KR20030041386A - Unmanned parking management system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: An unmanned parking system is provided to check whether a vehicle is parked at a parking zone in a parking lot and to easy guide a vehicle to an unoccupied parking area. CONSTITUTION: A loop sensing vehicle sensing device(200) is installed at a floor of each parking region. A communication control device(400) has a proper ID code and comprises a communication module which consists of a transmission part for transmitting parking information from the vehicle sensing device to a main control device and a receiving park for receiving the ID code from the main control device. The communication control device compares own ID code with an ID code from the main control device. The main control device(500) comprises a communication interface adaptor for transmitting and receiving information with the communication control device, a communication module for transmitting and receiving information with a control computer, and a control part for parsing transmitted and received information. The control computer(600) comprises ROM for storing an application program, RAM for storing information of each parking region, and a control part for processing information received from each device and providing an operation command to each device. A parking region display device(300) is installed at a vehicle input part of a parking region or at vehicle input part of a set of parking regions and displays whether the parking is possible according to a control of the control computer. A parking admission display device(830) displays a parking region and is installed at an input of a parking lot.

Description

Unmanned parking management system

The present invention relates to an unmanned parking management system that can automatically check whether the parking of the vehicle to induce parking of the vehicle in the empty parking area.

With the development of the industry, the development of a system that can efficiently park the exploding vehicle (cars, etc.) in a limited space is more urgently needed than ever before. In particular, buildings such as officetels, large buildings in the city center, department stores, large discount stores, etc., have a large floating population and a large number of access vehicles.

At present, the parking system used in these buildings shows that a large number of managers determine the number of vehicles entering and exiting the entrance and exit of the parking lot and determine the number of vehicles that can be introduced. You must search for empty parking spaces. Therefore, a large number of manpower is required for the management of such a system, and the inflow permit vehicle has to search for a space to park directly, and thus, parking is often impossible. In particular, when the parking lot is installed on two or more floors, the necessary management personnel are doubled accordingly, and the search range of the parking space of the inflow permit vehicle increases.

Conventionally, an unmanned parking device using an optical sensor for sensing a parking of a vehicle as a separate device for parking a vehicle has been developed, but it is not suitable as an unmanned parking system for parking a large number of vehicles such as a building. There is a problem in that there is a high possibility of malfunction by other objects because it detects the reflected light to check whether the parking.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to solve the problems of the prior art and the technical problems that have been requested from the past.

That is, the present invention can check whether the parking of the vehicle in each parking area in the parking lot by the sensor and automatically checks whether the control of the vehicle flowing into the parking lot and guidance to the parking area can be carried out quickly and conveniently. It is to provide an unmanned parking management system.

The present invention also provides a driverless parking management system with little possibility of malfunction by using a loop sensor vehicle detecting device without using an optical sensor having a high probability of malfunction in checking whether a vehicle is parked.

1 is a partial perspective view of the inside of a parking lot according to an embodiment of the unmanned parking management system of the present invention;

2 is a block diagram of an unmanned parking management system according to an embodiment of the present invention;

3 is a circuit diagram of some components of a communication control device, a main control device, and a control room computer in the system of FIG. 2;

4 is a flowchart when entering a vehicle according to an embodiment of the system of the present invention;

5 is a flowchart of a vehicle leaving according to an embodiment of the present invention system.

Description of the main symbols in the drawings

100: parking area 200: vehicle detection device

300: parking area display device 400: communication control device

500: main controller 600: control room computer

700: parking lot exit configuration 710: electronic cash register

720: exit vehicle blocking device 800: parking lot entrance configuration

810: parking card issuing device 820: entrance vehicle blocking device

830: parking permit display device

In the unmanned parking management system of the present invention for achieving this object in a parking lot of a building that divides the parking space into a plurality of parking areas,

A roof sensing vehicle detection device installed on the front floor of each parking area;

It has a unique ID code, and includes a communication module comprising a transmitting unit for transmitting parking information from the vehicle sensing device to the main controller and a receiving unit for receiving an ID code from the main controller. A communication control device for comparing the authorized ID codes and transmitting information to a computer in the same case;

A main control device including a communication interface adapter for transmission and reception with a communication control device, a communication module for transmission and reception to a control room computer, and a control unit for analyzing and controlling the transmitted and received information, and transmitting each information to the control room computer;

ROM with built-in operation program that can execute this system automatically, RAM which stores information about each parking area, and control unit which processes the information received from each device and accordingly provides operation command to each device. Control room computer included;

