KR20070113632A - Parking management system and the method the same - Google Patents

Abstract

A parking management system and a parking management method are provided to enhance user convenience by processing various parking information on a micro chip. A parking management unit(10) is implemented on an inlet of a parking lot and includes a vehicle in/out detector(11), a vehicle authentication unit(12), a first coin reader(13) and a coin issuer(14). The first coin reader reads out information from a coin, in which a micro chip is embedded. The coin is introduced by a managed vehicle. The coin issuer records an entrance time and a vehicle number on the micro chip and issues the coin. A second coin reader(31) reads information from the coin, which is collected by an outgoing vehicle. A parking fare calculator unit(30) calculates a parking fare according to the information read from the coin.

Description

Parking management system and the method the same

1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a parking management system according to the present invention;

2 is a flow chart showing a processing procedure of the parking management system according to the present invention.

The present invention relates to a parking management system and a method thereof, and more particularly, to a parking management system and a method using a coin.

In general, there is a lot of inconvenience in parking due to the lack of parking space due to rapid supply of vehicles, in order to solve such inconveniences, subway stations, government offices, hospitals, large buildings, department stores, shopping dents each have their own parking facilities.

These parking facilities are equipped with a separate parking system and are operated for a fee. Most of these parking facilities are parked tickets where the parking lot computer enters the parking time when the parking lot manager inputs the vehicle number into the parking lot computer during the entering and leaving of the car Print and open the parking entrance gate. And when the parking ticket is entered into the reader, the data processor for parking lot management calculates the parking time, calculates the parking rate based on the parking rate per unit time, displays it on the output of the management system, and prints a receipt. The manager sets the parking fee with the driver, issues a receipt, and opens the gate. The parking lot management system collects the accumulated parking information according to the input of the control key, and calculates and outputs various aggregates such as parking status aggregates, parking volume aggregates and income aggregates for each period.

However, such a parking management system is complicated to enter and exit the parking lot by entering the vehicle number every time the vehicle enters the parking lot and to calculate the parking fee every time it leaves. This reduces the productivity of the parking lot, delays parking lot access time for parking lot users, makes it difficult to collect and document parking costs, and provides various forms for market economy introduction such as prepaid, postpaid, discounted, and graded parking fees. Of rates service is difficult to provide.

In order to solve the above problems, Korean Patent Publication Nos. 2005-0013784 and 2000-0067519 disclose a parking management system and a method thereof. The disclosed parking management system can check whether a car is parked at a parking position. However, such a parking management system, as described above, is issued by a separate ticketing machine issued a parking certificate printed on the arrival time can not solve the problem as described above.

Patent Publication No. 1997-0062950 discloses an off-line parking management system using an RF-IC card, and Patent No. 0582031 discloses a vehicle using unique identification information of an electronic card currency such as a traffic card or a credit card mobile. There is disclosed a parking management system that can manage and pay the parking fee using electronic money.

In the related art, a parking management system that can check an entry time, an exit time, and a parking time using a magnet card is used, and such a magnet card is often damaged in repeated use, and thus difficult to maintain.

In particular, the system for servicing parking fees and parking times is as described in the magnetic code generator disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 61-9809 and the magnetic card disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 61-9882. A configuration is known in which a service code is recorded for a card and various parking services can be received by the service code.

The present invention is to solve the problems as described above, parking management is easy, by using a coin to confirm parking parking management system and method that can fundamentally solve the problem of damage caused by repeated use of parking permits The purpose is to provide.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a parking management system that can be compact in the structure of the ticketing and vehicle authentication.

Parking management system of the present invention for achieving the above object is

Installed at the entrance side of the parking lot, the vehicle entrance detection sensor that detects the entrance and exit of the vehicle entering the parking lot, the management vehicle certification confirmation means for checking whether the vehicle is in the management, and the microchip introduced from the managed vehicle A parking management unit equipped with a first coin reader for reading information from the coin, a coin ticketing machine for recording ticketing time and vehicle number on the microchip of the coin for issuing to unmanaged vehicles, and issuing the ticket;

An entrance gate which is installed adjacent to the parking management unit and opens and closes the entrance of the main runner window;

And a second coin reader for acquiring information from the coins collected from the shipped vehicle, and a parking fee settlement unit for calculating parking costs based on the parking time, the vehicle type, the managed vehicle, and the discounted vehicle according to the information read from the coin. It is characterized by that.

