EP2530655A1 - Method for setting up a mobile vehicle device and vehicle device with such a mobile vehicle device - Google Patents

Abstract

The method involves transmitting vehicle-identification data of a vehicle and vehicle-classifying data to a mobile vehicle device (260), and storing the data in a data memory (261) of the vehicle device. A passive transponder fastened to the vehicle device at an outer side is activated for transmitting the data to the vehicle device, where the vehicle-identification and vehicle-classifying data is provided by the transponder. Red, blue and green LEDs are provided for indicating correct execution of initialization process of installation of the vehicle device. Independent claims are also included for the following: (1) a method for operating a mobile vehicle device (2) a method for monitoring proper installation of a mobile vehicle device (3) a vehicle (4) a toll system.

Description

The invention relates to a method for setting up a mobile vehicle device and a vehicle device with such a mobile vehicle device for the collection of fees that are incurred for the use of a traffic area by a fee-based vehicle.

The following patent documents and publications are to be regarded as a technical background to one or more features of the invention: EP 1 533 867 A1 . DE 10 2004 018 541 A1 . WO 2008 134 115 A2 . US 6,025,784 A . WO 1995 032 528 A1 . EP 0 676 648 A1 . US 4,001,822 A . DE 20 2004 002 448 U1 . WO 2008 020 771 A2 . DE 10 2008 043 830 A1 . WO 1999 036 886 A1 . US 2004 0 189 493 A1 . US 7,237,715 B1 . DE 43 35 316 A1 . WO 2000 010 133 A2 . DE 10 2004 002 892 A1 . DE 44 09166 C1 ,

Tolling systems, as an example of toll collection systems, rely on tolling to determine the location of tolled vehicles in an area that is critical to the use of the toll road as an example of tolled toll areas in general.

In order to avoid waiting times in the payment of fees, as typically occur at manual roadside fee payment points, on-board toll collection devices (tolling devices, known in Germany as OBUs (On-Board Units) or simply: vehicle devices) have proved the presence of the vehicle in identify, announce and / or confirm a chargeable area (for example, a motorway section).

For billing the charges which have become due for use, the vehicle device transmits at least one identification data record to a charging agency, by means of which the user and / or the means of payment of the user can be determined.

For this purpose, the vehicle device has a first, long-range communication interface, by means of which the identification data record - for example, together with charge data of charges that are incurred for the use of a traffic area or multiple traffic areas - can be transmitted to the registration of a charging point of the vehicle charging system. An example of such a long-range communication interface is a GSM interface, which is provided by a mobile radio transceiver in the vehicle device, which communicates with the mobile radio network to perform the communication with a mobile radio transceiver of at least one base station and, if applicable, to submit fee data to the fee collection agency.

An example of an additional, second communication interface is provided with a DSRC interface through a short-range communication interface provided by a DSRC transceiver in the vehicle device that communicates with a DSRC transceiver of at least one DSRC roadside transceiver to effect communication to submit the identification record to the fee collection agency. DSRC communication carriers may be, for example, microwaves and infrared waves.

Such a short-range communication interface, for example, for the control of a correct charging, which was carried out autonomously in the vehicle unit and / or in the registration device provided. For this purpose, the vehicle-device-side DSRC interface communicates with the DSRC interface of a traffic-area-side control device of a vehicle charging system.

In the simplest case, the identification record has, for example, only one serial number of the vehicle device (DID = device ID). If the use of toll collection devices of several different toll collection agencies in the area of one or more paid traffic areas of a traffic area operator is provided, it is advantageous to supplement the identification data record with an identification of the charging agency.

In this way, personal data of the user (user data) remains excluded from communication if this user data, previously linked with vehicle device data (for example the serial number) of the vehicle device, has been stored in a database of the charging point. From a data security point of view, this configuration is advantageous.

