Parking lot

US9177221B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Kapsch TrafficCom AG · SE

Inventor

• Oliver Nagy · Wien, AT

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 5, 2012
• Grant date: Nov 3, 2015
• Expiry date: Oct 20, 2033

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y04S30/14
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A parking lot with a plurality of parking spaces for vehicles that have OCR-readable license numbers and onboard units with radio IDs that can be read out via radio signals. The parking lot including a central computer for storing parking space reservations, a vehicle license number and an assigned radio ID, a radio beacon for the parking spaces for reading out the radio ID of an entering vehicle via radio and signaling the radio ID to the central computer, and at least one camera unit for each parking space for reading the license number of a vehicle and correspondingly signaling the license number to the central computer. The central computer checks whether for a radio ID signaled to the central computer the vehicle license number is subsequently signaled by the camera unit of this parking space, and to log instances in which this is not the case.