JP3332002B2 - Parking reservation management system - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention detects parking vacancy information with a sensor, centrally manages parking conditions in an on-site management database using a client server system in which a management PC and a central management server are combined, and provides a touch panel type monitor. A parking reservation management system for making a parking reservation.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a conventional parking lot management system often only manages to display empty information (full or empty) of a parking lot at an entrance, and searches for a parking place after entering the parking lot. There are many cars. Cars that search for parking places in the parking lot cannot know in advance where the vacant space is in the parking lot. Was.

[0003] One example of a conventional parking lot management system for solving this problem is described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 5-217037. The parking ticket issuing device described in this publication,
A sensor attached to each parking space in the parking lot detects parking or empty vehicles in each parking space, stores the detected parking or empty vehicle state data in memory, and stores selection standards related to priorities in advance. The selection unit selects and determines an empty parking space input by the operation unit with reference to the selection criteria of the unit, and determines the determined empty parking space and the entrance time measured by the clock, the parking ticket. And print it out for the entry vehicles. The entrance ticket can be smoothly parked in the parking space by the parking ticket.

[0004]

In recent years, three-dimensional parking lots have been promoted by the sophistication of urban spaces, that is, three-dimensional parking and an increase in the number of vehicles. Many of the multi-storey parking lots have a simple display device for displaying the parking space or Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 5-21
By attaching a device such as a parking ticket issuing device described in Japanese Patent No. 7037, smooth parking was aimed at. However, smooth parking has not always been achieved by the above-described device. In a multi-story parking lot,
It is difficult to understand the parking situation on each floor, and when finding an empty space while going to the target floor, it is not possible to grasp the empty state of the target floor, so the driver is forced to choose whether to stop. There are many. In addition, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. Hei 5-21703
The parking ticket issuing device described in Japanese Patent Publication No. 7 has a problem that a time lag occurs from an entrance to a target parking space in a multi-story parking lot, so that the vehicle cannot be parked in a target empty space. Furthermore, in a multi-story parking lot, it was often the case that a car could not be parked on a floor suited to the user's purpose as much as desired by the user.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to make it possible to secure a parking place in advance when entering a parking lot, to reduce confusion in the parking lot, and to display the parking situation in the parking lot on each floor in a realistic manner. It is an object of the present invention to provide a parking lot reservation management system that can select and change a place suitable for a parking lot.

[0006]

The sensor detection system has an infrared type vehicle detection sensor at each parking place,
Check the means for recognizing whether a car is placed at the parking place and the parking reservation card obtained by the user at the entrance,
The system is provided with a function for checking and canceling reservations, and a function for communicating the parking status by PHS or wirelessly to a management PC installed on the same floor.

The on-site management system is provided with means for collecting parking information collected on the management PC on each floor in a database of a centralized management server, and managing a situation that changes every moment.

Further, the reservation management system is provided with a means for displaying empty car information on a touch panel type monitor from parking information gathered in the central management server, a means for making a reservation, and a means for issuing a reservation card.

The parking lot reservation management system of the present invention detects vehicles in each parking space of a multi-story parking lot, acquires vehicle detection information, cancels a reservation card that has reserved an empty space in advance, and cancels reservation cancellation information. And vehicle detection processing means for transmitting the vehicle detection information and the reservation release information, installed on each floor of the multi-story parking lot, and transmitted from the respective parking spaces and the reservation release And a management PC that receives the information and manages the state of each of the parking spaces, and acquires the information on the state of the parking space from the plurality of management PCs, registers it in a database, discloses the information to the user, and transmits the information to the user. P having a centralized management server that processes reservation information in accordance with the instruction of
C processing means, and displays the parking information compiled in the central management server on a monitor in the form of a parking lot layout image, selects a vacant space on the touch panel monitor of the monitor, makes a reservation input, and performs a reservation input. Central management processing means for managing and issuing the reservation card.

