JP2001216563A - Entering/leaving managing method for unmanned parking lot - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an entering/leaving managing method for an unmanned parking lot capable of recording and retaining data on illegal leaving by which a parking charge and damages can be charged to the owner of an illegal leaving vehicle later by detecting the state of the illegal moving by a sensor arranged at a prescribed parking position in the case of trying to move the vehicle from the prescribed parking position before paying the parking charge, and recording and retaining this. SOLUTION: The entering/leaving managing method for the unmanned paring lot detects the moving state of a vehicle body through the moving detection sensor arranged at the prescribed parking position in the case of leaving the vehicle body after entering the vehicle body at the prescribed parking position, compares and judges the detected data time and the parking charge paying time to grasp the illegal leaving state at the unmanned parking lot.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a parking lot in an unmanned parking lot where the data can be recorded and saved so that the owner of the illegally leaving vehicle can be assured against the damage of the parking device by the unauthorized leaving vehicle. Regarding the issue management method.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As is well known, an unmanned parking device is provided with a stopper plate which can be turned upside down toward the bottom of a vehicle body, and the stopper plate stands up toward the bottom surface of the vehicle body parked at a fixed position to be in a fixed position. It is configured such that it is possible to keep the state in which it is not possible to take out the goods from the store, and to bring out the goods by tilting the stopper plate when the settlement is completed.

[0003]

However, in a conventional unmanned parking lot, despite the stopper plate being in an upright state, the vehicle is forcibly moved for the purpose of illegally leaving the vehicle and gets over the stopper plate. Or, there is a frequent occurrence of accidents in which the stopper plate is damaged to forcefully evacuate the warehouse due to the damage of the stopper plate. Was. In order to solve this, there is no other way than to place a guard in the parking lot, and it is obvious that this cost will squeeze the parking fee, and it is not a drastic solution. Had issues.

[0004] The present invention has been made in view of the above situation, and an object of the present invention is to provide a method for moving a vehicle from a predetermined parking position before paying a parking fee. By detecting the illegal movement state by a sensor disposed at the parking position and recording and storing this, it is possible to later record and store the data as a data which can charge the parking fee and damage amount to the owner of the illegally released vehicle. It is an object of the present invention to provide a method of managing entry / exit at an unmanned parking lot.

[0005]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided an entry / exit management method for an unmanned parking lot, comprising the steps of:
When leaving the vehicle body, by detecting the movement state of the vehicle body through a movement detection sensor disposed at the predetermined parking position, by comparing and determining the detection data time and the parking fee payment time, The present invention is characterized in that it is configured to be able to grasp the illegal exit status of entry and exit at an unmanned parking lot.

[0006] The invention described in claim 2 is the invention according to claim 1.
As a technical premise, the entry / exit management method in the unmanned parking lot described in (1) is described above. If it is determined by the comparison / determination means that the entry / exit is illegal, the information is sent to the illegal exit / vehicle recording means, The means captures a license plate of the illegally retrieved vehicle at a predetermined position, and records and records this along with the illegally retrieved time.

According to the present invention, the movement detection sensor is constituted by a pressure sensor buried in a parking area as described in claim 3, or as a storage and retrieval apparatus as described in claim 4. It is characterized by comprising an impact sensing sensor provided on a stopper plate that sometimes moves up and down.

[0008]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail based on an embodiment shown in the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 shows a schematic configuration of an unmanned parking device to which the present invention is applied.
The vehicle includes a movable stopper plate 2 which is disposed in the traveling direction of the vehicle on the ground A at the designated parking position of the parking lot, that is, in the front-rear direction of the vehicle body and between the front and rear wheels of the parked vehicle. I have.

The stopper plate 2 has a width corresponding to a swing radius at the time of falling in the traveling direction of the vehicle 4. The operation of raising and lowering the stopper plate 2 is controlled by various known operating mechanisms such as a fluid pressure mechanism, a gear motor mechanism, or a wire pulley mechanism which is operated by a command signal of a control unit (MPU) 31 described later. In addition, in the same figure, the code | symbol 3 has shown the license plate of the vehicle 4, and the code | symbol 5 has shown the curb stone for wheel stop.

