KR20150098270A - Parking Guidance and Management System - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a parking guidance and management system (1) which guides whether or not charging an electric vehicle is available. The parking guidance and management system comprises: an entrance guidance means (5) for providing information, for whether or not a vehicle (10) approaching an entrance can be parked and be charged, to a driver of the vehicle (10); a vehicle detection means (7, 7′) for detecting whether the vehicle (10) enters or exits each parking surface (23, 25); a charging means (9) for charging the electric vehicle parked on the parking surface (25) for the electric vehicle; and a control means (11) for controlling the entrance guidance means (5) according to a detection result of the vehicle detection means (7, 7′). The parking guidance means (5) displays whether or not the electric vehicle can be charged, and the degree of charging by the charging means (9) of an electric vehicle being charged at the same time. Therefore, parking convenience provided to a driver of the electric vehicle can be further improved by displaying the degree of charging of the electric vehicle being currently charged on the parking surface for the electric vehicle, when the entrance guidance means provides information about parking and charging of the electric vehicle.

Description

{Parking Guidance and Management System}

The present invention relates to a parking management system, and more particularly, to a parking management system for providing parking information of a general vehicle and an electric car using an engine, as well as information on chargeability of the electric car to a vehicle driver in connection with charging of the charging electric car The present invention relates to a parking induction and management system for informing whether or not an electric vehicle can be charged.

In recent years, with the spread of electric vehicles, the development of various products necessary for operating, handling, or managing an electric car as well as an electric car itself is vigorously developing. These electric vehicle related products are mainly proposed for charging an electric vehicle, and the demand for an electric vehicle charging device and a vehicle auxiliary facility using the electric vehicle charging device is increasing.

This tendency is not an exception in parking facilities. In particular, in recent years, a large-sized parking lot capable of simultaneously parking an ordinary car and an electric car using an engine and simultaneously parking a plurality of vehicles has various facilities related to electric car charging .

As shown in Fig. 1, a parking space capable of simultaneously parking a general vehicle and an electric vehicle is configured such that a part of the ordinary parking surface 123 of the existing parking management system is partially covered with the parking space 125 Only the number of vehicles which can be parked by the floor is displayed by the parking allowable display unit 151 of the entrance guiding means 105. As shown in Fig. Therefore, the parking guide can not be provided for only the electric car entering the parking lot, and the parking guide can be provided to the extent that it notifies the driver of the position of the private car parking surface 125 provided with the charging device 109 simply by using the guide display, There has been a problem that the electric vehicle driver who wants to charge is inconvenienced.

The present invention has been proposed in order to solve the problems of the conventional parking management system. The present invention provides charging information of an electric car, as well as parking information of an electric car and a general car, to a driver of the vehicle through an entrance guide means at the entrance of the parking lot In addition, the present invention is intended to enable the driver to predict the charge waiting time by notifying the charging degree of the electric car, which is currently being charged in the parking lot, in providing the charging information in particular.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides an information processing apparatus comprising: entrance guide means installed at an entrance of a parking lot, for providing information to a driver of a vehicle approaching the entrance, Vehicle detecting means provided adjacent to the parking surface to detect entry and exit of the vehicle on each of the parking surfaces; A charging means for charging an electric car parked on the private parking surface of the electric car, And control means for controlling the entrance guide means in accordance with the detection result of the vehicle detection means, wherein the entrance guide means indicates whether or not the electric car is rechargeable, Provided is a parking induction and management system for guiding charging of an electric vehicle indicating a degree of charging.

Further, the entrance guide means may include: a parking availability display portion for indicating whether or not parking is possible; And a rechargeable display unit for displaying whether or not the electric vehicle can be recharged.

It is preferable that the parking allowable display section displays the number of regular parking spaces that can be parked and the chargeable display section displays the number of parked private parking spaces that can be parked separately.

Further, the chargeable display unit displays a degree of charge by each of the charging means, thereby displaying a charging degree display unit for allowing the electric vehicle driver to visually confirm whether or not the chargeable portion of each of the electric- Wherein the parking guidance and management system guides the charging and discharging of the electric car.

In addition, the chargeable display unit comprehensively grasps the chargeability of each of the electric-car-dedicated parking surfaces and the degree of charge of the electric car being charged by each of the charging means on the private parking space that can not be charged And a chargeable / collective display unit for displaying whether or not the entirety of the parking lot can be charged.

It is preferable that the rechargeable batch display section displays the number of parking spaces for electric vehicles that can be charged while indicating whether the electric car can be charged in the entire parking lot.

