TW202001822A - Parking lot vehicle identification management system and process capable of achieving the purpose of controlling and managing the parking lot without labor costs - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a parking lot vehicle identification management system and process. The system is mainly composed of a computer management system and a hardware device. A built-in management software of the computer management system is provided with a parking space database, a historical database, and a license plate number registration database, and at least includes functions such as identifying the license plate number and searching for the nearest empty parking space and is capable of transmitting messages to control the hardware device in the parking lot. The hardware device includes at least one entrance license plate camera, at least one exit license plate camera, a plurality of driveway license plate cameras, at least one entrance gate, and at least one exit gate, at least one entrance driveway display, at least one exit driveway display, a plurality of driving direction displays, a license plate number display and an electric rising-arm barrier installed in each parking space, and a plurality of payment machines connected to the computer management system. The process of the parking lot vehicle identification management system includes a vehicle entering process, a driving direction guiding process, a payment management process and a vehicle exiting process. The present invention uses a computer management system to efficiently search for the number of the nearest empty parking space, and uses the driveway license plate cameras and the driving direction displays to allow a consumer to know the direction of the empty parking space, so that the consumer can shorten the time for finding an empty parking space. The electric rising-arm barrier and the license plate number display installed in each parking space receive instructions from the computer management system to perform operations to regulate or deregulate the parking space and display the license plate number dedicated to the parking space. Thereby, the present invention can effectively manage the parking of vehicles and avoid unnecessary disputes due to scramble for parking spaces, so as to achieve the purpose of controlling and managing the parking lot without labor costs.

Description

Parking lot vehicle identification management and control system and process

The present invention relates to a parking lot vehicle identification management and control system and process, especially those in the technical field of functions such as vehicle entrance management, search for the nearest empty parking space, lane numbering and guidance instructions, exit charging and toll management, and vehicle exit management.

According to the current parking lot operators, it is generally necessary to set up various automated mechanized equipment such as gates, inspection and monitoring, toll collection and other equipment in the parking lot. The establishment of management personnel causes a large expenditure of labor costs; compared with consumers, is it Available parking spaces, where is the nearest parking space, and can quickly park into empty parking spaces and pay quickly, is a parking lot that provides consumers with convenient services; therefore, conventional parking management is usually set up at the entrance and exit of the parking lot A digital or artificial sign indicates the number of remaining parking spaces, so that the driver can decide whether to park in this parking lot.

In addition, in multi-storey car parks, such as those set up in hypermarkets, movie theaters, government buildings, commercial buildings, schools, etc., if the driver is in a period of high usage of parking spaces, it must be between the floors In order to find a suitable parking space, you must spend a lot of time mentally and physically, and also increase the chance of air pollution and accidents. On the other hand, the industry has also proposed improvements Technical solutions, such as the establishment of improvement measures such as LED lights and vacancies on each floor in multi-storey indoor parking lots, however, users still have to find available parking spaces in person, This must be time-consuming, mental and physical, and it is difficult to find a parking space, so there are often disputes over the parking space.

Therefore, related companies have proposed solutions, such as the case number 105109094 “Parking Lot Management System” filed on March 23, 2016 in my country, which discloses a parking lot management system, which includes: at least one parking space sensing unit and a server. The at least one parking space sensing unit is respectively disposed in at least one parking space of a parking lot. The at least one parking space sensing unit is used to generate at least one parking space sensing signal to indicate whether the parking space corresponding to the at least one parking space sensing unit has a parking space use state of a vehicle parked or vacant. The server communicates with the at least one parking space sensing unit, and the server generates parking space usage status information of the parking lot based on the at least one parking space sensing signal. The server transmits the parking space usage status information of the parking lot to the user device, whereby the user device can display the parking space configuration diagram of the parking space usage status of the parking lot.

According to the parking lot management system mentioned above, the server that only transfers the status of the parking spaces is used as the main shortcoming because the management and control of shortening the completion time of vehicle entrance parking and the time of payment exit are still not effectively resolved.

In view of the shortcomings of the above-mentioned conventional technology, the inventor of the present case has carefully studied and used the present invention to solve multiple benefits such as shortening the completion time of vehicle entrance parking and payment completion time.

In order to achieve the above functional benefits, the parking lot vehicle identification management and control system and process of the present invention include a hardware device connected to a computer management system; among them, the built-in management software of the computer management system is provided with a parking space database, historical database and vehicle number Log in to the database, and at least include the functions of identifying the license plate number and searching for the nearest empty parking space, and can transmit messages to control the hardware equipment in the parking lot of the system; meanwhile, the historical database: each data contains the license plate number, the image of the entrance license plate number, and the entrance Time, payment completion time, appearance time, exit license plate number image and payment amount; parking space database: each data includes parking space number, entrance distance, license plate number, entrance license plate number image, entrance time, payment completion time, exit time, exit The image of the license plate number and the payment amount, one for each parking space, in which the parking number and the distance between the entrance (the distance between the parking space and the entrance) are all built in, and are sorted according to the size of the entrance distance data, the smaller the data, the more ahead; the vehicle number registration database: Each piece of data contains the license plate number and virtual currency identification code; and the hardware device includes at least one entrance license plate camera, at least one exit license plate camera, a plurality of lane license plate cameras, at least one entrance fence, at least one exit fence, at least one entrance lane It is composed of a display, at least one exit lane display, a plurality of driving direction displays, a license plate number display and an electric vehicle resistance device installed in each parking space, and a plurality of toll machines connected to a computer management system.

In addition, in the hardware device connected with the computer management system of the present invention, the entrance license plate camera is installed at the entrance lane, provides entrance lane photography of the entrance vehicle license plate, and transmits the license plate image data to the computer management system; the exit license plate camera is set at the exit At the lane, provide the exit lane photography of the exiting vehicle license plate, and transmit the license plate image data to the computer management system; the lane license plate camera and the vehicle direction display are installed at the forks of each lane to provide the photograph of the vehicle license plate in the lane, and the license plate image The data is transmitted to the computer management system; the entrance fence is set at each entrance lane to receive the instruction of the computer management system to execute the action of entering the entrance; the exit fence is set at the exit lane to receive the instruction of the computer management system to execute the action of exiting the entrance ; Electric vehicle resistors are installed in each parking space, receive commands from the computer management system, and perform control or deregulation actions; the toll machine provides services such as entering license plate numbers, calculating and displaying parking fees, cash card swipes, and receipt printing services.

In addition, the entrance lane display is set at the entrance lane, and the computer management system sends the license plate number and the nearest empty parking lot number information and displays it; the exit lane display is set at the exit lane, and receives the computer management system sends the license plate number and payment status information And display it; the driving direction display is matched with the lane number plate camera, which is set at the branch of each lane, and the direction of each parking number built in the driving direction display is displayed on the display according to the parking number sent by the computer management system , Used to guide the direction of the incoming car; the license plate number display is set above each parking space, receives the license plate number sent by the computer management system, and displays it on the display.

The invention effectively searches for the nearest empty parking space number through the computer management system, and the lane plate license plate camera and the driving direction display enable consumers to know the direction of the empty parking space, so that the user can shorten the time to find the empty parking space and set the number of each parking space. Electric vehicle blockers and license plate number displays, receive commands from the computer management system, perform actions to control or deregulate parking spaces, and display exclusive license plate numbers for parking spaces, which can effectively control parking of vehicles and avoid unnecessary disputes due to competition for parking spaces.

1‧‧‧ Computer management system

2‧‧‧Hardware equipment

10‧‧‧ management software

11‧‧‧Identify the license plate number

12‧‧‧ Search for the most recent empty parking spaces

13‧‧‧Historical database

14‧‧‧ parking space database

15‧‧‧ vehicle registration database

20‧‧‧ Admission license plate camera

21‧‧‧ Appearance license plate camera

22‧‧‧ Lane license plate camera

23‧‧‧ Admission barrier

24‧‧‧Fence

25‧‧‧ Admission lane display

26‧‧‧ Exit lane display

27‧‧‧Drive direction display

28‧‧‧ License plate number display

29‧‧‧Electric vehicle resistance

30‧‧‧Toll machine

Figure 1 is a flow chart of the architecture of the parking lot vehicle identification management and control system of the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a flow chart of vehicle admission according to the present invention.

Figure 3 is a flow chart of the driving direction guidance of the present invention.

Figure 4 is a flow chart of charge management of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a flow chart of the vehicle exit of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a flow chart of the vehicle of the present invention.

The parking lot vehicle identification management and control system of the present invention, please cooperate with Figure 1, Figure 2, Figure 3, Figure 4, Figure 5 and Figure 6 to elaborate the invention, which includes a link computer management system 1 and hardware It is composed of body equipment 2; among them, the built-in management software of the computer management system 1 is provided with a parking space database 14, a historical database 13 and a vehicle number registration database 15, and at least contains the identification number plate 11 and the nearest empty parking space search 12 And other functions, and can transmit information to control the hardware equipment 2 in the parking lot of the system; meanwhile, the historical database 13: each data contains the license plate number, the entrance license plate number image, the entrance time, the payment completion time, the exit time, the exit license plate number image And parking fee database; parking lot database 14: each data includes parking lot number, entrance distance, license plate number, entrance license plate number image, entrance time, payment completion time, exit time, exit license plate number image and payment amount; parking number registration database 15: Each piece of data contains the license plate number and virtual currency identification code.

The hardware device 2 includes at least one entrance license plate camera 20, at least one exit license plate camera 21, a plurality of lane license plate cameras 22, at least one entrance fence 23, at least one exit fence 24, at least one entrance lane display 25, at least one exit lane A display 26, a plurality of driving direction displays 27, a license plate number display 28 and an electric vehicle resistor 29 installed in each parking space, and a plurality of toll machines 30 connected to the computer management system 1.

Vehicle admission process (as shown in Figure 2); the admission license plate camera 20 transmits the license plate image of the admission vehicle to the computer management system 1 for image analysis by recognizing the license plate number 11 to recognize the license plate number, and then the parking space database 14 executes the latest empty Parking space search 12; if there is no empty parking space (each data in the parking space database already contains license plate number data), then send the word "full car" to the entrance lane display 25; if there are empty parking spaces (no data in the parking space database contains any data License plate number data), then record the license plate number, license plate image and entrance time in the latest empty parking space of the parking space database 14 (the last parking space number without the license plate number data), and at the same time, the license plate number and parking space of the data The number is sent to the entrance lane display 25 and the parking number plate number display 28, and at the same time informs the entrance fence 23 to perform the action of releasing the entrance and informs the parking space electric vehicle blocker 29 to perform the deregulation action, the electric vehicle blocker 29 is in the deregulation order After the free time is exceeded, the parking lot electric vehicle resistor 29 will be notified to perform the control action.

Driving direction guidance process (as shown in Figure 3); lane license plate camera 22 transmits the license plate image of the car coming from the lane to the computer management system 1 performs image analysis by recognizing the license plate number 11 to recognize the license plate number and then the parking space database 14 Find the parking space number corresponding to the license plate number and send the parking space number to the driving direction display 27. The driving direction display 27 is displayed on the driving direction display 27 according to the direction of each parking space number built in the driving direction display 27 , Guide the lane to the car to find the empty parking space, in order to shorten the vehicle parking time.

Toll management process 1 (as shown in Figure 4); the toll machine 30 transmits the license plate number entered by the consumer to the computer management system 1 and the parking lot database 14 searches for the license plate number entry time and its corresponding parking lot number. When the entrance time of the license plate number is reached, the toll machine 30 displays "No such license plate number"; otherwise, the admission time and parking space number are sent to the toll machine 30, and the toll machine 30 calculates and displays the amount payable based on the entrance time and the current time, It also provides cash and virtual currency payment methods. After the payment is completed, the toll machine 30 displays the location of the parking space and the route map. At the same time, the payment completion time and payment amount are recorded in the parking space database 14 in the parking space number data column, and the parking space is released. The electric vehicle resistor 29, after the deregulation instruction issued by the electric vehicle resistor 29 exceeds the payment time, and informs the parking space of the electric vehicle resistor 29 to perform the control action.

Toll management process 2 (as shown in Figure 5); the toll machine 30 transmits the virtual currency identification code of consumer sensing or card swiping to the computer management system 1 and searches for the corresponding registered virtual currency identification code by the vehicle number registration database 15 For the license plate number, if there is no registered license plate number, the toll machine 30 displays "no registered license plate number"; if there is a registered license plate number, the parking lot database 14 will look for the entrance time of the license plate number and its corresponding parking lot number, if found When the entrance time of the license plate number is not reached, the toll machine 30 displays "No such license plate number"; if the license plate number is registered, and the parking lot database 14 finds the entrance time of the license plate number and its corresponding parking lot number, it will enter The time and parking number are sent to the toll machine 30. The toll machine 30 calculates and displays the payable amount according to the entrance time and the current time, and directly pays the fee in the virtual currency. After the payment is completed, the toll machine 30 displays the parking space position and the route map. Record the time of payment completion and the amount of payment in the parking lot database 14 in the parking space number data field, and remove the electric parking brake 29 of the parking space. After the electric vehicle parking brake 29 deregulates the instruction and exceeds the payment payment time, the car will be notified. The parking space electric vehicle resistor 29 performs the control action.

The vehicle exit process (as shown in Figure 6); the exit license plate camera 21 transmits the image of the exit vehicle license plate to the computer management system 1 for image analysis by recognizing the license plate number 11 to recognize the license plate number, and then searching for it in the parking space database 14 The payment completion time corresponding to the license plate number (when the payment is not paid, the payment completion time column is blank). If the payment completion time is blank or the difference between the payment completion time and the current time exceeds the payment time, the car display will show "unpaid" "Complete"; if the difference between the time of payment completion and the current time does not exceed the time of picking up the car after the payment, the display of the exit lane 26 displays "Payment paid, please come out", and at the same time informs the exit fence 24 to perform the action of releasing the exit, and the number Related data is transferred from the parking space database 14 to the historical database 13, and the data outside the parking space number and distance of the data in the parking space database 14 are cleared.

The above-mentioned disclosures of the embodiments are used to illustrate the present invention, not to limit the present invention. Therefore, any change in numerical value or replacement of equivalent elements should still belong to the scope of the present invention.

In summary, when the invention is known to be industrially applicable and progressive, and the invention is not found in any publications, it is also novel. When it complies with the provisions of the Patent Law, the invention patent application is filed in accordance with the law. The quasi-patent is a prayer.

1‧‧‧ Computer management system

2‧‧‧Hardware equipment

10‧‧‧ management software

11‧‧‧Identify the license plate number

12‧‧‧ Search for the most recent empty parking spaces

13‧‧‧Historical database

14‧‧‧ parking space database

15‧‧‧ vehicle registration database

20‧‧‧ Admission license plate camera

21‧‧‧ Appearance license plate camera

22‧‧‧ Lane license plate camera

23‧‧‧ Admission barrier

24‧‧‧Fence

25‧‧‧ Admission lane display

26‧‧‧ Exit lane display

27‧‧‧Drive direction display

28‧‧‧ License plate number display

29‧‧‧Electric vehicle resistance

30‧‧‧Toll machine

Claims (7)

