KR101794806B1 - Parking management system using the visible light wireless communication - Google Patents

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KR101794806B1
KR101794806B1 KR1020110051472A KR20110051472A KR101794806B1 KR 101794806 B1 KR101794806 B1 KR 101794806B1 KR 1020110051472 A KR1020110051472 A KR 1020110051472A KR 20110051472 A KR20110051472 A KR 20110051472A KR 101794806 B1 KR101794806 B1 KR 101794806B1
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The present invention relates to a parking management system for an automobile. More particularly, the present invention relates to a parking management system for an automobile, and more particularly, The server stores the parked location information. When the user requests the parking position information of the car using a mobile communication terminal such as a mobile phone, the server transmits the parked location information of the user's car to the user's mobile communication terminal The present invention relates to a vehicle parking management system using visible light wireless communication.

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[0001] The present invention relates to a parking management system using visible light wireless communication,

The present invention relates to a parking management system for an automobile. More particularly, the present invention relates to a parking management system for an automobile, and more particularly, The server stores the parked location information. When the user requests the parking position information of the car using a mobile communication terminal such as a mobile phone, the server transmits the parked location information of the user's car to the user's mobile communication terminal The present invention relates to a vehicle parking management system using visible light wireless communication.

Recently, a communication system called a visible light wireless communication system has been proposed.

The visible light wireless communication system is a communication technology for transmitting information using visible light, which is a visible light region of human beings, and is a communication technology mainly used for visible light emitted by a device having a light emitting diode (LED) .

That is, when a communication signal for wireless communication provides a data signal to the LED driving driver in a digital manner, and the LED driving driver drives the LED lighting apparatus by the received data signal, the LED lighting apparatus is modulated according to the data signal And the LED light having the intensity of the modulated light is received through a photoelectric device such as a photodiode in the receiver to demodulate the communication signal to perform mutual wireless communication.

At this time, since the LED driver drives the LED lighting apparatus through a high-speed switching signal, the human eyes do not recognize that the LED lighting apparatus is the flashing distance, and recognize that the LED lighting apparatus is continuously lit.

Since the visible light wireless communication method uses the light itself as a signal transmission medium, there is no interference phenomenon with the existing radio frequency, and thus it is being applied to communication between devices using LED illumination.

The present invention provides a configuration of a parking management system using visible light wireless communication that allows a parking lot of a vehicle to easily grasp a parked position by using the visible light wireless communication system in a parking lot.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a parking management system using a visible light wireless communication system, comprising: an LED lighting device provided in an automobile and a LED lighting device installed in a car park, When the user requests parking position information of the car using a mobile communication terminal such as a mobile phone, the server transmits the parking position information of the user to the mobile communication terminal of the user, And transmits the parked position information.

The parking management system using the visible light wireless communication of the present invention having the above-described configuration has the effect of improving convenience of parking because it is not necessary for the user to memorize where his / her car is parked.

In addition to utilizing the existing installed LED lighting equipment of the parking lot, it is possible to change the drive driver of the LED lighting equipment and install only the receiving module, thereby enabling the parking management system to be installed at a relatively low cost.

1 is a block diagram of a parking management system according to the present invention,
2 is a view showing an example of use in a parking lot to which the parking management system of the present invention is applied.

Hereinafter, the configuration and operation of a vehicle parking management system using visible light wireless communication according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

It is to be noted, however, that the disclosed drawings are provided as examples for allowing a person skilled in the art to sufficiently convey the spirit of the present invention. Accordingly, the present invention is not limited to the following drawings, but may be embodied in other forms.

In addition, unless otherwise defined, the terms used in the description of the present invention have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which the present invention belongs. In the following description and the accompanying drawings, A detailed description of known functions and configurations that may be unnecessarily blurred is omitted.

1 is a block diagram of a parking management system according to the present invention.

Referring to the drawings, the parking management system of the present invention comprises a visible light wireless communication unit and a corresponding LED illumination installed in an automobile and a parking lot, respectively.

That is, an automobile is provided with an automobile LED illuminator 11 that provides illumination on a vehicle, and an automotive visible light wireless communication unit 10 that performs the above-described visible light wireless communication using the automobile LED illuminator 11.

The automobile visible light wireless communication unit 10 drives the LED light 11 using a data signal given a communication signal for wireless communication and transmits light from another external LED light using a photoelectric device such as a photodiode So that both data transmission and reception are possible.

In addition, an illumination light installed in the parking lot is provided with an LED illumination unit 21 for providing illumination to a parking lot, and a visible light wireless communication unit 20 for performing visible light wireless communication using the LED illumination unit 21 .

At this time, the visible light wireless communication unit 20 not only drives the LED light 21 of the illumination light, like the automobile visible light wireless communication unit 10, but also receives light transmitted from other external LED light, Both transmission and reception are possible.

The visible light wireless communication unit 20 is connected to an external server 30 using a wire / wireless communication network N. [

The server 30 receives and collects the identification information of the vehicle such as the location information of the vehicle, the registration number of the vehicle, and the personal information of the driver of the corresponding vehicle from the visible light wireless communication unit 20 and transmits the collected information to a database 31), and manages information stored by a normal database management technique.

The server 30 is connected to a mobile communication terminal 40 such as a mobile phone owned by a driver of a vehicle using a wired or wireless communication network N and the server 30 is connected to a mobile communication terminal 40 The location information of the corresponding car stored in the database 31 is transmitted to the driver's mobile communication terminal 40 through the communication network N. [

The mobile communication terminal 40 may be any known mobile communication device such as a cellular phone, a PDA, or a tablet PC, but it preferably generates a message requesting the server 30 to return the location information of the vehicle And a so-called smart phone capable of executing an appplication program capable of displaying location information of a car received from the server 30 and executing the appplication program.

