A PORTABLE PARKING FEE PAYMENT DEVICE AND A PORTABLE VERIFICATION DEVICE THEREFOR

摘要

A parking fee payment device (100) for mounting to a vehicle and a portable verification (200) device for such a payment device are disclosed herein. In a described embodiment, the parking fee payment device (100) comprises a timer (104), user-selectable buttons (101a), (101b), (101c) configured to control the timer (104); a central processing unit (108) configured to communicate wirelessly with a stored value card via a RF transceiver (116). The central processing unit (108) is configured to deduct an amount from the stored value card that is equivalent to a parking fee which corresponds to an elapsed time of the timer (104). The portable verification device (200) is used to determine/verify the status of the parking fee payment device (100) to ensure that the parking fee is paid.