KR20090097342A - Parking position guiding system using rfid - Google Patents

Abstract

A parking position guiding system using RFID is provided to minimize the construction cost of the parking position guide system by using RFID. The parking position guiding system using RFID the client registration terminal(120), the second RFID tag(130), the RFID reader(141~143), the location management server(150) and the guideline terminal. The first customer identification information is received from the first RFID tag(110) of client. The second RFID tag has the second unique identifying information and is issued to a client in the entrance of parking lot. The RFID readers receive the second unique identifying information from the second RFID tag. The location management server registers the client corresponding to the first customer identification information in DB.

Description

Parking position guiding system using RFID

The present invention relates to a parking position identification system using RFID, and to roughly specify a parking position using an RFID tag that is intermittently installed in a vehicle moving passage and an RFID tag issued when a parking lot is received, and the position of the parking position is installed at the entrance of the parking lot. Characterized by the identification terminal or the user's mobile communication terminal characterized in that the character, voice or map.

Currently, research on RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) is rapidly progressing worldwide. Since 2005, large discount store companies such as Wal-Mart in the United States, Tesco in the UK, and Metro Group in Germany have been using RFID will be used for instant calculation of purchase price and supply of scarce goods. With this trend, it is predicted that as the use of RFID expands, the price of the system and tag of RFID decreases and it can be used at a very low price.

On the other hand, due to the exponential increase in the number of cars, the size of the parking lot is continuously increasing, and recently, the parking lot is being constructed as a large-scale building type parking lot rather than a small bare land parking lot. In such large parking lots, an automatic parking settlement system is used to manage the entire parking lot with a small manpower.

In the conventional parking settlement system, when the vehicle enters the parking lot and the paper parking card is removed from the entrance, the blocking device is opened and the vehicle enters the parking lot. In this case, a paper card or a plastic card with magnetic tape is used as a parking card. When the parking card is issued, the parking time and the parking fee are automatically calculated when the parking card is recorded.

The parking settlement system significantly improved the work efficiency of the parking lot operator. However, the parking lot customer was unable to remember the parking position of the vehicle after finishing work and had to spend a considerable amount of time in the parking lot.

In order to improve this inconvenience, Korean Patent Registration No. 10-0778618 (prior art 1) and Korean Patent Application No. 10-2005-0087983 (prior art 2) have been presented.

Prior art 1 includes a first RFID tag attached to one side of a vehicle and storing vehicle information, an RFID reader for reading vehicle information from the first RFID tag at the entrance of the parking lot, and a parking space inside the parking lot. A second RFID tag attached to each other so as to correspond to each other and storing the parking location information of the corresponding parking space, the parking location information is read from the second RFID tag, and the phone number and the parking location information are transmitted to the parking management server. The mobile communication terminal and a parking management server for transmitting the parking position information of the customer vehicle to the mobile communication terminal through a wireless network.

Prior art 2, when the access control device obtains the customer information of the vehicle received through the RFID tag, the central processing unit receives the identification number from the RFID reader installed in the parking compartment, the central processing unit is parked corresponding to the parking compartment The present invention relates to a parking management method of transmitting location information to a mobile phone number included in customer information.

However, according to the prior art 1 and the prior art 2 there is a problem that the system construction cost increases because the RFID reader must be installed in each parking space or parking compartment of each vehicle. In addition, according to the prior art 1, since the first RFID tag and the second RFID tag must be provided, the parking lot is burdened to the parking lot user, and the vehicle information must be stored in the first RFID tag in advance, so that the first visitor can apply the invention. There is a problem that can not be. In particular the latter problem applies equally to prior art 2.

The present invention has been proposed to solve the above problems, focusing on the fact that only approximate location information is required to determine the parking location, an RFID reader for collecting parking location information is intermittently for a predetermined number of unit parking spaces. I want to install

Also, by issuing a parking card including an RFID tag at the time of visit and collecting it again, the parking location guide service can be provided regardless of the possession of the RFID tag.

In addition, the location information can be provided through the mobile communication terminal using at least one of a text, voice, map image and video.

