KR100840296B1 - Parking Management System using PDA - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a parking management system that can collectively manage a parking management system for each zone of a parking lot divided into a plurality of zones by a PD and a server connected thereto, and includes information about a vehicle and time for entry and exit of the vehicle. A plurality of PDA terminals including information, an input unit for inputting information about the parking area, a wireless transceiver for transmitting the information and receiving information of another parking area, and a display unit for displaying the information; Wireless transmitting and receiving unit for exchanging information about the management of the parking area with the management system of another parking area, a storage unit for storing the received information in a database, and receiving information with the PDA to settle a fee Calculation unit for communication, and communication unit for communicating with the outside using the Internet network A server device; characterized in that comprises a.

According to the above configuration, the parking system according to the present invention shares parking information with a parking manager of another block through a relay server even when a manager who manages a specific parking block is vacant. It can be made, and can determine in real time whether the vehicle has a problem such as theft.

Parking lot, Parking management, PDA, Relay server

Description

Parking Management System using PDA {Parking Management System using PDA}

1 and 2 is a schematic view showing a parking management system according to an embodiment of the present invention,

3 is a block diagram showing the concept of a parking management system according to an embodiment of the present invention;

4 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a PDA terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention;

Figure 5 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a relay server according to an embodiment of the present invention.

** Explanation of symbols for main parts of drawings **

10: parking block 20: car (vehicle)

30: PDA terminal 40: relay server

31 input unit 34 display unit

35, 41: wireless transceiver 36,46: memory

37, 47: control unit 38: output unit

42: character recognizer 43: charge calculation

44: search unit 45: communication unit

The present invention relates to a parking management system, and more particularly, to a parking management system capable of collectively managing a parking management system for each zone of a roadside parking lot divided into a plurality of zones by a PDA and a server connected thereto. It is about.

Recently, as a result of the rapid increase in the number of vehicles, securing parking spaces of vehicles has become a social problem. For this purpose, in order to secure and manage various types of parking lots in a place where the vehicle has a lot of access, an appropriate type of management system is required accordingly. In particular, in the case of a parking lot of a large building or a general roadside parking lot used by many vehicles, a plurality of blocks that can be parked for each floor or area are determined so that the access and parking of the vehicle are managed by these blocks.

In general, the parking management of the parking lot is blocked by a blocking device (breaker) installed at the entrance of the parking lot, the time when the vehicle is input to the parking lot is input, and a sticker is recorded that records information such as the time. Output parking information about the parking time to manage and collect the fare corresponding to the parking time to release the breaker, or mobilize the parking manager to issue a parking sticker that manually records the time when the vehicle is shipped The charges corresponding to the parking time of the vehicle will be managed by the manager in charge and receiving.

In this case, the parking manager has to settle and collect the fee according to the parking time directly, so that the exact fee is not settled according to the time or the efficiency of the work decreases, and there may be a problem of illegal collection of the parking fee. In order to solve these problems, systems have been proposed to automatically detect the entrance and exit of the vehicle in the parking lot and to settle and charge the fee according to the parking time, but there is a problem that such a parking lot requires a lot of construction difficulties and costs. .

Meanwhile, recently, parking management systems and methods have been developed for parking managers to efficiently manage and operate personal terminals such as PDAs and control of entry and exit of parking fees.

In the parking management system using the PDA, in the case of a large parking lot divided into a plurality of blocks, a plurality of managers monitor and control the entry and exit of the vehicle for each parking block. That is, in the case of a large parking lot divided into a plurality of blocks, the manager is arranged for each block to manage the access of the vehicle to the entire parking lot. However, in this case, the information about the situation of each parking block is not shared with each other, so only the manager can know the access information of the vehicle for accessing the parking block, and if the manager of the specific parking block is away, As the manager of the parking block cannot know the vehicle information of the parking block, it is difficult to settle the parking fee or to guide the vehicle when leaving.

The present invention has been proposed to solve the above problems, in the parking management system, to control the entrance and exit of the vehicle through a personal digital assistant (PDA) to check the information about the entrance and exit of the parking fee accordingly Parking management system using PDA, which can settle automatically, and in particular, even when divided and managed by a plurality, the information of each parking block can be exchanged to manage the vehicle of the parking block by the manager of another parking block. The purpose is to provide.

The present invention for achieving the above object is a parking management system divided into a plurality of parking area management, the input unit for inputting information about the vehicle, time information about the entry and exit of the vehicle, the information on the parking area And a plurality of PDA terminals including a wireless transceiver for transmitting the information and receiving information of another parking area, a display unit for displaying the information, and managing information about the management of the parking area. A wireless transceiver for enabling interchange with the system, a storage unit for storing the received information in a database, a charge calculation unit for receiving information with the PDA and calculating a fee, and communicating with the outside using an internet network. It characterized in that it comprises a; a server device provided with a communication unit for.