The pressure sensing sensors 30A, 30A are located on the ground at the designated parking position and near the front and rear wheels during parking.
30B is embedded, and detection signals from the sensors 30A and 30B are input to the control device 31. still,
Reference numeral 32 in the figure denotes a video recording device disposed behind the designated parking position and at a position where the license plate 3 of the vehicle 4 can be photographed. The video recording operation of the video recording device 32 is configured to be automatically controlled by the control device 31.

The video recording device 32 is a video or CCD.
It is constituted by a known photographing and recording device such as a camera, and its image photographing operation is configured to be automatically controlled by the control device 31, and the photographed image is instructed by the control device 31. Is automatically recorded and stored together with the shooting time. In addition, since only the unauthorized leaving vehicle is sufficient for this video shooting, it is efficient to shoot the license plate 3 of only the vehicle 4 determined to be the unauthorized leaving vehicle by the control device 31. It is. Of course, when recording and storing as more accurate data, it is desirable to set the arrangement position of the video recording device 32 to a position where the license plate in front of the vehicle and the driver's seat can be photographed simultaneously.

The microprocessor (MPU)
The control device 31 configured by the above-described method. It is connected to a parking fee settlement machine 33.

The parking fee settlement machine 33 includes a liquid crystal display unit 34 on the front side of the housing, on which a designated parking position, a parking fee, and the like are displayed, a numeric keypad unit 35, a coin insertion unit 36, and a bill insertion unit 37. , Parking card C insertion / removal section 38, entrance selection switch 40, exit selection switch 4
1 and 2 are appropriately selected and arranged based on the intended specifications on the parking lot side.

As described above, the parking fee settlement machine 33
The configuration of each of the liquid crystal display section 34, the numeric keypad section 35, the coin insertion section 36, the bill insertion section 37, the insertion / removal section 38 of the parking card C, the entrance selection switch 40, and the exit selection switch 41 are the same as those of the conventional parking fee clearing machine. It is configured in the same way as each corresponding mechanism, and the configuration of the parking card C can be the same as the conventional magnetic parking card or IC parking card. I do.

Next, the flow of the entrance / exit management system in the unmanned parking lot configured as described above will be described with reference to FIG.
Is turned on, the parking card C is delivered from the insertion / removal section 38 of the parking card C. A parking designated position number and parking time data are written in the parking card C, and the information is automatically sent to the control device 31. When the control device 31 receives this information, the control device 31 distributes the information to the designated parking position. The operating devices of the provided parking position sensors 30A and 30B and the stopper plate 2 are set in a ready state.

When the vehicle 4 enters a predetermined parking designated position from this state, this entry state is determined by the sensors 30A and 30A.
B, the control device 31 detects that the stopper plate 2
And the timer circuit of the control device 31 is operated.

In order to leave the car after the required time has elapsed, the user must press the exit button 41 of the parking fee settlement machine 33.
To turn on the parking card C, and then insert the parking card C
Insert into 8.

Then, the insertion / removal unit 38 reads the information written on the parking card C, that is, the designated parking position number and the parking time data, and sends the read information to the control device 31. After that, the control device 31
Compares the data recorded and stored at the time of entry with the read information and the comparison circuit, and when they match, calculates the parking fee based on the parking time information from the timer circuit,
The information is sent to the liquid crystal display 34 for display.

Based on this display, the user pays the usage fee from the coin insertion part 36 and / or the bill insertion part 37, the parking fee settlement machine 33 collects the parking fee, and sends the information to the control device 31. send. When receiving the parking fee collection information, the control device 31 operates the stopper plate 2 in the falling direction to set the parking free state.

When the vehicle 4 is discharged from this state, the sensors 30A and 30B detect the discharged state, and this information is sent to the control device 31 to complete a series of the entrance / exit management flow.

On the other hand, the present system operates as follows for a user who leaves the warehouse without following the normal retrieval routine.

That is, when the user leaves the parking lot without paying the parking fee to the parking fee settlement machine 33, the control device 31
Does not issue a command to operate the stopper plate 2 in the falling direction, and if the vehicle 4 tries to forcibly exit the stopper plate 2 from this state,
Since this state is input to the control device 31 as abnormal exit information by the sensors 30A and 30B, the control device 31 immediately determines the designated parking position corresponding to the abnormal exit information and distributes the designated parking position to the designated parking position. The license plate 2 of the vehicle 4 which is about to operate the installed video recording device 32 immediately and intends to leave the vehicle illegally (or the driver's face when the video recording device 32 is disposed in front of the designated parking position). Is recorded and recorded. For security reasons, it is desirable that the video recording data is automatically transmitted to a video recording device of a management center immediately away from the unmanned parking lot and recorded.

