SMART SPACING ALLOCATION

摘要

A method, system and computer program product for allocating parking spaces for vehicles in a parking area. In one embodiment, the invention provides a system comprising a sensor system for generating output representing measurements of vehicles in the parking area, a marking system for identifying parking spaces in the parking area, and a controller for calculating parking spaces for vehicles. The controller obtains defined measurements for the vehicles in the parking area, and calculates for each of the vehicles, a respective one parking space in the parking area. Embodiments of the invention dynamically allocate parking spaces based on: (1) Determining the minimum space that should be enough for the size of the car that is being currently identified for parking; and (2) Maximizing utilization of space by preventing improper fragmentation, where because of allocating fixed size spaces to all cars, big/small/medium, fragments of space would be wasted.

主权项

1. A method of determining a size and a location for a parking space in a defined parking lot for a vehicle, the parking lot having a plurality of pools of parking areas, the method comprising:
measuring specified dimensional information about an identified vehicle; using the measured specified dimensional information to determine one of the pools, and positional information within said one of the pools, for the identified vehicle; forming markings in the one of the pools to mark a parking space in the one of the pools for the identified vehicle; triggering an alarm signal when the identified vehicle approaches the parking space; terminating the alarm signal when the identified vehicle is completely within the parking space; and removing said markings after the identified vehicle leaves the parking space.