KR20140111150A - System for calculating parking fee using on-board unit - Google Patents

Abstract

In a system for settling a parking fee, the present invention, a parking fee settlement system of a vehicle using an on-board unit includes: an on-board unit having unique terminal identification information; a road side equipment which is located at an exit of a parking lot, and receives terminal identification information of the on-board unit from the on-board unit; a financial institution server for approving settlement of a parking fee according to a settlement approval request; a settlement server which searches a settlement method corresponding to the terminal identification information, when the terminal identification information is received, and requests settlement approval as to the parking fee to the financial institution server according to the settlement method; an in-coming vehicle information acquisition apparatus for acquiring vehicle number information of an in-coming vehicle through an audible frequency band edge acoustic communication when the vehicle comes in; a parking information management server which calculates a parking fee on the basis of an out-going time of an out-going vehicle and an in-coming time corresponding to the vehicle number of the out-going vehicle, and delivers the calculated parking fee information and the terminal identification information of the on-board unit received from the road side equipment to the settlement server; and a user terminal which displays the parking fee received from the settlement server, and requests settlement as to the parking fee to the settlement server. The financial institution server requests personal identification information to the user terminal, and then receives the personal identification information, and then approves the settlement. According to an embodiment of the present invention, an on-board unit which can be used only in a high pass system can be used in the parking fee settlement system, the present invention can improve usage efficiency of an on-board unit (OBU).

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention [0001] The present invention relates to a system for calculating a parking fee using a vehicle-

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention [0001] The present invention relates to a system for enabling a parking fee to be settled using a terminal equipped with a vehicle.

Generally, a hi-pass system is an automatic electronic fare collection system that processes tolls on a highway by wireless communication in a running state of the vehicle. The system includes an electronic card, an on-board unit (OBU) (Road Side Equipment, RSE). When the RSE recognizes the vehicle and sends the payment request information to the OBU, the OBU reads the payment information of the electronic card and sends it to the RSE, and the RSE performs payment using the payment information of the electronic card.

As the high-pass system is opened nationwide, the diffusion of the OBU is expanding. In addition to the service for handling the highway toll due to technical reasons and legal problems, the high-pass system can not be used for other services. Therefore, the utility of the OBU and the RSE is low.

In order to solve such a problem, an attempt is made to apply a high pass system OBU and an RSE to a parking lot to settle a parking charge. Most of these parking fee settlement services are required to install RSE at the entrance and exit of the parking lot. In particular, the RSE has to include a module for communicating with the OBU and payment, which is complicated and costly. Also, if the existing parking control system is used, the parking control system that is being used becomes obsolete because the function of the parking control system that is being used is dedicated to RSE.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a system and method for linking an existing parking control system using an on-board unit (OBU) and a roadside equipment (RSE) The present invention provides a system and method for calculating a parking charge that can reduce the installation cost of the system through the system.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a system for charging a parking fee, the system comprising: a vehicle-mounted terminal mounted on a vehicle, the vehicle-mounted terminal having unique terminal identification information; A roadside base station for receiving the terminal identification information of the vehicle-mounted terminal from the vehicle-mounted terminal, a financial institution server for approving payment of the parking fee in response to the payment approval request, A settlement server for searching for a settlement method and requesting the financial institution server for the settlement approval for the parking fee according to the settlement method; a settlement server installed at the entrance of the parking lot, An information obtaining apparatus for obtaining an information of an arrival time of an outgoing vehicle, Calculates the parking fee on the basis of an entrance time corresponding to the vehicle number of the outbound vehicle received from the beam obtaining apparatus, and transmits the calculated parking fee information and the terminal identification information of the vehicle-mounted terminal received from the roadside base station to the settlement server And a user terminal for displaying a parking fee received from the settlement server on the screen and requesting settlement of the parking fee to the settlement server, And the payment approval is made after the identification information is requested and received.

