SINGLE SPACE WIRELESS PARKING WITH IMPROVED ANTENNA PLACEMENTS

• Main Authors: Church, Donald Wesley, Gonia, Matt, Bablitch, Josh Michael, Chauvin, Gregory Emile, Cameron, Darren Scott, Buczkiewicz, Robert Thomas, MacKay, George Allan, Garvey, Ben, Pederson, Glenn Eric, Erskine, Neil Stuart
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 30.04.2020
• Subjects: ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS; ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDEDFOR ELSEWHERE; BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS; CALCULATING; CHECKING-DEVICES; COMPUTING; COUNTING; DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROMECHANICAL CLOCKS OR WATCHES; ELECTRONIC TIME-PIECES; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; HOROLOGY; PHYSICS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS

A wireless parking meter with an improved antenna location is described. The antenna may be located within a covering protruding from the top of the parking meter, allowing radio frequency (RF) signals to be transmitted through a portion of the parking meter with high permittivity to the RF signals. Additionally or alternatively, the antenna may be located within the parking meter housing above a lower parking meter mechanism housing so that RF signals can be transmitted through the dome covering of the parking meter, which may have a high permittivity to the RF signals.