One aspect of the present invention for solving the above problems, the customer registration terminal for receiving customer identification information from the first RFID tag of the customer at the parking lot entrance, issued to the customer at the parking lot entrance, and stored their own unique identification information A second RFID tag, a plurality of RFID readers receiving the unique identification information from the second RFID tag, and when the customer identification information is transmitted from the customer registration terminal, the corresponding customer is registered in a DB, and the unique identification information from the RFID reader. Is received, the location management server that matches and stores the corresponding unique identification information and the location information of the RFID reader, and when the customer identification information is received from the first RFID tag, query the location management server for parking location information of the RFID tag. It relates to a parking position guidance system using RFID including a guide terminal for guiding a parking position.

The parking location guidance system may further include an issuing terminal for issuing the second RFID tag at the entrance of the parking lot.

The terminal may further include a payment terminal configured to store an issuing time of the second RFID tag and to automatically calculate a parking fee by comparing the issuing time and the collection time when the second RFID tag is recovered. The recovery time is a time when the unique identification information is received from the second RFID tag.

Another aspect of the present invention is a customer registration terminal for receiving customer identification information including a mobile communication number from the customer's first RFID tag at the parking lot entrance, issued to the customer at the parking lot entrance, the first identification information is stored 2 RFID tag, a plurality of RFID readers that receive the unique identification information from the second RFID tag, and when the customer identification information is transmitted from the customer registration terminal, the corresponding customer is registered in the DB, and the unique identification information is received from the RFID reader. When received, the location management server for matching and storing the corresponding unique identification information and the location information of the RFID reader, and when the unique identification information is received from the first RFID tag, requesting the location management server to transmit the parking location to the mobile communication number It relates to a parking position guide system using an RFID including a guide request terminal.

The parking location guidance system may further include an issuing terminal for issuing the second RFID tag at the entrance of the parking lot.

The terminal may further include a payment terminal configured to store an issuing time of the second RFID tag and to automatically calculate a parking fee by comparing the issuing time and the collection time when the second RFID tag is recovered. The recovery time is a time when the unique identification information is received from the second RFID tag.

In the above two aspects, the parking position may be guided to at least one of voice guidance data, text guide data, map image data and guide video data.

In addition, in the above two aspects, the RFID reader may be installed in the vehicle moving passage and installed one by one for each predetermined number of unit parking spaces, and in particular, the RFID reader may be installed on the ceiling of the vehicle moving passage.

In addition, in the above two aspects, the first RFID tag may be provided in any one of a mobile communication terminal and an ID card.

According to the present invention, since the parking position can be guided through an RFID tag intermittently installed for each predetermined number of unit parking spaces, the construction cost of the parking position guidance system can be minimized without lack of location determination. In addition, since the parking card including the RFID tag is issued at the time of visit and collected again, the parking location guide service can be provided regardless of the possession of the RFID tag. In addition, since the location information can be provided to the mobile communication terminal through at least one of a text, voice, map image, and video, it is not necessary to carry a separate terminal for parking location guidance.

As the invention allows for various changes and numerous embodiments, particular embodiments will be illustrated in the drawings and described in detail in the written description. However, this is not intended to limit the present invention to specific embodiments, it should be understood to include all modifications, equivalents, and substitutes included in the spirit and scope of the present invention.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, and the same or corresponding components will be denoted by the same reference numerals regardless of the reference numerals, and redundant description thereof will be omitted.

<First Embodiment>

1 illustrates a configuration of a parking position guide system according to an embodiment of the present invention. The present embodiment relates to a case in which a customer holds a first RFID tag containing customer identification information in advance and then receives a second RFID tag containing identification information for tag identification at a parking lot entrance to perform parking.

The first RFID tag 110 stores customer identification information such as a social security number, a medical insurance number, a driver's license number, and a credit card number. The first RFID tag 110 may be mounted in the form of a card. However, the first RFID tag 110 may be mounted in a mobile communication terminal which is generally expected to always carry.

When the customer identification information is received from the first RFID tag 110, the customer registration terminal 120 transmits the corresponding customer identification information and time information to the location management server 150 to request customer registration. Accordingly, the customer registration terminal 120 is equipped with an RFID reader (not shown) for receiving information from the first RFID tag 110.

The second RFID tag 130 stores unique identification information about the tag. The unique identification information may be serial numbers of parking cards operated in a corresponding parking lot, or may be serial numbers of RFID tags. The RFID tag 110 may be mounted on various types of transportation cards, accessories, bracelets, badges, as well as parking cards in the form of credit cards. The vehicle entering the parking lot is issued with the second RFID tag 110 at the entrance.