A parking area display device installed in a vehicle inlet of a parking area or a vehicle inlet of a series of parking areas and displaying whether parking is possible and its location under the control of a control room computer;

A parking permission display device installed at the entrance of the parking lot and displaying whether the inflow permission is transmitted from the control room computer and the parking available area;

An electronic card issuing device installed at the entrance of the parking lot and automatically issuing a parking card at the driver's request, and the card issuing information is sent to the control room computer device;

An electronic cash storage device installed at an exit of the parking lot and including a modem and protocol for transmitting and receiving data from a control room computer to an online computer network of a bank, a terminal for transmitting and receiving data with an IC card, and an input keypad; And,

It is installed at the entrance and exit of the parking lot and includes a vehicle blocking device that blocks the entrance of the vehicle under the control of the control room computer.

Therefore, the unmanned parking management system of the present invention scans the parking area in the parking lot when the vehicle enters the entrance of the parking lot and allocates the parking available area to the driver, and when the vehicle enters the parking lot, the parking area allocated by the driver is entered. Make it easy to find. In addition, when leaving the vehicle automatically converts the time the vehicle stays in the parking area to be able to easily pay using cash or card through the electronic cashier.

Hereinafter, the content of the present invention will be described in more detail with reference to the embodiments in the drawings, but the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto.

1 is a part of the interior of the parking lot according to an embodiment of the unmanned parking management system of the present invention is shown.

The parking lot may be installed on one floor or two or more floors of a building, and a plurality of partitioned parking areas 100 may be located in which one vehicle may park. The vehicle detecting apparatus 200 is installed on the front bottom of each parking area 100, and the vehicle detecting apparatus 200 is formed of a loop sensor. The roof sensing device 200 is a device that generates an electromagnetic signal at an inductance that changes as a vehicle passes through a roof coil installed on the ground, and the generated signal is transmitted to a communication control device. Slightly protruding The light sensor used in the conventional unmanned parking device is composed of a light emitting unit for transmitting the light for sensing and a light receiving unit for receiving the light, and the light emitting unit and the light receiving unit can face each other, and their positions are changed by external influences. Or malfunctions other than vehicles. However, since the roof sensing vehicle detecting apparatus 200 used in the present invention detects when a vehicle having a constant weight is introduced, the possibility of a malfunction as in an optical sensor is very low.

On the other hand, the parking area display device 300 is provided at the inlet of each of the parking area 100 or the inlet of the series of parking area 100. When the parking lot is installed on two or more floors, a plurality of parking area display devices 300 may be installed for each floor. On the display panel of the parking area display device 300, a parking address indicating a parking area is displayed. For example, the address of the parking area is displayed in green, and the address of the non-parking area is displayed in red.

2 is a schematic diagram of an unmanned parking management system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 3 is a circuit diagram of a communication control device, a main control device, and a control room computer of the unmanned parking management system. The system of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 3 and 4 as follows.

The unmanned parking management system includes a plurality of vehicle detecting apparatuses 200, a communication control apparatus 400 connected in parallel with them, a main control apparatus 500 connected in series with the communication control apparatus 400, and a system of the whole system. The control room computer 600, and other parking area display device 300, the electronic money teller 710, the vehicle control device 720, 820 at the entrance and exit of the parking lot and the like.

When the vehicle detecting apparatus 200 detects information on whether the vehicle is parked (logic 1 or 0 about parking of the vehicle) and transmits the information to the communication control apparatus 400, the communication control apparatus 400 transmits the information to the communication module. The receiver 440 of the communication module 410 receives the ID code applied by the main controller 500 and transmits the communication to the main controller 500. The unique ID code of) and the authorized ID code are compared to transmit such information to the control room computer 600 in the same case.

As long as the number of ID code bits in the communication control device 400 can be connected to a single main controller 500 by a line, for example, if the number of ID code bits is 8 bits, The number of communication control devices 400 that can be connected to the main controller 500 is 256. Therefore, if the number of sensors in the vehicle detection apparatus 200 connected to one communication control device 400 is eight, 256 × 8 = 2048, 2048 vehicles can be detected. In addition, when the main control unit 500 using the communication module is connected to the control room computer 600, the number of bits of the ID code of the main control unit 500 can be connected. If the number of bits of the ID code is 8 bits, 256 main controllers 500 can be connected and used to detect 256 × 8 × 8 = 16,384 vehicles.

