Patent ID: 7974265
Filing Date: 2011-07-05
Classification: G07B,G07F

Abstract:
1. A remote parking meter monitoring system comprising: a. a plurality of radio transceivers, wherein said radio transceiver transmits and receives information radio signals with at least one other said transceiver within a communication region of said transceiver, wherein said transceivers are integrated to parking meters; b. an aggregate point that is removed from said parking meter, wherein said aggregate point comprises an aggregate point radio transceiver and a communication network connected to a computer, wherein said aggregate point radio transceiver transmits and receives said information radio signals to at least one proximal parking meter transceiver within said communication region, and wherein said aggregate point communicates to said computer; c. a mesh communication arrangement of said radio transceivers; and d. a signal routing architecture in said transceivers, wherein one of said transceivers communicates said information to at least one other said transceiver located within said region, wherein said information is communicated to said proximal transceiver along any path of adjacent said communication regions across said mesh and using said routing architecture, whereas said information is communicated to said aggregate point transceiver and said aggregate point communicates said information to said computer through said network, and wherein said computer communicates said information through said network to said aggregate point and said aggregate point transceiver sends said information to said proximal transceiver, wherein said information is communicated to any one of said transceivers in said mesh using said routing architecture by communicating said signal through any path between adjacent said communication regions, wherein when at least one said transceiver is inoperative at least one said transceiver that is proximal to said inoperative transceiver is configurable to expand said communication region to communicate with another transceiver located at a distance further than said inoperative transceiver.