[0010]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The construction of an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of an embodiment of a parking lot reservation management system of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, the parking lot reservation system of the present invention detects a vehicle in each parking space in an actual parking space, acquires vehicle detection information, and reserves and reserves a reservation card in which an empty space is reserved in advance. A component 10 for canceling the reservation, acquiring the reservation release information, transmitting the vehicle detection information and the reservation release information, and receiving the vehicle detection information and the reservation release information that are installed on each floor and transmitted from each parking space. A management PC that manages the status of each parking space, and information on the status of parking spaces from a plurality of management PCs, registers the information in a database, discloses the information to the user, and transmits the information to the user according to instructions from the user. A component 12 having a central management server for performing processing and parking information collected by the central management server are displayed on a monitor in the form of a parking lot layout image. With managing the database of the management server performs a reservation input by selecting the empty car space Chipaneru formula, and a component 14 that issues the reservation card.

As shown in FIG. 2, the component 10 indicates a vehicle detection process. When a user inserts a reservation card into a card reader, the vehicle detection unit 16 determines whether or not the vehicle is parked based on information on the presence or absence of a vehicle, which is detected by a sensor installed in each parking space. The reservation collation unit 18 which reads the registration number of the parking place and collates it with the number registered in the reservation card.
If the reservation location is different, a warning message is displayed, a reservation cancellation unit 20 for inquiring whether or not the reservation has been canceled and canceling the temporary reservation information, and a radio for converting the parking information and the reservation confirmation information into data. It has a signal conversion unit 22 and a transmission / reception unit 24 that transmits the transmission data converted by the wireless signal conversion unit 22 to a designated remote management PC.

The component 12 indicates a management PC process. A transmission / reception unit 26 for receiving transmission data, a radio signal conversion unit 28 for converting the received data from a radio signal to signal data, and a signal discrimination unit for determining whether a transmission partner is directed to itself. 30 and a data updating unit 32 for updating the converted data to the database of the central management server for communication directed to itself.

Component 14 represents centralized management processing. Database update unit 3 that processes update information from the management PC
4, the updated parking status and the reservation information, the data totaling unit 36 for canceling the reservation and replacing the available information, and displaying the latest information on the status monitor installed on each floor and the touch panel monitor installed at the entrance. It has a vacancy information display section 38, a reservation processing section 40 for finalizing reservation input information sent from the touch panel, and a reservation card issuing section 42 for issuing tickets to a ticket issuing device installed at the entrance.

Next, the operation of the embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a flowchart of the vehicle detection processing of the present invention. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a flowchart of the management PC process of the present invention. FIG.
FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a flowchart of an entrance reservation process of the central management server process of the present invention. FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a flowchart of the monitor screen display processing of each floor in the central management server processing of the present invention. It is assumed that the vehicle detection device holds its own parking number and parking confirmation information. The vehicle detection unit 16 detects whether or not a car is parked at each parking place by a sensor, and recognizes that each parking place is parked or empty (step A1). It is determined whether or not the parking place has been determined (step A2). If parking is confirmed as a result of the judgment,
The reservation determination unit 20 releases the parking determination information and transmits the information of the release to the management PC (step A).
3) Return to step A1. If parking is not confirmed as a result of the determination in step A2, the reservation collation unit 18 starts the reservation collation process, and determines whether the user who reads the reservation card is in the provisional reservation state in the database of the central management server via the management PC. An inquiry is made to obtain a reservation number (step A4). As a result of the reservation collation, it is determined whether or not this parking place is in a reserved state (step A5). As a result of the determination, if the parking state is not set, a notification is sent as a warning message indicating that parking may be confirmed (step A7), and the process proceeds to step A10. If the result of the determination is that the reservation state is in effect, the acquired reservation number is compared with the number on the reservation card to determine whether the reservation numbers match (step A).
8). As a result of the determination, if they do not match, the user is notified as a warning message that parking is impossible (step A9), and the process returns to step A1. As a result of the judgment,
If the reservation numbers match, the reservation deciding section 20 confirms whether or not parking can be decided, and decides whether or not to perform a confirmation process (step A10). As a result of the judgment,
If not, the process returns to step A1. As a result of the determination, if it is determined, the determination process is started, the determination information is transmitted to the management PC, the determination information of the vehicle inspection device is registered as determined (step A11), and the process ends.

