WO1999034337A1 - Carte a puce pour payer des taxes d'autoroute - Google Patents

Carte a puce pour payer des taxes d'autoroute Download PDF

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WO1999034337A1
WO1999034337A1 PCT/DE1998/000628 DE9800628W WO9934337A1 WO 1999034337 A1 WO1999034337 A1 WO 1999034337A1 DE 9800628 W DE9800628 W DE 9800628W WO 9934337 A1 WO9934337 A1 WO 9934337A1
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Peter Grohse
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
    • G07B15/00—Arrangements or apparatus for collecting fares, tolls or entrance fees at one or more control points
    • G07B15/06—Arrangements for road pricing or congestion charging of vehicles or vehicle users, e.g. automatic toll systems
    • G07B15/063—Arrangements for road pricing or congestion charging of vehicles or vehicle users, e.g. automatic toll systems using wireless information transmission between the vehicle and a fixed station
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06K—GRAPHICAL DATA READING; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS
    • G06K19/00—Record carriers for use with machines and with at least a part designed to carry digital markings
    • G06K19/06—Record carriers for use with machines and with at least a part designed to carry digital markings characterised by the kind of the digital marking, e.g. shape, nature, code
    • G06K19/067—Record carriers with conductive marks, printed circuits or semiconductor circuit elements, e.g. credit or identity cards also with resonating or responding marks without active components
    • G06K19/07—Record carriers with conductive marks, printed circuits or semiconductor circuit elements, e.g. credit or identity cards also with resonating or responding marks without active components with integrated circuit chips
    • G06K19/0701—Record carriers with conductive marks, printed circuits or semiconductor circuit elements, e.g. credit or identity cards also with resonating or responding marks without active components with integrated circuit chips at least one of the integrated circuit chips comprising an arrangement for power management
    • G06K19/0702—Record carriers with conductive marks, printed circuits or semiconductor circuit elements, e.g. credit or identity cards also with resonating or responding marks without active components with integrated circuit chips at least one of the integrated circuit chips comprising an arrangement for power management the arrangement including a battery
    • G06K19/0704—Record carriers with conductive marks, printed circuits or semiconductor circuit elements, e.g. credit or identity cards also with resonating or responding marks without active components with integrated circuit chips at least one of the integrated circuit chips comprising an arrangement for power management the arrangement including a battery the battery being rechargeable, e.g. solar batteries
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06K—GRAPHICAL DATA READING; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS
    • G06K19/00—Record carriers for use with machines and with at least a part designed to carry digital markings
    • G06K19/06—Record carriers for use with machines and with at least a part designed to carry digital markings characterised by the kind of the digital marking, e.g. shape, nature, code
    • G06K19/067—Record carriers with conductive marks, printed circuits or semiconductor circuit elements, e.g. credit or identity cards also with resonating or responding marks without active components
    • G06K19/07—Record carriers with conductive marks, printed circuits or semiconductor circuit elements, e.g. credit or identity cards also with resonating or responding marks without active components with integrated circuit chips
    • G06K19/0723—Record carriers with conductive marks, printed circuits or semiconductor circuit elements, e.g. credit or identity cards also with resonating or responding marks without active components with integrated circuit chips the record carrier comprising an arrangement for non-contact communication, e.g. wireless communication circuits on transponder cards, non-contact smart cards or RFIDs
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06Q—INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • G06Q20/00—Payment architectures, schemes or protocols
    • G06Q20/30—Payment architectures, schemes or protocols characterised by the use of specific devices or networks
    • G06Q20/34—Payment architectures, schemes or protocols characterised by the use of specific devices or networks using cards, e.g. integrated circuit [IC] cards or magnetic cards
    • G06Q20/343—Cards including a counter
    • G06Q20/3433—Cards including a counter the counter having monetary units
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F7/00—Mechanisms actuated by objects other than coins to free or to actuate vending, hiring, coin or paper currency dispensing or refunding apparatus
    • G07F7/02—Mechanisms actuated by objects other than coins to free or to actuate vending, hiring, coin or paper currency dispensing or refunding apparatus by keys or other credit registering devices

