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• the present invention constitutes a universal parking management system and provides a complete and reliable solution to the problem of acknowledgment by voice-activated electronic payment.
• patents WO 96/27170, WO 96/11453, WO 97 19568, US 5 940 481, WO 96/27170 and WO 93/20539 use the principle of incremental numbering of parking zones which involves the tedious composition of numerous digits on the laptop with a significant risk of selection errors.
• the incremental numbering of the parking zones makes it possible to process only a limited number of parking zones under penalty of inflicting the reading, and therefore the composition, of numbers too long to be practical for the user to use, all without prejudice to the memory efforts imposed on each parking lot (who will remember their parking number?).
• Patent FR 2 797 980 A MILGRAM MAURICE provides for the counting of a parking operation from the communication to a central server of a series of elements composed of: 2 first digits of the registration, the code postal code, a numeric code of the tariff zone, the expected duration.
• the central server prepares, via an encryption algorithm, a digital C code representing the signature of the transaction. The user then reports this code, read on the laptop screen, on a piece of paper which he affixes behind the windshield. This code C is entered on the keyboard of a decoder, available to the control officers, provided with the reverse encryption key of the server in order to restore the parking parameters.
• the present patent is based, on the other hand, on a new control system with a higher legal value than the parking meter since it is based on the falsifiable digital reading of the information contained in the radio frequency chip of a vehicle. This formula exempts the user from the hazardous drafting of a ticket and the controller from any reading effort eliminating any risk of error of interpretation likely to lead to a legal dispute.
• this patent stipulates the registration during each control of a group of information (agent number, interrogator number, city, street and address (No.), date & time, tariff zone, contact details of position, number (or reference) of offense ”) in the memory of the vehicle chip in order to establish irrefutable proof of the control (the rape of the memory of the chip is therefore much more complex than production fake parking ticket).
• Patent FR 2 797 980 A is also unrealistic to implement because, in terms of informing parking parameters to users, the author says nothing about how V (postal code or name - page 4, line 22) identifier of the city and Z identifier of the tariff zone (number, zone code or street name - page 4, line 24) will be known to users when they park.
• the present patent clearly stipulates the use of a short municipal code, composed of three figures sufficient to cover a country like France which has 660 cities paying for parking, overprinted in a tariff color, the whole affixed at the parking places at the top of the parking meters or terminals. This formula concentrates the information and guarantees a quick reading from a distance by the users for immediate identification of the parking municipality and the tariff for the area.
• patent FR 2 797 980 to MILGRAM MAURICE clearly stipulates (line 22) the use of a “five-digit code such as postal code or name or any other conventional code” without recommending the simultaneous use of the city name and '' a code, effectively prohibiting the application of its patent to adjacent municipalities if the city name is retained as the identifier.
• patent FR 2797 980 A MILGRAM MAURICE cannot offer any elasticity of parking time (payment at the time spent) since the code C is a function (page 4 - line 33) of the requested parking time, extracting this patent of the field of modern services offering payment on time past.
• the author should have provided for a systematic time registration mechanism by integrating, for example, a DCF 77 type receiver guaranteeing the legal time in the decoder.
• a DCF 77 type receiver guaranteeing the legal time in the decoder.
• the use of paging frequencies practically abandoned today or in the process of being weakened also weakens the pager formula proposed by the author (claim 3).
• Patent FR 2 797 980 uses SMS technology, requiring the writing of messages to communicate with the server, cumbersome in comparison with the WAP technology used by the present patent which proves to be easier to use since it is sufficient for the user to select the parking parameters on a screen downloaded to a mobile phone from the server and that it does not require any writing of messages.
• Patent WO 97 19568 to VAZVAN BEHRUZ provides for the calculation of a parking operation from the transmission of a zone number (page 4, 2nd paragraph), a street name or a number parking space. This transmission is carried out by SMS messages prerecorded at the telephone level, which in fact limits the use of this technology to only mobiles equipped with the appropriate function allowing the storage of SMS messages. Indeed, the sending of SMS messages requires the prior equipment of mobile phones as stipulated by the author at the end of page 2 "in the mobile station that includes the required sof are to produce a PSM (ie Parking Short Message) "
• Patent WO 97 19568 also imposes an unrealistic provision of parking tariff zones which are organized into concentric circular zones (page 4, ⁇ 2) since its principle is based on the simultaneous use of the zone number of "positioning units ( 9) ”, true radio beacons whose position is the center of said necessarily circular tariff zones. It is clear that this system does not allow the application of different tariffs for two zones located in the same circular reception arc and cannot meet the need for tariff differentiation between neighboring streets, the basis of a well controlled parking rotation, and even less to the need for strict delimitation between adjacent cities, which the municipalities claim and ignore the waves so much. The author however stipulates the possibility (page 4, ⁇ 2 end) of establishing zones of different shapes but does not say how.
