are useful for the user requesting the place and that are also within a distance, previously configured, of the current position of the user or the destination to which it is directed. 20 • User guide to the parking space. The user selects one of the parking spaces offered either by touching the screen on the desired parking (shown on a map) or by selecting it from a list (using the device buttons). The mobile device guides the user to the selected place. The guiding medium can be chosen from 25 graphically, the mobile device will have all information on a map on the screen of the mobile device or narrated, using the speakers of the mobile device. • Complaint, urban traffic agents may require information and permission to occupy reserved parking spaces, using their terminals; 30 without more than making a gesture, predefined, associated with any of the sensors carried by your terminal. 2. Method according to claim 1, characterized by a user belonging to a group with disabilities, and a set of parking spaces 35 reserved for the group in question. 3. Procedure according to claim 1 and 2, which includes a protocol to be followed by the user in the situation of demand for a parking space reserved for a group, whose status is unoccupied. This protocol is characterized by a 40 simple interaction that includes performing gestures (previously configured) directed towards the mobile device. The predefined sensor picks up the user's gesture, the mobile device monitors the sensors, if the sensor picks up the predefined gesture then the mobile device sends the request (considering the user's current context) to the management server of a data connection. plazas 45 parking.

Four.

Method according to claim 1 to 3, characterized by the transmission of GPS and user context information, collected by the mobile terminal and sent via the Internet via GPRS / UMT / HDSPA networks (mobile data networks) to a management server of parking spaces, analysis of the request and response to the user through a computer application resident in the computer system and through the same networks.

5.

Procedure according to previous claims comprising the display on the screen (of the mobile device) of the plane where the parking spaces and relevant information about each place are located, discriminating by means of a mark, the free ones (green color) of the occupied ones (red color) Or of the next ones to · release (orange). The information can be displayed using text lists, if the terminal does not have access to maps.

6.

Procedure according to previous claims comprising the guidance through indications narrated by the mobile device, where the parking spaces are located, discriminating by means of one color the free ones (green color) of the occupied ones (red color) or the next ones to release (orange). The device uses 14 information from the GPS sensor and / or the compass sensor to orient and guide the user.

7.

Procedure according to claim 1, characterized in that it defines terminals configured in a very particular way and identified as special terminals (which can be carried by control agents or urban traffic guards) capable of sending an extended information request (occupancy of places '' who it occupies them) to the management server of parking spaces, thus expediting the tasks of the municipalities in controlling the proper use of these parking spaces.

8.

Procedure, according to claim 7, characterized in that the agents and / or controllers may be an active part in terms of updating the state of the parking spaces, according to: or the ordinances in force. An agent may, acting on the sensors of his device, send requests to the management system, to correct the information of the parking spaces.

9.

System for the management, according to claim 1, of the described methods comprising:

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Computer system comprising a high availability and connectivity server.

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A computer application (which resides on the server) dedicated to the management of parking spaces. It provides the necessary means so that the set of parking spaces can be modified (information on its arrangement, GPS position, registration of a parking space, removal of a parking space, etc.).

• Mobile device in which the GSM / GPS / UMTS / GPRS standards are integrated, or any other similar that includes a form of data communication to through cellular networks. • Accelerometer, integrated in the mobile device, whose function, if configured by the user, is to initiate communication of requests with the server. • Electronic compass, integrated in the mobile device, streamlines the guidance work visual and dictated without waiting for the comparison of GPS coordinates. • Computer application for the mobile device, which manages, through the sensors installed in the device, the request for information of 10 unoccupied places, the occupation of a place and the reception of information supplied by the server. It implements the guidance procedure towards the selected parking space through indications shown in the device screen (on GPS maps) or through the narration of the indications. 10. Use of the management system according to claim 9 for the management of parking spaces intended exclusively for a particular group. In this case the of people with disabilities.