Here, the intruding vehicle information acquiring device includes a speaker installed at an entrance side of the parking lot, for transmitting a car number information request signal as an acoustic wave signal in an audible frequency band, and receiving car number information as an acoustic wave signal in an audible frequency band And a sound wave analyzing unit for analyzing the received sound wave signal to acquire vehicle number information.

It is preferable that the settlement server confirms the parking charge to the parking information management server again before requesting the financial institution server for the payment approval.

According to the embodiment of the present invention, the on-board terminal (OBU) available only to the high-pass system can be used in the parking charge settlement system, thereby improving the utilization efficiency of the OBU.

In addition, by using the existing parking control system in conjunction with the parking charge settlement system, the road side equipment (RSE) can be installed only at the exit position, and the size and function of the RSE can be simplified to minimize the cost of the RSE, The installation cost of the fare settlement system can be reduced.

1 is a view showing a parking charge settlement system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 2 is a view showing the detailed configuration of the inter-vehicle information acquiring apparatus of Fig. 1;
3 is a diagram illustrating a method of registering user information by the settlement server according to the embodiment of the present invention.
4 is a flowchart illustrating a method of calculating a parking charge in the parking charge settlement system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
5 is a diagram illustrating an example of displaying parking information on the screen of the user terminal shown in FIG.
6 is a diagram illustrating an example of requesting automatic payment by the user terminal shown in FIG.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings so that those skilled in the art can easily carry out the present invention. The present invention may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein.

In order to clearly illustrate the present invention, parts not related to the description are omitted, and similar parts are denoted by like reference characters throughout the specification.

Throughout the specification and claims, when a section is referred to as "including " an element, it is understood that it does not exclude other elements, but may include other elements, unless specifically stated otherwise.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A parking fee settlement system and method according to an embodiment of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

1 is a view showing a parking charge settlement system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

1, the parking charge settlement system includes an entrance management server 110, an exit management server 120, a parking information management server 200, an on-board unit (OBU) 300, a roadside base station A road side equipment (RSE) 400, a settlement server 500, a financial institution server 600, a user terminal 700 and an intruding vehicle information acquisition device 800.

The entrance vehicle information acquiring device 800 is installed at the entrance of the parking lot and acquires the car number information of the incoming vehicle through acoustic frequency boundary band sound wave communication. 2, the entrance vehicle information acquiring device 800 is installed at the entrance side of the parking lot, and transmits the car number information request signal as the sound wave signal of the audio frequency boundary band, and transmits the car number information to the audio frequency boundary band And a sound wave analyzing unit 820 for analyzing the received sound wave signal to obtain vehicle number information and transmitting the acquired vehicle number information to the parking information management server 200 .

The incoming vehicle corresponding to the incoming vehicle information acquiring apparatus 800 receives the sound wave signal of the audible frequency boundary band received from the intruder vehicle information acquiring apparatus 800 and analyzes the received sound wave signal to recognize the vehicle number request Vehicle information providing means for converting the car number information corresponding to the car number request into the sound wave signal of the audible frequency boundary band and transmitting it is required. The vehicle information providing means may be a user terminal 700 or a vehicle-mounted terminal 300. Each of the devices may include a hardware configuration of a sound wave receiving unit, a sound wave analyzing unit and a speaker, and an application The program must be installed.

The parking control system is installed at the exit position of the parking lot, detects the vehicle leaving the exit of the parking lot, and judges the vehicle number and vehicle type of the outgoing vehicle. The outgoing management server 120 also records and manages the vehicle number of the outgoing vehicle and transmits the vehicle number of the outgoing vehicle to the parking information management server 200. [

The parking information management server 200 receives the OBU terminal identification information from the OBU 300 of the outgoing vehicle from the RSE 400. [

When the parking information management server 200 receives the vehicle number of the outgoing vehicle from the outgoing management server 120, the parking information management server 200 calculates the parking time and the parking fee based on the entry time corresponding to the vehicle number of the outgoing vehicle. At this time, the parking information management server 200 can request an entry time corresponding to the vehicle number of the outgoing vehicle to the tier management server 110, and obtain the vehicle number and the entry time from the tier management server 110.