The linking of user data with vehicle device data is - regardless of the location of this link - referred to as personalization of the device. This personalization can be extended by an initialization, with which vehicle device data vehicle data is assigned to the vehicle for which it is used. This can be done centrally in a database of the charging agency and / or locally in a data memory of the vehicle device, which is provided for the fee-paying vehicle.

In the simplest case, vehicle data have, for example, a vehicle-identifying data record unambiguously identifying the vehicle, for example the license plate number (LPN) issued by a state authority for the vehicle and by means of an on-vehicle data fixing license plate is visualized. This vehicle registration number can be supplemented by a country code of the state from whose authority the vehicle was registered (eg DE for Germany, FR for France, IT for Italy, etc.). Alternatively or additionally, the vehicle data may include the vehicle identification number (VIN), which is retained by the vehicle over its entire service life-unlike, if applicable, the vehicle registration number. In contrast to the license plate number, this number is usually not displayed on the vehicle from the outside.

Vehicle-identifying data are then considered as vehicle-relevant vehicle data if they can be determined by a data analysis of images of the vehicle, which were recorded by an imaging control device.

Furthermore, the vehicle data generally include vehicle parameters which classify the vehicle and are subject to different charges depending on the value of the vehicle parameter - so-called fee-relevant vehicle-classifying vehicle data. These vehicle-classifying vehicle data include, for example, the visually detectable vehicle parameters "number of axles", "vehicle height", "vehicle length" etc. and the non-visually detectable, hidden, vehicle parameters "permissible gross weight", "damage class", "engine capacity", "power", " Maximum speed "etc.

These vehicle parameters are subject to the calculation of charges insofar as different charges are to be charged for vehicles distinguishable by different values of a vehicle parameter. The values of some of these vehicle parameters for a vehicle may change, even without requiring a change to the vehicle registration. For example, by adding a trailer and / or trailer to the tractor, the number of axles of a vehicle may increase or decrease by removing a trailer and / or trailer from the tractor. In this case, a correct change of the number of axles is required in the vehicle data to be used for charging.

Further, in a change from a first vehicle, which was assigned to the vehicle device, to a second vehicle, which is assigned to the vehicle device hereinafter, in the course of removal of the vehicle device from the first vehicle and its installation in the second vehicle to make a continuous new inclusion of the vehicle-identifying and the fee-relevant vehicle-classifying vehicle data in the data memory of the vehicle device. This process is referred to as re-initialization and may consist of the two steps of de-initialization (deletion of the vehicle data of the first vehicle) and re-initialization (storage of the vehicle data of the second vehicle).

The owner of the vehicle device and the user of the second vehicle are not necessarily all aware of their vehicle parameters. Even if he could take them from various documents (for example, the vehicle registration document or the vehicle registration document), errors may occur in the entry, which unintentionally identify the user as a wrongdoer in the event of a check.

This applies both to the central-side assignment of the vehicle parameters to the vehicle unit in a database of the toll collection agency and, alternatively or optionally, the decentralized registration of the vehicle parameters on the vehicle equipment in a data memory of the vehicle unit (vehicle unit initialization).

In the German toll collection system of Toll Collect GmbH, it is necessary for a vehicle change to visit a service point, which expands the vehicle unit from the first vehicle, installed in the second vehicle and alone is able to enter vehicle-identifying data in a data memory of the vehicle unit and thus vehicle equipment side to perform the assignment of a vehicle to a vehicle device (initialization). This is associated with the vehicle owner with a considerable effort, because he is forced even at a license plate change to visit the service center.

From the patent literature further methods are known which allow the vehicle owner an initialization of the vehicle device.

From the publication WO 2006 050 543 A1 It is known from a device identification and a user identification (here: the vehicle license plate) to generate an initialization PIN on the central side, by means of which the vehicle device calculates the user identification for user-specific initialization. For this purpose, the initialization PIN must be transferred from the control center to the vehicle unit.

From the publication EP 1 870 302 A1 It is known to personalize a vehicle device by means of a personalization software with personalization relevant data (here: user data and / or vehicle data), which are transmitted from a center in which they have been previously deposited, on the vehicle device.