The TXR 432 of the communication module 410 in the communication control device 400 is connected to the RX 512 of the communication interface adapter 510 in the main control unit 500, and the TX (512) of the communication interface adapter 510. 514 is connected to the RXCH 434 of the communication module 410. The RXT 434 of the communication module 410 is connected to the TXR 432 'of the communication module 410', and the TXCH 444 of the communication module 410 is connected to the RXCH 442 'of the communication module 410'. It is connected. In the same way, the TXR 432 'of the communication module 410' is connected to the RXT 434 of the communication module 410, and the RXT 434 'of the communication module 410' is connected to the communication module (not shown). TXX, RXCH 442 'of communication module 410' is TXCH 444 of communication module 410, TXCH 444 'of communication module 410' is RXCHdp of communication module (not shown). Are connected to each. The RX 702 of the control room computer 700 is connected to the TXR 622 of the communication module 620 of the main control unit 600, and the TX 704 of the control room computer 700 is connected to the RXCH (of the communication module 620). 624 is connected to the data transmission.

The parking area display device 300 is installed at the introduction part of each parking area 100 or at the introduction part of the vehicle that can identify the location of the parking area 100, such as the introduction part of the series of parking areas 100, and a cold cathode ray tube. Or consists of including a display panel such as an LCD. If the parking area display device 300 is configured to express the parking area 100 in the area at a glance, it is not particularly limited in terms of its expression. In some cases, the parking permission display device 830 and the parking area display device 300 to be installed at the entrance of the parking lot may have the same configuration.

The entrance 800 of the parking lot is configured to include a parking permission display device 830, a parking card issuing device 810, a vehicle control device 820 and the like. The parking permission display device 830 displays the vehicle parking information provided from the control room computer 700 and displays whether or not the vehicle entering is allowed. In addition, by displaying the parking area 100 of the vehicle allowed parking, the driver can easily recognize the planned parking position of the vehicle. The parking card issuing device 810 automatically issues a parking card sequentially assigned a vehicle identification number, and provides basic data of a parking time for calculating a parking fee at a later departure. The vehicle control device 820 prevents the vehicle from entering the parking lot once, such as a descending barricade, and checks whether the parking area 100 in the parking lot is present in the control room computer 700 and then enters the vehicle. It is automatically removed at the time of grant. Since the parking card issuing device 810 and the vehicle control device 820 are devices known in the art, a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

The exit 700 of the parking lot is configured to include a vehicle control device 710 and an automatic money teller 720. The vehicle control apparatus 720 of the exit 700 has the same structure as the vehicle control apparatus 820 of the inlet 800, and after the payment is completed in the cashier 720, the command of the control room computer 700 It is removed when it is allowed to leave. On the other hand, the automatic teller machine 710 is connected to the control room computer 700, the modem for transmitting and receiving data to and from the online computer network of the management bank (not shown) for transmitting and receiving data between the protocol and the IC card The terminal comprises a keypad for inputting a key code for user operation. Therefore, the terminal possessing parking information can be provided to the management bank online computer network computer to make a payment through the online computer network. As a result, the driver can diversify the parking fee payment method by cash or credit card. In some cases, the electronic cash dispenser 720 further includes a radio frequency (RF) card recognition unit to activate the RF recognition chip in the card and collect coded data contained in the RF recognition chip. As such, the electronic cash dispenser 710 is well known in the art, so a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

Figure 4 shows the process of entering the vehicle according to an embodiment in the unmanned parking management system of the present invention.

When the system is activated, it is checked whether there is a vehicle to be entered by the vehicle sensor at the entrance of the parking lot (S401). If the occupant vehicle does not exist (NO), the process S401 is repeated, and if the occupant vehicle exists (YES), the vehicle detecting apparatuses of the parking area in the parking lot scan for the presence of the vehicle in the corresponding parking area, and the parking lot status information is displayed in the communication control device and The main processor is transmitted to the control room computer (S402). Then, the control room computer checks the empty parking area (usable parking area) (S403).

As a result of the check, if the empty parking area does not exist (NO), the process S403 is repeated while the vehicle is waiting, and if the empty parking area exists (YES), the vehicle control device is opened (S405) to allow the vehicle to enter. In this case, the driver transmits information about the empty parking area to the parking permission display device installed at the entrance of the parking lot and the parking area display device installed on each floor (S406). In the next step of the S404 process or the next step of the S405 process, a parking card is issued to the driver of the vehicle and provided as a data for fare settlement at a later departure.