The RFID readers 141 to 143 are installed in a moving passage of the vehicle and transmit an electromagnetic signal to the second RFID tag 130 (or a vehicle that has received the RFID tag) moving to the corresponding passage to reach a radio wave reception distance. 2 The unique identification information is received from the RFID tag 130. In addition, the location management server 150 transmits the received unique identification information.

The RFID readers 141 to 143 are preferably installed one by one for each predetermined number of unit parking spaces. 2 illustrates an installation structure of an RFID reader according to an embodiment of the present invention.

That is, it is preferable that one RFID reader is installed in four, six or eight units instead of one unit for each parking space. The customer is able to find the spot in the small block unit range of 4 to 8 even if it is not necessarily the correct parking position, and the system construction cost increases due to the unnecessary tightly installed RFID reader, and This is because the interference between the readers may cause errors in positioning.

As shown in FIG. 2, RFID readers 141 to 143 are respectively installed between A1 and B1 blocks, between A2 and B2 blocks, and between A3 and B3 blocks, and one RFID reader covers six vehicles. have. Also, in order to park in the last parking space of the previous block, the RFID reader is installed in the second or subsequent unit parking space of the block in consideration of the vehicle moving forward and then back to the block covered by the RFID reader. desirable. In addition, the RFID reader is preferably installed on the ceiling of the vehicle movement path in order to prevent damage and to facilitate communication network wiring.

The location management server 150 determines and stores the parking location of the last RFID reader that sent the information about the same unique identification information as the final location, and when the request of the guide terminal 160, the last location information corresponding to the guide terminal. Transmit to 160.

When the customer identification information is received from the first RFID tag 110, the guide terminal 160 queries the location management server 150 for parking location information corresponding to the customer identification information and receives the corresponding parking location information. This is then guided to the customer via speakers and / or monitors. The guide terminal 160 is preferably located near the customer entrance of the parking lot or in an elevator so that the customer can be immediately informed of the location of the vehicle when the customer returns to the parking lot after returning from work.

Meanwhile, an issuing terminal (not shown in the drawing) may be installed at the entrance of the parking lot to issue the second RFID tag 130 to the customer. For the unmanned operation of the parking lot, the issuing terminal has an input means (not shown) for requesting issuance of a parking ticket or a tray (not shown in the drawing) and a tray (not shown in the drawing) for issuing a parking ticket at the request of the customer. It may include a trailer (not shown in the drawing), the issuance completion sensor (not shown in the drawing). The input means may be configured to automatically issue the second RFID tag 130 as the customer identification information is received at the customer registration terminal 120. That is, the issuing terminal may be issued by matching the identification information of the second RFID tag 130 with the customer identification information received from the customer registration terminal 120.

In addition, the parking position guidance system of the first embodiment is connected to the issuing terminal, and stores the issuing time of the second RFID tag 130 issued to the vehicle to be received, the second RFID tag 130 of the customer to ship When the unique identification information is received from the payment time by comparing the issuing time and the unique information receiving time may include a settlement terminal 170 for automatically calculating the parking fee. Therefore, the settlement terminal 170 and the issuing terminal may be integrated into one terminal without being separately configured. Furthermore, the settlement terminal 170, the issuing terminal and the customer registration terminal 120 may also be integrated into one terminal.

3 is a flowchart sequentially showing the parking position guidance method of the first embodiment. Here, it is assumed that the first RFID tag is installed in the mobile communication terminal of the customer and the social security number of the customer is stored in the first RFID tag. In addition, it is assumed that the second RFID tag is mounted in a parking card form and serial numbers sequentially assigned by the corresponding parking lot are used as unique identification information. In addition, the settlement terminal, the issuing terminal and the customer registration terminal are integrated into one terminal, which will be called an access terminal.

The customer enters the parking lot, touches the cell phone to the access terminal and finishes the customer registration (S101), and then receives a parking card from the access terminal (S103). The access terminal reads the social security number from the customer's mobile phone and sends it to the location management server with the current time, and automatically issues a parking card to the customer.

The customer searches for an empty parking space with a parking card loaded inside the vehicle. As the vehicle moves, the RFID reader installed on the ceiling or the floor of the moving passage becomes excessive, and each time the serial number of the card is transmitted from the parking card to the RFID reader. The RFID reader transmits the received serial number to the location management server (S105).

The location management server searches for location information corresponding to the received serial number from the location DB (not shown in the drawing), and stores the searched result in the customer DB (not shown in the drawing) together with the social security number corresponding to the serial number. do.