• patents WO 99/10844, WO 97/45814 and WO 97/19568 stipulate the systematic addressing to the central office of the number of the cell in which the mobile telephone is located. This provision prohibits remote payment from a place other than the vehicle and exposes a user who is poorly informed of the principle of operation of this service to disappointments, if he should try to operate from a place other than his parking because the position information addressed would then be that of the BS of the reception area in which he is located, potentially different from that of his vehicle. These patents also pose a serious problem of use in the management of parking areas covered by several mobile operators.
• each has its own BS networks, making parking management more complex by an independent operator confronted with the superimposition of the meshes of the different networks, all without prejudice to the risks of legal conflicts resulting from the different interpretation of a position. by the user's telephone and that of the controller connected to the network of another operator.
• the present invention escapes the problems mentioned above and constitutes a complete universal parking management solution: can be implemented by any municipality, in particular a group of adjacent municipalities, - ensuring perfect and precise price discrimination, using particularly practical and easily identifiable selection parameters (codes) allowing without constraint the remote control of a parking operation from a place other than that of the vehicle, - completely freeing the operator from the supervision of telephone operators, requiring no modification or adaptation of networks, eliminating all risks of legal disputes, simplifying the procedures for reporting infringements, providing the benefit of precise behavioral statistics.
• the invention relates to a centralized parking management method by processing response elements, expressed vocally or by selecting from the screen a menu previously downloaded to an individual communication means, to interrogations sent by a central server provided with a voice recognition capacity, characterized in that said responses include a vehicle identification code accompanied by the name (city) or the digital code (geocode) of the parking place and the corresponding tariff code.
• the parking places are identified by two distinct codes, one geographic or geocode (2) numeric and the other tariff (3) based on colors each corresponding to a scale of tariffs and parking durations, said codes being simultaneously displayed at the top of parking meters (1), of signaling terminals or of any suitable support materializing said parking places.
• the parking position of a vehicle can also be obtained automatically either by a location device on board the vehicles, or by a location device integrated into an individual means of communication available to the driver, or by a system. location of a transmitter via the mesh of a telecommunications network, just before being transmitted to the server.
• the individual means of communication is preferably a mobile telephone.
• the identification of the vehicles and, depending on the case, the parking position or the geocode and the corresponding tariff color, are transmitted to the central server (100) for processing parking requests comprising recording (101) and storage means. (102) and billing
• This method uses devices (11) for remote identification of vehicles in order to verify the regularity of their parking, said devices comprising an interrogation function, location means (19), a reader (18) reading the identification code. written in the memory of a marker (13) located on each vehicle and a transmitter / receiver to communicate with the server. Description of the boards 1/24 to 24/24
• Plate 1/24 presents the overall diagram of the means used for the operation of the invention.
• Plate 2/24 explains the diagram of a parking request.
• Plate 3/24 details the principle of selection of the parameters of a parking operation in the case of a referencing of the parking lot with a digital municipal code and a tariff code based on colors.
• Plate 4/24 details the principle of selecting the parameters of a parking operation in the case of a referencing of parking lots with a numerical code starting with a specific number.
• Plate 5/24 details the principle of selecting the parameters of a parking operation when using a telephone with a location system.
• Plate 6/24 details the menu of sub-functions.
• Plate 7/24 explains the diagram of a parking control.
• Tables 8/24 to 10/24 detail the principle of registration of a user and his vehicles by voice command with the server.
• Tables 11/24 and 12/24 detail the voice processing scheme for a parking request.
• Plate 13/24 details the processing diagram for a parking request by selection using a laptop keyboard (choice of vehicle by serial number).
• Plate 14/24 details the processing diagram for a parking request by selection using a laptop keyboard (choice of vehicle by type).
• Tables 15/24 and 16/24 detail the voice processing scheme for a consultation or account credit transaction.
• Plate 17/24 details the processing diagram for a consultation or account credit operation by keyboard selection.
• Plate 18/24 details the vocal processing diagram for a consultation of the traffic condition.
• Plate 19/24 details the voice processing diagram for sending an expense report.
• Plate 20/24 details the voice processing diagram for a payment of P.V.
• Plate 21/24 details the voice processing diagram for a declaration of disappearance of a vehicle.
• Plate 22/24 details the voice processing diagram for a consultation of vehicle maintenance, insurance and technical control parameters.
• Plate 23/24 details the voice processing diagram of a vehicle impoundment.
• the 24/24 page details the process for processing a parking request by downloading a screen from a central server.
• the means of locating the parking place is based on the knowledge, at each request, of the geographical and tariff references of the parking place.
• the parking places are identified by two separate codes, one geographic (2) and the other tariff (3) corresponding to a couple of variables defining a scale of tariffs and parking durations stored in the server's memory. .
• This principle of selecting parking parameters is flawless thanks to the combined use of a single number per city and a color per tariff, the two codes being perfectly visible and identifiable from a distance at the top of parking meters (1) or signaling terminals materializing said parking areas.
• This formula has the advantage of dissociating two essential pieces of information, one aimed at simplifying using a number (composed of three digits sufficient to cover a country like France which has 660 cities with paid parking) communication the server of the parking place reference and the other to inform the user remotely and at first glance of the hourly rate of their parking by a color for better traffic rotation.
• the hourly cost and the maximum authorized duration are the determining parameters for user parking. Informing them remotely before they park their vehicle is allowing them to plan their parking, which they cannot do if the price is only discovered once returned to the parking meter or hidden in the form of a number included in a zone number that is difficult to identify or locate (same as in the case of the use of letters).
• the tariff colors are the advantage of dissociating two essential pieces of information, one aimed at simplifying using a number (composed of three digits sufficient to cover a country like France which has 660 cities with paid parking) communication the server of the parking place reference and the other to inform the user remotely and at first glance of the
• green 0, 5 Euro / hour for a maximum of two hours
• yellow 1.5 Euro / hour for a maximum of one and a half hours
• orange 2, Euros / hour for a maximum of one hour ...
• the use of colors has largely proven itself in terms of popular mnemonics and its adoption, coupled with the municipal code of cities, guarantees the quickest and error-free remote selection.
• the resident tariff can advantageously be indicated by the presence, overprinted of a tariff color, of a visual code such as a checkered strip, etc.
• Geographic codes correspond to a parking area whose extent is variable, their assignment is characterized in that the number / digit 1 (one) is assigned to the city or municipality of greatest importance (capital) and that the numbering of following municipalities either in decreasing order of importance (population ). Thus the city of secondary importance is assigned geocode 2 and so on.
• the means of identifying a vehicle is a vehicle.
• the identification of a vehicle is made up of:
• the windshield sticker can advantageously support a radio frequency marker, the number of one and the code contained in the chip of the other are correlated with the corresponding vehicle registrations in the server's memory.
• voice recognition makes it easy to use the type (make, model and color) of a vehicle as a means of identification.
• the server's voice recognition capacity allows it, in response to a parking request, to invite the user to communicate verbally and sequentially the parameters of its parking.
• This principle is particularly advantageous insofar as it accommodates any type of mobile phone, regardless of its age.
• user-friendly centralized parking management process using in particular voice recognition for processing instructions expressed via a mobile telephone in response to interrogations from a central server, following a parking request, characterized in that said instructions include (pi. 11 & 12/24):
• Plates 8 to 24 detail the type of dialogue that the server establishes with the user and the manner of requesting, in a defined order, the parking parameters.
• the parking management is then centralized by processing response elements to questions formulated by the central server following a parking request.
• said responses expressed by selection of keys of a mobile telephone previously indicated by said server, characterized in that said selection of keys is organized as follows (pi. 13/24, 14/24 & 17/24): the vehicle is defined: by its type (make, model, color, etc.) (pi. 14), its registration, its serial or registration number (key 1 for the first vehicle, key 2 for the second. ..) (pi.13), the number on a windshield sticker
• the central server In order to simplify the configuration of a parking operation, the central server
• Parking management is then centralized by selecting options from a menu that can include several submenus, previously downloaded from a central server to a mobile phone, characterized in that said menus and submenus include the following selection sequences ( ft. 24/24): vehicle (s) (pre-registered and visible in the vehicles submenu): - type (make, model, color, etc.) - order or registration number - number registration, city code: entry of the number then validation, - tariff color:
• the information completing the menu is returned by the user to the server (100), which examines the request and checks whether the user's account is funded before authorizing parking.
• This menu once received, can be stored directly either in the phone's RAM or its SIM (Subscriber Identification Module) card, avoiding the systematic downloading of each request over the air from the server.
• SIM Subscriber Identification Module
• the selection of vehicles is subject to prior registration, by the user, of the reference of the desired vehicle (s), in the memory (tables) of the server.
• the server presents the name, brand, serial number or registration number of the vehicle under the vehicles menu which is displayed on the laptop screen.
• the parameters of a request are systematically memorized and, for each new request, the screen presents the previous selection.
• This arrangement allows the user to enter only the new significant parameter during a parking operation.
• the entry (keyboard or voice) of the only parameter that has changed (city, price or vehicle), compared to the previous request, is enough to start a countdown.
• the central server is characterized in that, when a parking operation is triggered, its calculation means (103), after authentication of the calling telephone apparatus (20), reconcile the data received (vehicle - type , sticker number, registration number, marker reference / registration number - city or geocode name and tariff code, position coordinates, alarm ...) and its stored data (geocode / municipality-parking correspondence tables , tariff color / hourly tariff-authorized duration, digitized tariff cards) and then authorize the transaction, initiate the counting of the parking operation and this, at the tariff and for the duration corresponding to the data received and simultaneously ensure the sending , voice or on the screen of the device calling the following parameters (pi.
• - vehicle type -, serial number or registration - i registration, name of the municipality (or car park under construction), tariff color (except car park under construction), hourly rate, time limit for authorized parking, - remaining credit (if pre-payment), alarm signal: confirmation.
• the user thus has confirmation of the parameters entered and of the actual payment for his parking.
