Classifications

• • G—PHYSICS
  • G08—SIGNALLING
  • G08G—TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS
  • G08G1/00—Traffic control systems for road vehicles
  • G08G1/20—Monitoring the location of vehicles belonging to a group, e.g. fleet of vehicles, countable or determined number of vehicles
• • 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
  • G07B15/02—Arrangements or apparatus for collecting fares, tolls or entrance fees at one or more control points taking into account a variable factor such as distance or time, e.g. for passenger transport, parking systems or car rental systems
• • 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
  • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
  • G07C—TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS; ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE
  • G07C1/00—Registering, indicating or recording the time of events or elapsed time, e.g. time-recorders for work people
  • G07C1/30—Parking meters
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G08—SIGNALLING
  • G08G—TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS
  • G08G1/00—Traffic control systems for road vehicles
  • G08G1/123—Traffic control systems for road vehicles indicating the position of vehicles, e.g. scheduled vehicles; Managing passenger vehicles circulating according to a fixed timetable, e.g. buses, trains, trams
  • G08G1/127—Traffic control systems for road vehicles indicating the position of vehicles, e.g. scheduled vehicles; Managing passenger vehicles circulating according to a fixed timetable, e.g. buses, trains, trams to a central station ; Indicators in a central station

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a method of recovery of sums due by a subscriber for the occupation of paid parking and the means used to perform the process.
• the invention aims to overcome all these drawbacks of the prior art in order to give a user the possibility of periodically adjusting, at a fixed frequency, all the paid parking periods he has used during the defined period, this whatever the zones, or the car parks that he used in any agglomeration and which adhere to the process.
• the invention which consists in a method of recovering amounts due when at least one vehicle (11) of at least one user is occupied with places on paid parking zones at various rates. characterized in that for a user who has subscribed a subscription from a provider, said service provider performs the following operations: location of each vehicle stationary, by means of a geolocation system (2) by satellite installed on the vehicle , and comparison with a file of paid area rental companies listed in a given database managed by a remote server of the vehicle so as to determine if the vehicle is stationary on a pay area, recording on a remote server the exact time of arrival on the pay zone detected in the preceding step ' and departure of the vehicle of said pay zone, calculation by a remote server of the price corresponding to the duration of the parking on said zone according to the tariff grids specific to the renter of said pay zone, accounting on a remote server and over a given period of time of parking of the same subscriber on the zones belonging to to one or more hirers of the database, collecting by a remote server the total amount due from the
• the means for implementing the method mainly comprise, in combination, a satellite geographical location device installed on a vehicle and a device also installed on the vehicle and able to remotely exchange data (E, T) with at least one server ( If) remote from the vehicle, these data making it possible to establish a file of the sums due by the subscriber who holds the vehicle
• Figure 1 symbolizes a vehicle in motion then stopped, as well as the means of communication and data processing data.
• Figure 2 is an example of paid area mapping that can be manually established on an existing plan.
• the means used by a method according to the invention consist essentially of: a device for geolocation (2) of a housing (8) installed on a vehicle (1), for example of the type known as GPS which in addition to its usual function of locating the vehicle on a card by data exchange (D) with one or more satellites (4), is able to remotely exchange data (E, T) with a server (Si), a display screen (3) of information eg subscriber number and / or parking time and possibly the price to pay, installed in the vehicle (2), a computer server (S 1 ) whose functions are:
• this cartography is preferentially a set of maps on which a The operator manually identifies the pay zones for each rate as will be described at the end of the description.
• the data (T) are in particular the location of the vehicle calculated by means of the data exchange (D) between the satellite (4) ) and the vehicle.
• an information processing system arriving via the link (L 1 ) for recording the exact time of stopping the vehicle (to the nearest minute or second) on an area identified in the database, and record the exact time of departure of the vehicle (to the nearest minute or second),
• management files including the sums owed by the subscriber and may also include an amount for membership, and / or subscription or management fees.
• the sums also take into account the tariffs of each renter: free period, hourly rate etc.
• the files may also include other data for example to form occupancy statistics or other ...
• a computer server (S 3 ) which processes the data on the financial plane, that is to say that it records for each subscribed the amount due over a given period and for all of its vehicles, collect the amounts owed by each subscriber and bill them, pay the amounts collected on a management account.
• the mode of collection among subscribers is symbolized by links (L 3 ) and uses at the customer's choice a method of withdrawal on credit card, or card or any other formula.
• the server (S 3 ) carries out the collections at a predetermined time interval, for example a month, and issues the corresponding invoices, available on the internet or by mail.
• the server constitutes a transfer file and returns to each renter sums that are due to him by transfer to his bank account (links L 4 ), and to the service provider holding the method according to the invention (link L 5 ), the sums which are also due to him by the subscriber and / or by the customer as for example expenses of file, and / or expenses of management and / or subscription, etc.
• the service provider provides the subscriber with a housing (8) specifically designed for the implementation of the method and which contains the geolocation system ( 2) as well as an electronic chip programmed to send and / or receive the computer data on a principle of teletransmission by telephone
• IP Internet Protocol
• the housing (8) and the screen (3) also contain the necessary power supply means for example battery or connection means on a cigarette lighter socket of the vehicle.
• the advantages of the method according to the invention include the following: allow a motorist to park on paid sites and pay the actual cost of parking without having personal management, carry out this operation without having to leave his vehicle, without money on oneself, without moving for the search of a ticket, without having a parking card of the good city and allows to benefit from personalized benefits, also no search of terminal of payment, not setting up a voucher and billing only the real time of parking, possibility of granting advantages to the subscriber according to his function (health personnel for example), his condition (disabled for example) or according to any other criteria, possibility of disconnect the link with the server for confidential routes and maintain the route guidance function, possibility of locating a stolen car to a member, thanks to the tracking of the geographical location given by the GPS.
• geo-location means geographical location of a vehicle on a map contained in the databases.
• the servers S 1 , S 2 , S 3 can be grouped into a single server, are computer servers designed by the service provider, which manage all the information sent or sent remotely to all subscribers' vehicles and which contain data storage and storage units (cards, identifiers, etc.) as well as time counting units.
• parking zone is also used because according to the precision of the geolocation system (of several meters at present and less than one meter in the future) it is sufficient to know that the vehicle has just entered a street or a set of paid streets, or in a paid parking without this precision influences the principle of calculation and management of the payment, of course with the evolution of the precision of the system of localization the zone will be able to correspond precisely to a place or several places.
• FIG. 2 shows a city plan with street areas (R 1 to R 2 ) and streets (R 5 to R 10 ) at different rates.
• the provider or one of its operators saves for each pricing the location of the pay area for example by means of an optical drive moved to said area.
• the housing also provides any sensor or motion sensor to recognize whether the vehicle is stationary or moving.
• the data (T) is sent to the server (1) only if the stop-motion recognition means has recognized that the vehicle is stationary.

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