From the publications EP 2128 825 A2 and DE 10 2008 002 071 A1 It is known from the same patent family that fee-relevant vehicle data are transmitted to the vehicle device on request as a result of the transmission of a vehicle identifier from a server.

From the publication EP 2 249 313 A1 It is known to register user and vehicle data in a control center and to provide it with a user identification, by means of which the user and vehicle data are transmitted from the center on request to the vehicle unit for initializing the vehicle unit.

From the publication US 2010 0 060 484 A1 It is known to register user and vehicle data via a website at a toll service provider, the vehicle data thus being assigned to a vehicle device on the central side and remaining stored there. A decentralization of this assignment by transmitting the vehicle data to the vehicle unit does not take place.

A disadvantage of all these methods is that the vehicle data, in particular both the vehicle-identifying vehicle data and vehicle-relevant vehicle-classifying vehicle data, already prior to initialization must be registered in a central location, usually in conjunction with an identifier that allows to provide the relevant data set of required vehicle data or data derivations thereof automatically or on request.

A disadvantage of the known methods is also the long-range communication required for the initialization with a central point which may be disturbed at the time of the required initialization.

These disadvantages have a particularly marked effect on non-stationary installed in the vehicle - mobile - vehicle devices, which are provided for the alternating use in various vehicles and with a vehicle-mounted device for repeatable recording and removal of the mobile vehicle device form vehicle facilities that to raise fees for should be suitable for any vehicle.

The object of the invention is therefore to provide a method and a device with which the assignment of a mobile vehicle device to a vehicle is ensured in a safe and easy for the user. In particular, it is an object of the invention to allow the assignment of a mobile vehicle device to a vehicle by the user himself and thus to allow a simple vehicle change for the user. It is another object of the invention to exclude the incorrect entry of incorrect vehicle data in the mobile vehicle device.

The object is solved with the features of the independent claims. Preferred developments and uses are the subject of the dependent claims.

The core of the invention is the provision of vehicle data of a chargeable vehicle, the vehicle identifying vehicle data and the vehicle classifying vehicle data of the vehicle, for a mobile vehicle device for charging the toll vehicle by a attached to the toll vehicle transponder, wherein for receiving the vehicle-identifying Vehicle data of the vehicle and the vehicle-classifying vehicle data of the vehicle from the transponder, a vehicle device comprising the mobile vehicle device and a device for the mobile vehicle device comprises a reading device, by means of which the vehicle-identifying vehicle data of the vehicle and the vehicle-classifying vehicle data of the vehicle are read out of the transponder wirelessly.

The invention ensures that, in addition to the vehicle-identifying vehicle data required for identifying the vehicle, the vehicle-classifying vehicle data required for the toll calculation from a stationary data memory of the vehicle in the form of a transponder attached to the vehicle to the mobile data memory of a mobile vehicle device designed for charging be transmitted.

Wherever "vehicle data" is mentioned below, therefore, it always means the amount of vehicle-identifying vehicle data of the vehicle and vehicle-classifying vehicle data.

A transponder is understood to mean an arrangement that responds to an incoming polling or detecting wave by transmitting a specific answering or identifying wave.

The inventor has recognized that central registration of the vehicle data in the charging point is unnecessary for the pure charging process. This will make one - from a data security point of view desirable and in practice usual - separation of the user from the vehicle in central non-governmental units possible.

The inventor has also recognized that vehicle data is only needed for tolling and for control purposes and therefore vehicle data may be deleted after the toll has been determined and / or checked successfully from the data stores of a registration facility provided outside the vehicle for charging and / or control. In principle, it is sufficient to store vehicle data in the mobile vehicle device alone, which is currently being used for charging the vehicle whose correct charging is to be controlled, in particular with regard to the vehicle data relevant to charging.