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  • the invention relates to a chip card with a memory unit for storing predeterminable constant and variable data.
  • the object of the invention is to provide a chip card with which highway tolls can be billed.
  • the chip card contains a transmitting device operated by an electrical current source integrated in the chip card for transmitting this data.
  • the chip card according to the invention is preferably designed such that the current source is an accumulator unit operated by solar cells arranged on the chip card and which emits 1.5 volts.
  • the solar cells of the chip card according to the invention are designed in such a way that they emit an output of 0.8 watts at average daytime illuminance, and the transmitter emits an output of 0.5 watts on average.
  • these are only guidelines.
  • the quantity and quality of the solar cells can be designed so that they can also deliver larger outputs. It is only essential that the power of the solar cells is adapted to the average power of the transmission device.
  • the chip card according to the invention is preferably designed such that the transmitting device emits electromagnetic waves in the microwave frequency range.
  • the microwave frequency range or the microwave-near frequency range such as, for example, the frequency range for operating GSM mobile phone telephones, is particularly suitable for the operation of the transmitting device of the chip card according to the invention for technical as well as technical reasons. In principle, however, other wavelength ranges are also conceivable.
  • the transmitting device sends the data in the form of pulses with a length of less than 0.5 Seconds, whereby the pulses are repeated after the expiry of constant time intervals in which no pulse is sent.
  • the time intervals preferably have a length of 0.1 sec to 10 sec.
  • the chip card according to the invention is preferably designed so that the time intervals have a length of 1 sec. In principle, however, the time intervals are uncritical variables which can be varied considerably depending on the need and area of application of the chip card according to the invention. It is only essential that the transmitting device of the chip card according to the invention outputs identifiable data within such time periods that a position determination of a vehicle carrying a chip card according to the invention is made possible.
  • the chip card according to the invention contains a charging chip which is programmed in such a way that the electrical energy which is not required to operate the transmitting device is dissipated to the accumulator unit.
  • the chip card according to the invention can also be designed such that the electrical energy that is not required to operate the battery unit is dissipated to the transmitter.
  • the chip card according to the invention has a non-programmable identification chip, in which an identifier in the form of a digital number code for identifying the card is saved. According to the invention, this identifier serves to make a vehicle carrying the chip card according to the invention clearly identifiable. A vehicle carrying a chip card according to the invention accordingly sends out an identifier that is not person-related or vehicle-related, but is only related to the respective chip card.
  • the chip card according to the invention contains a control chip in which an operating period and a time division of the operating times of the chip card can be specified.
  • the operating period can be predetermined by a predetermined amount of money.
  • An operating time of the chip card according to the invention can thus be bought.
  • a time division of the operating times of the chip card can be provided optionally and can be specified by an owner of the chip card.
  • the chip card according to the invention is preferably designed such that the interval length in which no pulse is sent can also be specified in the control chip.
  • the power consumption of the chip card is reduced if the interval lengths in which no pulse is sent are large, and it is increased if these interval lengths are short.
  • the control chip of the chip card according to the invention can have an exposed contact surface on the chip card, via which it can be programmed.
  • the contact surfaces of the chip card according to the invention m inserted state m the programming unit in contact with corresponding contact surfaces of the latter.
  • the contact area is composed of a plurality of contact fields.
  • the chip card according to the invention can contain a further memory chip for storing predefinable amounts of money.
  • usual services or services in the vehicle sector such as paying parking fees, filling up with gasoline or washing a vehicle in a car wash, should be affordable.
  • the memory chip according to the invention can be designed such that the lower memory chip has an exposed contact surface on the chip card, about which amounts of money, for. B. for parking meters or car washes.
  • This contact area can be identical or can be designed separately with the contact area via which the chip card can be programmed.
  • the chip card according to the invention can be designed such that the control chip, the identification chip, the charging chip and the lower memory chip are combined in a single chip.
  • the invention also relates to a system for monitoring the payment of motorway tolls, monitoring devices being attached to motorways, having at least one receiving device for receiving the signals transmitted by a chip card of the type mentioned above, a transmitting device for electromagnetic waves for transmitting data to a central database, one digital camera for imaging vehicles passing through a monitoring device including their number plates, a scanner device for scanning the images taken by the digital camera and for digitally processing the image contents in order to transmit them in digital form from the transmitting device.
