JPH0268700A - Control device for unmanned parking lot - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To relax traffic jam near a parking lot and to improve service to the user of the parking lot by going into the parking lot without a waiting time for the user who reserves the parking lot. CONSTITUTION:An arithmetic means 15 is provided to calculate the number of idle parking spaces from the maximum receiving number in the parking lot, the number of presently parked vehicles and the number of unparked vehicles out of the number of reserving vehicles. A telephone responding means 16 is provided to answer an idle condition to a question by the telephone and to receive telephone reservation from a registered user in correspondence to the number of the idle spaces. Further, an entrance control means 20 is provided to open a gate 24 when the user to just go into the parking lot is the registered user who already executes the reservation and to open the gate 24 only when the calculated number of the idle spaces is a prescribed number in the other cases. Thus, the service is improved to the user and the traffic jam near the parking lot can be relaxed.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Objective of the Invention] (Industrial Application Field) The present invention automatically performs tasks such as managing vehicle entry and exit, calculating parking fees, and billing, including telephone reservations, in an unmanned parking lot. The present invention relates to an unmanned parking lot management device that can be used to manage unmanned parking lots.

(Prior Art) Some parking lots of public facilities such as buildings, department stores, hotels, hospitals, stations, and airports have unmanned parking lots without a parking lot manager.

Conventionally, in such unmanned parking lots, tasks such as managing vehicle entry and exit, calculating parking fees, billing, and receiving parking fees have been performed using parking lot management devices installed at the entrance and exit gates of the parking lot. ing.

In other words, when a parking lot user moves their vehicle in front of the parking lot's entrance gate, the parking lot management device detects that the vehicle has entered the entrance gate and issues a parking ticket that records the time of entry. When a user pulls out a parking ticket from the parking ticket issuing device, the entrance gate is automatically opened to allow the vehicle to enter the parking lot, and when the vehicle passes through the entrance gate and enters the parking lot. Automatically close the entrance gate.

During the march, when the user moves the vehicle in front of the exit gate, the parking lot management device detects that the vehicle has entered the exit gate and prompts the user to insert the parking ticket into the parking fee payment device. When the user inserts the parking ticket into the parking fee adjustment device, the parking fee will be automatically calculated based on the entry time recorded on the parking ticket and the time at which the parking ticket was inserted into the parking fee adjustment device. When the user pays the charged parking fee to the parking fee accuracy device, the exit gate is opened to allow the vehicle to exit the parking lot, and the vehicle passes through the exit gate. When you exit the parking lot, close the exit gate.

The number of vehicles parked in the parking lot is calculated from the number of vehicles that entered the parking lot through the entrance gate and the number of vehicles that exited the parking lot through the exit gate. When the maximum number of vehicles that can be parked in the parking lot has been reached, the display installed near the entrance gate will display "Full" and even if a vehicle enters the entrance gate, no parking ticket will be issued, and the parking lot will not be issued a parking ticket. Do not allow people to enter the parking lot.

In this way, when the parking lot is full, users cannot park their vehicles in the parking lot, and other vehicles parked in the parking lot move out of the parking lot and park in front of the entrance gate until a space becomes available. (If you have to wait for it).

This type of parking lot management device merely mechanizes the work traditionally performed by parking lot managers, and although it achieves the goals of reducing the burden on parking lot managers and reducing personnel costs, it This is not necessarily an advantage for the users of the parking lot.

(Problem to be Solved by the Invention) Using the above-mentioned unmanned parking lot management device automates the work that was previously performed by parking lot managers, which greatly reduces the burden on parking lot managers. For users of the parking lot, it is almost no different from a normal parking lot that is directly managed by a manager.

Particularly in parking lots for public facilities in urban areas, long lines of cars waiting for space to become available can cause traffic congestion in the vicinity of the parking lot. There is no parking lot management system that takes this into account, and parking lot users only find out that the parking lot is full when they get to the front of the parking lot, and are at the back of a queue of many vehicles waiting to enter the parking lot. You have to move your vehicle and wait for a long time.