The operation of the management PC is as shown in FIG. 4, and the transmission / reception unit 26 receives the transmitted radio (step B).
1). The received radio wave is converted by the wireless signal conversion unit 28 (step B2), and it is determined whether the converted data is addressed to the management PC received by the signal determination unit 30 (step B).
3). If the result of determination is that the received management PC is not addressed, the process returns to step B1. If the result of the determination is that the received data is addressed to the management PC, the converted data is analyzed to determine whether or not the received data is a reservation inquiry (step B4). As a result of the judgment,
If it is not a reservation inquiry, it is determined whether or not it is parking lot confirmation information (step B5). As a result of the judgment, if it is not parking lot confirmation information, the process returns to step B1. Is updated (step B6), and the process ends. If the result of determination in step B4 is a reservation inquiry, the database is searched to acquire reservation information (step B7), the acquired reservation information is converted into a wireless signal by the wireless signal converter 28 (step B8), and transmission / reception is performed. Unit 26 to the destination (step B
9) End the process.

The entrance reservation processing of the central management server processing is as follows.
As shown in FIG. 5, the empty information display unit 38 creates an empty information screen based on the empty information stored in the database, and uses the empty information on each floor as a layout image screen in the hall.
The information is displayed on the touch panel type monitor (step C1).
It is determined whether or not there is an instruction to redisplay the vacant information on another floor (step C2). If the result of determination is that there is a redisplay designation, the process returns to step C1 to display another floor. As a result of the determination, if there is no designation of redisplay, if there is an input of a reservation place from the user, the reservation reception processing is started (step C).
3). The reservation processing unit 42 registers the inputted reservation place in the database (step C4), and the reservation card issuing unit 42
Issues a reservation card (step C5) and ends the process.

As shown in FIG. 6, the empty vehicle information screen is created by creating empty vehicle information of each floor on a layout image screen in the hall, and changing the color of the empty vehicle location based on the empty vehicle information retrieved from the reservation management database. The image is edited on the screen and displayed on the monitor (step D1). It is determined whether or not the processing is to be ended. If the result of the determination is that the processing is not to be ended, the process returns to step D1 at the time interval set for the screen, and the screen is edited again and displayed on the monitor. If the result of the determination is that the processing is to be terminated, the processing is terminated.

In this embodiment, the processing is distributed by the client-server system in the component 2 of FIG. This achieves high-speed overall processing by distributing the load. As an application example of the mode, there is a case where a management PC installed on each floor is eliminated and all functions are integrated in a management server. In the case where the parking capacity is not large, such as when the parking space is not a multi-level parking lot, when there are few floors, or when the parking capacity is small, it is efficient in terms of simplifying the system.

[0019]

According to the parking lot reservation management system of the present invention, parking can be performed without wasting time for searching for an empty space in the parking lot by monitoring and displaying vacant information at the time of entry and enabling reservation. Become. That is, it is possible to go straight to the parking position without hesitation. In addition, since monitors are installed on each floor, it is easy to check the vacancy status and to check the location. The empty information of each floor is displayed on the monitor in the form of a layout image, and a reservation can be easily made using the touch panel. Therefore, the driver can freely select the location of the parking reservation.

Normally, a reserved place needs to be checked with a reservation card issued at the time of entry, but in a place where no reservation is made, it is possible to confirm parking at the site. In addition, since the contents reserved in advance at that time can be canceled, even if a parking reservation is made once, it is possible to change the parking place while driving in the hall, and there is flexibility. In addition, each floor is equipped with a monitor that displays the parking status at all times, so that the driver can change the parking location according to the situation.