• each municipal code corresponds to the addresses of the appropriate configurations (paid time slots, hourly rate & maximum duration by tariff color) stored in the server's memory which triggers, upon receipt of the tariff color, the automatic application of the municipal conditions desired during each statement.
• Stop counting (plate 2/24 and 11 to 14/24).
• the central server is characterized in that its calculation means (103) stop counting:
• the server's calculation means (103) record the request with the parking end time, close the operation and debit the account (105) or invoice the user and simultaneously credit the account (105 ) of the winning municipality.
• the server issues an alert signal (call, message, etc.) depending on the alarm option selected by the user.
• the stimulus authorization will be fixed by decision of the municipal official concerned (Mayor) and recorded in memory (authorization table of relaunch) from the central server.
• the latter then authorizes a succession of operations only after verification of the authorization which may, according to the instructions of municipal officials, be systematic or subrogated to the finding, by the server, of a shift in the position of the vehicle a setpoint distance or the lapse of a setpoint duration (for example 30 minutes) between two requests.
• the value of the setpoint duration is stored in the setpoint duration table before authorization to restart the parking operation, memorized by the server.
• Vehicle equipped with a localization system and a radio link.
• the vehicle is provided with a navigation system or navigator and a hertzian link of mobile telephony allowing its driver to know and transmit, at any time, the geographical coordinates of his position.
• the server interrogates these integrated location (25) and communication (20) means in order to retrieve the position coordinates upon receipt.
• a parking operation can then either be controlled from a mobile phone or from the control unit of the navigator assembly. In the latter case, pressing the appropriate key on the navigator's control keyboard immediately sends the vehicle reference assembly plus geographic coordinates to the server (100) for processing. The information returned by the latter to the browser is then identical to that transmitted to a mobile phone.
• a prior correlation will have been established between said portable (20), the server (100) and the communication system equipping the vehicle.
• This arrangement consists in associating in the server's memory the call number of the line connected to the navigator with the vehicle reference (type, registration number, sticker number, radio frequency marker or registration number) designated so that , upon receipt of a parking request comprising said reference, the server interrogates the integrated location means (25) via the communication means (20) of said vehicle in order to retrieve the position coordinates for processing.
• the computing means (103) of the server then proceed to reconcile the coordinates of this position with those of the tariff zones of the member municipalities, that is to say that they establish the link between the geographic position received and the tariff conditions for parking therein. afferent, recorded (102) in its memory (digital tariff cards).
• the central server then addresses the elements relating to parking (name of the parking municipality or the car park, vehicle reference, tariff code (except parking in the works) and hourly tariff, date & time limit, and remaining credit) to the control unit or on the user's telephone.
• the settlement is made at the tariff and for the duration defined by the pair of values corresponding to the position declared by the navigator.
• the user Upon his return, the user indifferently stops the transaction by issuing the appropriate voice instruction or by pressing the appropriate key on the keyboard of his mobile phone or the browser control unit.
• the central server then records the end of the transaction and the end of parking time, debits the user's account and sends the amount either by voice or to the screen of the laptop or control box as well as the remaining credit in in the case of operation with prepayment.
• This formula is particularly practical for the user who no longer has to worry about any input of parameters (geographic or tariff) and parks purely universally on simple transaction authorization. This principle finds a second application in the search and positioning of stolen vehicles. In the event of theft, the user contacts the operator's server, which questions the vehicle navigator.
• the latter transmits the position coordinates of the stolen vehicle to him and proceeds to alert the competent police services.
• knowledge of an easily discernible position of a residential address will exempt the user from affixing the traditional sticker (or card) issued by the town hall on the windshield of his vehicle and attesting to his right to parking. at residential rate.
• the present invention will allow municipalities to define zones around the place of residence of the user where the benefit of the residential rate will be authorized (by the central server) for the greatest advantage of the rotation of the parking lot.
• the initiation of settlement at the residential rate will only be possible, for example, if the user parks in a radius close to his residence.
• Mobile phone equipped with a location system (plate 5/24).
• a location system plate 5/24.
• the mobile telephone has an integrated location system (25) (GPS, etc.)
• the coordinates of the position are supplied to the server when an operation is triggered. This addressing is concomitant with that of the reference (31) of the vehicle concerned.
• the server's calculation means (103) proceed to reconcile the coordinates of this position with those of the digitized tariff zones of the member municipalities, i.e. they establish the Uen between the geographical position received and the related parking tariff conditions stored at the level of the digitized tariff cards located in the server's memory.
• the central server then addresses the elements relating to parking (name of the parking municipality, tariff color and hourly tariff, date & time limit, remaining credit) to the user's telephone.
• the settlement is then carried out at the tariff and for the duration defined by the pair of values corresponding to the position declared by the integrated positioning system of the mobile.
• the user Upon his return, the user indifferently stops the transaction by issuing the appropriate voice instruction or pressing the appropriate key on the keyboard of his mobile phone.