  • the system according to the invention fulfills the task of paying motorway tolls without a driver having to stop or slow down his vehicle for this purpose.
  • This object is achieved in cooperation with a chip card of the type mentioned at the outset, which is able to send out active signals which on the one hand contain an identifier which allows the chip card to be identified and on the other hand sends out an identifier with which one which has taken place in the past Money transfer to pay one or more highway tolls is demonstrated.
  • the system is preferably designed so that it is a
  • Database contains, with a transfer always for the
  • the receiving device does not receive a signal emitted by a chip card of the aforementioned type from a passing vehicle.
  • the camera and the forwarding of the image content obtained in this way to a central database serves the purpose of recording vehicles via their license plate and / or the driver of vehicles in the
  • Received signal from a chip card from which it follows that a highway toll to be paid has been paid.
  • the vehicle owner is determined from the central database using the license plate and subsequently asked to pay the corresponding motorway toll. Due to the nature of the evidence
  • the system is preferably designed such that, in the case of digital data transmission from a monitoring device to a central database, soaring aircraft are provided as a relay station. Soaring planes are only one way of realizing such a relay station. Instead of airplanes, transmission to one or more satellites is also conceivable. It is also possible to completely dispense with relay stations and to set up direct data transmission from the transmitting devices to the central database either via radio connections or via a telephone network. Soaring planes, especially those flying above 15,000 m, offer the advantage that very inexpensive operation can be carried out in a very short time.
  • the invention also relates to a method for directing traffic on motorways, the statistical data relating to traffic density and flow direction obtained by means of an above system being disseminated as information for road users via traffic radio.
  • the method according to the invention solves the task of determining very quickly, very precise statistical data about traffic volume according to density and direction.
  • the data obtained with the aid of the system according to the invention are evaluated.
  • the invention is explained below with reference to a preferred embodiment, which is shown in the figures of the drawing. Show it:
  • Fig.l a chip card according to the invention in a plan view
  • FIG. 2 shows a monitoring device for the system according to the invention for monitoring the payment of motorway tolls in an oblique view from above;
  • FIG. 3 shows a preferred embodiment of the system according to the invention for monitoring the payment of motorway tolls.
  • a solar cell unit 11 which charges a 1.5 volt battery 12 via a charging chip 13, which is programmed so that the electrical energy that is not used to operate a transmitter unit 16, the activated state emits 0.5 watts of transmission power, is required, is discharged to the accumulator unit 12.
  • the chip card 10 contains an IMEI chip, that is to say a non-programmable identification chip which emits a predetermined identifier, which uniquely identifies the chip card, via the transmission unit 16.
  • the chip card 10 contains a control chip 15 in which an operating period corresponding to the payment of a predetermined amount of money for paying a motorway toll is predetermined.
  • an identifier corresponding to the amount of this predetermined amount is likewise emitted by the transmitting unit 16 in the form of electromagnetic microwave radiation.
  • solar cells 23 are arranged on the top of an archway 21 stretched over a roadway 25, which supply energy for operating a receiving device 28, 28 ′ designed in the form of contact loops for receiving the from a chip card 27 carried in a vehicle 26, as shown in FIG. 1.
  • the archway 21 also contains a digital camera 22 for imaging vehicles passing through the monitoring device, including their number plates, the camera 22 being provided with a scanner device for scanning the digital images and for digitally processing the image contents, these image contents via a transmission unit (not shown) and a Antenna 24 can be sent to a central database.
  • the camera 22 is automatically activated whenever no active signals from a chip card 27 are received by the receiving device 28, 28 '.
  • the image contents in this case activated digital camera 22 transmitted via the transmitting device 24 to a central database 26, in which corresponding vehicles are identified via the license plate and measures for enforcing an additional payment are initiated, whereby 24 transmitted to a central database 26, in which corresponding vehicles are identified via the license plate and measures for enforcing an additional payment are initiated, a soaring aircraft 280 being provided as a relay station.
  • the statistical data collected in the database 26 are also made available to public authorities and traffic control centers 27 in order to carry out a method for directing traffic on motorways, the statistical data obtained in this way relating to traffic density and flow direction being disseminated as information for road users via traffic radio.

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L'invention concerne une carte à puce comprenant une mémoire servant à stocker des données constantes et variables pouvant être prédéterminées. L'invention vise à permettre la facturation de taxes d'autoroute au moyen de ladite carte. A cet effet, la carte à puce comporte une unité émettrice servant à émettre ces données et fonctionnant au moyen d'une source d'énergie électrique intégrée dans ladite carte à puce.
PCT/DE1998/000628 1997-12-24 1998-03-04 Carte a puce pour payer des taxes d'autoroute WO1999034337A1 (fr)

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