It is preferable that the chargeable batch display unit displays the degree of charge by the charging means in which charging is completed in the shortest time among the charging means, while displaying whether the electric car can be charged in the entire parking lot is not possible.

It is preferable that the vehicle further includes an entrance / exit managing means provided at an entrance or an entrance / exit of the parking lot for managing the entrance / exit of the vehicle.

It is also preferable that the vehicle further includes a parking assist display unit that is provided on a one-to-one basis on each of the parking spaces and that indicates whether or not each of the parking spaces can be parked.

It is also preferable that the vehicle further includes an intra-cabin guiding means installed in the inside of the car so as to be exposed to a driver of the car entering the inside of the car park through the entrance, and indicating whether or not the car can be parked on each of the car park sides.

According to the parking induction and management system of the parking lot in which the electric car can be charged according to the present invention, it is possible to provide parking information on all vehicles including the engine vehicle and the electric car by the entrance guide means such as a comprehensive guide board installed at the entrance of the parking lot, It is possible to further improve the parking convenience provided for the electric vehicle driver.

In particular, in providing charge information to the driver of an electric vehicle, the number of parking spaces for electric vehicles capable of being charged in the parking lot through the entrance guide means is displayed, and the position of the parking space where parking is possible through the parking- In addition, since the filling degree of the currently charged electric vehicle is displayed by the entrance guide means on the parking surface dedicated to the electric car, it is possible to further improve the parking convenience of the electric vehicle driver by allowing the electric vehicle driver to easily predict the waiting time for charging .

In addition, since it is possible to easily display whether or not the electric car can be charged in the current parking lot by the chargeable and collective display unit, the electric car driver can easily and quickly grasp the chargeability of the parking lot even from a long distance.

1 is a schematic diagram schematically showing a conventional parking induction and management system.
2 is a block diagram of a parking guidance and management system in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a schematic diagram of the parking guidance and management system shown in FIG.
Fig. 4 is a front view illustrating the entrance guide means shown in Fig. 3; Fig.
Fig. 5 is a front view illustrating another embodiment of the inlet guide means shown in Fig. 3; Fig.
Fig. 6 is a front view for explaining the operation of the entrance guide means shown in Fig. 5; Fig.
Fig. 7 is a schematic front sectional view showing the vehicle display means shown in Fig. 3 and the parking indicator display means formed integrally with the vehicle detection means; Fig.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, a parking induction and management system for guiding charging of an electric vehicle according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

The parking induction and management system of the present invention mainly comprises an entrance guiding means 5, a vehicle sensing means 7, 7 ', a charging means 9, and a control means 1, as indicated by reference numeral 1 in FIGS. Means 11, and further includes an entrance / exit managing means 13, a parking assistant display means 15, and an intestinal guidance means 17. [

Here, the entrance guide means 5 is a display device for guiding parking of the vehicle 10 entering the parking lot, that is, an electric signboard, a simple display such as an LED segment display, an advanced display such as an LCD or an LED monitor As shown in FIG. 3, it is possible to provide available parking or charging information to the driver of the vehicle 10 installed at a parking lot entrance and entering the parking lot.

Particularly, the entrance guiding means 5 according to the present embodiment distinguishes between a car desired to park and an electric car desired to be charged. 3, the entrance guiding means 5 includes a parking allowable display portion 51 and a chargeable display portion 53. The parking allowable display portion 51 allows the user to set the parking allowable display portion 51, The chargeable display unit 53 notifies the number of parking spaces that can be parked for all vehicles including an electric car that does not need to be charged, It informs. At this time, although the display form of the number of parking spaces can be different depending on the size and form of the parking lot, the parking allowable display unit 51 and the chargeable display unit 53 may be different from each other, It is desirable to take a form that indicates the number of cars that can be parked. That is, the parking allowable display unit 51 displays the number of regular parking spaces 23 that can be parked by subtracting the number of parking spaces for electric vehicles from the total number of parking spaces of one floor, The number of parking faces 25 is displayed separately for each floor.

Further, as described above, the entrance guide means 5 displays the number of parking spaces 25 dedicated to electric vehicles capable of parking an electric vehicle by the chargeable display portion 53, The charging degree of the electric vehicle charged by each of the charging means 9 is simultaneously displayed on the electric-car private parking surface 25 so that the driver of the electric car entering the parking lot can visually check the chargeability of the electric- . To this end, the rechargeable display unit 53 further includes a separate charge display unit 55, which can selectively use graphics and text, for example, as shown in FIG. 4, Can be displayed. That is, for example, as shown in FIG. 4, in the case of the first basement B1, one side of the car is filled with about 70% of the vehicle and more waiting time is required. Indicating that this is possible. As described above, the graphic representing the degree of filling can be expressed not only in a simple form but also in a more detailed and complex form.