If the same serial number is not received for a predetermined time (S107), since the customer parked the vehicle and went to see the business, the location information stored immediately before the end without performing location information search and storage is no longer performed. Determine the parking position (S109).

Afterwards, when the customer enters the parking lot after finishing his / her business, he places a mobile phone on the guide terminal installed near the entrance of the parking lot and requests confirmation of the parking position of his vehicle (S111). When the guide terminal receives the customer's social security number is sent to the location management server to request the parking location check, if the location information is transmitted from the location management server and outputs it to the screen (S113). At this time, the location information preferably shows both the current location of the customer and the approximate location of the vehicle, and the approximate location refers to the location of the RFID reader installed near the customer's vehicle.

When a customer finds a vehicle and exits the parking lot, the parking terminal receives a parking number at the exit terminal, and the terminal receives the serial number from the parking card and compares the received time with the pre-stored issuing time to automatically calculate the parking fee. (S115).

Second Embodiment

Figure 4 shows the configuration of a parking position guide system according to another embodiment of the present invention. This embodiment is similar to the first embodiment in that the first RFID tag and the second RFID tag are required at the same time, but differs in that the approximate parking position is confirmed by the mobile communication terminal of the customer.

The first RFID tag 210, the customer registration terminal 220, the second RFID tag 230, the RFID readers 241 to 243, the settlement terminal 270, and the issuing terminal (not shown in the drawing) are those of the first embodiment. First RFID tag 110, customer registration terminal 120, second RFID tag 130, RFID reader (141 ~ 143), settlement terminal 170 and issuing terminal (not shown) and its role and characteristics Since they are the same, a description of them is omitted.

The location management server 250 stores the parking location of the customer according to the same principle as the first embodiment, and when there is a location guide request from the guide request terminal 260, the mobile communication included in the corresponding unique identification information through the mobile communication network. Transmit parking location information by number. Optionally, the location management server 250 may automatically transmit the parking location information to the mobile communication number when the parking location of the corresponding customer is determined even if there is no separate location guide request from the guide requesting terminal 260.

The parking location information may be at least one of voice guide data, text guide data, image guide data, and video guide data. The image guide data may be a map image simultaneously indicating the vehicle location and the current location of the customer, or may be a map image indicating only the location of the vehicle. 5 shows an example of one screen of the mobile communication terminal in the latter case.

When the guide request terminal 260 receives the unique identification information from the RFID tag of the customer interprets it as a parking location guide request and requests the location management server 250 to transmit the parking location to the corresponding mobile communication number.

6 is a flowchart sequentially illustrating a parking position guidance method according to the present embodiment. Here, it is assumed that the first RFID tag is installed in the mobile communication terminal of the customer and the mobile phone number of the customer is stored in the first RFID tag. In addition, it is assumed that the second RFID tag is mounted in a parking card form and serial numbers sequentially assigned by the corresponding parking lot are used as unique identification information. In addition, the settlement terminal, the issuing terminal and the customer registration terminal are integrated into one terminal, which will be called an access terminal.

The customer enters the parking lot, touches the cell phone to the access terminal and finishes the customer registration (S201), and subsequently receives a parking card from the access terminal (S203). The access terminal reads the mobile phone number from the customer's mobile phone and sends it to the location management server with the current time, and automatically issues a parking card to the customer.

The customer searches for an empty parking space with a parking card loaded inside the vehicle. As the vehicle moves, the RFID reader installed on the ceiling or floor of the moving passage becomes excessive, and each time the serial number of the card is transmitted from the parking card to the RFID reader. The RFID reader transmits the received serial number to the location management server (S205).

The location management server searches for location information corresponding to the received serial number from the location DB (not shown), and stores the searched result in the customer DB (not shown in the drawing) together with the mobile number corresponding to the serial number. do.

If the same serial number is not received for a predetermined time (S207), this is because the customer parked the vehicle and went to see the business. Determine the parking position (S209).

Thereafter, when the customer enters the parking lot after completing the business, he places a mobile phone on the guide request terminal installed near the entrance of the parking lot and requests confirmation of the parking position of his vehicle (S211). Information request terminal receives the customer's mobile number is sent to the location management server to request the parking location check, location management server retrieves the location information matching the received mobile phone number to locate the corresponding mobile number through the mobile communication network Information is transmitted (S213). The location information may be at least one of character information representing a parking spot, map information showing a parking spot, voice information for guiding the parking spot, and video information for introducing a way to a parking spot.

