Parking Reservation Verification Using Automated Occupancy Confirmation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems lack a fast and convenient method for reserving public parking spaces, especially in high-traffic urban areas, and fail to ensure availability for both individuals and businesses, particularly during emergencies or public service events.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for vehicle parking reservations using a map software application that matches requests with available public parking locations, allowing for automated reservation confirmations through mobile units equipped with sensors, enabling gig economy vehicle use and ensuring location availability through automated release mechanisms.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If government employees are used to secure parking locations during emergencies, then parking spaces can be secured, but it is difficult to schedule employees to perform emergency tasks that come up without warning
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables automated self-service parking reservation where the parking management system automatically detects available spaces, processes reservation requests, and notifies users without requiring human employee intervention. The system serves itself by automatically matching users with available parking spaces and handling the entire reservation workflow autonomously.
Solution Approach 2:
The manual mechanical process of employee scheduling and physical parking space securing is replaced with an automated electronic system that uses sensors, communication networks, and software algorithms to detect, reserve, and manage parking spaces automatically, eliminating the need for human employees to perform these tasks.
2Reliability
If parking reservations are made in advance using traditional methods, then availability can be guaranteed, but there is no fast and convenient way of reserving and procuring spaces
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-identifying and pre-reserving parking spaces before users arrive. The system proactively monitors parking space availability, prepares reservation options in advance, and has spaces ready for immediate allocation when users make requests, eliminating wait times and ensuring availability.
Solution Approach 2:
Traditional manual parking reservation processes are replaced with automated electronic systems that use sensors to detect space availability, digital communication networks to transmit reservation requests instantaneously, and software algorithms to process and confirm reservations in real-time, dramatically increasing processing speed while maintaining reliability.
3Reliability
If automated reservation confirmation is transmitted without human intervention, then human error is reduced, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The automated system incorporates feedback loops where sensors continuously monitor parking space status, the system processes reservation requests and sends confirmations, and then verifies that vehicles have actually occupied the reserved spaces. This closed-loop feedback mechanism ensures accuracy while automating the entire process, reducing human error despite increased system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
An automated intermediary system acts as a mediator between parking space sensors and user devices. This intermediary processes information, makes decisions, and communicates confirmations without human intervention. The intermediary layer manages the complexity internally while presenting a simple interface to users, maintaining verification accuracy through automated processes.
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AI summary
A system and method are disclosed for vehicle parking reservations that provides a map software application including a plurality of publically accessible vehicle parking location listings. A parking reservation application accepts vehicle parking location reservation requests and then matches vehicle parking location reservation requests with vehicle parking location listings. In response to matching, a reservation order position is transmitted to a mobile unit. The mobile unit may be a self-powered vehicle, towable vehicle, portable station, or autonomous vehicles. A mobile unit parking application compares the reservation order position to a mobile unit geographic location, and automatically transmits a tamper-proof automated reservation confirmation, without any human intervention, once the mobile unit occupies the reservation order position. In some circumstances, the parking reservation application may accept a vehicle parking location reservation request from a first entity even though the mobile unit is associated with a second entity, independent of the first entity.