The invention is thus based on the idea of storing this vehicle data - at least initially - not centrally, but decentrally in connection with the fee-based vehicle, that is: carry independently of the presence of a mobile vehicle device with the vehicle, and for use in principle any mobile vehicle device to be carried for the purpose of satellite-assisted charging in the vehicle.

The invention does not exclude that the vehicle data can be transmitted to the toll collection point in addition to the mobile vehicle device; However, it is based on the fact that a central storage can be avoided. It thus provides a safe and easy-to-use method for decentralized initialization - this is the first-time data link between vehicle and vehicle device - a mobile vehicle device ready.

In addition, can be sent from the mobile vehicle device via a long-range communication interface of the mobile vehicle device, for example via a cellular transceiver, together with the vehicle data a request to the toll collection point to assign the vehicle data to the vehicle device data thus also centrally a data link of the vehicle and vehicle device create.

The invention will be described in more detail below with reference to several aspects representing different categories of the invention. Advantages, features, and embodiments mentioned in one aspect of the invention are deemed to be applicable to all other aspects of the invention.

According to a first aspect of the invention, a method according to the invention for setting up a mobile vehicle device suitable for charging at least one traffic area by a vehicle (100) and intended for entrainment in the vehicle, which is for providing vehicle-identifying vehicle data of the vehicle and (i) vehicle-classifying vehicle data of the vehicle together with position data and / or traffic data derived from position data of at least one traffic area and / or (ii) at least one vehicle-data-dependent charging information derived from position data for wireless transmission by means of at least one long-range communication interface of the mobile vehicle device Relating to the use of at least one traffic area, (A) their use by the vehicle by means of a satellite data of a global Navigation satellite system position data of the vehicle-generating position determining device of the mobile vehicle device (260) is determined and (B) for which a fee depending on the vehicle classifying vehicle data of the vehicle to determine and pay, at least one arranged outside the vehicle registration device at least one vehicle charging system is formed , (a) the transmission of vehicle-identifying vehicle data of the vehicle and vehicle-classifying vehicle data of the vehicle to the mobile vehicle device, and (b) the at least temporary storage of the vehicle-identifying vehicle data of the vehicle and vehicle-classifying vehicle data the vehicle is in a memory area of a data memory of the mobile vehicle device, wherein for the transmission of the vehicle-identifying vehicle data and the vehicle-classifying vehicle data to the mobile vehicle device, activation of at least one outside the mobile vehicle device attached to the vehicle and the vehicle-identifying vehicle data and the vehicle classifying vehicle data providing transponder. According to the invention, by storing the vehicle-identifying vehicle data transmitted from the transponder to the mobile vehicle device and the vehicle-classifying vehicle data in the memory area of the data memory of the mobile vehicle device, a data link between the vehicle and the mobile vehicle device is advantageously decentralized and the mobile vehicle device is consequently decentralized, before or even without such a data link is registered centrally in the registration (initialization). Vehicle-dependent charging information or data can be created, for example, by a processor of the mobile vehicle device by linking vehicle-independent information (traffic area data and / or basic charging data) with the vehicle-classifying vehicle data.

The at least temporary storage of the vehicle data in a memory area of a data memory of the mobile vehicle device serves to establish and / or maintain an at least temporary data link of the vehicle with the mobile vehicle device on the mobile vehicle device.

Thus, no central-side unit is involved in the initialization of the mobile vehicle device, namely the transfer of vehicle data of the toll vehicle to the mobile vehicle device for at least temporary storage of the vehicle data in a memory area of the data memory of the mobile vehicle device. In particular, the central-side assignment of user and / or vehicle device data to vehicle data prior to the intended use of the mobile vehicle device can be dispensed with on the one hand and the transmission of the vehicle data to the vehicle device with the participation of a central-side data processing device. The previously required for the initialization of the mobile vehicle device double long-range communication connection via mobile and / or Internet (i) for central assignment and (ii) for centralized data provision we thus advantageously replaced by a nahreichweite communication connection between the mobile to be used for the vehicle Vehicle device and attached to the vehicle and carried by the vehicle transponder, which has all the necessary vehicle data.

