ES2489940A1 - Management system of parking spaces for vehicles on public roads and open parking (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding) - Google Patents

Abstract

Parking space management system based on a proximity sensor, equipped with a power source and a global positioning signal emitter that allows drivers and any other user with a positioning signal reception system, to know that parking spaces are free at that moment and in any location, in the open air, knowing their location and being able to be guided to them. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)

Description

DESCRIPTION Management system for parking spaces for vehicles on public roads and open parking.

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Management system of parking spaces for vehicles on public roads and open parking spaces based on a proximity sensor / transmitter, equipped with a power supply and a positioning signal emitter that allows drivers and any other user who has a positioning signal reception system in your vehicle, mobile phone, tablet, smartphone, or other, knowing which parking spaces are free at that time and in any location, outdoors, knowing your location and being able to be guided to them.

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

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This invention has its industrial application in the consumer electronics industry and manufacturing electronic positioning devices (plotters).

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

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Consabida is the existing problem, more acute in the cities, in terms of parking. For years, administrations have been establishing various systems or formulas to regulate the availability and use of the few existing parking spaces, few considering, of course, the growing number of vehicles that make up the car park. 25

The high number of vehicles together with the shortage of parking spaces have a negative impact on the fluidity and normal progress of traffic in the populations, generating in an infinite number of occasions a mood of tension and nervousness not adequate and, of course, nothing recommended , in the users / drivers who suffer from this problem, 30 of course, of the lost time, the cost of fuel, the greatest pollution and the greatest occupation of the public roads of the vehicles in search of parking spaces.

This situation forces to develop systems of different nature, tending to provide users with greater peace of mind behind the wheel, capable of reducing the state of anxiety and frustration that generates, on more occasions than desired, the location of a parking space in which can park the vehicle. The implementation of an effective parking space management system would improve driving safety and fluency.

There are various attempts in this regard have been carried out. The state of the art 40 presents several parking management systems, both for parking lots and for public roads, which offer partial, incomplete or inefficient solutions, as we will analyze below.

These alternative systems, in essence, are characterized by requiring the connection of the 45 sensors located in the parking spaces to servers, command centers, control panels or parking management systems, in which the user can finally see the state in which the square is (free / occupied).

As an example of these systems we find US7388517 or PTC patent with publication number WO2006063079.

These patent documents describe how the sensors located in the parking spaces are connected to one or several remote devices or servers, offering information on the free spaces to the users through information panels or light signals.

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The inconveniences that these patents present, were correctly identified by the patent with publication number WO2011020942, which offers an alternative to those others, developing a parking management system that employs sensors connected by different paths or types of signals , to information panels that must be placed in different points of the streets or parking lots, in which users are offered information on the 10 places that may have been available for use.

Unfortunately, none of the proposed solutions is truly effective, beyond its cost of implementation, because none of them allows users to know the state (free / occupied) in which these parking spaces are once they have lost sight of 15 the information panels or screens, so that they can find that, when they arrived at the square that they displayed on the information panel (or screen), it has been occupied, for example, by another user who accessed the street in that the place was available by another adjacent route or, simply, by another user who accessed the information previously. twenty

This situation is repeated frequently, making the information obtained by the user when consulting the information panel obsolete and unusable. In them, the user cannot update the information about the free places; Ultimately, it would be the obligation to go back to an information panel to locate a new parking space (situation 25 certainly uncomfortable and impractical), so it is limited, to travel on the road, without a predetermined destination, in search of another free place.

In both cases it would mean that the information that was provided did not help, that is to say, these users would not have contributed such a system, exactly the same as if the 30 street or parking they are traveling did not have this parking management system proposed by WO2011020942.

None of these patents offers the user the possibility of having updated information on the available parking spaces beyond the viewing distance of the 35 information panels, which in any case does not allow him to be able to plan an alternative route even before arriving at the area in which those are.

On the other hand, these mentioned patents present another disadvantage, and they do not inform users about the route they must follow to locate the parking space that 40 visualized on the panel. In the best case, the user is given a parking space number, leaving his ability, his location. It could even be the case that in the informative panels the address or the route that the driver must follow until arriving at said square is detailed, but that information remains in the panel, and forces the driver to memorize not only its location, but the route To get to her. Four. Five

The patents to which we have alluded (US7388517, WO2006063079, WO2011020942), require a complex installation for their operation, since in addition to the sensors located in the parking spaces, they require other additional elements (servers, networks, concentrators, screens, panels, etc.), which, in addition to making the product more expensive, require a technical service and a certainly expensive installation. It is evident that the greater the need for elements, the greater the cost of installation and maintenance, and the greater the risk of breakdowns.

