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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 02, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 06, 2011
Martin Herman Weik, Iii, Stanardsville, VA (US);
Charles E. Wainwright, Silver Spring, MD (US);
Martin Herman Weik, III, Stanardsville, VA (US);
Charles E. Wainwright, Silver Spring, MD (US);
Other;
Abstract
A garage management and monitoring system defines and manages each operational event in a parking facility. Access events, management events, equipment operation events, equipment malfunction events, security events and defined anomaly events are labeled and parsed into a relational database, which is used for generating reports, creating logs, making management decisions, reconstructing accidents, and so on. The equipment includes a computer terminal, a reader, an identifying item or code capable of being read by the reader to control access to the facility, an IP camera, and a garage door or vehicle gate with safety sensors. Each defined event can be codified on the server and/or local controller to create an event library that is downloaded to the controller. A distributed intelligent system includes: units that gather information about garage, ingresses, and egresses; units that send data to the central server; the central server parses data sent from units and inserts it into a database; the central server formats data and presents it to users; units use unique keys to relate information from several actions the unit has taken to accomplish a task.