The present invention allows users of a parking lot to check whether the parking lot is full by making a telephone inquiry without going to the parking lot, and furthermore, if the user is registered in the parking lot in advance, When a parking lot is empty, a parking lot can be reserved by phone, and users who have reserved a parking lot can enter the parking lot without waiting time, thereby alleviating traffic congestion near the parking lot. The purpose of the present invention is to provide an unmanned parking lot management device that improves services for parking lot users.

[Structure of the invention]

(Means and effects for solving the problem) The unmanned parking lot management device of the present invention provides information on whether the parking lot is full or how many spaces are available in response to telephone inquiries from users. A means of notifying a user by telephone, a means of registering and storing information for a specific user, and a means of accepting a reservation for a parking lot in response to a telephone call from a registered/recorded user when the parking lot is vacant. A means for storing the reservation information of the accepted user, and a means for identifying whether the user is a registered user or a general user when entering the parking lot, and in the case of a registered user, the reservation information is stored. A method for determining whether or not there is space, counting the number of vehicles entering the parking lot and the number of vehicles exiting the parking lot, and calculating how many spaces are available in the parking lot from the stored reservation information. and a means for opening and closing the entrance gate of the parking lot based on judgment from the calculated number of empty cars, so that users of the parking lot can check whether the parking lot is full by phone without having to go to the parking lot. If the parking lot is full, you will not have to go to the parking lot, which will help alleviate traffic congestion near the parking lot.Furthermore, if you are a user who has registered in advance for the parking lot, you can call the parking lot and go to the parking lot. Since you can make a reservation for a parking lot after confirming that there is a vacancy, you can use the parking lot without waiting.

(Example) Hereinafter, an example of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a system diagram showing an embodiment of an unmanned parking lot management device according to the present invention.

The unmanned parking lot management device shown in FIG. 1 is broadly divided into a central control device 10. Entrance management device 20 and exit management device 3
Consists of 0.

The central control unit IO includes a keyboard 11, a display device 12, a central processing unit 13, a user information storage unit 14, a program storage unit 15, and a telephone answering control unit 16. The keyboard 11 is connected to the exit management device 30, and the telephone response control device 16 is connected to a public telephone line.The keyboard 11 is equipped with a plurality of keys, and when these keys are operated, a corresponding key code is generated. It is supplied to the central processing unit 13.

The program storage unit 15 stores a program for calculating how many spaces are available in the parking lot and a program for making parking reservations for registered users.
The program information read out in response to the read command from 3 is supplied to the central processing unit 13.

The user information storage unit 14 stores data such as the user's registration number, password, name, etc.
In response to a write command from the central processing unit 13, the user information input from the keyboard 11 is written to the designated address, and in response to a read command from the central processing unit 13, the user information at the designated address is read out. This is supplied to the central processing unit 13.

As shown in Figure 2, the user information includes multiple areas with numbers indicating the user's registration order, and multiple areas where the user's registration number, password, name, etc. are written.
By inputting user information from the keyboard 11, writing is performed in these areas, and the user information can be read from these areas and displayed on the display device 12.

The telephone response control device I6 detects a ringing signal from a public telephone line generated by a telephone inquiry from a user, connects the line, and sends data sent from the user through the public telephone line to the central processing unit. 13, and also outputs necessary information onto the public telephone line in response to instructions from the central processing unit 13 to notify the user.

When the parking lot becomes full, the admission control device 20
A full-vehicle signal supplied from the central processing unit 13 is used to supply a full-vehicle display signal to the display 21.

The registered user card 40 is an ID card issued only to registered users of the parking lot, and the user's registration number and name are recorded. 40 is inserted, the user's registration number recorded on the card is read and supplied to the central processing unit 13.

The push button 23 is used by general users other than registered users when using the parking lot, and by pressing this button when entering the parking lot, the entry control device 20 generates a non-registered person entry signal. and is supplied to the central processing unit 13.

