JP2002216185A - Parking fee paying method - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To permit a user using parking lot to give a leaving request even if an access number such as the telephone numbers of a center and the managing device of the parking lot is inputted to a self-portable telephone in the parking lot of an individual managing system. SOLUTION: A step for transmitting parking lot use information required for giving the leaving request from a parking lot managing device 6 to an UD unit 5 that the user carries by the portable telephone 11 without contact, a step for transmitting information which the ID unit 5 has from the ID unit 5 to the portable telephone 11, a leaving request giving step accessing the center 20 from the portable telephone 11 and transmitting information that the portable telephone set 11 has, a step for authenticating a leaving request giving side by the center 20, a step for accessing the parking lot managing device 6 from the center and transmitting leaving limit release information and a step for controlling an objective parking information managing machine 1a based on leaving limit release information and enabling the leaving of a vehicle entering a parking section are performed.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a parking lot in an individual management type parking lot, which is cashless, that is, a parking lot user does not put cash into a parking lot management device at the time of a leaving process. And a method of paying a parking fee, which enables the driver to leave the vehicle (depart).

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, many toll parking lots that manage unmanned parking of vehicles have been operated. There are two types of parking management methods for unmanned toll parking lots: an overall management method and an individual management method. In the former, a parking ticket is issued to a vehicle entering the parking lot by a parking ticket issuing machine provided at an entrance gate of the parking lot, and a vehicle exiting the parking lot puts the parking ticket into a checkout machine provided at an exit gate. Then, the parking fee is displayed, and upon receipt of the fee, the exit gate is opened. The latter has the following configuration. That is, parking information management provided for each parking space, including a vehicle blocking unit (also referred to as a parking blocking unit, also referred to as a stopper) that blocks entry and exit of the vehicle into and out of each parking space (also referred to as a parking section) of the parking lot. And a payment function to collect parking fees.
Usually, a parking fee adjustment device (also referred to as a parking lot management device control unit) that is installed in one parking lot is included as a component. At the time of entry of the vehicle, the vehicle blocking means provided in the parking space (under the monitoring control of the parking fee settlement device) is caused to perform a blocking operation, and charging processing for the parking space is started. At the time of leaving the vehicle, when the parking fee calculated by the charging process for the parking space is properly received by the parking fee payment device, the blocking operation of the vehicle blocking unit is released and the vehicle is parked. Allow the vehicle to leave. The parking fee settlement device is a central control device in the parking lot for controlling the entry and exit of the vehicle, receiving the parking fee, and the like, and a control center for effectively functioning the unmanned toll parking lot. The device (controller).