• the central server then records the end of transaction and the end time of parking, debits the user's account and sends the amount by voice to the laptop screen as well as the remaining credit in the case of operation with pre -payment.
• This formula is particularly practical for the user who does not have to enter parameters (geographic or tariff) and parks in a purely universal manner upon simple transaction authorization.
• the central server In order to allow the user to remotely control his operations from a position different from that of his vehicle, the central server systematically memorizes the coordinates of the position of the laptop and the parking conditions attached thereto when an operation is triggered. With each new parking request, the server sends a menu to the user's laptop with the parameters of the last parking operation (35) (vehicle, city & fare color) so that it does not change the sound screen the necessary parameters and address the new request to the server. The latter records the instructions, verifies their compliance with the legal municipal provisions (authorization to relaunch) stored in their memory and will proceed) to the requested count.
• This provision mainly finds its application when remotely restarting operations (on municipal authorization stored in the server's memory) without having to return to its vehicle as well as the remote-controlled programming of parking (in particular residential). Mobile phones compatible with the automatic network location system.
• the position information produced by these systems can be automatically routed, via the network, to the central server of the invention for use identical to that of the coordinates (WGS 84) provided by a GPS system.
• the parking menu sent by the server according to the invention comprises various submenus
• PROGRAM (39) ensuring the user automatic payment for his parking on the date and at the times chosen.
• the server sends an option to program an advance request to the screen of the portable device, comprising: - the vehicle designation (type, registration, sticker, registration number), viUe code, the tariff color, previous selection, - last position (telephone + rental system) next time slot, date & time of parking start, date & time of parking end,
• the server saves the instructions as soon as they are received, possibly blocks the amount of future transactions of the user's account and communicates an acknowledgment of receipt by voice or by message of the type "PARKING AUTHORIZED - VEHICLE (type, registration number, sticker, registration) - DATES & HOURS - CITY - COLOR TARIFF and HOURLY RATE "and coordinates future parking operation triggers on the prescribed dates and times.
• These elements are stored in the server's memory, which can be interrogated at will by the user, who can therefore constantly know the status of payment for his parking.
• the "previous selection" parameter allows the user to keep the parameters selected during the previous operation to perform a countdown restart.
• Selecting the "next time slot” option ensures automatic operation launching at the start of the next paid time slot: the next day for programming at the end of the paid time slot the day before or at the start of the week ( Monday) for programming carried out at the end of the paid time slot on the last "working" day according to municipal provisions.
• the central server manages, in accordance with the provisions of each municipality, the "working" days at paid parking as well as public holidays.
• the parking menu sent by the central server according to the invention comprises a submenu (46) allowing the programming of an alert signal intended to warn the user of the imminence of the end of his authorized parking period .
• This submenu contains several setpoint options, for example five, ten, fifteen minutes ... which correspond to durations preceding the end of authorized parking, the server then transmitting a signal to the user's mobile phone in order to inform of the proximity of the authorized parking time limit.
• the information (mention of the type "CAUTION END PARKING IN XX MINUTES" or other signal of the voice type, indicator light, icon, buzzer ) is then broadcast by voice or on the screen by the mobile phone.
• the parameters of this function can therefore be freely programmed by the user at the server level on simple instruction, managed from the submenu or by voice request from the server (PI. 10/24) .
• the server offers the option of alert signal and define its set duration either vocally (pi. 11 & 12/24) or by selection on a downloaded screen (pl .24 / 24), or by selecting keys organized as follows (pi. 13 & 14/24): - alarm at 5 minutes (before parking time): button 1, alarm at 10 minutes (before time limit) ): button 2, alarm at 15 minutes (before parking time): button 3, alarm at x minutes (before parking time): button Y, cancel type Z.
• the interrogation of the central server by the surveillance agents allows them to verify the regularity of the parking by knowing the parameters of the payment of a vehicle.
• the agents will be able to interrogate the server by mobile telephone by producing a vehicle reference for it.
• This reference could be either: composed (mineralogical number (12), windshield sticker, radiofrequency marker) directly on the alphanumeric keyboard of a specific portable telephone, announced by voice (preferably the mineralogical plate) in plain text, by telephone via a portable or similar, to a server with a voice recognition or telephone operator capacity, read remotely from the memory of an electronic marker (13), present on the vehicle, via an interrogator (11) provided with '' a contactless reader and a privileged wireless communication channel with the server.
• the contactless reading marker is a microprocessor advantageously provided with a radio antenna making it possible to dialogue with an interrogator provided with a reader / writer by radio contactless means.
• the memory of this microprocessor is, except for an indelible identity code, advantageously rewritable in order to allow, in addition to recording data relating to a parking control, a multitude of applications: storage of data relating to vehicle maintenance, deadlines insurance premiums, etc.
• the server sends the registration of said vehicle as soon as it receives the code for the radiofrequency marker or the number of windshield sticker.
• the controller immediately compares with that on the license plates, No burglary of the vehicles is therefore to be feared.
• the means and modes of control are the means and modes of control.