As described above, in the parking lot reservation management system of the present invention, it is possible to easily make a reservation of a parking place and to confirm the place, so that a car can be moved and a parking operation can be smoothly performed in the parking place, and congestion can be reduced. It is possible to avoid.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of an embodiment of a parking lot reservation management system of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a flowchart of a vehicle detection process of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a flowchart of a management PC process of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a flowchart of an entrance reservation process of the central management server process of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating a flowchart of monitor screen display processing of each floor in the central management server processing of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 10 component 12 component 14 component 16 vehicle detection unit 18 reservation collation unit 20 reservation determination unit 22 wireless signal conversion unit 24 transmission / reception unit 26 transmission / reception unit 28 wireless signal conversion unit 30 signal determination unit 32 data update unit 34 data update unit 36 Data tabulation unit 38 Availability status display unit 40 Reservation processing unit 42 Reservation card ticketing unit

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Claims (7)

(57) [Claims] The vehicle detection information is obtained by detecting a vehicle in each parking space of a multi-story parking lot, and the reservation cancellation information is obtained by canceling the reservation of a reservation card which has reserved an empty space in advance. And vehicle detection processing means for transmitting the reservation release information, and installed on each floor of the multi-story parking lot, receiving the vehicle detection information and the reservation release information transmitted from each of the parking spaces, A management PC that manages the state of the parking space and information about the state of the parking space from a plurality of management PCs, registers the information in the database, discloses the information to the user, and processes the reservation information according to the instruction from the user. A management PC processing unit having a centralized management server for performing parking information collected on the centralized management server; Parking reservation management system characterized in that it comprises as well as managed by the database performs a reservation input by selecting the empty car space on the touch panel monitor monitor, and a centralized processing unit issuing said reservation card. 2. The vehicle detection processing means includes: a vehicle detection unit that determines whether or not a vehicle is parked based on information on the presence or absence of a vehicle, detected by a sensor installed in each of the parking spaces; When the reservation card is inserted into the machine, the reservation card is read, and a reservation collation unit for collating a registration number stored in the centralized management processing unit with a number registered in the reservation card; If the location is different, a warning message is displayed, the presence or absence of reservation cancellation is queried, and a reservation deciding unit for canceling the reservation information and the like, and data conversion between the parking information and the confirmed reservation information are performed. A first wireless signal conversion unit; and a first transmission / reception unit that transmits the transmission data converted by the first wireless signal conversion unit to the designated remote management PC. Parking reservation management system according to claim 1, characterized in that. 3. The management PC process includes: a second transmitting / receiving unit that receives the transmission data; a second wireless signal conversion unit that converts the received transmission data from a wireless signal to signal data; If the communication is between a signal discriminating unit that determines whether the transmission destination is directed to the user based on the signal data and the management PC received by the signal discriminating unit, the converted data is updated in the database. And a data updating unit for performing a parking lot reservation management system according to claim 2. 4. The centralized management processing means includes: a database update unit that processes update information from the management PC; an update process that updates the updated parking status and the reservation information; A data summarizing unit, an empty information display unit for displaying the latest information on the touch panel monitor installed at the entrance installed on each floor, and a reservation processing unit for finalizing the reservation information sent from the touch panel monitor. 4. The parking lot reservation management system according to claim 3, further comprising: a reservation card issuing unit configured to issue a reservation card including the confirmed reservation information to a ticket issuing device installed at the entrance. 5. The parking lot according to claim 4, wherein said touch panel monitor has a function of displaying vacant information for each floor as an image and a temporary reservation can be made and said reservation card including said reservation information is issued at the same time. Reservation management system. 6. A parking function for displaying a parking warning error when parking at a previously reserved place is not the reservation card of the secured car, and issuing a warning for parking of a car not reserved. 5. A parking lot reservation management system according to claim 4, wherein: 7. Even if a reservation has been made once, parking can be changed to a non-reserved place based on on-time parking information by the management PC installed on each floor, and the reserved place is released at the time of parking. 5. The parking reservation management system according to claim 4, wherein: