Position and/or Distance Measurement, Parking and/or Vehicle Detection, Apparatus, Networks, Operations and/or Systems

摘要

The following are disclosed: Vehicle parking detection, sensors and an On-Board Device (OBD) to create a parking session. Radars, microwave antennas, rechargeable power supplies and their power management circuits. A localized communications protocol between the wireless nodes and repeaters within a wireless network is disclosed. Wireless sensors and wireline sensors. The networks and/or systems may support parking spot management/monitoring, vehicle traffic analysis and/or management of stationary and/or moving vehicles, monitor storage areas and/or manage production facilities. These networks and/or systems may be operated to generate reports of incorrectly parked vehicles, such as reserved parking spots for other vehicles, vehicles parked in multiple parking spots and/or overstaying the time they are permitted to park.

主权项

1. An apparatus, comprising at least one of:
a superheterodyne radar adapted to generate an antenna output and receive a Radio Frequency (RF) reflection off of said antenna output from an object, comprising
a timing generator adapted to generate a transmit signal with a first edge and to generate a reception signal with a second edge, where said second edge has a delay from said first edge that sweeps over time generated in response to at least one external stimulus to said superheterodyne radar; andsaid superheterodyne radar adapted to generate a transmit RF burst in response to said first edge of said transmit signal to generate said antenna output, and to mix said RF reflection and said transmit RF burst, in response to said second edge, to generate an Intermediate Frequency (IF) signal at a frequency of one over a compression ratio multiplied by a carrier frequency of said antenna output; a microwave antenna including a radiator driving a horn antenna to generate an antenna output in response to a tuning bar outside said horn antenna; an On Board Device (OBD) configured to present a vehicle identification in response to a vehicle containing said OBD parking near a parking spot; a parking sensor configured to determine a parking position of said vehicle in said parking spot; a parking processor configured to generate and/or maintain a parking session for said vehicle parked in said parking spot, said parking session including said vehicle identification and an identification of said parking spot; a parking management configured to respond to said parking session by generating and/or maintaining at least one of a parking permit, a parking payment, a parking reservation, and/or a parking ticket; a repeater configured to support a wireless communications between an access point and a wireless node, identify said repeater with a repeater identification, receive an uplink message from said wireless node containing a selected repeater identification and a basic payload, and send said basic payload as a second uplink message to said access point in response to said selected repeater identification matching said repeater identification; said wireless node configured to send said uplink message containing said selected repeater identification and said basic payload; and/or a Power Control Circuit (PCC) adapted to distribute electrical power from a one-charge battery to a load in response to determining a rechargeable battery unable to drive said load.