[0003] Conventionally, as a typical individual management type parking lot system capable of so-called cashless charge settlement, a charging apparatus disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. Hei 10-269390 is known. The parking system disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 349000/1994 also describes information on an individual management type parking lot settlement system. Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. Hei 10-1998, which is a typical example of an individual management type parking lot system
The billing device disclosed in Japanese Patent No. 69390 is composed of the following five components. Mobile communication means possessed by facility users. A facility management device provided in a facility that provides services and / or goods at a predetermined location for a fee. A base station that communicates with the mobile communication means. An exchange accommodating the base station. A service control station that responds to the terminal number of the facility management apparatus in accordance with the predetermined logical number inquired by the exchange, and notifies the destination terminal of the source terminal number. Among the five components, the facility management device has the following four components. Communication means for communicating with the mobile communication means. Via the communication means, when the terminal number of the mobile communication means is notified from the service control station, the guidance information for prompting input of position specifying information for specifying a service and / or product providing position is provided by the service control station. Specific information request means sent to mobile communication means. When the communication unit receives the location specifying information from the mobile communication unit, usage information including a price of a provided service and / or a product corresponding to the location specifying information, and the notified terminal number Individual billing information generating means for generating individual billing information associated with Individual billing information storage means for storing the individual billing information; and individual billing information transmitting means for transmitting the individual billing information stored in the individual billing information storing means to the service control station. The service control station further includes a communication charge information storage area for storing communication charge information and an individual charge information storage area for storing the individual charge information in association with the terminal number. Billing information recording means for recording the individual billing information received from the facility management device in the individual billing information storage area; and the communication billing information in the communication billing information storage area and the individual billing information in the individual billing information storage area. And billing information output means for outputting billing information for billing a contractor of the mobile communication means based on the billing information. The following description is given in paragraph 0006 of Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. Hei 10-269390. "Parking management device 1
, Which constitutes a facility management device, manages entry and exit of vehicles in a parking lot, and calculates parking fees. In addition, the parking lot management device 1 includes a communication unit 107 for performing communication via a PHS line, and a PHS terminal (hereinafter, referred to as a PHS terminal) carried by a parking lot user via the PHS line from the communication unit 107. Mobile communication means) 2
, And sends out individual control information including a parking fee to be described later to the service control station 7. Further, in the same publication, paragraph 0024, "FIG. 10 is a detailed flowchart showing the unloading process (ST2 in FIG. 7) of the central management unit 11. The CP of the central management unit 11
U100 determines whether communication means 107 has received a call from mobile communication means 2 possessed by the user (ST20).
0). If ST200 is "N", the process shifts to ST300 of the individual billing information sending process shown in FIG. If ST200 is "Y", the terminal number of the mobile communication means 2 notified from the service control station 7 via the common channel signaling network 6 and the exchange 4 at the time of an incoming call is stored in the individual billing information storage means 103 (ST201). . It is described. In order to request the retrieval processing, the user needs to use his / her mobile communication means 2
(E.g., PHS), it can be seen that the central management unit 11 (parking lot management device 1) must be called. That is, it is necessary to manually input the telephone number of the parking lot or the parking lot management device 1 (central management unit 11) into the mobile communication means owned by the user. of course,
If the parking lot is used regularly by the user, the telephone number can be stored in his / her mobile communication means. However, it is not possible to memorize the phone numbers of parking lots all over the country. Therefore, the parking lot user needs to enter the telephone number of the parking lot (or the parking lot management device) into his or her mobile communication means (for example, a mobile phone) when requesting the leaving process. Reading the phone number of the parking lot (or parking lot management device) that should have been displayed somewhere, and entering the phone number to make a phone call requires the user to take the time and effort required for the operation. There is a problem.

[0004] On the other hand, paragraph No. 0019 of the above-mentioned Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 349000/1994 states that "a user who has contracted for use of a parking lot in which the present embodiment is installed, for example, on a monthly basis, A specific I as shown in FIG.
D carries the weak wireless terminal 18 in which D is registered. At the start / end of parking, the user sends the handset 1 from the weak wireless terminal 18.
No. 4 is wirelessly transmitted at a predetermined frequency with user information including an ID set in advance. " Therefore, it can be said that each of the conventional techniques disclosed in the above two publications has the following common problems. That is, the parking lot user inputs required parking information (eg, a telephone number of a center or a parking lot management device) into a PHS, a mobile phone (mobile communication terminal), a wireless ID tag (weak radio communication terminal), or parking lot management. This means that the user must type the information into the apparatus itself, which is troublesome, and the user is likely to mistake the required information.