The video data thus recorded and stored is
The unmanned parking lot reports this to the police, etc., and is used as evidence to request the vehicle owner to pay the parking fee and to pay the cost necessary for restoration if the stopper plate 2 and other equipment are damaged. You. Of course, if such an unauthorized user is a habitual criminal, for example, the license plate of the illegally-usable vehicle is read on a monitor or the like disposed at the parking position of the unmanned parking lot, and if it corresponds to this, the parking May be used to reject the request.

In the above embodiment, the case where a pressure sensing sensor is used as a sensor for detecting the state of entry / exit of the vehicle 4 has been described as an example. However, the present invention is not limited to this. For example, well-known various sensors such as a known infrared sensor, an ultrasonic sensor, and a light sensing sensor such as a backlight can be used, and the number thereof is not limited to two as in the present embodiment. Absent.

In the above embodiment, the movement detection sensor is
The case where the pressure sensor is buried in the parking area has been described as an example. However, the present invention is not limited to this. For example, as described in claim 4,
It may be constituted by an impact sensing sensor provided on a stopper plate which is raised and lowered at the time of loading and unloading.

[0027]

As described above, the method for managing entry and exit in an unmanned parking lot according to the first aspect of the present invention includes the steps of: The movement state of the vehicle body is detected via the movement detection sensor disposed at the predetermined parking position, and the detection data time is compared with the parking fee payment time to determine whether the vehicle has been moved in and out of the unmanned parking lot. Since the state can be grasped, if the vehicle is to be moved from the predetermined parking position before the payment of the parking fee, the unauthorized movement state is detected by the sensor disposed at the predetermined parking position. By recording and storing the data, an excellent effect is obtained in that the data can be recorded and stored as data that allows the owner of the unauthorized leaving vehicle to be charged with the parking fee and the amount of damage.

The invention described in claim 2 is the same as the invention described in claim 1.
In the entry and exit management method in the unmanned parking lot described in
When it is determined by the comparing and judging means that the vehicle has been illegally retrieved, the information is sent to the illegally retrieved vehicle recording means, which photographs the license plate of the illegally retrieved vehicle at a predetermined position. Is recorded and stored together with the illegal delivery time, so that objective evidence can be obtained.

Further, according to the third and fourth aspects of the present invention, the movement detection sensor is constituted by a pressure sensor buried in a parking area, or the movement detection sensor is provided on a stopper plate which moves up and down when loading and unloading. Since the configuration is made up of the arranged impact sensing sensors, the movement of the vehicle can be reliably captured.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram showing a schematic configuration of an entry / exit management system in an unmanned parking lot according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an example of an operation flowchart in the system.

[Explanation of symbols]

 C Parking card 2 Stopper plate 3 License plate 4 Vehicle 30A, 30B Pressure sensor 31 Control unit (MPU) 32 Video recording device 33 Parking fee payment machine 34 Liquid crystal display 36 Coin insertion part 37 Bill insertion part 38 Parking card insertion / removal part 40 Entry switch 41 Exit switch

Claims (4)

[Claims] When the vehicle is moved out of the vehicle after the vehicle is parked at a predetermined parking position, a movement state of the vehicle is detected via a movement detection sensor disposed at the predetermined parking position. An entry / exit management method in an unmanned parking lot, characterized in that the detection data time and the parking fee payment time are compared and determined so that an unauthorized exit state of entry / exit in an unmanned parking lot can be grasped. 2. If the comparison / determination means determines that the vehicle has been illegally retrieved, the information is sent to the illegally retrieved vehicle recording means.
2. The entry / exit management method in an unmanned parking lot according to claim 1, wherein the unauthorized exit vehicle recording means captures a license plate of the unauthorized exit vehicle at a predetermined position and records and records the license plate along with the illegal exit time. 3. The entry / exit management method in an unmanned parking lot according to claim 1, wherein the movement detection sensor is constituted by a pressure sensor embedded in a parking area. . 4. The moving detection sensor according to claim 1, wherein the movement detecting sensor is constituted by an impact detecting sensor disposed on a stopper plate that is operated to move up and down at the time of loading and unloading. Entry and exit management method in unmanned parking lot.