The parking information management server 200 transmits the OBU terminal identification information and the parking fee received from the RSE 400 to the settlement server 500 and requests payment.

1 shows that the tile management server 110, the exit management server 120 and the parking information management server 200 exist as respective components. However, the parking information management server 200 may include an entry management server 110 and an outgoing management server 120 may be included.

OBU 300 is a terminal mounted on a vehicle, and OBU 300 is inserted with a high-pass card, which is an electronic card having an integrated circuit chip capable of reading card information and storing data on the card. These highpass cards are typically used to automatically collect tolls on highways.

According to the embodiment of the present invention, the OBU 300 transmits the OBU terminal identification information to the RSE 400 according to the vehicle information request from the RSE 400. Here, the OBU terminal identification information may be a serial number of the OBU 300 or the like.

The RSE 400 is located at an exit position of the parking lot. When the vehicle is recognized as an outbound vehicle, the RSE 400 requests the OBU 300 for vehicle information and receives the OBU terminal identification information from the OBU 300, To the management server (200).

The settlement server 500 registers information of a user who wants to use the parking charge settlement service. The user can subscribe to the parking charge settlement service through the web, and the settlement server 400 registers and manages the information of the user inputted at the time of subscription. The user information may include OBU terminal identification information, a vehicle number, a payment method, a user terminal identification information of the vehicle owner, and the like. Payment methods may include credit card and bank transfer.

When the settlement server 500 receives the OBU terminal identification information and the parking fee from the parking information management server 120, it uses the OBU terminal identification information received from the parking information management server 200 as a key, And requests payment of the parking fee to the financial institution server 600 using the retrieved payment method.

When the settlement server 500 receives the OBU terminal identification information and the parking fee from the parking information management server 200, the settlement server 500 transmits the parking fee to the user terminal 700 registered in advance by the user, It is possible to request the financial institution server 600 to approve the payment of the parking fee. On the other hand, when the settlement server 500 receives the OBU terminal identification information and the parking fee from the parking information management server 200, the settlement server 500 transmits the payment for the parking fee to the financial institution server 600 without requesting payment from the user terminal 700. [ You may request payment authorization with.

When the financial institution server 600 receives the payment request for the parking fee, the financial institution server 600 performs settlement of the parking fee and transmits the settlement result to the settlement server 500.

When the user terminal 700 receives the parking fee from the settlement server 500, the user terminal 700 confirms it and requests payment for the parking fee.

As described above, the parking charge settlement system according to the embodiment of the present invention acquires the vehicle information of the entering vehicle and the outgoing vehicle through the existing entrance management server 110 and the outgoing management server 120, The OBU terminal identification information of the outgoing vehicle can be obtained through the communication between the RSE 400 and the OBU 300 at the time of installation of the high pass system. In particular, the OBU 300 transmits only the OBU terminal identification information to the RSE 400, and the RSE 400 transfers only the OBU terminal identification information received from the OBU 300 to the parking information management server 200 Therefore, it is possible to reduce the price and size much more than the RSE that performs the payment to the existing one.

First, in order to utilize the parking charge settlement system according to the embodiment of the present invention, the user applies to the settlement server 500 to subscribe to the parking charge settlement service.

3 is a diagram illustrating a method of registering user information by the settlement server according to the embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3, the user can access the settlement server 500 through the Web. The settlement server 500 requests the subscription to the parking charge settlement service when the user is connected (S210).

The settlement server 500 registers the entered user information when the user subscribes to the parking charge settlement service (S220), and completes the user subscription to the parking charge settlement service (S230). The user information may include OBU terminal identification information of a vehicle owner, vehicle number, name, resident registration number, user terminal identification information, settlement method information to be used for parking fee settlement, and the like. The card information may include a card number. Payment method information may include credit card and bank transfer. When a credit card is set as a payment method, the user information may further include credit card information. When the account transfer is set as the payment method, the user information may further include the account number.