When the parking area available for the parking permission display device at the entrance of the parking lot is not displayed, the driver of the vehicle moves to each floor and sequentially checks the parking area display device of each floor to confirm the parking area. Check whether there is a parking space available on the N floor (S407), and if it does not exist (NO), move to the next floor (N + 1 floor or N-1 floor) (S408) and repeat the process S407. In operation S409, the vehicle is parked in the corresponding parking area. When the parking area available for the parking permission display device at the entrance of the parking lot is displayed, the vehicle may proceed directly to step S409 where the vehicle is parked in the parking area without proceeding to step S407.

When the vehicle is parked in the parking area, the vehicle detecting apparatus detects the vehicle and confirms it (S410), and information about the same is transmitted to the control room computer through the communication control apparatus and the main controller (S411). ). The control room computer counts the number of parking available in the parking lot at the time the vehicle is parked and enters the parking fee settlement operation (S413).

5 is a view illustrating a process of leaving a vehicle according to an embodiment in the unmanned parking management system of the present invention.

When the vehicle leaves the parking area, the vehicle detecting apparatus confirms the departure (S501), and such information is sequentially transmitted to the communication control unit, the main control unit, and the control room computer to confirm the departure (S502, S503, S504). ). The control room computer calculates the parking fee by automatic settlement for the time interval between entering and leaving the vehicle, and transmits the information to the toll-out device at the exit of the parking lot together with the information about the leaving vehicle (S505). When the driver of the vehicle arriving at the exit inserts the parking card into the paying machine (S506), checks whether the vehicle to be withdrawn matches the vehicle identification vehicle information transmitted from the control room computer (S507), and if it matches (YES), the parking fee Inform the driver of the information on the parking fee will be paid (S508). After checking whether the calculated parking fee is paid (S509), if the payment is accepted in full (YES), the vehicle control device is removed to allow leaving (S510).

Those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains may make various applications and modifications within the scope of the present invention based on the above contents.

According to the unmanned parking management system of the present invention, the operation and management of the entire parking lot is possible even with a very small manpower such as a system administrator, and automatically finds the available parking area and informs the driver of the vehicle to easily find an empty parking space. Guide them to go. In addition, the vehicle detection device for detecting whether the vehicle is parked has an effect that there is little possibility of malfunction due to the use of the optical sensor by using the loop sensor.

Claims (5)

In the parking lot of a building that divides the parking space into a plurality of parking areas, A roof sensing vehicle detection device installed on the front floor of each parking area; It has a unique ID code, and includes a communication module comprising a transmitting unit for transmitting parking information from the vehicle sensing device to the main controller and a receiving unit for receiving an ID code from the main controller. A communication control device for comparing the authorized ID codes and transmitting information to a computer in the same case; A main control device including a communication interface adapter for transmission and reception with a communication control device, a communication module for transmission and reception to a control room computer, and a control unit for analyzing and controlling the transmitted and received information, and transmitting each information to the control room computer; ROM with built-in operation program that can execute this system automatically, RAM which stores information about each parking area, and control unit which processes the information received from each device and accordingly provides operation command to each device. Control room computer included; A parking area display device installed in a vehicle inlet of a parking area or a vehicle inlet of a series of parking areas and displaying whether parking is possible and its location under the control of a control room computer; A parking permission display device installed at the entrance of the parking lot and displaying whether the inflow permission is transmitted from the control room computer and the parking available area; An electronic card issuing device installed at the entrance of the parking lot and automatically issuing a parking card at the driver's request, and the card issuing information is sent to the control room computer device; An electronic cash storage device installed at an exit of the parking lot and including a modem and protocol for transmitting and receiving data from a control room computer to an online computer network of a bank, a terminal for transmitting and receiving data with an IC card, and an input keypad; And, Unmanned parking management system is installed at the entrance and exit of the parking lot, comprising a vehicle blocking device for blocking the entrance of the vehicle under the control of the control room computer. The parking area display device of claim 1, wherein the parking area display device includes an LCD display panel, and a parking address indicating a parking area is displayed, and the address of the parking area is displayed in green and the address of the non-parking area is red. Unmanned parking management system, characterized in that displayed in color. 3. The unmanned parking management system according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the parking permission display device and the parking area display device have the same configuration. The unmanned parking management system according to claim 1, wherein the vehicle control device is a descending barricade. According to claim 1, wherein the electronic cash dispenser further includes a radio frequency (RF) card recognition unit to activate the RF recognition chip in the card and collect the coded data contained in the RF recognition chip unattended Parking management system.