For users and owners of the vehicle device, this results in the advantage, after a single registration of his personal data at a toll collection agency, in the device data of his mobile vehicle device the personal data are associated with data (fixed personalization of the vehicle device), no further connection with the fee collection point to If he wants to use the mobile vehicle unit for different vehicles (changing initialization of the vehicle unit). The vehicle data, in particular the toll-relevant vehicle data and the control-relevant vehicle data are always present in the transponder of the fee-based vehicle and can be transferred at any time by activation of the transponder from the transponder to the mobile vehicle device.

The technical data transmission of data from a data memory of the transponder in a data memory of the mobile vehicle device is in contrast to the manual input at a toll collection agency - be it by registration of vehicle data by staff on site or by the user even in a form provided via the Internet - no Subject to errors. Furthermore, the transponder with the vehicle-classifying vehicle data comprises all charge-relevant data, some of which may not be known to the user.

The invention thus offers the advantage of preventing data errors and data errors. Re-initializing the mobile vehicle device, namely the transmission of second vehicle data of a second chargeable vehicle The mobile vehicle device for at least temporarily storing the second vehicle data in a memory area of the data memory of the mobile vehicle device instead of first vehicle data of a first vehicle with which the mobile vehicle device has been previously initialized, for a vehicle owner who changes his vehicle with the invention in faster and easily possible without having to turn on a central location.

The inventive transmission of vehicle data to the mobile vehicle device preferably comprises reading and receiving the vehicle data provided by the transponder by a reading device, which is comprised by the mobile vehicle device or is at least temporarily in a data connection with it. Preferably, the transponder is activated by the reading device.

Preferably, the activation of the transponder takes place with participation of the mobile vehicle device. This advantageously ensures that the mobile vehicle device is ready to receive the data provided by the transponder.

Particularly preferably, the activation of the transponder is triggered by the mobile vehicle device. This provides the user with a particularly simple and intuitive measure for carrying out the transmission of the vehicle data from the transponder to the mobile vehicle device.

Embodiments of the inventive method provide that at least a first attempt for wireless transmission of the vehicle-identifying vehicle data and the vehicle-classifying vehicle data from the mobile vehicle device automatically and depending on the event of storing the vehicle-identifying vehicle data of the vehicle and vehicle-classifying vehicle data of the vehicle in a memory area of a data memory of mobile vehicle device is undertaken by means of the long-range communication interface to the registration device.

Thus, the linkage of the mobile vehicle device with the vehicle can also be registered centrally. This is advantageous if communication of the vehicle data in the course of charging should fail and the legal question arises in a check whether the reason for the absence of the vehicle-specific charging is intentional or unwanted nature.

Preferably, a second attempt for transmission is made automatically after a failure of the first transmission attempt after a predetermined time or within a predetermined time frame by the mobile vehicular device.

Embodiments of the method according to the invention provide that the device of the mobile vehicle device comprises a detachable fastening of the mobile vehicle device in the vehicle, and at least the first attempt of automatic wireless transmission of the vehicle-identifying vehicle data and the vehicle-classifying vehicle data to the registration device by fastening the mobile vehicle device in the vehicle Vehicle is triggered or enabled.

Embodiments of the invention provide that the transmission of vehicle data of the vehicle to the mobile vehicle device and / or its storage in a memory area of the data memory is triggered or made possible by an attachment of the mobile vehicle device in the vehicle. For example, the activation of the transponder can be triggered or made possible by the fastening of the mobile vehicle device in the vehicle. Triggering and enabling differ in the result that the triggering causes the result automatically and without further action of the user, that is: a sufficient condition to achieve the result forms, and the enabling at least the fulfillment of another condition, for example, the implementation of a further step by the user, requires, that is: only a necessary but not sufficient condition to achieve the result.