Next, a method of calculating the parking charge of the parking charge settlement system according to the embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 4 to FIG.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a method of calculating a parking charge in the parking charge settlement system according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 5 is a view showing an example of displaying parking information on the screen of the user terminal shown in FIG. 1. FIG. 6 is a view showing an example of requesting automatic payment by the user terminal shown in FIG.

Referring to FIG. 4, when the vehicle approaches the RSE 400 located at the exit position, the RSE 400 requests the OBU 300 for vehicle information based on DSRC (Dedicated Short Range Communication) (S302).

The OBU 300 that has requested the vehicle information transmits the OBU terminal identification information to the RSE 400 (S304).

The RSE 400 transmits the OBU terminal identification information received from the OBU 300 to the parking information management server 200 (S306).

When the parking information management server 200 receives the vehicle number of the outgoing vehicle from the outgoing management server 120 (S307), the parking information management server 200 confirms the entry time corresponding to the vehicle number of the outgoing vehicle. In order to confirm the entry time of the vehicle number, the parking information management server 200 requests the entry management server 110 to inquire the entry time of the vehicle number (S308). The tangible management server 110 inquires the entry time of the corresponding car number, and transmits the inquiry to the parking information management server 200 together with the car number (S310). At this time, the tangible management server 110 can also transmit the vehicle type information to the parking information management server 200. [ The tilt management server 110 records and manages a vehicle number, a vehicle type, and an entry time for an intruding vehicle, and this operation is assumed to be performed before the RSE 400 detects the approach of the OBU 300.

When the entrance time of the vehicle number is confirmed, the parking information management server 200 calculates the parking time based on the entry time and the current time, and calculates the parking fee according to the parking time (S312). The parking information management server 200 can calculate the parking fee based on the set parking time charge.

The parking information management server 200 transmits the parking information and the OBU terminal identification information to the settlement server 500 (S314). Here, the parking information may include only a parking fee, and may further include at least one of a vehicle number, an entry time, a vehicle type, and an exit time. The parking information may further include a discount rate or discount coupon information.

4, the parking information management server 200 transmits the parking information and the OBU terminal identification information to the settlement server 500. Alternatively, the settlement server 500 may receive the parking fee .

For example, when the RSE 400 receives the OBU terminal identification information of the outgoing vehicle, it means that the vehicle exits to the exit of the parking lot. Therefore, the parking information management server 200, which has received the OBU terminal identification information of the outgoing vehicle from the RSE 400, transmits only the OBU terminal identification information to the settlement server 500 and stores the OBU terminal identification information in the settlement server 500 When parking information corresponding to the vehicle number is requested to the parking information management server 200 after confirming the vehicle number with the key, the parking information management server 200 calculates the parking fee and transmits the parking information including the parking fee to the settlement server 500).

The settlement server 500 receiving the parking information and the OBU terminal identification information from the parking information management server 200 transmits the parking information to the user terminal 700 (S316). The settlement server 500 may transmit the parking information to the user terminal 700 through a short message or a voice message. For example, when the settlement server 500 transmits the parking information to the user terminal 700 through a short message, as shown in FIG. 4, the screen of the user terminal 700 displays the car number, Time and parking rates may be displayed.

The user terminal 700 confirms the parking information displayed on the screen and determines whether to automatically pay the parking fee. Here, automatic payment means payment through the settlement server 500. [ FIG. 4 shows a case in which an automatic payment is made for convenience of explanation. If the user terminal 700 determines to automatically pay the parking fee, the user terminal 700 requests the settlement server 500 to settle the parking fee (S318). 6, an item of payment and usage details of the parking fee can be displayed on the screen of the user terminal 700. By inputting the payment of the parking fee by the user, the user terminal 700 can access the settlement server 500, You can ask for an automatic payment for the parking fee.

On the other hand, if the user terminal 700 determines that the parking fee is not to be automatically settled, the user terminal 700 can inform the settlement server 500 of information that the parking fee is not automatically settled. In this case, the user can directly settle the payment through another payment means, for example, cash.