In addition, the above two prior arts have the following problems in addition to the trouble of inputting a telephone number of a call destination into a terminal device (mobile communication means) one by one. Paragraph No. 0011 of JP-A-10-269390
The individual billing information storage unit 103, which is one of the components of the parking lot management apparatus, stores the terminal number of the mobile communication unit 2 owned by the user, the parking fee to be charged to the user, It is for storing individual billing information associated with usage information including the time of using the parking lot, etc. "
As is clear from the description, the parking lot management device stores the terminal number of the mobile communication means 2 which is a code for user identification or authentication corresponding to the user ID. On the other hand, paragraph No. 0019 of Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 349000/1994 states that “when the parking is started / finished, the user transmits user information including a preset ID to the handset 14 from the weak wireless terminal 18. The handset 14 that has received the information transmits the information to the base unit 16, and the base unit 16 determines whether the ID included in the information is that of the contractor, If it is determined that the ID is the contractor's ID, processing similar to the contractor's processing described below, such as releasing the stopper 17, is executed. ' In step S21, the machine 16 accepts the input of the parking number using the numeric keypad 28, reads out the parking start time at the position corresponding to the input parking number in the parking number table in step S22, and calculates the parking time and the parking fee. And The calculated parking time and the amount of the parking fee are displayed on the display unit 27. The parking number table is provided, for example, in a non-volatile memory built in the base unit 16, and shows the parking or vacancy corresponding to the parking number. Information such as the data indicating the parking start time and the ID ”is recorded.” It is clear that the user ID is stored in the parking lot management device (parent device). JP-A-6-349000 and JP-A-Hei 1
The method disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Publication No. 269390/1990, in which a user ID is registered in a parking lot management device, has a security problem that the user ID is stolen or falsified, and is nationwide. For a company that operates a lot of parking lots, the cost of updating the user ID (telephone charges to various places) and the trouble were not absurd. That is, conventionally, a cashless parking fee settlement method or a method in which the operation is simple for those skilled in the art and the operation required for settlement is also user-friendly for the parking lot user has not yet been proposed.

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION A parking fee payment method according to the present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned problems of the prior art, and has as its object to solve the following problems. The parking lot use user can transmit the leaving processing request information by a minimum necessary operation. Specifically, an access number such as a telephone number of a management apparatus for a center or a parking lot does not have to be entered into the user's own mobile phone. For parking lot operators, it is possible to operate the parking lot system at low cost. That is, it is not necessary to hold the user ID on the side of the parking lot management device.
In other words, it is to provide a parking fee payment method in which the user authentication and the exit permission judgment can be performed at the center.

[0007]

A method of paying a parking fee according to the present invention solves the above-mentioned problem and is as follows. According to the first aspect of the present invention, a parking lot is provided with a parking lot management device provided with a parking information management device provided for each parking zone so that a parking fee can be charged for each vehicle entering the parking zone. In a parking lot (operation) system including a center for performing authentication of a requester, issuing a leaving permission command, and setting a parking fee, and a mobile phone of a user registered in the center, the mobile phone setstle the parking fee. That is, for the user (of the parking lot) to pay the parking fee. This method is characterized in that it includes the following eight steps (procedures). From the parking lot management device to the ID unit carried by the user,
Non-contact parking lot use information, which is information including at least information necessary for accessing the center and parking lot identification information for specifying the parking lot where the parking lot management device is installed. Then, the transmitting step. Transmitting information possessed by the ID unit from the ID unit to the mobile phone; A delivery request transmission step of accessing the center from the mobile phone and transmitting information possessed by the mobile phone to the center; Authenticating the exit request originator at the center. A step of accessing the parking lot management device from the center and transmitting exit restriction release information to the parking lot management device; A step of specifying the parking section to be requested to leave, based on the information for specifying the parking section input to the parking lot management device. A step of controlling the identified parking information management machine to be requested to leave, based on the exit restriction release information, to enable the vehicles entering the parking section to exit. A step of transmitting, from the parking lot management device to the center, parking fee information for using the parking lot to be requested to leave or information necessary for calculating the parking fee. In addition, the information required for parking fee calculation is the release of the parking restriction,
Alternatively, it is information including parking time information or entry time information of a vehicle that has entered the parking section to be released, and may additionally include exit time information.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the parking fee payment method according to the first aspect, the information for specifying the parking space is input by a user to the parking lot management device.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the parking fee payment method according to the first aspect, the information for specifying the parking section is transmitted from the parking information management machine, and the ID unit, the mobile phone, and the center are transmitted to the parking unit. Via the parking lot management device.