Parking management method in the present invention for achieving the above object,

A vehicle detection step of detecting a vehicle entering the parking lot;

Management vehicle certification check step to check whether the incoming vehicle is managed

A coin reading step of reading information recorded in a coin of the management vehicle;

A coin ticketing step of issuing a ticket by inputting a receipt time, a type of vehicle, and a vehicle number to a coin to be issued to an unmanaged vehicle;

It is characterized in that it comprises a parking cost payment step of recovering the coin at the time of shipment of the vehicle to set the cost according to the parking information recorded on the microchip.

In the present invention, the coin reading step further comprises a display step for displaying the content unsuitable for the management conditions, and in the vehicle detection step, further comprising a guide display step for guiding the management status of the parking lot, etc. do.

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

The parking management system according to the present invention manages parking time, parking cost, regular management vehicle, parking cost discount, etc. using a microchip embedded coin.

Referring to the drawings, a parking management unit 10 installed at the entrance side of the parking lot, an entrance side gate 20 installed at the entrance side of the parking lot, and a parking fee settlement unit 30 installed at the exit side of the parking lot. ) And an exit side gate 40 provided on the exit side of the parking lot. The parking management room is provided with a main data processor 50 and a coin information recorder 70 for controlling them. Such a parking system has a structure in which a parking user receives a coin (not shown) in which a vehicle number is recorded from a coin ticketing machine described below when the vehicle is received and released.

When described in detail for each component constituting the parking system configured as described above are as follows.

First, the parking management unit 10 is installed at the entrance side of the parking lot, and the vehicle entrance detecting means 11 for detecting a vehicle entering the parking lot, and the vehicle detected by the vehicle entrance detecting means manage the parking lot with a regular contract. The management vehicle certification confirmation means 12 for confirming whether the vehicle is provided is provided. The entrance detecting means 11 may be formed of a proximity sensor or a light emitting sensor, but is not limited thereto. The management vehicle authentication confirmation means 12 may be performed by comparing a camera photographing a vehicle number with a vehicle number recognized by the camera and a number recorded in the main data processor. Vehicle recognition may be made by recognizing an identification mark issued by the parking lot. On the other hand, the vehicle access detection means may further include a sensor for detecting whether the parking lot is full, and further includes a counter that may check whether or not full by counting the number of vehicles received.

Then, the first coin reader 13 for reading the coin embedded with the microchip presented from the driver of the managed vehicle, and the entry time and the vehicle number are recorded on the microchip of the coin for issuing to the unmanaged vehicle. We have coin ticket machine 14.

On the other hand, the parking management unit has a separate guide display means 15 for guiding whether the parking management system is used, and a recognition means (not shown) for recognizing information recorded in the coin of the management vehicle is inappropriate. It may be further provided. The recognition means may be composed of a display panel for providing information, an alarm, a lamp, and the like.

At the exit side of the parking lot, a parking fee settlement unit 30 is installed which reads the coins collected from the released vehicle and calculates the parking cost based on the parking time, the vehicle type, the management vehicle and the discounted vehicle. 30 further includes a second coin reader 31 and a receipt issuer 31 for recording the information of the coin.

On the other hand, the coin for recording and reading the parking information as described above may be made of a structure in which a microchip that can record the parking information in a circular body, although not shown in the figure. The coin is not limited to a microchip embedded therein, and may be formed of a magnet pad capable of recording and reproducing parking information. When the coin only uses a parking lot, the parking fee is calculated from the time of receipt by injecting the parking coin into the second coin reader 31 of the parking fee settlement unit 30 installed at the exit when the vehicle is released. When the parking fee is settled, the exit gate is opened to allow the vehicle to be released, but in the present invention, the customer who has a contract with the parking lot owner can receive the service at the parking fee or the parking time.