• the parking payment control means consist of interrogators (11), at the disposal of the surveillance agents (10), provided with privileged radio transmission and reception means with the server, in particular of mobile telephony, of reading, of 'writing and recording of information in a radio frequency chip, and include for this purpose:
• the central server addresses (WAP GPRS ) to the interrogator a menu comprising the selection of the control parameters, namely: the digital code of the interrogator, the digital code of the user agent, - the name of the city or the geocode of the place of control, the name of the street, the address number of a control
• This menu includes submenus for saving the settings of a version.
• the control position is transmitted either by voice (city and street name, address number) to a voice recognition server, or by manual selection of parameters including the geocode, street name and address number of the place of parking inspected or automatically during the check if the interrogator is fitted with a GPS-type location system.
• Another positioning method can advantageously consist of reading the information (identification code, type, model, city name, street and address number or position coordinates, etc.) of radio frequency chips affixed on the parking meters or signaling terminals materializing the parking tariff zones.
• This arrangement has the advantage, in the case of parking meters, of being able to communicate their operating status in real time, either in the form of a technical diagnosis if the RF chip is in relation with the management system, or more simply of alert competent services as soon as the control officer notices a fault.
• the library of street names The library of street names.
• the file of street names of each municipality is managed in memory of the central server and can be consulted via a specific command (15) (for example a front / rear rocker) of the interrogator ensuring scrolling, in alphabetical order and at variable speed, street names of the municipality concerned on the interrogator screen.
• a specific command for example a front / rear rocker
• the number of the nearest building in front of which an inspection is carried out is selected using a numeric keyboard (15) and its validation by the agent ensures that it is taken into account by the addressing means of the interrogator which sends it to the server with the other parameters of the control. This provision is intended for the automatic recording of fines.
• the interrogator's control position can be obtained by ailers automatically via an integrated locating device (GPS, etc.) or by locating the transmission via the casing of a telecommunications network, provided that it is sufficiently precise.
• GPS global positioning system
• the position obtained by reading the RF marker from a parking meter or terminal materializing a parking area may be directly communicated to the central server.
• the interrogator (11) During an interrogation of a vehicle radio frequency marker (13), the interrogator (11) records the reference contained in the marker memory and records the elements relating to its passage (agent and interrogator number, date and time) )
• This reference is then immediately sent to the server, concomitantly with a specific identifier for the interrogator and a code for the holding agent, supplemented with contact details (GPS, etc.) or with the reference for the parking lot (municipality, street, number ) previously selected on the interrogator screen by said agent or from the position of the parking meter / signaling terminal previously interrogated.
• a specific identifier for the interrogator and a code for the holding agent supplemented with contact details (GPS, etc.) or with the reference for the parking lot (municipality, street, number ) previously selected on the interrogator screen by said agent or from the position of the parking meter / signaling terminal previously interrogated.
• the interrogator addresses during each check the coordinates (numeric, street name and building number) of the characteristic position of the 'parking meter or terminal materializing a parking zone corresponding to the last reading / interrogation.
• the interrogation function coordinates the means of calculation, addressing and writing of an interrogator (13) in order to enter, during a control, the following characteristic parameters: agent number, - interrogator number, date and time, viUe, street and address, position coordinates (nearest street & building number, GPS position, RF parking meter / signaling terminal), - infraction number (or reference) (as appropriate), in the rewritable memory of an electronic vehicle marker.
• the erasure of the reference or of all the parameters of a PV in memory of a marker is carried out on an instruction from the server and transmitted by the interrogator. This instruction corresponds to the recording of the PV payment by the server. Role of the central server.
• the central server (100) On receipt of information relating to a control, the central server (100) authenticates the interrogator's call (via its identification code or the telephone line number) and checks the regularity of the parking or payment status of the designated vehicle .
• its calculation (103) and storage (101) means, upon receipt of the data sent by an interrogator, record this data (marker reference / vehicle registration number, identifier / interrogator number and agent, city name or municipal code and street name, position coordinates) and reconcile with these (102) (reference tables / vehicle registration number, municipal code and tariff code, municipal tariff maps digitized) relating to the payment status for the parking of the corresponding vehicle and send the interrogator the relevant information, namely: vehicle type, vehicle registration, designated payment city (if effective), - selected fare color ( if effective), date and time of start of payment (if effective), date and time of end of payment of the last transaction (if effective).
• the interrogation of the server after a stop of counting consecutive to an exceeding of the maximum authorized duration naturally results in a response attesting to the state of non-payment with the date and time of the end of the last payment.
• the controls can, subject to linking the central server with the databases of the police forces, insurance companies ... be the occasion for multiple and simultaneous verifications.
• interrogating the radio frequency marker of a vehicle will make it possible to know the history of said vehicle (owner, stolen vehicle, etc.).