[0010]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a parking lot system that can execute a parking fee payment method according to the present invention. FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a main part of a parking lot system that can execute the parking fee payment method according to the present invention. 1 and 2, an embodiment of the invention of a parking fee payment method according to the present invention will be described. To implement the present invention,
At least one or more parking lots, a mobile phone 11 of a registered user who intends to use a parking lot belonging to a parking lot system operated by a dealer, a parking lot 10 and a center 20 that controls the mobile phone 11 is necessary. Information about the parking lot 10 and information about the mobile phone 11 and its owning user (eg, name, account number, mobile phone ID, etc.) are stored in the database 23. That is, as is known, the center 20 can authenticate the user based on a code for identifying the mobile phone (eg, a caller telephone number, an ID assigned to the mobile phone itself, and the like). Generally, a plurality of parking lots managed (supervised) by the center 20 exist. However, since all the parking lots have the same configuration, one parking lot 10 is taken as an example here to implement the present invention. Will be described.

The parking lot 10 has several parking sections (9a).
9n) and a parking lot management device 6 are provided.
The parking lot management device 6 includes one parking lot management device control unit 8
And a parking information management machine (not shown in FIG. 1) installed for each parking section. In FIG. 2, parking stall 9
2 shows a configuration of a parking information management machine 1a installed in the parking information management device 1a. Note that the embodiment of the present invention will be described assuming that the user has parked the vehicle in the parking section 9a. When the vehicle is parked in another parking section (9b to 9n), the operation of each unit (each block) of the parking lot system at the time of the leaving process is the same.

[0012] In each parking section, a parking information management machine is installed so that a parking fee can be charged for each vehicle entered. The parking information management device 1a in the parking section 9a includes a parking information management device control unit 2a and a stopper 3a. The parking information manager control unit 2a includes a communication unit 4a for non-contact communication. When the user having the mobile phone 11 enters the vehicle into the parking section 9a, the vehicle detection sensor 7 detects the entry of the vehicle, and the parking information management device 1a
Or, under the control of the parking information management device control unit 2a, the stopper 3a operates to prevent the entering vehicle from leaving. The parking information management device 1a has a timer (not shown) as in the related art, and can measure the entry time and the exit time (or the time when the exit request is made). That is, the parking information management device 1a or the parking information management device control unit 2a is,
This means that parking time can be measured. The fact that the parking time can be measured means that information for calculating the parking fee can be stored.

The mobile phone 11 owned by the user has an ID
A unit 5 is provided. The ID unit is a type of data communication unit to which an ID is assigned. The ID unit may be externally attached to the mobile phone 11, or may be built in the mobile phone 11 in advance as a communication chip. The ID unit 5 and the mobile phone 11 may perform wireless communication. ID stored in ID unit 5
(An ID unit identification number, that is, an ID that can be regarded as an identification number (identification code) of the mobile phone 11 is:
It is stored in the database 23 of the center 20. In the parking lot system having such a configuration, the user who parks in the parking section 9a performs the following procedure in accordance with the following procedure.
Is requested, and the parking process is performed by the parking lot management device 6.

First, from the communication unit 4a of the parking lot management device 6 to the ID unit 5 carried by the user,
This is a step of transmitting parking lot use information without contact. This is a step of transmitting predetermined information (parking lot use information) from the parking lot management device 6 (for example, the communication unit 4a provided therein) to the ID unit 5 carried by the user without contact. Specifically, the parking lot use information includes at least information necessary for accessing the center 20 and the parking lot 10 where the parking lot management device 6 is installed.
And parking lot identification information for identifying the parking lot, and may additionally include information for identifying the parking lot. Communication unit 4a-ID unit 5
The non-contact communication between them can be through a communication medium such as wireless, infrared, or ultrasonic. When the mobile phone 11 approaches the parking information manager 1a or the parking information manager controller 2a, the communication unit 4a and the ID unit 5 enter the communicable range, so that both can communicate with each other. I
In response to the transmission request issued from the D unit 5, the communication unit 4a transmits the parking lot use information. The parking lot use information is stored in the parking lot management device 6 (for example, the parking information management device 1).
a) is information necessary for charging a parking fee prepared according to the design contents made by those skilled in the art, and at least information for accessing the center 20 (for example, the center 20).
Telephone number) and an identification code of the parking lot 10 or the parking lot management device control unit 8. The parking lot use information is allowed to include parking time information (entry time information or entry time information and exit time information). I
When the D unit 5 receives the parking lot use information, the process proceeds to the next step.