In the above-described configuration, the input unit of the PDA is composed of a keypad and a camera that can directly input information, and the server is further provided with a character recognizer, so that the vehicle information and entry and exit time is automatically stored by video shooting It is characterized by.

In the above-described configuration, the PDA further comprises an output unit for outputting a receipt for which the fee for the parking vehicle is settled.

In the above-described configuration, the server apparatus is further provided with a search unit, characterized in that configured to transmit the information on the problem vehicle to the outside through the communication unit when the problem vehicle is searched.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 and 2 is a schematic view showing a parking management system using a PDA according to an embodiment of the present invention, Figure 3 shows a schematic diagram of FIG.

Generally, a large parking lot or a roadside is formed with a plurality of parking spaces 10 in which a parking line is drawn to allow a car to park, and enters the vehicle 20 into the parking space 10 to park the car. For convenience, each parking space 10 may be assigned a unique number. When the vehicle 20 enters the parking space 10 and parks the parking manager 10 as shown in FIG. 1, the parking manager carries the PDA terminal 30, the number of the vehicle 20, the entrance time, and the parking space 10. The parking information such as the unique number of the car is input and recorded.

Meanwhile, in a wide place such as a roadside or an amusement park, the parking space 10 is divided into a plurality of blocks 10-1 to 10-n as shown in FIG. 2 and managed by a manager corresponding to each block. The possessed PDA terminals 30-1 to 30-n record the parking information for the vehicle parked in the parking space within the block. In addition, the parking information recorded in each PDA terminal in a specific block is transmitted to the relay server 40, and is configured to be integrated and managed.

That is, in the parking management system according to the embodiment of the present invention, when the parking information recorded in the PDA terminal 30 of each manager is divided into a plurality of blocks as shown in FIG. And the parking information stored in the relay server 40 is transmitted to the PDA terminals 30-1 to 30-n of the other blocks, so that the information of each parking block can be shared and managed by the manager of the other parking block. It is configured to be. In addition, the information on the vehicle stored in the relay server 40 is connected to the external server 50 using the Internet network is configured to enable vehicle inquiry about the problem vehicle, such as a stolen vehicle.

3 and 4 illustrate specific configurations of the PDA terminal and the relay server used in the parking management system.

Referring to FIG. 3, the PDA according to the embodiment of the present invention includes an input unit 31 including a keypad and a camera, a display unit 34 for displaying various information such as an image input by the keypad or taken by the camera, It comprises a wireless transceiver 35 for transmitting the information wirelessly, a memory 36 for storing the information, and a control unit 37 for controlling the function of the PDA terminal.

In more detail, the above-described input means 31 is a means for inputting information about a vehicle entering a parking space (for example, a vehicle number) and parking information about a unique number of a parking space, an entry time, and the like. It may be composed of a keypad or a touch pad 32, which is an input means of the PDA terminals 30-1 to 30-n. In addition to the keypad 32, a camera 33 may be further provided for image input by photographing. When the keypad 32 is used as an input means, the manager must directly input various kinds of information as described above, but when the camera 33 is used, the captured image may be transmitted to the relay server 40 to be described later along with time information. At this time, the relay server 40 to be described later is provided with a character recognizer 42 is configured to convert the information transmitted in the image to the character to recognize.

The display unit 34 displays a process of inputting the parking information as an input unit so that the manager can directly check the display unit 34.

The above-described wireless transceiver 35 transmits the parking information in the specific parking block input to the PDA terminals 30-1 to 30-n to the relay server 40, and other parking stored in the relay server 40. For receiving parking information of the block, it may be configured as a near field communication module using infrared, RFID, Bluetooth, and the like.

In addition, the above-described memory 36 may temporarily store the input parking information, and the control unit 37 may input, display, and display information of the PDA terminals 30-1 to 30-n according to the embodiment of the present invention. It is configured to control all functions such as a transmission function. On the other hand, the PDA terminal (30-1 ~ 30-n) may be further provided with an output unit 38 for outputting a receipt for the charge collected and calculated according to the time the vehicle is parked.

Referring to Figure 4, the relay server according to an embodiment of the present invention, a wireless transceiver 41 for transmitting and receiving information with the PDA terminal, a text recognizer 42 for converting image information into text, charges according to parking time Memory 46 for storing information in database together with a fare calculator 43 for calculating the information, a searcher 44 for inquiring the vehicle information of the received vehicle information, and a communication unit 45 for communication with the outside. ) And a control unit 47 for controlling a series of functions.

In more detail, the above-described wireless transceiver 41 is for transmitting and receiving parking information with the PDA terminals 30-1 to 30-n, and receives the parking information input to a specific PDA terminal, and the corresponding PDA. In order to transmit back to the terminal or another PDA terminal may be composed of a short-range wireless communication module using infrared, RFID, Bluetooth, etc. that can communicate with the wireless transceiver 35 of the above-described PDA terminals (30-1 ~ 30-n). .

