System and method for identifying an occupancy status of parking facilities

US10565879B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Robert Bosch GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Nils Larcher · Lörrach, DE
• Martin Werner · Langenau, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 27, 2016
• Grant date: Feb 18, 2020
• Expiry date: Jan 27, 2036

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G08G1/042
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A system for recognizing an occupancy status of, in particular unmarked, parking facilities is provided, which system includes: a) a plurality of occupancy sensors that are disposed, at a specific distance from one another, on or above an area to be detected; b) a central monitoring unit on which a virtual image of the area to be detected is stored and which is embodied to communicate with the occupancy sensors and to receive sensor data or information regarding the occupancy status at the location or in the vicinity of the respective sensor, the positions of the individual occupancy sensors being known to the central monitoring unit, and the central monitoring unit being embodied to create a virtual image of the occupancy status of the area to be detected and to recognize vacant and occupied sub-areas as a function of the sensor data.