KR100263352B1 - Parking place management method by ecr - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A method for controlling a parking lot by using an electronic cash register that grasps empty parking spaces in advance is provided to help a driver to find a parking space easily and promptly without extra guide personnel. CONSTITUTION: The method includes the following steps of: (i) judging coming in or coming out of a car; (ii) retrieving a parking space memory storing parked cars on the total parking spaces and judging if there is an empty parking space, when the car requests to enter the parking lot; (iii) saving a parking number and the entering time on a parking address of the empty parking space and issuing a parking card; (iv) inputting the parking number of the car when the car wants to leave and collecting the parking fee based on the entering and the leaving times of the parking address saving the parking number; and (v) issuing a receipt of the parking fee and resetting the contents of the parking address where the left car was parked.

Description

Parking lot management method of electronic cash register

The present invention relates to a parking lot management method of an electronic cash register, and more particularly, in the case of parking lot management using an electronic cash register, the presence of an empty parking space is determined in advance by the driver when the location of the empty parking space is entered. The present invention relates to a parking lot management method of an electronic cash register, which makes parking easier and at the same time efficient parking management possible.

In general, a cash register refers to a device used to facilitate information management by processing various data accompanying product sales and informing a user of a result. The scope varies from point of sales system to comprehensive management of distribution economy such as research. Hereinafter, in the present specification, the term ECR (Electronic Cash Register), which means an electronic cash register controlled by a microprocessor, is used as a broad concept including a low-end cash register to a POS terminal.

On the other hand, the ECR system is also used as a system for managing the departure and arrival of the vehicle in the parking lot.In the parking lot management method using the ECR, when the vehicle enters the parking lot, the manager of the parking lot management room sends the vehicle number of the vehicle to the ECR. By inputting the vehicle, a parking certificate printed with the entrance time and the vehicle number is issued to the vehicle driver. The driver of the vehicle with the parking certificate enters the parking lot and parks in an empty parking space. In addition, when a parked vehicle leaves the parking lot, the driver of the vehicle will issue a parking certificate at the parking lot management room (or the fare settlement) at the exit of the parking lot, pay the parking fee according to the entrance time and departure time, and then receive the receipt and perform the departure. . At this time, the manager of the parking lot management room receives a parking certificate issued at the time of entering the vehicle from the vehicle driver and calculates the parking fee through the ECR, and issues a receipt.

However, in the conventional parking lot management method of the ECR, if the parking lot is complicated and divided into several floors, such as a large department store parking lot or a large parking building, when the vehicle enters the parking lot, it is necessary to sequentially enter each floor but the number of incoming / outgoing vehicles increases. In this case, it was impossible to know exactly how many floors the parking spaces were on each floor. Therefore, parking guidance agents should be provided on each floor, and each parking guidance agent must exchange information on the presence or absence of parking spaces on each floor through radios. there was.

In addition, when parking guides are not arranged in each floor, the vehicle driver has to go to every corner of each floor to find an empty parking space, and when there is no empty parking space, the driver must come out again.

The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems, the purpose of the management of the parking lot by using the ECR to determine whether the parking of the vehicle for each parking space provided in the parking lot in advance when each vehicle enters the parking lot It is intended to provide a parking management method of an electronic cash register that allows the driver to easily find an empty parking space by specifying the parking location of the parking lot and minimizes other parking guidance personnel so that the parking management can be performed accurately and efficiently. .

Parking management method of the electronic cash register according to the present invention for achieving the above object is in the parking lot management method of the electronic cash register to manage the parking fee collection by managing the entry and exit of the vehicle, (A) Determining whether the vehicle is to be entered and exited; (B) if the vehicle is to be entered as a result of the determination of step (a), determining whether or not there is an empty parking space by searching a parking space memory storing the presence or absence of a parking vehicle for the entire parking space; (C) if it is determined in step (b) that there is an empty parking space, storing a parking number and a parking time at a parking address of the corresponding empty parking space, and issuing a parking certificate for the entering vehicle; (D) If the vehicle is to be departed as a result of the determination of step (a) above, input the parking number assigned to each vehicle when entering the vehicle, and refer to the entering time and the current leaving time of the parking address where the input parking number is stored. Collecting the parking fee; (E) issuing a parking fee receipt when the parking fee collection is completed, and resetting the contents of the corresponding parking address where the vehicle was parked.

1 is a control block diagram showing the configuration of an ECR system to which the present invention is applicable;

2 is an exemplary diagram of a parking space memory map for implementing the present invention;

3 is a flowchart illustrating a parking lot management method of an electronic cash register according to the present invention.

*** Explanation of symbols for the main parts of the drawing ***

10: central processing unit, 20: key input unit,

30: real time clock part, 40: ram,

50: Rom, 60: Printer,

70: display unit.

Hereinafter, a parking lot management method of an electronic cash register according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a system block diagram showing the configuration of an ECR system to which the present invention is applicable. As shown in FIG. 1, the ECR system to which the present invention is applicable can be keyed to the key input unit 20 and the key input unit 20 to generate various key codes for mode designation and money registration, and according to the received key code. Real-time clock unit (RTC) 30 that designates an operation mode of the cash register and provides real-time information to the central processing unit (CPU) 10 and the central processing unit 10 that perform various functions in the designated mode. , RAM 40 for storing various data according to whether the vehicle is parked or not for each parking space of the parking lot of the user, a ROM 50 for storing a system operation program, and control of the central processing unit 10. Under the control of the printer 60 and the central processing unit 10, which issue various documents such as receipts and departure times of customers and documents, the various information and parking fees related to the entry and exit of the vehicle to the parking lot under the control of the printer 60 and the central processing unit 10 Etc To be provided with a display unit 70 for displaying information.