In addition, the charge level display unit 55 may further include a chargeable batch display unit 57 as shown in Figs. 5 and 6 as another embodiment thereof. The chargeable and collective display section 57 not only grasps the entrance and exit of each parking space 25 for the electric vehicle but also grasps the charging degree of the electric car which has already been parked on the parking space 25 dedicated to the electric car, The result is comprehensively judged and guided to the driver of the electric car in a form that can easily charge the electric car in the whole parking lot.

In addition, the chargeable-batch display unit 57 can display the number of the electric-vehicle-dedicated parking surfaces 25 that can be charged when the electric vehicle can be charged, while displaying the possibility of charging the electric vehicle as a whole as described above. For this purpose, the chargeable-batch display unit 57 can display the total number of electric-car-dedicated parking surfaces 25 that can be charged in the O-table 61 for indicating chargeability, for example, as shown in Figs. 5 and 6 have. Of course, at this time, the number of parking spaces 25 dedicated to electric vehicles that can be charged by the rechargeable display portion 53 can be displayed by layer.

6, if the charging of the electric vehicle in the whole parking lot is impossible or impossible, it is indicated by the X table 63. At the same time, the chargeable-batch display unit 57 displays O The degree of charge of the charging means 9 to be charged within the shortest time among the entire charging means 9 is displayed using the table 61 so that the electric vehicle driver is allowed to drive the electric vehicle The wait time can be predictable once.

The vehicle sensing means 7, 7 'is a sensing device installed to detect the vehicle entering / leaving state on the parking surfaces 23, 25 on which the vehicle 10 is parked, A general parking surface 23 in which all the vehicles including an electric car entered into the parking lot are parked only for parking purposes and an electric car private parking surface 25 in which the electric car is parked, ) To confirm the entry / exit situation. At this time, each vehicle sensing means 7, 7 'is installed in the charging connector and the direct sensing means such as an operation sensor such as an ultrasonic sensor, an IR sensor, a radar sensor or a laser sensor or a surveillance camera, And indirect sensing means for indirect sensing of the vehicle.

In particular, in the case of a surveillance camera, a tilting camera 7 such as a PTZ (Pan Tilt Zoom) camera shown in FIG. 3 or a fixed camera 7 'shown at the bottom can be selectively used. At this time, the drive-type camera 7 can monitor, for example, up to 12 parking faces 23 and 25 with one camera 3 as shown in the upper part of FIG. On the other hand, it is preferable that the fixed camera 7 'is installed to monitor, for example, three parking surfaces 23 and 25 as shown in the lower portion of FIG. However, the cameras 7 and 7 'can increase or decrease the number of vehicles that can be detected according to the performance.

In the case of the vehicle detecting means 7 "using the ultrasonic sensor, as shown in Fig. 3, each of the vehicle detecting means 7" 25). In this case, in particular, the vehicle detecting means 7 "is arranged so as to indicate whether or not parking is possible for each parking surface 23, 25 as shown in Fig. 7, , And can be integrally formed in the case of the ultrasonic sensor. This sub display means 15 displays on the outside the availability of parking on each of the parking surfaces 23 and 25 in conjunction with the vehicle sensing means 7, 7 ', 7 ". For this purpose, The display means 15 may be constituted by a light emitting device such as a lamp or LED or the like and may be installed on the upper side adjacent to the ceiling of each of the parking surfaces 23 and 25 as shown in Figure 3. At this time, The allowable display means 15 can display, for example, a combination of lighting and lighting, or display of parking by light emission color.

As described above, the charging means 9 is an apparatus for charging an electric car parked on the private car parking surface 25 for charging. Various recently developed charging apparatuses can be applied. As shown in the outline, it may be installed one-by-one on the parking surface 25 dedicated to each electric car, or may be installed in a one-to-one manner so as to charge two or more electric vehicles with one charging means 9,

The control means 11 is constituted by a server or the like and serves as means for supervising the parking management. The control means 11 is connected to the above-mentioned entrance guiding means 5, vehicle sensing means 7, 7 ', charging means 9, Collects various kinds of information necessary for parking management, instructs various control commands accordingly, and generally manages the operation of parking lots capable of charging electric vehicles.