• the recording (101) and calculation (103) means of the server check the regularity of the parking of the vehicle as well as in the following tables: validity / expiry table for automobile insurance, acknowledgment table of car sticker, - validity / expiry table for technical checks on cars, table for residential parking authorizations, table for vehicle compliance with all standards, the compliance of said vehicle and communicate violations to the interrogator (warning, audible alarm, icon ...) as well as a sequence proposing the recording of a fine with the following elements: number (or reference) of the fine, city, vehicle reference (mineralogical number, type), - date & time,
• Ueu nearest street & building number, GPS position, RF marker marker, parking meter / signpost
• interrogator number agent number
• agent number agent number
• - reason no payment Certainly, amount.
• the agent then enters, using the numeric keypad (15) of the interrogator (or by voice communication), the number of the building (or house) closest to the vehicle verbaUsé and communicates it to the server then saves the reference or the PV parameters in memory of the vehicle chip (marker).
• the interrogator includes a location system (19)
• the coordinates of the position of the interrogator at the time of the control are then sent to the server for processing, via the digitized maps of the viUes, and recording of the municipal position (viUe, street, address) of control.
• the references read are transmitted to the server for processing either by direct interpretation of the coordinates contained in the chip or by reconciling the reference of the terminal with its coordinates contained in the appropriate tables of the server.
• the recording (101) and calculation (103) means of the central server record the position coordinates transmitted and reconcile them with the digitized municipal tariff cards (102) to deduce therefrom the state of conformity of the place of control with the coordinates of places reserved for parking.
• the central server then immediately sends an alert signal (voice, buzzer, screen display ...) to the interrogator with triggering of a sequence proposing either the transmission of a call (information) signal to the user's mobile phone (so that he releases his vehicle as soon as possible), or the contact with the nearest pound, or the recording of a non-exclusive fine (parking not authorized) for the two previous options. Parking payment.
• an alert signal voice, buzzer, screen display
• Payment for parking can be made according to two principles:
• the present invention having the particularity of being able to be activated by telephone, the prepayment can easily be made by telephone and bank card: the user selects the credit function of the application object of the invention and follows (depending on the case) ) or the indications of the voice server, or those presented on the screen of his mobile: the dialing of the credit card number on the keyboard followed by a validation (preceded by a possible code) will ensure the transfer of credit.
• the principle of the invention led to a great simplification of the verbaUsation function.
• This simplification can easily be extended to the automatic collection of fines, the amount of which can then be paid immediately either by deduction from the user's parking credit account or by bank card.
• the means of calculation (103) and of addressing the server send to the mobile telephone of the user concerned an information signal (audible alarm, voice message, icon ...) relating to the recording of an offense report.
• the server sends him (on the screen or in voice) the elements relating to the said offense and ensures, on a telepayment order via his mobile, the debit of the amount of the fine of the user account or bank card for the benefit of the organization concerned.
• a receipt can easily be generated by the server and sent to the user.
• the system allows the processing of services related to the automotive world such as electronic payment and registration of vignettes, automobile insurance, technical inspections of vehicles, keeping all registers of compliance of vehicles with all standards (technical, anti-poUution ...) as well as the control of municipal permits for residential parking.
• Telepayment by debit to a user's account will provide flexibility in administration and service providers who will be relieved of the collection of contributions and taxes. Indeed, the central server will ensure the automatic transfer of the sums collected on the corresponding accounts.
• the means of calculation (103) and storage (101) of the server are put in contact with the servers of the various service providers (tax departments, insurers, technical control centers, headlands ...) in order to build and archive the following tables: car insurance validity / expiration, acquittal of car sticker, - validity of automobile technical checks, residential parking permits, impoundment, compliance of vehicles with all standards. Control of vehicle compliance with legislation
• the surveillance officer is informed, during a parking check, of any lack of conformity of the vehicle with the legal provisions.
• the recording (101) and calculation (103) means of the central server check the status (payment, non-payment, compliance, non-compliance, etc.) of the reference of the vehicle checked in the aforementioned tables and address, if necessary, an alert signal (voice, sound, screen display, etc.) to the agent's interrogator, specifying the reason for the offense (expired insurance, unpaid sticker, control expired technique ...) as well as a sequence proposing either the emission of a reminder (information) signal to the user's laptop, or the recording of a fine.
• an alert signal voice, sound, screen display, etc.
• the recording, by the central server, of all the queries and related verbaUsations will allow municipal officials to have, via the Extranet network of the system operator, an indicator of the quality of work of their controllers.
• a specific menu, with access locked by code, will condition access to statistical data (number of vehicles checked per hour and per agent, number of checks per agent, actual hours of control, etc.) relating to the monitoring mission of the said agents.
• Their position, developed by the server's calculation means, can easily be presented, in real time, on the screen of the control desk, comprising a cartographic representation of the controlled area, of the municipal official concerned.
• This monitoring capacity provides municipalities with a tool particularly suited to optimizing parking management.
• the central server is
• the central server is characterized in that its storage means (102) contain:
• the server communicates the total credit available in the event of a prepayment option.
• the information is either received by voice by the user, or displayed on the screen of their mobile phone.