In the above-described configuration, although not shown in the key input unit, an entry key and an exit key for selecting a vehicle's entry / exit and a numeric key for inputting a number such as a vehicle number of the vehicle, a parking certificate and a receipt for issuance Printing keys and the like can be constructed.

2 is an exemplary diagram of a memory map for a parking space for implementing the present invention. As shown in FIG. 2, the parking space memory for implementing the present invention is represented in an arrangement by allocating a predetermined area for each floor and each parking space of each floor. In this case, each row of the parking space memory represents each floor of the parking space and each column of the memory represents an address provided corresponding to the location of the parking space provided on the corresponding floor. In addition, a predetermined area is allocated to the corresponding address of each parking position thus provided so that information such as the number of the parked vehicle and the entrance time can be stored.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a parking lot management method of an electronic cash register according to the present invention. As shown in Figure 3, the parking lot management method of the electronic cash register according to the present invention, the manager of the parking lot management room first enters the parking key provided in the key input unit to perform the entry of the vehicle to the entrance side of the parking lot Will be entered. At this time, if it is determined in step S10 that the vehicle is input according to the input of the entering key, the process proceeds to step S12 to determine whether there is an empty parking space by searching each parking address of the parking space memory. At this time, if it is determined in step S14 that there is no empty parking address as a result of searching the parking space memory of step S12, the process proceeds to step S22 to wait for the vehicle to be entered, and as a result, the empty parking address is found. If it is determined that the presence of the vehicle to perform the next step (S16) or less to perform the vehicle occupancy.

That is, in step S16, the parking number (or the number of the vehicle to be entered) and the information about the entrance time are stored in the corresponding parking address of the empty parking space found in the step S12. In the next step (S18), the parking number, the parking position corresponding to the empty parking space, and the parking time is issued to the driver of the parking vehicle. Subsequently, in step S20, an access bar provided at the entrance side of the parking lot is opened to allow a vehicle waiting for access to enter the parking lot to perform parking.

At this time, the driver of the vehicle issued the parking certificate can quickly park the vehicle without the hassle of finding an empty parking space by referring to the parking position printed on the parking certificate.

On the other hand, when a vehicle parked in a specific parking position reaches the parking lot exit side to exit the parking lot, the parking lot manager receives a parking certificate from the driver and inputs the exit key provided in the key input unit to process the car leaving task. At this time, if it is determined in step S24 that the vehicle is discharged according to the input of the discharge key, in step S26, the parking number printed on the parking certificate received from the driver is received. In addition, in step S28, the corresponding parking address of the parking space where the vehicle waiting to be discharged is parked by referring to the parking number input from the step S26, and is stored in the entrance time and the current departure time stored in the read parking address. The parking fee is settled and collected by the driver of the outgoing vehicle.

In the next step (S30), after receiving the parking fee from the driver, a receipt is issued, and at this time, the receipt is printed with the contents such as arrival time, departure time, total parking time, parking fee, received money and change money. Will be. On the other hand, the driver receiving the receipt is to end the discharge operation from the parking lot, in this step (S32), when the discharge is completed, reset the corresponding parking address where the parked vehicle was parked and reset to the empty parking space other vehicles parked Do it.

The parking lot management method of the electronic cash register according to the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and may be modified in various ways within the scope of the technical idea of the present invention.

As described above, the parking lot management method of the electronic cash register according to the present invention manages each parking space of the parking lot by allocating a predetermined area to an arrayed memory, and having an empty parking space in the entire parking space when the vehicle enters the parking lot. If there is an empty parking space by searching for the driver of the occupant vehicle, the parking position for the empty parking space is informed so that the driver can easily and quickly complete the parking.

Therefore, the driver of the vehicle entering the parking lot by the method of managing the parking lot of the electronic cash register according to the present invention eliminates the inconvenience of having to check the inside of the parking lot in order to find an empty parking space, and the vehicle of the parking space in the large parking building. It is not necessary to arrange a separate parking guide agent to determine the presence or minimize the parking guide agent to provide a cost saving effect.

Claims (1)

In the parking lot management method of the electronic cash register that manages the entry and exit of the vehicle to handle the parking fee collection work, (A) determining whether the vehicle is in or out of the vehicle; (B) if the vehicle is to be entered as a result of the determination of step (a), determining whether or not there is an empty parking space by searching a parking space memory storing the presence or absence of a parking vehicle for the entire parking space; (C) if it is determined in step (b) that there is an empty parking space, storing a parking number and a parking time at a parking address of the corresponding empty parking space, and issuing a parking certificate for the entering vehicle; (D) If the vehicle is to be departed as a result of the determination of step (a) above, input the parking number assigned to each vehicle when entering the vehicle, and refer to the entering time and the current leaving time of the parking address where the input parking number is stored. Collecting the parking fee; (E) issuing a parking fee receipt when the parking fee collection is completed, and resetting the contents of the corresponding parking address where the vehicle was parked, and the parking lot management method of the electronic cash register.