Parking Facilitation Circuit for Compatible Space Mapping
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Solution Overview
Problem
The increasing demand for parking spaces, exacerbated by urbanization and high real estate costs, leads to significant challenges for drivers, with many spending excessive time searching for parking and experiencing frustration, which can result in avoided destinations and increased road rage.
Innovation Solution
A parking assistance system that utilizes a communication interface to receive sensor information from various sensors, determining available parking spaces and generating a compatible parking space map for vehicles, allowing users to navigate to and reserve suitable spaces efficiently.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of time
If drivers search for parking spaces manually, then they can find available spaces, but they spend excessive time (17 hours per year on average, up to 100 hours in major metropolitan areas)
Solution Approach 1:
The system continuously collects real-time parking space data from multiple sensors and vehicles, processes this information through a cloud platform, and provides updated parking availability information back to drivers. This closed-loop feedback mechanism enables drivers to make informed decisions about parking locations without manual searching, reducing time loss while maintaining ease of operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a parking facilitation circuit as an intermediary between drivers and parking spaces. This intermediary component aggregates sensor data from multiple sources, processes parking availability information, and presents filtered results to drivers, eliminating the need for manual searching while ensuring accurate and reliable parking space identification.
2Adaptability or versatility
If parking spaces are not properly utilized or matched to vehicle requirements, then parking availability decreases, but compatibility checking between vehicles and parking spaces increases system complexity
Solution Approach 1:
The parking facilitation circuit is designed as a universal system that handles multiple functions: collecting sensor data, determining parking availability, extracting parking space parameters, comparing vehicle profiles with parking space characteristics, and generating compatibility assessments. This multi-functional approach ensures adaptability across different vehicle types and parking spaces while avoiding the need for multiple separate systems, thereby managing complexity efficiently.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically adjusts and compares multiple parameters including vehicle dimensions, parking space availability, and spatial relationships between vehicles and parking spaces. By changing and evaluating these parameters in real-time, the system achieves high adaptability in matching vehicles to suitable parking spaces without requiring overly complex fixed-rule systems.
3Loss of time
If real-time parking information is provided to all vehicles, then parking search time is reduced, but communication and data processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts and processes parking space information centrally at the parking facilitation circuit and cloud platform, rather than requiring each vehicle to independently gather and process data from all sensors. This extraction approach reduces the communication and computational burden on individual vehicles while still providing real-time parking information to reduce search time.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent merges sensor data from multiple vehicles and infrastructure sensors into a centralized cloud platform for unified processing. By combining data collection and processing resources at the system level rather than duplicating them in each vehicle, the system achieves real-time information distribution while optimizing energy consumption for communication and data processing.
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AI summary
Systems and methods for collaborative parking assistance using a parking facilitation circuit are provided. A method may include: using information from a plurality of sensors to locate one or more available parking spaces in a determined area; characterize the located available parking spaces to generate parking space parameters for each of the available parking spaces; generating a parking space map comprising an indication of available parking spaces, locations of the available parking spaces and parking space parameters for the available parking spaces; filtering the parking space map to include as available parking spaces only those one or more available parking spaces that, based on the parking space parameters, are compatible with a vehicle intended to park in the determined area; and providing the filtered parking space map to a user interface of the vehicle.