The control means 11 controls the entrance guiding means 5 in consideration of the entrance and exit situation of the vehicle on the general parking surface 23 or the private parking surface 25 for the electric vehicle, . That is, the number of displays of the parking allowable display section 51 and / or the chargeable display section 53 is changed at any time in accordance with the entry / exit situation on each of the parking surfaces 23 and 25 so that the driver of the intruding vehicle 10 So as to be able to move to the appropriate parking surfaces 23, 25.

The input / output control means 13 is a device for controlling the vehicle 10 entering and leaving the parking lot, and performs various functions such as accounting for parking fees in addition to basic functions for controlling entry and exit. The input / output control means 13 includes a circuit breaker 40 as shown in FIG. 4 as a representative example thereof. However, in recent years, the circuit breaker 40 is removed as the input / output difference managing means 13, and a monitoring and recording device such as a camera is installed instead. At this time, the entrance and exit difference managing means 13 may be provided at both the entrance and the exit, though the entrance and exit of the parking lot are adjacent to each other.

Finally, the intestinal guiding means 17 is a device for allowing the driver of the vehicle 10, which has entered the inside of the car park through the entrance, to obtain the parking or filling information even without passing through the entrance guiding means 3, And is provided at a position that is well exposed to the driver's line of sight in the parking lot, and provides charging or parking information to the driver in the parking lot, such as whether or not the parking space is available on each parking surface 23,25. Particularly, when the parking lot is a multi-layered structure, the intestinal guidance means 17 provides parking or filling information for each floor. The intestinal guiding means 17 is provided with a charge level display unit 55 and a chargeable batch display unit 57 in the same manner as the entrance guide means 5 so as to allow parking So that information on charging can be obtained more easily and conveniently through the means 17.

Hereinafter, the operation of the parking induction and management system 1 for parking an electric vehicle according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described.

According to the parking guidance and management system (1) of the present invention, when the vehicle (10) enters the first parking lot, the driver of the vehicle, regardless of whether the vehicle is an engine vehicle or an electric car, . That is, irrespective of whether the vehicle is an engine or an electric car, if the purpose of entering the parking lot is parking, the driver can open the general parking surface 23, which is capable of parking the vehicle by layer, through the parkable display portion 51 of the entrance guide means 5, It is possible to confirm the number of parking spaces and move to a desired floor to park the parking space 23 by finding the vacant parking space 23 through the sub display means 15. [ In this way, when the vehicle is parked, the vehicle detecting means 7, 7 ', 7 "of the corresponding normal parking surface 23 notify the control means 11 of the fact of parking, The guiding means 5 is controlled so that the number of the regular parking spaces 23 on the corresponding floor is reduced by one and displayed by the parking enabling display portion 51. Accordingly, The driver of the vehicle can be guided to the floor parking situation.

On the other hand, when the vehicle entering the parking lot is an electric vehicle and the purpose of the entrance is charging, the driver confirms the number of parking spaces 25 for electric vehicles that can be charged through the chargeable display unit 53 of the entrance guide means 5 And moves to a desired floor to park the vehicle by searching for the vacant electric car private parking surface 25 through the sub display means 15. [ Then, charging of the vehicle is started by the charging means 9 of the parking surface. At this time, the vehicle detecting means 7, 7 ', 7 "provided on the corresponding private car parking surface 25 detects the fact of parking and notifies the control means 11, And the number of the chargeable electric-vehicle-dedicated parking faces 25 of the corresponding layer is decremented by one and displayed by the rechargeable display unit 53. Accordingly, the entrance guiding means 5 is provided to the next electric vehicle driver So that the user can be informed whether or not the charge of each layer is available.

Thereafter, when the charging is proceeded, the control means 11 confirms the charging degree of the electric car by the charging means 9 and, for example, as shown in Fig. 4, the charging degree display portion 55 of the inlet guiding means 5 The degree of charge of the electric car on the corresponding electric-car private parking space 25 is guided to the next electric car driver so that the driver can estimate the time to wait for charging. 5 and 6, the entrance guiding unit 5 can easily display the charging status of the entire parking lot, through the chargeable and collective display unit 57. In this case, To this end, the control means 11 grasps the entrance / exit status of the entire parking space 25 for the electric car, and controls the entrance guide means 5, so that the entrance guide means 5 For example, by displaying the O table 61 when one charging is possible and the X table 63 when one charging is not possible as shown in the figure, it is possible to allow the driver to charge the entire parking lot, .