In this sense, the patent WO2011020942, although simpler than the previous WO2006063079, US7388517, also requires additional elements to the sensors located in the parking spaces, such as information panels, whose cost of acquisition and installation, very possibly compromises the viability of its installation in the streets of the cities. 5

The needs of today's society in terms of mobility, especially in cities, make it necessary to develop a more efficient, efficient and economical parking space management system that guarantees users the possibility of having the information on the parking spaces available, wherever they go, 10 in real time and dynamically, which would result in an optimization of the time of each user, in a lower fuel consumption and in a greater flow of traffic, additionally obtaining a Remarkable benefit in ecological and economic terms at a general level.

It is evident that the progress that technologies experience at every moment is allowing users / drivers to have better systems and more advanced electronic devices, with greater endowment and versatility.

The car park, which is expanded day by day, has more and more vehicles equipped with navigation and positioning system; Likewise, the number of browsers sold in electronics stores, large commercial stores, etc., is higher every day to meet a real need for users who have vehicles that do not have built-in navigation systems. In this sense, mobile phone devices on the market integrate mostly navigation systems that allow their users to move with knowledge and security of their destination, trend 25 unquestionably on the rise.

Other electronic devices, such as the increasingly frequent “tablets”, also offer this possibility.

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The social need to optimize resources such as time, money, physical space, fuel, among others, requires new technologies to provide an effective, economic and ecological solution to the problem of locating free parking spaces.

The invention presented here, allows the user to know at all times, the 35 parking spaces that are available, being able to even plan your route and being guided by your own navigation devices (car, browser, mobile phone, etc. ), up to each of them, without consulting other external elements.

DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION 40

The system for managing parking spaces for vehicles on public roads and uncovered parking lots that the invention advocates resolves the aforementioned drawbacks, also providing additional advantages that will be appreciated from the description that follows. Four. Five

This new system makes it possible for users who have a navigator, telephone or receiver of positioning signals, to know in real time and whatever their location, both the availability of parking spaces and the route they must follow to their location, being able to be guided by their own reception devices up to 50 of them.

The sensor installed in the parking space, when detecting the presence of a vehicle parked in it, and therefore occupying it, interrupts the emission of the positioning signal, a situation that will be maintained as long as said space is occupied.

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When it is free, the sensor does not detect the presence of a vehicle, activates the transmitter of the location signal that begins to transmit its position indicating the same through coordinates.

This emitted signal is received by a satellite or satellite network from which the devices of the users that have the capacity to receive and read positioning signals - vehicles, telephones, browsers, etc. - are forwarded to 10.

These user terminals / receivers process the information received through the positioning signal, informing of the location of the parking spaces that are free and, where appropriate, guiding them to their location.

The information is updated instantly, which allows the driver, in case the initially selected square was occupied during his journey to the same by another user, redirect his route to another free parking space, whose location and route is 20 equally detailed in its positioning receiver.

The sensors can be installed, for example, on sidewalks, driveways, curbs, without limiting their placement in other locations, and are only connected to the satellite network, from which the signal is emitted to the receivers. of the 25 users.

This system solves the unresolved problems and those that again pose the rest of the aforementioned patents.

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The advantages offered by this system are:

- Present the information to the user in his own terminal, which allows him to have the information on the free parking spaces wherever he goes.

- The source of user information is portable, since it is its own reception device.

- It makes it possible for the user to be guided by his device to the parking space.

- Allows the user, instantaneously, to know the location and route to reach the parking space, at any time and in any place of the population or the world.

- Update the information instantly, which does not require the user to make new inquiries.

- It does not require more elements than the sensors.

- It allows the user to plan their route in advance, being able to condition it to the probability of obtaining parking space due to the number of them that are available (as an example: before leaving home, the user consults the information of the places of parking that are free in different streets near your destination and you can choose to go to a less crowded area or with more free parking spaces, which will increase the chances of finding 50 parking once you have reached that area).

DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS To complement the description that is being made and in order to help a better understanding of the invention and the characteristics of the invention, according to a preferred example of practical realization thereof, an integral part of said description is accompanied by an set of drawings where, for illustrative and non-limiting purposes, an example of the operation of the system has been represented: FIGURE 1.- In this Figure 1 all the elements that make up the system are represented schematically.

And in this figure, with the same reference, the elements are called, among which we distinguish:

(1) .- occupied parking space 15

(2) .- free parking space

(3) .- sensor / transmitter

(4) .- solar device

(5) .- rechargeable battery device

(6) .- signal emitted by the sensor / transmitter (3) 20

(7) .- satellite receiver / transmitter

(8) .- signal emitted by the satellite (7)

(9) .- vehicle equipped with a coordinate receiver device (plotter)

(10) .- coordinate receiving device (plotter)

 25 PREFERRED EMBODIMENT OF THE INVENTION

The present invention relates to a system for managing parking spaces for vehicles on public roads and in uncovered parkings, which allows people who have a device for receiving or interpreting positioning signals, to know at every 30 times, which places parking are free and how to get there guided by the navigation system available.

The essential scheme of operation of this free parking space detection system is as follows: 35

In each of the parking spaces there is a sensor / transmitter (3) consisting of a device that detects the existence or not of a vehicle in the corresponding place.

