Patent ID: 7474232

Claim:
A parking lot reservation system with electronic identification comprising: a plurality of vehicles, said vehicles each carrying an electronic identification device, each said electronic identification device providing a respective identification code, said vehicles each further including a global positioning device and a wireless communication device electrically connected to said global positioning device, said global positioning device being adapted to calculate the current location of the associated vehicle; a plurality of parking lots, said parking lots each having at least one access, said parking lots each providing respective parking lot information, said parking lot information including geo data and vacancy capacity of the associated parking lot; a remote server, said remote server having electrically connected thereto a wireless communication module and a parking lot database, said parking lot database having stored therein the parking lot information of each of said parking lots; and a plurality of parking lot computers respectively installed in said parking lots and connectable to said remote server through the Internet, said parking lot computers each having electrically connected thereto at least one electronic identification reader being respectively installed in the at least one access of the associated parking lot; wherein the wireless communication device of each of said vehicles is adapted to send out a park reservation request wirelessly, said park reservation request containing the information of the current location of the associated vehicle; wherein said remote server receives the park reservation request from each of said vehicles through said wireless communication module, and then searches said parking lot database subject to the information of the current location of the respective vehicle contained in the received park reservation request so as to select the parking lot information of one of said parking lots subject to at least one predetermined condition that includes the condition that the vacancy capacity of the parking lot is greater than zero, and then said remote server sends a reservation command to the parking lot computer in the parking lot corresponding to the selected parking lot information to finish the reservation operation, wherein the parking lot information of each of said parking lots further comprises the information of the fee rate of the corresponding parking lot; said at least one predetermined condition further includes the condition of selecting the parking lot information of the parking lot of which the fee rate is the lowest, and wherein said remote server further has electrically connected thereto a remote navigation system and an electronic map, said remote navigation system being adapted to search said electronic map so as to calculate an estimated arrival time; each said parking lot information further comprises the information of the fee rate of the associated parking lot at said estimated arrival time.