A parking lot vehicle identification management and control system and process, including a hardware device connected to a computer management system; wherein, the built-in management software of the computer management system is provided with a parking space database, a historical database and a vehicle number registration database, and at least contains Identify license plate numbers and search for the nearest empty parking space, etc., and can transmit messages to control the hardware equipment in the parking lot; and the hardware equipment includes at least one entrance license plate camera, at least one exit license plate camera, multiple lane license plate cameras, and at least one entrance Fences, at least one exit fence, at least one entrance lane display, at least one exit lane display, a plurality of driving direction displays, a license plate number display installed in each parking space and an electric vehicle resistance device, a plurality of toll machines connected to a computer management system Constituted by. A parking lot vehicle identification management and control system and process as described in claim 1, wherein each piece of data in the historical database contains the license plate number, the entrance license plate number image, the entrance time, the payment completion time, the exit time, the exit license plate number image and the payment amount ; Each data in the parking lot database contains the parking lot number, entrance distance, license plate number, entrance license plate number image, entrance time, payment completion time, exit time, exit license plate number image and payment amount; each data in the parking number registration database contains License plate number and virtual currency identification code. A parking lot vehicle identification management and control system and process as described in claim 1, wherein after the admission vehicle license plate number is recognized, the nearest empty parking space search function is executed, the nearest empty parking space is found from the parking space database, and the license plate number and parking space number are sent To the display of the entrance lane and the display of the number plate of the parking space, and then notify the entrance fence to perform the action of releasing the entrance and the electric vehicle resistance device of the parking space to perform the deregulation action, and after the deregulation instruction of the electric vehicle resistance device exceeds the free time , Notify the person who controls the electric parking brake in the parking space. As described in claim 1, a parking lot vehicle identification management and control system and process, in which the lane license plate camera transmits the license plate image of the vehicle coming from the lane to the computer management system, uses the recognition of the license plate number function for image analysis, recognizes the license plate number, and then the parking space The database searches for the parking space corresponding to the license plate number and sends the parking space number to the driving direction display. The driving direction display is then displayed on the driving direction display according to the direction of each parking space number built in the driving direction display. As described in claim 1, a parking lot vehicle identification management and control system and process, wherein, after payment by the toll machine, the position of the parking space and the travel route map are displayed. A parking lot vehicle identification management and control system and process as described in claim 1, wherein after payment is made, the parking lot electric vehicle blocker performs the releasing action when the payment is completed, and is taken after the payment of the electric vehicle blocker deregulation instruction exceeds the payment After the vehicle time, notify the person who controls the electric vehicle resistor in the parking space. A parking lot vehicle identification management and control system and process as described in claim 1, wherein the process includes a vehicle entrance process, a driving direction guide process, a charge management process and a vehicle exit process; wherein, the vehicle entrance process: the entrance license plate camera will enter the entrance vehicle license plate image Passed to the computer management system for image analysis by identifying the license plate number function, identifying the license plate number, and performing the latest empty parking space search function to find the nearest empty parking space from the parking space database, and then record the license plate number, license plate image and entrance time in the parking space database In the latest empty parking space data column, send the license plate number and parking space number of this data to the entrance lane display and the parking space license plate number display, and then notify the entrance fence to perform the action of releasing the entrance and notify the parking space electric vehicle resistance The vehicle will perform the deregulation action, and after the electric vehicle blocker deregulation instruction is issued beyond the free time, notify the parking space electric vehicle blocker to perform the control action; the driving direction guidance process; the lane license plate camera will bring the license plate image of the lane to the car Pass to the computer management system, use the function of recognizing license plate number for image analysis, identify the license plate number, and then search for the parking space number corresponding to the license plate number from the parking space database, and send the parking space number to the driving direction display, driving direction display Then according to the direction of each parking space number built in the driving direction display, it is displayed on the driving direction display; toll management process 1: the toll machine transmits the license plate number entered by the consumer to the computer management system, and the parking lot database finds the license plate The entrance time of the number and its corresponding parking space number, the toll machine calculates and displays the amount payable according to the entrance time and the current time, and provides payment in cash and virtual currency payment methods. After the payment is completed, the toll machine displays the location of the parking space and the route map. Record the payment completion time and payment amount in the parking space number column of the parking lot database, and remove the electric vehicle blocker of the parking lot. After the electric vehicle blocker deregulation instruction is issued and the payment time is exceeded, notify the parking lot electric vehicle The control action is executed by the resistor; the charge management process 2: the toll machine transmits the virtual currency identification code of consumer sensing or card swiping to the computer management system, and the vehicle number registration database searches for the registered license plate number corresponding to the virtual currency identification code. The parking lot database then searches for the entrance time of the license plate number and its corresponding parking lot number. The toll machine calculates and displays the amount payable based on the entrance time and the current time, and directly pays the fee in the virtual currency. After the payment is completed, the toll machine displays the location of the parking lot. And the route map, and record the payment completion time and payment amount in the parking space number data column of the parking lot database, and remove the electric vehicle blocker of the parking lot. , Notify the electric parking block of the parking space to perform the control action; the vehicle exit process: the exit license plate camera transmits the image of the exit vehicle license plate to the computer management system, and performs image analysis using the function of identifying the license plate number to identify the license plate number, and then the parking lot database Search for the payment completion time corresponding to the license plate number in the website. If the difference between the payment completion time and the current time does not exceed the payment collection time, then leave the venue The lane display shows "Payment paid, please come out", and at the same time informs the exit fence to perform the release action, and transfers the relevant data of the license plate number from the parking space database to the historical database, and clears the data in the parking space database. Information outside the parking lot number and distance.

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