When there is no vehicle on the reference square, that is, it is a free parking space 40 (2), the transmitter (3) is emitting a signal (6) that will be picked up by a positioning satellite (7).

So that it can emit said signal, it has at least two energy storage devices, a light / solar energy capture device (4), and a rechargeable battery device 45 (rechargeable by the light / solar energy capture device. ).

The signal (6) emitted by the transmitter (3) will be picked up by a positioning satellite (7) which in turn will emit another signal (8).

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This data signal (8) emitted by the satellite (7) indicates the exact positioning, by coordinates, of the signal emitted by the sensor / transmitter (3), that is, it indicates by coordinates the situation of a free parking space ( 2).

This signal (8) thus emitted can be picked up by any conventional positioning signal receiver (10).

In this way a vehicle (9) equipped with this receiver of positioning signals, will receive information about the location in which each of the free parking spaces 5 is located (2), that is, that they are free vehicular.

Likewise, if the user has a personal signal reception device (10), they will receive the information about the location of each of the free parking spaces (2), that is, that they are free of vehicles, and will be 10 directing the vehicle towards that point.

Similarly, regardless of where you are, the user who has parked a vehicle in a parking space, can return to that place with the guidance of his personal coordinate reception device (10). fifteen

There are a variety of electronic devices for receiving signals existing in the market, most of which have their own navigation system that allow the user / driver to be guided to the selected destination, in this case, the parking spaces that are located free. twenty

Almost all receivers of positioning signals existing in the market operate in accordance with these parameters and allow receiving satellite information from the parking spaces, free that, along its path and in its vicinity, you will find the user / driver 25

In this way the user / driver can know at any time all the parking spaces that are free wherever he goes or wherever he goes, being able to choose the one that interests him or another alternative in the event that the one that was initially selected as a destination, it would have been occupied by another vehicle during its journey.

This parking space management system offers the following advantages:

- The user receives the information of the free places in their own positioning reception devices.

- The user receives this information regardless of their location.

- The user receives the location of all the parking spaces that are free on their way and / or destination.

- The information is constantly updated so that it will not be guided by outdated information.

- It only requires the installation of the sensors.

- Simple and fast installation.

- Allows the user to plan alternative routes.

- It allows the user to choose other parking spaces in case the one that was set 45 as the objective to park, had been occupied by another user.

- Allows the user to be guided by their positioning navigator to the free place (s).

- Does not require more elements than proximity sensors.

- Use a booming technology and available to any user. fifty

- It is an autonomous and independent system.

- Reduced maintenance.

- Possibility of configuring the sensors (type of proximity sensor and batteries or power supplies), adjusting them to the conditions of the parking spaces or the needs of the customer / buyer.

- The existing positioning devices in the market, allow users to configure them according to their particular needs. 5

- Economic viability in cases of having a small number of parking spaces compared to other systems that require, in addition to the sensor, the installation of information panels, servers, screens, etc.

- It allows the user to return exactly to the place he occupied and recover his vehicle, even if he has lost his location. 10

Describing sufficiently the nature of the invention, as well as the manner in which it is put into practice, it should be noted that the provisions indicated above and represented in the attached drawings are subject to modifications in detail as long as they do not alter its fundamental principles, established in the paragraphs. above and summarized in the following 15 claims.

Claims (1)

1st.- Management system for parking spaces for vehicles on public roads and open parking spaces characterized by being made up of the following elements: .- A sensor / transmitter (3) configured by a device that detects the existence or 5 No of a vehicle in the corresponding square, located in each and every one of the parking spaces. .- When there is no vehicle on the reference square, that is, it is of a free parking space (2), the transmitter (3) is emitting a signal (8) that will be picked up by a positioning satellite (7). 10 .- So that it can emit said signal, the sensor / transmitter (3) has at least two    energy storage devices: .- A device for capturing light / solar energy (4) .- And a rechargeable battery device (5) (rechargeable by the device    light / solar energy collection). fifteen .- A satellite receiver / transmitter (7) of positioning signals .- Coordinate receiving device, which can be installed fixed in a   vehicle (9) or be for personal use (10). 2nd.- Management system of parking spaces for vehicles on public roads and parkings 20 discovered in accordance with claim one and characterized in that the sensor / transmitter (3), in cases where they do not detect any presence of other vehicles or objects occupying a parking space (2), emits a positioning signal (6) with its coordinates (longitude and latitude), signal that is collected by the receiving / emitting satellite (7) which in turn emits a signal (8) indicating the coordinates transmitted by the sensor / transmitter (3), said signal being able to be received in any coordinate receiving device, whether installed in a vehicle (9) or a personal mobile device (10). 3.- System for managing parking spaces for vehicles on public roads and uncovered car parks in accordance with the preceding claims and characterized in that the satellite 30 receiver / transmitter (7) can be constituted by a series of geo-positioning satellites by triangulation currently in existence and known by the GPS acronym