Patent ID: 9741247
Date: 2017-08-22
CPC Classifications: G06Q,G08G

Claim:
1. A parking monitoring system comprising: one or more sensors configured to be deployed within a parking slot according to a deployment configuration defining each sensor or group of sensors among the one or more sensors to a specific location or zone within the parking slot, wherein the parking slot has a parking slot size and is restricted for vehicles having a permissible size type, the deployment configuration being based on the size of the parking slot and the permissible vehicles size type; a controller unit configured to be connected to the one or more sensors for receiving information from the one or more sensors when a vehicle is parked in the parking slot, wherein the received information comprises activation and de-activation signals of the one or more sensors; wherein the controller unit is configured to determine a size type of the vehicle parked within the parking slot based on the deployment configuration and on activation and de-activation signals received from the one or more sensors or groups of sensors, and to generate a breach notification when the vehicle size type determined is different from the permissible vehicles size type; and an image capturing unit configured to capture an image of a license plate number of the parked vehicle; wherein the one or more sensors of the parking slot are a plurality of sensors comprising a first set of sensors and a second set of sensors, the first set of sensors being configured to be deployed within an inner boundary portion of the parking slot and the second set of sensors being configured to be deployed within an outer boundary portion of the parking slot, the inner boundary portion having a size defined based on the vehicles permissible size type, wherein the inner boundary portion and the outer boundary portion are disposed within a same parking slot.