The attachment-induced triggering or enabling of said responses may be due to one or more interaction effects of the mobile vehicle device with a vehicle device mounting device for mounting the mobile vehicle device in the vehicle. For example, when mounting the mobile vehicle device in the receptacle, two electrical contacts of the mobile vehicle device Vehicle device are short-circuited by an electrically conductive bridge in the receiving device, whereby a short-circuit detection circuit provides a signal to a processor of the mobile vehicle device, which the processor interprets as proof of attachment of the mobile vehicle device, with which the permission granted Transmission of vehicle data of the vehicle to the mobile vehicle device and / or their storage in a memory area of the data memory to initiate or perform, for example by instructs a reader to read the vehicle data from the transponder. Such a reading device may be part of the mobile vehicle device, part of the receiving device or, designed as a reading device, part of a vehicle device comprising the receiving device. It can receive the appropriate instruction for activating the transponder wired or wirelessly from the processor of the mobile vehicle device via corresponding communication interfaces between the processor and itself.

Conversely, two electrical contacts of the pickup device may be shorted by an electrically conductive bridge of the mobile vehicle device, whereby a short circuit detection circuit provides a signal to a processor of the pickup device that the processor interprets as proof of a mounting of the mobile vehicle device with which it receives the signal Permission is granted to initiate or perform the transmission of vehicle data of the vehicle to the mobile vehicle device and / or its storage in a memory area of the data memory, for example by instructing a reader to read the vehicle data from the transponder. Such a reading device can once again be part of the mobile vehicle device, part of the receiving device or, designed as a reading device, part of a vehicle device which comprises the receiving device. Such a reading device may be part of the mobile vehicle device, part of the receiving device or, designed as a reading device, part of a vehicle device comprising the receiving device. It may receive the appropriate instruction for activating the transponder, wired or wireless, from the processor of the recording device via appropriate communication interfaces between the processor and itself.

Other interaction effects of an electrical nature may include the detection of a resistivity in the electrically conductive bridge, the detection of a specific frequency response of a resonant circuit connected to the electrical bridge, analog or digital filter.

Moreover, alternative or optional interaction effects based on optical, magnetic, electromagnetic, mechanical, and / or data engineering principles, in particular their signals, are possible. Thus, a light beam emitted by the mobile vehicle device can be specifically diffracted and / or reflected by the recording device and the resulting light pattern can be captured by a sensor of the mobile vehicle device and compared by means of a processor of the mobile vehicle device for compliance with a predetermined light pattern, the processor at a positive result, the claimed reaction or causes. Furthermore, the magnetic field of a magnet encompassed by the receiving device can be detected by the mobile vehicle device during the fastening of the mobile vehicle device in the receiving device.

Transceiver antennas in the attachment partners can transmit and receive electromagnetic waves, with an analyzer downstream of the receive antenna examining the received signal for an expected signal.

In addition, a pressure sensor of the mobile vehicle device and / or the receiving device can make recognizable the attachment of the mobile vehicle device in the receiving device.

Finally, authentication data can be transmitted from the recording device to the mobile vehicle device and / or vice versa, which in the positive result of an examination by a processor of the recording device and / or a processor of the mobile vehicle device grant the respective processor permission to transmit vehicle data of the vehicle to initiate or carry out the mobile vehicle device and / or its storage in a memory area of the data memory. A request for the transmission of authentication data can be made by one attachment partner to the other attachment partner.

The authentication data can be encrypted unencrypted, symmetric or asymmetrical, transmitted or evaluated with or without a certificate.

The signal detection - for example, that of the above-mentioned pressure sensor - and possibly also the signal generation can be periodically controlled by a processor of the mobile vehicle device and / or the recording device to determine whether the mobile vehicle device already - or not yet - in the recording device is attached.