Further, in the case of a large-sized parking lot, it is possible to display the fact that charging is possible by the O table 61, and at the same time, as shown in Figs. 5 and 6, (25), it is possible to make the prediction of the electric vehicle driver more convenient for the chargeable time. Likewise, in cooperation with the O table 61, for example, as shown in Fig. 6, by giving the function of the display to the O table 61, it is indicated by the X table 63 that the entire parking lot is not chargeable At the same time, the charging degree of the electric car to be charged in the shortest time among the charged electric vehicles on the electric car private parking surface 25 can be displayed, so that the waiting time required until the charging is possible is easily predicted by the driver .

Finally, even if the vehicle is parked or charged, the vehicle that achieves the purpose of entering the parking lot is pulled out from the ordinary parking surface 23 or the private parking surface 25 of the electric car. At this time, the vehicle sensing means 7, 7 'senses that the vehicle has gone out and notifies the control means 11 that the entrance guiding means 5 controlled by the control means 11 is capable of displaying 51 or the rechargeable display unit 53 to add the number of parkable or rechargeable parking faces 23, 25 to the parking guidance and management system 1 by providing the next vehicle driver with the changed parking or charging information A series of parking or charging guidance operations by the user is terminated.

1: parking induction and management system 5: entrance guiding means
7, 7 ', 7 ": vehicle detection means 9: charging means
10: vehicle 11: control means
13: I / O difference management means 15:
23: General parking area 25: Private parking area for electric car
40: breaker 51: parking enabled display
53: rechargeable display part 55: charge degree display part
57: Chargeable display section 61: O Table
63: X Table

Claims (10)

An entrance guide means (5) installed at the entrance of the parking lot, for providing information to the driver of the vehicle (10) approaching the entrance with information on availability of parking and charging;
Vehicle sensing means (7, 7 ') installed adjacent to the parking surfaces (23, 25) and sensing the entry and exit of the vehicle (10) on the respective parking surfaces (23, 25);
A charging means (9) installed on a private parking surface (25) of the parking surface (23, 25) for charging the parked electric vehicle on the private parking surface (25) of the electric vehicle; And
And control means (11) for controlling the entrance guide means (5) according to the detection result of the vehicle detection means (7, 7 '),
Characterized in that the entrance guiding means (5) displays whether or not the electric car is rechargeable and at the same time displays the degree of charge of the electric car being charged by the charging means (9) system. The method according to claim 1,
The inlet guide means (5)
A parking availability indicator (51) indicating whether or not parking is possible; And
And a rechargeable display unit (53) for displaying whether or not the electric vehicle can be recharged. The method of claim 2,
The parking allowable display unit 51 displays the number of the regular parking spaces 23 that can be parked and the number of the parking spaces 25 dedicated to electric vehicles that can be parked by the chargeable display unit 53 A parking guidance and management system for guiding charging of the electric vehicle. The method according to claim 2 or 3,
The chargeable display unit 53 displays the degree of charge by each of the charging means 9 so as to allow the electric vehicle driver to charge each of the electric vehicle private parking surfaces 25 provided with the charging means 9 Further comprising a charge degree display unit (55) for visually confirming the charging state of the electric vehicle. The method according to claim 2 or 3,
The chargeable display unit 53 is configured to determine whether the chargeable display 25 of each electric vehicle dedicated to the vehicle can be recharged and the chargeable display unit 53 to charge the charged electric- Further comprising a chargeable and collective display unit (57) for indicating whether or not the entirety of the parking lot can be charged in accordance with a result of comprehending all the charge degrees of the parking lot. The method of claim 5,
Wherein the chargeable and collective display unit (57) displays the number of the electric-parking-dedicated parking surfaces (25) which can be charged, Management system. The method of claim 5,
The chargeable batch display unit 57 displays whether the electric vehicle can be charged in the entire parking lot as unavailable or not and displays the degree of charge by the charging means 9 in which charging is completed in the shortest time among the charging means 9 Wherein the parking lot is capable of charging an electric car. The method of claim 5,
Further comprising an entrance / exit managing means (13) installed at an entrance or an entrance / exit of the parking lot for managing the entrance / exit of the vehicle. The method of claim 5,
Characterized in that the vehicle further includes a display means (15) for displaying the presence or absence of parking on each of the parking surfaces (23, 25) externally, the display means being provided on each of the parking surfaces (23, 25) Possible parking parking induction and management system. The method according to claim 1,
Further comprising an intestinal guidance means (17) installed in the interior of the car park so as to be exposed to the driver of the vehicle (10) entering into the inside of the car park through the entrance, The parking guidance and management system comprising:

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