The present invention describes the
system of centralized parking
payment and monitoring, which uses geo-location enabled devices such as iPhone, android, RIM devices, mobile phones, pagers and
wireless mobile computers.Using such
system person can get a parking
receipt; do
payment of parking in the paid
parking area directly from his geo-location enabled devices without any intervention of any attendant.Simultaneously, police or parking manager can also check the virtual parking
receipt of the vehicle in the centralized parking
system using Geo-location enable
mobile device.The big differences between this new solution is compared to existing solution are (1)All the current solutions are identifying a particular parking spot instead of looking at holistic view of parking on a whole street or an unmanned
parking area. Geo-location devices have 5-25 meters inaccuracy in identifying a position i.e. 1-5 parking spots inaccuracy. As a result, geo-location device cannot locate a particular parking spot. Thereby no public parking solution exists based on the geo-location based devices alone. In our solution, we re-engineered the business problem and instead of looking at a particular parking spot, the new process is dependent of parking of particular section of street or an unmanned
parking lot—which we refer to ‘
Parking Area’. The characteristic of
Parking Area is that pricing and business apply to
Parking Area as a whole unit. We are able to provide solution just based on geo-location based devices by combining concept of Parking Area with design of with parking application along with
enforcement application. Parking Area will be divided in
three level hierarchy Admin1, Admin2& Admin3. (2)This solution does not need any new devices to be installed or parking spots to be marked and entered in the parking application. It uses geo-location enabled devices to identify the location of the parking place.