Centralized Vehicle Toll Charging With Local Barrier Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional lane charging systems require lane industrial personal computers in each lane, leading to complex deployment and limited computing capability, resulting in low billing efficiency.
Innovation Solution
Implement a centralized server-based vehicle toll charging system that processes billing and controls lane peripherals, eliminating the need for lane computers and leveraging powerful computing capabilities to improve efficiency and flexibility.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If lane industrial personal computers are deployed in each lane, then billing can be performed locally, but the deployment becomes complicated and computing capability is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the billing computation function from individual lane computers and relocates it to a centralized cloud server. This eliminates the need for complex deployment of billing systems in each lane while maintaining local lane controllers for simple barrier control operations.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediate lane controller that acts as a mediator between the charging terminal and the cloud server. This intermediary handles local barrier control while delegating complex billing computations to the cloud, reducing deployment complexity at the lane level.
2Reliability
If lane industrial personal computers are used, then local billing can be performed, but billing efficiency is low due to limited computing capability
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the computationally intensive billing operations from limited-capacity lane computers and transfers them to a powerful cloud server with superior computing resources, thereby significantly improving billing efficiency while maintaining reliable local billing capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transitions the billing computation from a distributed edge-computing model (at the lane level) to a centralized cloud-computing model, utilizing the additional computational dimension provided by cloud infrastructure to enhance billing efficiency.
3Productivity
If centralized server is used for billing, then computing power is enhanced and deployment is simplified, but real-time control capability must be maintained
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the system into two functional parts: a centralized cloud server for non-time-critical billing computations and local lane controllers for time-critical barrier control operations. This segmentation allows both high billing efficiency and fast real-time control to coexist.
Solution Approach 2:
The lane controller performs preliminary real-time barrier control actions based on local conditions, while the cloud server handles subsequent billing computations. This preliminary action ensures real-time control speed is not compromised by centralized processing delays.
Data Source
AI summary
A vehicle toll charging method include acquiring reference information of a vehicle in a current toll lane, the reference information including one or more of a vehicle type or driving information, determining toll information of the vehicle according to the reference information, transmitting the toll information to a charging terminal, acquiring a first indication message, the first indication message indicating that a toll transaction of the vehicle is successful, transmitting a first control instruction to a lane controller based on the first indication message to control a barrier of the current toll lane to lift and allow the vehicle to pass through the current toll lane, acquiring a second indication message, the second indication message indicating that the vehicle has passed through the current toll lane, and transmitting a second control instruction to the lane controller based on the second indication message to control the barrier to lower.