The second step is a step of transmitting information included in the ID unit 5, that is, information including the received parking lot use information, from the ID unit 5 to the mobile phone 11. The parking lot usage information includes at least information necessary for accessing the center (for example, the telephone number of the center 20) and information for specifying the parking lot 10. In this specification, the term “specification of a parking lot” is synonymous with the specification of the parking lot management device 6. However, the terms “specifying a parking lot” and “specifying a parking lot management device” do not include the meaning of specifying a parking lot. I
The D unit 5 adds the information that the D unit 5 originally has, that is, its own ID (mobile phone ID) registered in the center 20, to the parking lot usage information, and transmits the information to the mobile phone 11. When the mobile phone 11 receives the information from the ID unit 5, the following steps are executed.

The third step is to access the center 20 from the mobile phone 11 and send it to the center 20.
Is a delivery request transmission step for transmitting information possessed by the user.
The information received by the mobile phone 11 from the ID unit 5 includes parking lot usage information, and the parking lot usage information includes information for calling (accessing) the center 20 (for example, the telephone of the center 20). Number and address information), the user can automatically communicate between the center 20 and the mobile phone 11 without typing the telephone number of the center 20 into the mobile phone 11. In addition, since the parking lot use information includes information for specifying the parking lot 10, the center 20 can grasp from which parking lot the exit request is issued.

The fourth step is a step in which the center 20 authenticates the delivery request originating side. The leaving request transmission side is the mobile phone 11. Mobile phone 11
Is sent to the ID unit 5 and the ID registered in the center 20 is transmitted. Therefore, the center 10 controls the control unit 12 (that is, corresponds to the authentication execution unit) which is the control center thereof.
However, the mobile phone 11 can be authenticated (identified) by collating the ID received by the communication unit 11 with the ID registered in the database 13. The communication unit 21 is, for example, a wireless or wired telephone device or a network communication device. The communication network 12 in FIG. 1 is a wireless telephone network, a wired / wireless telephone network, the Internet, or the like. In FIG. 2, the communication network 12 existing between the mobile phone 11 and the communication unit 21 and between the communication unit 21 and the telephone 31 is omitted.

The fifth step is a step of accessing the parking lot management device 6 from the center 20 and transmitting the exit restriction release information to the parking lot management device 6. When the center 20 authenticates the mobile phone 11 and regards the outgoing request originator as valid, the center 20 calls the parking lot management device 6. For example, a call is made from the communication unit 21 of the center 2 to the telephone 31 of the parking lot management device control unit 8. Telephone 31
May be either a wired telephone or a wireless telephone (mobile telephone or mobile telephone). When the telephone 31 responds, the center 20 transmits the delivery restriction release information. Note that the exit restriction release information is information that includes an exit permission command.

The sixth step is a step of specifying the parking section to be requested to leave, based on information for specifying the parking section, which is input from the outside of the parking lot management apparatus 6 to the inside of the parking lot management apparatus 6. It is. This is a step of providing information for specifying a parking space to the parking lot management device 6. An example is a design choice of a person skilled in the art, in which the user himself or in some automatic way manages the parking lot management device 6.
The system must be designed to allow the user to enter information for parking lot identification. A step in which the user calls the center 20 with his / her mobile phone 11 and specifies a parking section requesting release of the exit restriction (requesting exit permission) will be described later.

The seventh step is to control the identified parking information manager (here, the parking information manager 1a of the parking section 9a) on the basis of the exit restriction release information, and This is a step of enabling the vehicle entering the warehouse 9a to exit the warehouse. The exit restriction release information issued from the center 20 and received by the parking lot management device 6 (for example, the telephone 31 included therein) is transmitted to the parking information management device control unit 2a after the parking section is specified. The parking information management device control unit 2a controls the stopper 7 so that the parked vehicle can be taken out of the vehicle. The user takes out the vehicle from the parking section 9a within a predetermined time.