• a countdown is only possible if the central server authorizes it, and this, by virtue of a sufficient parking credit - to the user's account in the event of a prepayment option like any other agreement. billing.
• the central server sends the user's mobile phone a signal (voice or flashing "CREDIT" on the screen) inviting them to credit their account.
• Parking operations are still possible within a period of time corresponding to the amount of the remaining credit and for the conditions (code viUe & tariff color) selected. Credit depletion.
• the principle of parking management according to the invention is not liable to counterfeiting, the temptation, supposing a certain naivety on the part of offenders, to steal a radiofrequency marker and the windshield sticker in the illusory hope of 'imputing the inevitable infringements to its owner, cannot be founded.
• the memory of this chip contains an identifier of the vehicle which the server immediately brings closer to the mineralogical number to which it corresponds and communicates to the interrogator of the controlling agent.
• the latter then checks the correspondence between the vehicle's mineralogical number and that displayed on the screen of its interrogator (11).
• the supervision provided by the surveillance agents is likely to be of great interest to the police. Indeed, thanks to a coupling of the operator's server with the central file of the police services, they will have invaluable help in locating stolen or suspect vehicles. The establishment of legal evidence.
• any user may be contacted by direct contact via his mobile phone, Minitel, Internet, etc. with the operator's server and in as soon as possible, a document attesting to the actual payment of an operation.
• the selection of the appropriate sub-function (45) on the screen of the mobile phone or a request expressed by voice "NOTE OF EXPENSES, LEGAL PROOF, INVOICE " will formulate the request.
• the user can also indicate on the PV his accreditation number or simply mention his actual payment for parking via the system according to the invention, to the competent police services which will proceed, using this accreditation number or by simple dialing of the vehicle's mineralogical number, when interrogating the central server.
• the interrogation function coordinates the means of calculation, addressing and writing of an interrogator (13) in order to enter, during a control, the following characteristic parameters: agent number, - interrogator, date and time, city, street and address, position coordinates (nearest street & building number, GPS position, RF parking meter / signaling terminal reference), - infraction number (or reference) (as appropriate) ) in the rewritable memory of an electronic vehicle marker.
• agent number agent number
• - interrogator date and time
• city, street and address position coordinates (nearest street & building number, GPS position, RF parking meter / signaling terminal reference), - infraction number (or reference) (as appropriate) ) in the rewritable memory of an electronic vehicle marker.
• the erasure of the reference or of all the parameters of a PV in memory of a marker is carried out on an instruction from the server and transmitted by the interrogator. This instruction corresponds to the recording of the PV payment by the server.
• the analysis of the chip's memory via a simple interrogator, makes it possible to establish all the necessary parameters in the event of a dispute.
• the server records the history of all transactions in order to restore the parameters of any operation.
• the selection of the appropriate sub-function (34) in the telephone menu or the voice request "LEGAL PROOF, INVOICE, NOTE OF EXPENSES, OFFENSE, VERBALIZATION, PV" launches the query from the central server, which responds by supplying the following elements relating to a parking operation: vehicle reference (mineralogical number, type), selected municipal code, - selected tariff color, start and end time of parking, reference of the controller (depending on the case), reference of the interrogator (depending on the case), time, date and place (city, street and building number) of a check (depending on the case) and number (or reference) of a fine (depending on the case), amount and reason.
• This information is communicated by voice or on the laptop screen by the server.
• the present invention makes it possible, thanks to the computer of the operator's central server, to perform a behavioral statistical restitution of the parking of users.
• the recording by the central server of all parking operations as well as controls makes it possible to precisely determine the parking parameters by city, by street and by fare color:
• the central server reconciles, during each interrogation by the control officers, the position information (street name or coordinates) of the vehicles checked with the status of their payment.
• An adapted schedule of inspection rounds will provide, by compiling the information received, precise geocitadine statistics by street.
• the principle of universal parking according to the invention opens the way to numerous improvements in terms of management.
• the widespread use of radio frequency markers on vehicle windshields and navigation systems would make it possible to know, in real time, the occupancy and rotation rate of the parking spaces of each municipality and make reservations managed by the central server's computer with automatic allocation of a location as soon as the beneficiary vehicle is transferred within a certain radius of its destination.
• the municipalities will also benefit from the savings in surveillance costs resulting from real-time management of the park occupancy (roads and works) and knowledge of the position of the vehicles. Indeed, this principle will make it possible to identify vehicles in violation and to adapt the penalty to the best parking rotation.
• a higher, or even progressive, cost may be applied in the event of the maximum time being exceeded and be immediately charged to the user's account.
• the problem of collecting fines would still be largely mimicked.
• the present invention ensures, thanks to its universaUté of employment, a real assumption of responsibility and an optimization of the management of the parking, bringing the greatest profitability for the benefit of the municipalities on behalf of which it transforms the parking tax into a real service for the citizen.
• This invention also applies to the access control market where the communication, via a mobile telephone, of a digital code identifying access to a central server triggers, after authentication of the caller, the opening or closing maneuver. said access.

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