The settlement server 500 that has requested the automatic payment for the parking fee from the user terminal 700 requests the parking information management server 200 for the parking fee in preparation for the additional discount or premium at step S320, 200) (S322). On the other hand, if there are no additional discounts or surcharges, steps S320 and S322 may be omitted.

When receiving the parking fee to be paid from the parking information management server 200, the settlement server 500 searches for a payment method corresponding to the OBU terminal identification information (S324), and searches the financial institution server 600 through the retrieved payment method. (Step S326). At this time, the settlement server 500 may transmit the information of the user terminal 700 to the financial institution server 600.

The financial institution server 600 transmits payment information for the parking fee to the user terminal 700 based on the information of the user terminal 700 (S328), while requesting the user terminal 700 to input the personal identification information or the password. At this time, a PIN (Personal Identification Number) number may be used as the personal identification information, and other information capable of identifying the individual may be used.

The user terminal 700 confirms the payment information transmitted from the financial institution server 600, and transmits the personal identification information or the password to the financial institution server 600 (S330).

When the financial institution server 600 receives the personal identification information or the password from the user terminal 700, the financial institution server 600 approves payment for the parking fee (S332), and transmits the approval result to the settlement server 500 (S334).

When the settlement server 500 receives the approval result from the financial institution server 600, the settlement server 500 transmits the received approval result to the parking information management server 200 (S336).

In addition, the settlement server 500 can store and manage the approval result upon receiving the approval result from the financial institution server 600. [ In this way, the settlement server 500 can provide the user with the details of the fee collection in the event that the user wishes to check the fee collection history later on the user terminal 700 or the web. For example, when the user inputs a usage history on the screen of the user terminal 700 shown in FIG. 6, the settlement server 500 provides the fee collection history to the user terminal 700.

The parking information management server 200 having received the approval result from the settlement server 500 transmits the parking charge settlement completion information to the exit management server 110. [ Then, the exit management server 110 opens and closes the gate, and notifies the user of the result of the settlement so that the user can leave the terminal.

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed exemplary embodiments, It belongs to the scope of right.

100: parking control system 200: parking information management server
300: vehicle-mounted terminal 400: roadside base station
500: settlement server 600: financial institution server
700: User terminal 800: Entrance vehicle information acquisition device
810: Speaker 820: Sound wave analysis unit

Claims (3)

A system for charging a parking fee using a terminal equipped with a vehicle,
A vehicle-mounted terminal mounted on a vehicle, the terminal comprising:
A roadside base station located at an exit of the parking lot and receiving terminal identification information of the vehicle-mounted terminal from the vehicle-mounted terminal,
A financial institution server that approves payment of a parking fee in response to a payment approval request,
A settlement server for retrieving a settlement method corresponding to the terminal identification information and requesting the financial institution server for the payment approval according to the settlement method upon receipt of the terminal identification information;
An entrance vehicle information acquiring device which is installed at the entrance side of the parking lot and acquires the car number information of the entering vehicle through acoustic frequency boundary band sound wave communication,
Calculating a parking fee based on an arrival time of an outgoing vehicle and an arrival time corresponding to a vehicle number of the outbound vehicle received from the intruding vehicle information acquisition device, A parking information management server for transmitting the terminal identification information to the settlement server, and
And a user terminal displaying the parking fee received from the settlement server on the screen and requesting settlement of the parking fee to the settlement server,
Wherein the financial institution server requests and requests personal identification information from the user terminal, and then makes the payment approval. The method of claim 1,
The intruding vehicle information acquisition device
A speaker installed at an entrance side of the parking lot for transmitting a car number information request signal in a sound frequency signal in an audible frequency boundary band and receiving vehicle number information in a sound frequency signal in an audible frequency boundary band; And a sound wave analyzing unit for acquiring the number information. The method of claim 1,
Wherein the settlement server reconfirms the parking fee to the parking information management server before requesting payment approval to the financial institution server.

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