The eighth step is a step of transmitting, from the parking lot management device 6 to the center 20, parking fee information for use of the parking section to be requested to leave or information necessary for calculating the parking fee. Since the center 20 and the parking lot management device 6 are in a communicable state via the communication network 12 (for example, a public telephone line network) during or after the execution of the seventh step. If the parking lot management device 6 transmits the parking time in the parking section, here the parking section 9a, or information (parking time) for calculating the parking time to the center, the center 20 calls the center 20. It is possible to settle the parking fee for the use of the parking lot which has just issued the exit processing request for the parking section 9a of the parking lot 10 that has been hung. Of course, the parking lot management device 6 knows the time of entry into the individual parking section and the time (or exit time) at which the exit restriction release information is received from the center 20, so that the parking time in the target parking section is known. Can be calculated and the parking fee can be calculated. Therefore, the parking fee itself may be transmitted to the center 20. Whether to transmit the parking fee or the information for calculating the parking fee at the center 20 is a design choice for those skilled in the art.

The parking fee payment method according to the present invention is a method of paying or charging a parking fee in a parking lot (operating) system of an individual management system. You need to be specific. Therefore, one of the features of the present invention is to execute a step of inputting information for specifying a parking section to the parking lot management device 6. The specific means / methods are design choices of those skilled in the art, for example, as follows. FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a flow of information in the parking fee payment method according to the present invention. The communication unit 4a as a means for issuing parking lot use information (FIG. 3)
(Not shown in the drawing) is provided in the parking lot management device control unit that has only one car in the parking lot. With such a configuration, it is difficult to automatically identify the parking space. Therefore, in the case of such a configuration, a means (input device 13) for inputting the parking section information is provided in the parking lot management device control unit, and the user inputs the parking section information, so that the parking section identification information is input. You will be able to perform the steps. The parking lot management device transmits the parking lot identification information and the center access information (eg, the telephone number of the center) to the ID unit without contact, the mobile phone makes a call to the center, and the parking lot identification information and the ID are transmitted. The unit identification number (which is also the identification number of the mobile phone) is transmitted to the center. The center authenticates the mobile phone or the ID unit.
In the center, the caller number of the mobile phone may be used for authentication in addition to the ID unit identification number. When the center transmits the exit restriction release information to the parking lot management device (the parking lot management device control unit), the parking lot management device notifies the user who will be standing in front of the user with the mobile phone. Prompt for information to identify parking stalls. The user may use the input device 13 to input a parking section number or press a predetermined button (not shown) of the input device 13. The parking lot management device control unit issues a leaving permission to the parking information management machine 1a in the designated parking section.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing another information flow in the parking fee payment method according to the present invention. In the present invention, the specification of the parking section can be automatically performed without the user inputting the information into the parking lot management device or the like. Although not shown in FIG. 4, it is assumed that the communication unit 4a in FIGS. 1 and 2 exists in the parking information management device 1a of the parking lot management device, as in FIG.
The ID unit and the parking information management device 1a mutually exchange predetermined information by non-contact communication. The ID unit passes the ID unit identification number to the parking information management device 1a, and the parking information management device 1a passes the parking lot identification information and the center access information. A method of specifying a parking section using the parking section identification information will be described later. The mobile phone transmits the parking lot identification information, the ID unit identification number, and the parking lot identification information to the center. As described above, the caller number may be received at the center and used. The center is
The exit restriction release command and the ID unit identification number are transmitted to the parking lot management device. In the parking lot management device (parking lot management device control unit), if the ID unit identification number read from the parking information management device 1a is compared with the ID unit identification number received from the center, the parking section in which the parking information management device 1a exists can be identified. It can be seen that the parking section is a parking request target. The parking lot management device control unit issues an exit permission command to the parking information management machine 1a.

