Smart Parking Guidance Using Intermediate Positioning Devices
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional parking systems fail to provide real-time updates and accurate positioning of available parking spaces, especially in congested lots, leading to delays and inefficiencies, and rely on costly human intervention.
Innovation Solution
A smart parking space guide service using a server system that integrates entry recognition devices, movement recognition devices, and vehicle recognition sensors to provide real-time moving routes and occupancy states, allowing vehicles to be directed to available spaces quickly and efficiently, even in underground lots where GPS signals may be unreliable.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If conventional parking systems use GPS and navigation technologies, then drivers can be directed to destinations, but these technologies fail to provide accurate positioning in underground parking lots where GPS signals are unavailable or erroneous
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces intermediate positioning devices (such as Bluetooth beacons, Wi-Fi access points, or infrared transmitters) installed throughout the parking lot as mediators between the vehicle's navigation system and the final positioning goal. These intermediaries emit signals that can be received in underground environments where GPS fails, enabling continuous and accurate positioning tracking throughout the entire parking journey.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the GPS satellite-based electromagnetic positioning system with a local infrastructure-based positioning system using intermediate devices deployed within the parking lot. This substitution eliminates dependence on external satellite signals and provides reliable positioning in underground environments where GPS signals cannot penetrate.
2Productivity
If parking lots are congested with many vehicles, then more parking capacity is utilized, but conventional systems fail to discover idle parking spaces in real-time and cause delays
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a real-time feedback system where sensors mounted on parking spaces continuously monitor occupancy status and transmit this information to a central management system. This feedback loop enables the system to dynamically update available parking space information and guide drivers to idle spaces, preventing congestion and reducing the time required to find parking even when the lot is densely occupied.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent enables drivers to query the availability of parking spaces before entering the parking lot or at the entrance. This preliminary action allows drivers to make informed decisions about whether to enter the parking lot and provides them with guidance to specific available spaces in advance, eliminating the need to search for parking once inside and reducing time loss even in congested conditions.
3Ease of operation
If parking staff manually manage parking spaces, then drivers receive assistance, but this approach consumes high costs for employment and fails to provide fundamental real-time solutions
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a self-service parking guidance system where drivers interact with automated information displays, mobile applications, or in-vehicle navigation systems to obtain real-time parking space availability and directional guidance. The system autonomously processes driver requests, provides route guidance to available spaces, and updates status information without human intervention, eliminating the need for paid parking staff while maintaining and enhancing driver assistance capabilities.
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AI summary
According to an embodiment, a method for providing a smart parking space guide service to provide a real-time moving route and occupancy state is executed by a parking space guide service provider server and comprises starting to trace a vehicle's moving route upon receiving the vehicle's entry event from an entry recognition device for recognizing entry of the vehicle into a parking lot, updating, in real-time, the vehicle's moving route upon real-time entry of the vehicle's moving route from at least one movement recognition device, displaying occupancy by the vehicle's parking on a pre-stored parking spot map upon sensing the vehicle's parking state from any one of at least one vehicle recognition sensor installed in at least one parking spot, and updating, in real-time, and displaying the vehicle's moving route and occupancy state on the pre-stored parking spot map.