Orchestrating autonomous movements of parked vehicles to optimize parking efficiency

US9449512B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Intel Corporation · US

Inventors

• Alexandra C. Zafiroglu · Portland, US
• Jennifer A. Healey · Waltham, US
• Juan I. Correa · San Francisco, US
• Maria Paula Saba dos Reis · New York, US
• Alejandro Abreu · Tempe, US
• Victoria S. Fang · Mountain View, US
• Dalila Szostak · Portland, US
• Sarah E. Fox · Cartersville, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 26, 2014
• Grant date: Sep 20, 2016
• Expiry date: Jul 23, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G08G1/168
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Technologies for optimized vehicle parking include a parking management computing device and a number of advanced vehicles, each having an in-vehicle computing system. The parking management computing device establishes a secure control channel with each of the in-vehicle computing systems. Each of the in-vehicle computing systems may send a parking request to park or access the vehicle to the parking management computing device. The parking management computing device queries a number of the advanced vehicles that are already parked for positional or sensor data and determines an optimized parking configuration based on the parking request. The parking management computing device transmits movement requests to the in-vehicle computing systems to implement the optimized parking configuration. Each in-vehicle computing system may perform the movement request by using an autonomous driving capability, by using a remote control capability, or by notifying an operator. Other embodiments are described and claimed.