[0024] Since one parking information management machine is provided for each parking section, it is possible to recognize the parking section in which it is installed. The parking information manager 1a can pass the parking section identification information to the ID unit by non-contact transmission, and can pass the parking lot identification information and the center access information to the ID unit by non-contact transmission as described above. it can. Regardless of the method of specifying the parking lot, it is essential to transmit at least the parking lot identification information and the center access information from the parking lot management device to the ID unit. The mobile phone transmits the parking lot identification information, the ID unit identification number, and the parking lot identification number to the center. The center transmits the exit restriction release command, the parking lot identification information, and the parking lot identification information to the parking lot management device (parking lot management device control unit). Since the parking lot management device receives the parking lot identification information, the parking lot management device 1a in the corresponding parking lot receives the parking lot identification information.
An exit permission command can be issued. Note that, of course, the step of transmitting the ID unit identification number from the ID unit to the parking management device side and the step of transmitting the parking section identification information from the parking management device side to the ID unit may be used in combination. .

[0025]

The method of paying a parking fee according to the present invention is as described above, and has the following effects. A step of transmitting information necessary for calling the center 20 from the parking lot management device 6 to the ID unit 5 in a contactless manner, and transmitting the information from the ID unit 5 to the mobile phone 11 to automatically call the center 20; Therefore, the parking lot use user can transmit the leaving processing request information with a minimum necessary operation. Specifically, the access number such as the telephone number of the center 20 or the parking lot management device 6 does not have to be entered into the user's own mobile phone 11. This is a method in which the center 20 authenticates the user's mobile phone 11, calls the parking lot management device from the center 20 (makes a call), and issues a leaving permission command. The user ID is stored in the parking lot management device 6. It is not necessary for the parking lot operator to operate the parking lot system at low cost. That is, it is not necessary to hold the user ID on the parking lot management device 6 side.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a parking lot system that can execute a parking fee payment method according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a main block diagram of a parking lot system that can execute the parking fee payment method according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a flow of information in the parking fee payment method according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing another information flow in the parking fee payment method according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1a Parking information management machine 2a, 2b, 2c, 2n Parking information management machine control unit 3a, 3b, 3c, 3n Stopper 4a, 4b, 4c, 4n Communication unit 5 ID unit 6 Parking lot management device 7 Vehicle detection sensor 8 Parking lot Management device control unit 9a, 9b, 9c, 9n Parking section 10 Parking lot 11 Mobile phone 12 Communication network 13 Input device 20 Center 21 (Center) communication unit 22 (Center) control unit 23 (Center) database 31 (Parking) Telephone (of management device control unit)

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A parking lot provided with a parking lot management device having a parking information management device provided for each parking lot so that a parking fee can be charged for each vehicle entering the parking lot, And a mobile phone of a user registered in the center, wherein the center performs payment of a parking permit, a command to issue a parking permit command, and a mobile phone of a user registered in the center. Information necessary for accessing the center at least from the parking lot management device to the ID unit carried by the user and parking lot identification information for specifying the parking lot where the parking lot management device is installed Transmitting, without contact, parking lot use information that is information including: a step of transmitting information possessed by the ID unit from the ID unit to the mobile phone. An access request transmission step of accessing the center from the mobile phone and transmitting information possessed by the mobile phone to the center; a step of authenticating the exit request originator at the center; Transmitting the exit restriction release information to the parking lot management device by accessing the parking lot management device; and based on the information for identifying the parking lot inputted to the parking lot management device, the parking lot targeted for the exit request. Controlling the identified parking request management machine based on the exit restriction release information to allow the vehicles entering the parking section to exit, and A system for transmitting parking fee information for use of the parking lot targeted for the exit request or information necessary for calculating the parking fee from the parking lot management device to the center. Parking fee payment methods including Tsu and up, the. 2. The information for specifying a parking space is input by a user to the parking lot management device.
The parking fee payment method described. 3. The information for specifying the parking section is information that is transmitted from the parking information management machine and input to the parking lot management device via the ID unit, the mobile phone, and the center. The parking fee payment method according to item 1.