When a customer finds a vehicle and exits the parking lot, the parking terminal receives a parking number at the exit terminal, and the terminal receives the serial number from the parking card and compares the received time with the pre-stored issuing time to automatically calculate the parking fee. (S215).

Preferred embodiments of the present invention described above are disclosed for purposes of illustration, and those skilled in the art will be able to make various modifications, changes, and additions within the spirit and scope of the present invention. Additions should be considered to be within the scope of the following claims.

1 illustrates a configuration of a parking position guide system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 illustrates an installation structure of an RFID reader according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a flowchart sequentially illustrating a parking position guide method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 4 shows the configuration of a parking position guide system according to another embodiment of the present invention.

5 illustrates an example of a screen of a mobile communication terminal according to another embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a flowchart sequentially illustrating a parking position guide method according to another embodiment of the present invention.

Claims (16)

A customer registration terminal receiving first customer identification information from a first RFID tag of a customer at a parking lot entrance; A second RFID tag issued to a customer at an entrance of the parking lot and storing second unique identification information; A plurality of RFID readers receiving second unique identification information from the second RFID tag; When the first customer identification information is transmitted from the customer registration terminal, the corresponding customer is registered in the DB, and when the second unique identification information is received from the RFID reader, the second unique identification information and the location information of the corresponding RFID reader are stored and matched. Location management server; And When the customer identification information is received from the first RFID tag, a guide terminal for querying the location management server for parking location information of the corresponding RFID tag to guide the parking location. Parking location guidance system using an RFID. The method of claim 1, Parking position guidance system using RFID further comprising an issuing terminal for issuing the second RFID tag at the parking lot entrance. The method of claim 2, Parking position guidance system using the RFID to store the issuing time of the second RFID tag, and automatically calculates the parking fee by comparing the issuing time and the recovery time when the second RFID tag is recovered . The method of claim 3, The collection time is a parking position guidance system using RFID, characterized in that the time received the unique identification information from the second RFID tag. The method of claim 1, The RFID reader is installed in the vehicle moving passage, parking position guidance system using RFID, characterized in that one is installed for each predetermined number of unit parking spaces. The method of claim 5, The RFID reader is a parking position guidance system using RFID, characterized in that installed on the ceiling of the vehicle movement passage. The method of claim 1, The guide terminal guides the location of the RFID tag using at least one of a text, a voice, a map image, and a video. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 7, The first RFID tag is a parking position guidance system using RFID, characterized in that provided in any one of the mobile terminal and the ID card. A customer registration terminal receiving first customer identification information including a mobile communication number from a first RFID tag of a customer at a parking lot entrance; A second RFID tag issued to a customer at an entrance of the parking lot and storing second unique identification information; A plurality of RFID readers receiving first unique identification information from the second RFID tag; When the first customer identification information is transmitted from the customer registration terminal, the corresponding customer is registered in a DB. When the first unique identification information is received from the RFID reader, the first unique identification information and the location information of the RFID reader are matched and stored. Location management server; And Information request terminal for requesting the location management server to transmit the parking location to the mobile communication number when the first unique identification information is received from the first RFID tag Parking location guidance system using an RFID. The method of claim 9, The location management server is a parking location guidance system using RFID, characterized in that for transmitting at least one of voice guidance data, text guide data, map image data and guide video data of the parking location to the mobile communication number. The method of claim 9, Parking position guidance system using RFID further comprising an issuing terminal for issuing the second RFID tag at the parking lot entrance. The method of claim 11, Parking position guidance system using the RFID to store the issuing time of the second RFID tag, and automatically calculates the parking fee by comparing the issuing time and the recovery time when the second RFID tag is recovered . The method of claim 12, The recovery time is a parking position guidance system using RFID, characterized in that the time when the second unique identification information received from the second RFID tag. The method of claim 9, The RFID reader is installed in the vehicle moving passage, parking position guidance system using RFID, characterized in that one is installed for each predetermined number of unit parking spaces. The method of claim 14, The RFID reader is a parking position guidance system using RFID, characterized in that installed on the ceiling of the vehicle movement passage. The method according to any one of claims 9 to 15, The first RFID tag is a parking position guidance system using RFID, characterized in that provided in any one of the mobile terminal and the ID card.

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