INTEGRATED MOBILE PARKING AND ENFORCEMENT SYSTEM
A software application executing on a parking enforcement officer's (PEO's) computing device (e.g. smart phone, tablet, laptop or personal computer) communicates with a central computing system networked with a plurality of smart parking meters, directs the PEO to the location of a violation, and facilitates generation of a parking citation to be issued by the PEO, wherein the citation has at least some of the data fields prefilled.
1 . A parking enforcement system, the parking enforcement system comprising a plurality of parking meters, each of the parking meters configured to monitor a parking event and notify a central computing system of a violation condition in a monitored space, the system comprising:
a computing device, the computing device comprising a processor, memory and graphical user interface, wherein the computing device is networked with the central computing system, and wherein the computing device is configured to:
receive a violation data from the central computing system;
display a list of parking violations on the graphical user interface;
generate a parking citation with at least one data field of the parking citation prefilled; and
clear a particular parking violation from the list of parking violations when the parking citation is issued for the particular parking violation.
2 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the prefilled parking data on the parking citation is a vehicle license plate data.
3 . The system of claim 1 , further comprising a printing peripheral coupled to the computing device, wherein the printing peripheral is configured to generate a paper copy of the parking citation.
4 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the computing device is further configured to generate the parking citation with a parking enforcement officer's signature prefilled.
5 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the computing device is further configured to present violation details in response to a user selection of the particular parking violation from the list of parking violations.
6 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the violation details include violation number, violation time, and parking space identification data corresponding to the particular parking violation.
7 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the computing device is further configured to include a picture of a portion of a vehicle that occupied the monitored space when a violation occurred corresponding to the monitored space.
8 . The system of claim 7 , wherein the picture includes the license plate of the vehicle.
9 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the monitored space is a location where parking is prohibited.
10 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the computing device is further configured to remove a rejected particular parking violation from the list of parking violations.
11 . A method of monitoring and enforcing parking requirements, the method comprising:
obtaining an image of at least a portion of a vehicle occupying a parking space via a camera coupled to a parking meter which is monitoring the parking space;
transmitting the image to a central computing system;
transmitting a violation data electronically from the central computing system to a parking enforcement officer computing device;
displaying a list of parking violations on the graphical user interface of the parking enforcement officer computing device;
selecting a particular parking violation from the list of parking violations;
generating by the parking enforcement officer computing device a parking citation with at least one data field of the parking citation prefilled; and
transmitting to the central computing system by the parking enforcement officer computing device a notification that a parking citation has been printed for the particular parking violation.
12 . The method of claim 11 , further comprising sorting the list of violations based upon global positioning system (GPS) data and proximity to the parking enforcement officer computing device.
13 . The method of claim 11 , further comprising displaying a list of handicapped parking events on the graphical user interface of the parking enforcement officer computing device.
14 . The method of claim 11 , further comprising capturing the signature of the parking enforcement officer and prefilling the signature on a printed parking citation.
15 . The method of claim 11 , further comprising printing a paper parking citation via a printer coupled to the parking enforcement officer computing device.
16 . The method of claim 11 , further comprising transmitting the image from the central computing system to the parking enforcement officer computing device.
17 . The method of claim 11 , further comprising including a thumbnail of the image for each parking violation when displaying the list of parking violations on the graphical user interface of the parking enforcement officer computing device.
18 . The method of claim 11 , further comprising transmitting to the central computing system by the parking enforcement officer computing device a notification that a parking citation has been rejected from the list of parking violations.
19 . A parking citation generation system comprising:
a parking meter coupled to a camera located such that the camera can obtain an image of a parking space being monitored by the parking meter;
a central computing system networked with the parking meter;
a parking enforcement officer computing device networked with the central computing system, which is configured to receive a violation data from the central computing system and generate a parking citation with at least one data field of the parking citation prefilled.
20 . The system of claim 19 , wherein the parking enforcement officer computing device is further configured to notify the central computing system that a parking violation notice has been issued for a particular parking violation.