The communication network N for communication with the server 30 may be any of known wired or wireless communication systems such as Zigbee, Bluetooth, IrDA, Wire communication method such as Infrared Data Association (SWAP), Shared Wireless Access Protocol (SWAP), and Wireless Internet Network (WLAN).

Next, the operation of the parking management system of the present invention constructed as described above will be described with reference to Fig.

2 is a view showing an example of use in a parking lot to which the parking management system of the present invention is applied.

Referring to the drawings, in the parking lot to which the parking management system of the present invention is applied, illumination lights L1 to L7 are provided for each parking area of an automobile, and the illumination lights L1 to L7 are provided with LED illumination lights 21, respectively.

The illumination lights L1 to L7 provided for the respective parking zones are equipped with visible light wireless communication units 20 such as a lamp for communicating with an external visible light wireless communication unit using the LED illumination light 21, respectively.

In addition, an LED light 11 is also installed in the car C that enters the parking lot and attempts parking, and a visible light wireless communication unit 10 for performing communications with an external visible light wireless communication unit using the LED light 11 ).

In this state, when the automobile enters the point A of the drawing, the automobile visible light wireless communication unit 10 of the automobile C is driven and the light of the lighting lamp L1 21 and the visible light wireless communication unit 20 of the illumination lamp L1 transmits the information on the position where the vehicle first entered the vehicle to the server 30 through the communication network N. [

Then, when the automobile entering the point A moves toward the parking area in which the lighting lamp L6 at the point B is lit for parking, the lighting lamp L2, the lighting lamp L3, the lighting lamp L4, and the lighting lamp L5 The visible light wireless communication units 20 sequentially transmit the position information of the corresponding vehicle to the server 30.

When the car C finishes parking in the parking area at the point where the illumination light L6 of the point B lights up, the visible light wireless communication unit 20 of the illumination light L6 transmits the final position information of the vehicle to the server 30 .

Then, the server 30, which receives the position information of the car C from the first entry point of the car C to the parking point B, stores the corresponding position information in the linked database 31 .

At this time, at least one visible light wireless communication unit 20 of the visible light wireless communication units 20 of the lights L1 to L6 displays identification information of the corresponding vehicle C such as the registration number of the vehicle C or the personal information of the driver It is preferable to transmit the visible light to the server 30 through the visible light wireless communication with the vehicle C and transmit the information to the server 30 together with the location information of the vehicle. It is preferable that the visible light wireless communication unit 20 of a vehicle or the like transmits the identification information of the vehicle to the server 30. [

Thereafter, when the driver D of the car C wishes to request the location information of the car to the server 30 by using the mobile communication terminal 40 owned by the driver, for example, The visible light wireless communication unit 20 of the illumination lamp L2 closest to the mobile communication terminal 40 performs wireless communication to return the position information of the own vehicle C from the mobile communication terminal 40 (Hereinafter referred to as 'location information request information') and the identification information of the car C are transmitted to the visible light wireless communication unit 20 of the corresponding lighting lamp L2. The visible light wireless communication unit 20, The server 30 transmits the information request information and the identification information of the vehicle to the server 30 via the communication network N. The server 30 receives and refers to the location information request information and the identification information of the vehicle, Location of the saved car And transmits the read information to the driver's mobile communication terminal 40 through the communication network N. [

Then, the display screen of the driver's mobile communication terminal 40 displays location information indicating where his / her car C is parked in the parking lot, and the display of the location information can be performed in various ways. For example, the location information of the car may be indicated by the parking area number of the parking lot, or the location of the car C may be displayed on the map of the entire parking lot.

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention, Changes and substitutions are to be construed as falling within the scope of protection of the present invention.

Description of the Related Art [0002]
10; Automobile visible light wireless communication
11; Car LED light
20; Visible light wireless communication
21; LED lighting
30; server
31; Database
40; Mobile communication terminal
N; communications network

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A parking management system for an automobile,
A visible light wireless communication unit 10 that performs visible light wireless communication using an automobile LED light 11 and has identification information of a vehicle; And
A visible light wireless communication unit 20 such as a lamp for performing visible light wireless communication with the visible light wireless communication unit 10 of the vehicle, which is installed in an LED light 21 installed in a car parking area of a parking lot; And,
The visible light wireless communication unit 20 such as the illumination of the LED lighting lamp 21 installed at the point where the automobile first enters the parking lot communicates with the visible light wireless communication unit 10 of the vehicle, The visible light wireless communication unit 20 of each LED lighting lamp 21 installed in the vehicle 10 communicates with the visible light wireless communication unit 10 of the vehicle to generate positional information from the first entry point of the vehicle to the last point where the vehicle is parked, And transmits the identification information of the vehicle to the server (30) via the communication network (N).
The method according to claim 1,
The server 30 receives and collects the location information of the vehicle and the identification information of the vehicle from the visible light wireless communication unit 20 and stores the collected location information of the vehicle and the identification information of the vehicle in a database 31 Wherein the parking management system comprises:
3. The method of claim 2,
The server 30 is connected to the mobile communication terminal 40 owned by the driver of the vehicle via the communication network N,
When the server 30 is requested to return location information of the vehicle from the mobile communication terminal 40 of the vehicle driver, the server 30 transmits the location information of the corresponding vehicle stored in the database 31 linked with the server 30 to the communication network N To the mobile communication terminal (40) of the driver.
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