Parking Space Device Visibility Height Optimization
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Solution Overview
Problem
The scarcity of physical space in modern society, particularly in urban areas, leads to challenges in efficiently managing and locating available parking spaces, resulting in inconvenience for drivers and wasteful allocation of resources.
Innovation Solution
A parking facilitation system comprising multiple parking space devices equipped with processors, vehicle presence detectors, and visibility indicators, which communicate with a management system to monitor and visually indicate the availability of parking spaces, allowing drivers to quickly identify available spaces and administrators to optimize resource allocation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If more parking spaces are provided, then driver convenience is improved, but resource waste increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system continuously monitors parking space occupancy status and provides real-time feedback to drivers through indicators and mobile applications. This feedback mechanism enables dynamic information sharing about space availability, allowing drivers to make informed decisions and reducing the need for excessive parking spaces while maintaining driver convenience.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a centralized server and mobile application as intermediaries between parking spaces and drivers. These intermediaries aggregate and distribute parking availability information efficiently, enabling optimal matching of drivers with available spaces without requiring physical expansion of parking infrastructure.
2Device complexity
If drivers search for parking spaces manually, then resource allocation remains simple, but time loss increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-monitoring and documenting parking space availability status before drivers arrive. The centralized server continuously updates the status of all parking spaces, and this pre-prepared information is made available to drivers through indicators and mobile applications, eliminating the need for drivers to spend time searching manually.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the mechanical/manual searching process with an automated electronic information system. Sensors, indicators, and mobile applications substitute for the physical act of drivers driving around and visually checking each parking space, dramatically reducing time loss while introducing manageable system complexity.
3Device complexity
If parking spaces are not optimized, then system complexity remains low, but productivity decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The centralized server performs multiple functions including monitoring occupancy status, storing vehicle information, managing reservations, and communicating with both indicators and mobile applications. This multi-functional approach consolidates complexity into a single system that enables comprehensive parking optimization, thereby improving productivity without proportionally increasing overall system complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
An exemplary parking facilitation system includes a plurality of parking space devices disposed at different parking spaces within a parking area and a parking management system configured to control operation of, and to exchange data with, the parking space devices. Each of the parking space devices respectively includes a processor, a vehicle presence detector configured to determine whether any vehicle is parked in a parking space at which the parking space device is disposed, and a parking availability indicator configured to visually indicate an availability status of the parking space. The parking availability indicator is positioned at a height greater than that of any vehicle that the parking space is configured to accommodate so as to be concurrently visible, with parking availability indicators of other parking space devices, from various locations within the parking area at which drivers attempting to locate available parking spaces are to be located.