The above-described text recognizer 42 converts the image information transmitted from the PDA terminals 30-1 to 30-n into text information and recognizes the information about the vehicle. The PDA terminals 30-1 to 30-n When receiving the image information of the vehicle number photographed by), the character recognizer 42 converts the vehicle number of the image information into character information, recognizes it, and extracts time information on which the image is captured. The vehicle information recognized as the character information is stored in the memory 46 together with the parking information such as time information and parking block information.

The above-described fee calculator 43 calculates a fee according to the parking time by using the time information received from the PDA terminals 30-1 to 30-n, and parks the fee according to the hourly fee specified by a predetermined program. The fare is calculated, and in this case, a proper fare may be calculated using a prepaid system, a flat rate system, a mileage system, and the like.

The search unit 44 described above is connected to an external server 50 stored in the vehicle information and the relay server 40 received from the PDA terminals 30-1 to 30-n or connected through the communication unit 45 to be described later. It is compared with the stored vehicle information. This is to confirm and notify the fact that the parking vehicle is a problem vehicle, such as a stolen vehicle or a wanted vehicle.

To this end, in the relay server 40 according to an embodiment of the present invention, information about a stolen vehicle is stored in the relay server 40 through the communication unit 45 in real time, or information such as a stolen vehicle is stored and the vehicle can be inquired. It is configured to be connected to the external server 50 in real time. When the vehicle information on the parking vehicle is confirmed as the stolen vehicle through the search unit 44, the facts may be confirmed through the relay server 40, and the external server 50 may be notified through the communication unit 45 at the same time. In this case, the communication unit 45 is configured to use a general Internet network or the like to be connected to a specific external server 50 in real time so as to share information about the stolen vehicle.

The above-described control unit 47 and the memory 46 is a general component constituting the server device, the control unit 47 controls each function and operations of the relay server 40, the memory 46 is transmitted from the PDA terminal The parking information about the parking vehicle is stored as a database.

Hereinafter, a parking method according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described.

First, when a vehicle enters and parks a parking space of a specific block, the parking manager inputs parking information such as vehicle information, entry time, and parking space number into the PDA terminals 30-1 to 30-n. Here, the parking information may be directly input by the manager through the keypad. However, when the manager inputs the image information by photographing the camera of the PDA terminal, information on the entry time is also input at the same time. Thereafter, when the parking information is transmitted to the relay server 40 by short-range wireless communication, the relay server 40 stores parking information such as vehicle information, entry time, and parking space number as a database, and the vehicle is stolen. Search whether the vehicle is a problem vehicle, and notify the external server through the communication unit in the case of a problem vehicle.

On the other hand, if the owner of the vehicle asks to leave, the parking block (called 'first parking block') manager at the first parking can be called, but if the manager of the first parking block is away, the other block (' The parking manager of the second parking block) responds. In this case, since the PDA terminal 30-2 possessed by the parking manager of the second parking block has no parking information for the vehicle, the parking information of the first parking block stored in the relay server 40 is received through the wireless communication unit. do. Thereafter, the manager of the second parking block checks the received vehicle information of the first parking block, transmits the departure time to the relay server 40, and releases the vehicle. The relay server 40 receives the departure time from the PDA terminal 30-2 of the second parking block, calculates a fee for the parking time of the vehicle, and transmits it to the PDA terminal 30-2 of the second parking block. Thus, the manager of the second parking block can collect the parking fee for the vehicle.

Although the present invention has been described in detail through specific embodiments, the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and various changes may be made by those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. It may be changed and implemented.

As described above, in the parking system according to the present invention, in the parking system managed by dividing into a plurality of blocks, the parking information is changed through the relay server even when the manager who manages a specific parking block is vacant. By sharing with the parking manager of the block, parking management can be done efficiently.

In addition, the relay server is connected to an external server through the Internet network to check in real time whether the vehicle has a problem such as theft.

Claims (4)

In the parking management system for managing a plurality of parking areas separated from each other by interworking, An input unit for inputting information on a vehicle parked, time information on entry / exit of the vehicle, information on the parking area, a memory capable of storing the input information, and transmitting the stored information to another parking area. A plurality of PDA terminals including a wireless transceiver for receiving information, a display for displaying the information, and a controller for controlling the overall operation; And A wireless transceiver for communicating wirelessly to communicate with each PDA terminal so as to exchange information on management of a parking area, and a storage unit for storing a database of information received from each PDA terminal through the wireless transceiver; A charge calculation unit for calculating a parking fee of the vehicle using information stored in the storage unit and information received from each PDA terminal, a communication unit for communicating with an external server using an internet network, and a wireless transmission / reception unit Including a relay server is provided with a search unit for querying the vehicle tracks through the communication unit using the vehicle information when the vehicle track inquiry is requested from the PDA terminal; Parking management system using a PD, characterized in that even when the parking area is divided into a plurality of parking areas, the information of each parking area can be interchanged to manage the vehicle of the corresponding parking area by the manager of the other parking area. delete delete delete

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