In addition, the parking management method according to the present invention includes a vehicle recognition step of detecting a vehicle entering the parking lot using a proximity sensor, an infrared sensor, a camera, and the like, and a management vehicle certification checking step of checking whether the incoming vehicle is managed. In the case of the management vehicle, a coin reading step of recovering coins and reading information recorded on the microchip of the coin is provided. And a coin ticketing step of issuing a ticket by inputting a kind of vehicle time and a vehicle number to a coin to be issued to a coin of the managed vehicle or an unmanaged vehicle. In the ticketing step, in the case of a management vehicle, if a contract is made with the parking lot operator, authentication may be made based on a setting contract.

And a cost settlement step of recovering the coin at the time of shipment of the vehicle in the parking lot and calculating the cost according to the parking information recorded in the microchip by the second coin reader 32. In this case, when the ticketing of the coin and the ticketing cost are made, the entrance or exit gate is opened and closed. It may further include a display step of displaying the contents of the coin presented from the user of the management authentication vehicle or the coin presented at the factory that is not suitable for the management conditions.

The operation of the parking management system according to the present invention configured as described above and the parking management method through the same will be described in detail as follows.

In the parking management system 10 according to the present invention, the parking fee or parking time service information is recorded at the time of ticketing to a parking lot user with a coin installed with a microchip chip or a magnet pad, and at the time of shipping, the certified coin is parked. When the charge is put into the second coin reader of the settlement unit, a parking fee with a discounted rate corresponding to the recorded parking cost or service information is calculated, and then the vehicle can be shipped by paying the fee.

In more detail, when the vehicle enters the parking lot as illustrated in FIGS. 1 and 2, the vehicle is detected by the vehicle access detecting means 11, and the guide display means 15 displays the user of the runner window. Parking lot usage and fees are displayed. In this state, the management vehicle authentication checking means 12 checks whether the vehicle is a management vehicle, that is, a vehicle that has been used by the parking lot owner. This confirmation can be made by comparing the information recorded in the coin or the vehicle number photographed by the camera with the information recorded in the main data processor. In the case of a managed vehicle, coins are collected and the information is recorded and issued or the previously recorded information is read by the first coin reader. In the case of unmanaged vehicles, coins recorded with parking time, vehicle number, and service status are issued by button operation by the parking lot user.

When the vehicle is released while the coin is issued as described above, the coin is collected and the coin information is read using the second coin reader 32 of the parking fee settlement unit, and then the parking cost is calculated according to the recorded time. do. In the process, the parking cost of the managed vehicle can be reduced each time the cost is settled using the information recorded in the coin while the record of the discount service point purchased from the owner is completed.

As described above, the parking management system and the method according to the present invention use a chip with a built-in microchip capable of recording a large amount of data processing parking information can provide a sufficient service to the user, and It can improve the convenience and economics that enables recycling.

 Although the present invention has been described with reference to one embodiment shown in the drawings, this is merely exemplary, and it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various modifications and equivalent embodiments are possible.

Therefore, the true scope of protection of the present invention should be defined only by the appended claims.

Claims (4)

Installed at the entrance side of the parking lot, the vehicle entrance detection means for detecting the entrance and exit of the vehicle entering the parking lot, the management vehicle authentication confirmation means for confirming whether the vehicle is in the management, the microchip introduced from the managed vehicle A parking management unit equipped with a first coin reader for reading information from the coin, a coin ticketing machine for recording ticketing time and vehicle number on the microchip of the coin for issuing to unmanaged vehicles, and issuing the ticket; A second coin reader for acquiring information from coins collected from the released vehicle, and a parking fee settlement unit for calculating parking costs based on the parking time, type of vehicle, managed vehicle, and discounted vehicle according to the information read from the coin. Parking management system characterized in that.  The method of claim 1, The coin is a parking management system, characterized in that consisting of the main body, a microchip or a magnet pad installed on the main body. A vehicle detection step of detecting a vehicle entering the parking lot; Management vehicle certification check step to check whether the incoming vehicle is managed A coin reading step of reading information recorded in a coin of the management vehicle; A coin ticketing step of issuing a ticket by inputting a vehicle type, a vehicle number, and a vehicle arrival time to a coin to be issued to a non-managed vehicle And a parking cost settlement step of recovering the coin at the time of shipment of the vehicle and calculating the cost according to the parking information recorded on the microchip. The method of claim 3, wherein And a display step of displaying the contents unsuitable for the management conditions in the coin reading step.

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