Automated Parking Authentication via Local Terminal Verification
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Solution Overview
Problem
In fully automated parking systems, ensuring the presence of the driver in the parking area, particularly at the pick-up location, is challenging, leading to potential abuse and traffic flow issues due to unreliable communication connections.
Innovation Solution
The method involves generating authentication information for each vehicle, which is transmitted to the driver's mobile device and can be read using a local terminal or scanner upon return, ensuring the driver is present before initiating the vehicle's retrieval process, with options for NFC, barcode, or QR code reading, and a fallback system using an internet portal for retrieval.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If automated vehicle retrieval is initiated via mobile device communication, then vehicle retrieval convenience is improved, but driver presence verification reliability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary authentication system that mediates between the mobile device retrieval request and the vehicle retrieval execution. A local terminal in the pick-up area reads authentication information from the mobile device, serving as a verification intermediary that confirms driver presence before allowing vehicle retrieval, thus resolving the contradiction between convenience and reliability
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback by requiring the driver to present authentication information at the pick-up area terminal. The terminal verifies the authentication and provides feedback confirmation to the management system, which then triggers vehicle retrieval. This feedback loop ensures driver presence is verified while maintaining the automated retrieval process
2Productivity
If vehicle retrieval is allowed without presence verification, then traffic flow efficiency is improved, but fraudulent retrieval risk increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary authentication verification at the pick-up area terminal before initiating vehicle retrieval. The driver must present authentication information that is verified by the local terminal, and only after successful verification does the system proceed with retrieval. This preliminary action prevents fraudulent retrievals while maintaining efficient traffic flow
3Ease of operation
If authentication information is stored on mobile device, then retrieval process simplicity is improved, but system security deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The local terminal acts as a secure intermediary that reads and verifies authentication information from the mobile device without requiring the system to store sensitive data on the mobile device itself. The terminal mediates the authentication process, enhancing security while maintaining user convenience
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses optical copying (barcode/QR code) or magnetic copying (NFC) of authentication information instead of storing sensitive data. The mobile device contains a copy or representation of authentication credentials that can be read by the terminal, providing simplicity while enhancing security through non-sensitive data storage
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AI summary
The invention relates to a method for controlling a process for providing motor vehicles (6, 9, 10) in a parking environment (1) in which motor vehicles (6, 9, 10) can be automatically parked in a controlled manner by a managing device (2) of the parking environment (1) after being released by the driver (15, 15') and removed to a pick-up position in a pick-up region (7, 8) after a release request by the driver (15, 15') is ascertained. Upon releasing the motor vehicle (6, 9, 10), the driver (15, 15') is provided with authentication information, which can be retrieved optically and/or wirelessly via a reading connection (21), is specific to the parking process, and is assigned to the motor vehicle (6, 9, 10), by the managing device (2). The authentication information is read by a reading device (13, 14) in the parking environment (1), in particular in the pick-up region (7, 8), in order to pick up the motor vehicle (6, 9, 10), and the process for providing the vehicle is initiated only in the presence of authentication information.