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Automated vehicle parking system for a plurality of remote parking facilities

Inactive Publication Date: 2002-08-27
AMTECH SYST
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The present invention overcomes the disadvantages of the prior art by providing a parking system having a central facility coupled to and monitoring a plurality of satellite parking facilities and in which each satellite parking facility may be a facility that operates individually and independent of

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If the vehicle is not authorized to enter a parking facility because of no identification, no valid identification, not authorized to use a suitable product, or no credit in the account, and the like, the system will not permit entry.

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FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating the general system overview including a central facility computer 10 and nine satellite parking facilities 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, and 100. The details of one of the satellite parking facilities 100 is shown and includes the host computer 112 that accomplishes the accounting, cost calculations, tag validation, and the like. The host computer 112 comprises a display screen 114, a computer 116, and a keyboard or other entry device 118 such as a mouse. The host computer 112 communicates with both the entrance lane controller computer 120 and the exit lane controller computer 124 through lines 122 and 126, respectively. Further, when polled by the central facility computer 10, all data regarding a user will be transferred to the central facilities computer 10. The entrance lane controller is coupled to an entrance lane module 128 that includes a sensor 132, a display 134, a detector 136, such as a loop detector, and an entrance gate 138. In...

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Abstract

An automated vehicle parking system for a plurality of remote parking facilities that communicates with a vehicle approaching or leaving the remote facility with RF signals, or the like, that identifies the vehicle and sends the vehicle identification number, time of day, and lane number to a first computer at the remote facility for calculating the parking cost of a given vehicle based on rates for said given individual vehicle stored in the first computer of each of the plurality of remote parking facilities and having a central computer coupled to each remote facility for providing a single bill to a user of several remote facilities and advising each remote facility first computer of the total fees due for all users of that remote facility during specified periods.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION1. Field of the InventionThe present invention relates in general to vehicle parking systems and in particular to a parking system having a central facility coupled to and monitoring a plurality of satellite parking facilities in which each satellite parking facility automatically identifies a vehicle approaching the entrance or exit lanes to the parking facility and generates an appropriate set of responses such as opening the gate, illuminating a fee display or other sign information, posting accounting information and the like. A user of multiple satellite parking facilities receives one statement periodically from the central or clearinghouse facility. Each satellite parking facility may be independent from the other satellite parking facilities and each may set its own charges and fee schedules. The central facility simply keeps track of all parking in all the satellite parking facilities and sends the user one bill (or debits an account) for the tota...

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IPC IPC(8): G07B15/02
CPCG07B15/02
Inventor ANTHONYSON, ROBERT B.
Owner AMTECH SYST
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