Coordinated parking-monitoring system
View Patent ↗The present invention discloses a coordinated parking-monitoring system. A co-monitored parking space is monitored by at least two parking-monitoring devices. Its effective parking-monitoring area is substantially more than that if it were monitored by a single parking-monitoring device. This lowers the overall system cost.
1. A coordinated parking-monitoring method, comprising the steps:
A) a first camera-based parking-monitoring device including a first camera obtains a first occupancy likelihood of a co-monitored parking space from a first image captured by said first camera;
B) a second camera-based parking-monitoring device including a second camera obtains a second occupancy likelihood of said co-monitored parking space from a second image captured by said second camera;
C) said first camera-based parking-monitoring device transfers said first occupancy likelihood of said co-monitored parking space to said second parking-monitoring device;
D) said second parking-monitoring device determines the parking occupancy of said co-monitored parking space from said first and second occupancy likelihoods.
2. The coordinated parking-monitoring method according to claim 1 , wherein said first camera-based parking-monitoring device transfers said first occupancy likelihood to said second parking-monitoring device with at least a communication means.
3. The coordinated parking-monitoring method according to claim 2 , wherein said communication means is a Bluetooth communication means.
4. The coordinated parking-monitoring method according to claim 2 , wherein said communication means is a WiFi communication means.
5. The coordinated parking-monitoring method according to claim 2 , wherein said communication means is a cellular communication means.