The entrance gate 24 is opened and closed by the entrance management device 20 based on instructions from the central processing unit 13.

When the registered user card is inserted into the card reader 31, the exit management device 30 reads the user's registration number recorded on the card and supplies it to the central processing unit 13.

Further, the exit gate 32 is opened and closed by the exit management device 30 based on instructions from the central processing unit 13.

The central processing unit 13 is composed of a CPU (central processing unit) and the like, and performs the following operations according to a program stored in the program storage unit 15.

That is, among the memory data of the user information storage section shown in FIG. 2, the number of vehicles (Ml) that can be parked in the parking lot is stored in the maximum number of parking vehicles memory M1, and the number of vehicles currently stored in the number of parked vehicles memo υM2. The current number of parked vehicles (M2) is updated each time based on the number of vehicles that have entered the parking lot and the number of vehicles that have left the parking lot.

Each time the number of reserved users (M3) stored in the number of reserved users memory M3 and the number of reserved parked vehicles (M4) stored in the reserved vehicle parking number memory M4 change, the central processing unit 13 updated by.

From the data stored in the memory above, the number of empty vehicles (M5
) is calculated by the following formula, and the empty vehicle number memory M5 is updated.

(M5) = (Ml) −(M2) −(M3) +
(M4) FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing the operation of the central processing unit 13 in response to a telephone inquiry from a user about the status of the parking lot, and the process starts when a telephone call signal from the user is received at 5T11. Then connect the telephone line using 5T12.

At 5T13.5T15.5T17, a command is given to the user to output the registered contents of the voice guide message table shown in FIG. 5 by voice from the voice response control device.

In 5T14, empty vehicle number memory M5 of the user information storage unit
Based on the value of , it is determined whether the parking lot is full or not.

When a registered user makes a reservation for a parking lot, it is detected in 5T18 that a reservation operation command is received from the telephone answering control device, and the central processing unit 13 at the time of parking lot reservation shown in FIG. Operates according to a flowchart showing the process.

When the user's registration number and password are input from the voice response control device, the user information table shown in Fig. 2 is searched, and if a match is found, the parking lot reservation process is executed at 5T29. , sets a reservation flag in the information table of the corresponding registered user.

Whether a registered user has a reservation or not is determined by reading the value of this reservation flag.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, according to the present invention, parking lot users can check whether the parking lot is full or not by phone without having to go to the parking lot, so if the parking lot is full, they do not have to go to the parking lot. This will help alleviate traffic congestion near corners and parking lots.

In addition, if you are a registered user who has registered in advance for a parking lot, you can make a reservation for a parking lot by phone after confirming that there is an empty parking lot by phone. By going to the parking lot from the parking lot, it becomes possible to use the parking lot without waiting time, thereby improving service to users and alleviating traffic congestion in the vicinity of the parking lot.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a system diagram showing an embodiment of the unmanned parking lot management device according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the structure of the memory area of the user information storage unit, and FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the structure of the memory area of the user information storage unit. FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the operation of the central processing unit in response to an inquiry about the status of a parking lot. FIG. It is a figure which shows an example of the table which memorize|stores the voice guidance message. 10... Central control unit 11... Keyboard 1
2...Display device 13...Central processing unit 1
4...User information storage unit 15...Program storage unit 16...Telephone response control device 20...Entrance management device 30...Exit control device 40...Registered user card ≧ N broom concealment business

Claims (1)

[Claims] calculation means for calculating the number of vacant cars from the maximum capacity of the parking lot, the current number of parked cars, and the number of unparked cars out of the reserved number;
A telephone answering means that not only responds to telephone inquiries by voice regarding the status of vacant vehicles, but also accepts telephone reservations from registered users according to the number of vacant vehicles; an unmanned parking lot, characterized in that it is equipped with an entrance control means that immediately opens the entrance gate if the person is the person who is the person in charge of the parking lot, and in other cases opens the entrance gate only when the number of empty cars calculated as described above is equal to or greater than a predetermined number. management device.