Since the entrainment of the mobile vehicle device with the fee-based vehicle according to the invention is indispensable for the use of the mobile vehicle device to ensure its fee-technical function, results for the user by an automatic initialization of the mobile vehicle device in a mounting of the mobile vehicle device at a designated place in the vehicle the advantage that the initialization can not be accidentally omitted by the user. If the mobile vehicle device firstly checks the recording in a corresponding recording device of the vehicle and prevents the user from initialization if the test result is negative, then the user is also forced to fasten the mobile vehicle device in its designated place in order to be able to initialise it subsequently.

In the course of its fastening in a vehicle and / or after being switched on, the vehicle device preferably automatically checks whether the memory area addressed for receiving the vehicle data has vehicle data and, if so, triggers the activation of the transponder for transmitting the vehicle data to the mobile vehicle device. This can be ruled out that an uninitialized mobile vehicle device passes into the state of operability whose lack preferably signals, provided that a transmission of vehicle data to the mobile vehicle device fails.

Furthermore, it can be provided that the mobile vehicle device also activates the transponder for repeated transmission of the vehicle data to the mobile vehicle device in the state set up according to the invention for configurable occasions. Thus, the mobile vehicle device can check whether it is still according to its initialization in the vehicle for which it was set up.

In this context, it can be advantageously provided that, during operation of a mobile vehicle device set up according to the invention (a), a position data of the position determination device in the mobile vehicle device (b) retransmission of the vehicle-identifying vehicle data and the vehicle-classifying vehicle data from the transponder to the mobile vehicle device by a renewed Activating the transponder identifying the vehicle identifying vehicle data and the vehicle classifying vehicle data, and (c) a wireless transmission of the vehicle-identifying vehicle data of the vehicle retrieved from the transponder associated with (i) vehicle-classifying vehicle data of the vehicle read again from the transponder together with the position data and / or traffic-area data derived from the position data of at least one traffic area and / or (ii) at least one from again derived from the transponder vehicle-classifying vehicle data dependent, derived from the position data fee information by means of at least one long-range communication interface (267) of the mobile vehicle device (260) to the registration takes place.

The retransmission of the vehicle-identifying vehicle data and the vehicle-classifying vehicle data from the transponder to the mobile vehicle device can thereby be triggered by the determination of the correspondence of the position data with a geographical object registered for a tolled traffic area. Nevertheless, irrespective of this (i), it may be triggered after a predetermined time interval or time interval has elapsed within a predetermined time frame from the initial transmission of the mobile vehicle device or previous transmission and / or (ii) after the occurrence of a predetermined event in the mobile vehicle device become.

Embodiments of the invention provide that the transmission of the vehicle data from the transponder to the mobile vehicle device preferably takes place via a wireless communication interface between the transponder and the mobile vehicle device. This has the advantage that a mechanical contacting of connecting elements for wired data communication - for example, between a fastening device in the vehicle and the mobile vehicle device to be fastened - can be avoided, which on the one hand increases the positioning tolerance of the mobile vehicle device with respect to the transponder and on the other reduces mechanical wear becomes. Furthermore, the communication partners can be made cheaper and smaller without corresponding connecting elements.

In order to facilitate a changeover to a second vehicle with which the mobile vehicle device is to be used after it has been previously used with a first vehicle, embodiments of the invention provide first vehicle data of the first vehicle which is prior to transmission of second vehicle data of the first vehicle second vehicle in a first memory area of the data memory on the mobile vehicle device to replace with the second vehicle data of the second vehicle and / or to address a second memory area for storing the second vehicle data of the second vehicle. This ensures that the second vehicle data of the second vehicle subject to the intended use is stored in the memory area are those which are also to be used correctly by the mobile vehicle device. This procedure is called re-initialization.

The putting of the data memory in a state corresponding to the absence of vehicle data in the data memory is called de-initialization. Embodiments of the invention provide that the relocation of the data memory to a state corresponding to the absence of vehicle data in the data memory is triggered or enabled by the solution of the mobile vehicle device from the vehicle.

This is effected by a resolution of the data link of the vehicle with the mobile vehicle device on the mobile vehicle device.

Thus, the change of the mobile vehicle device from a first vehicle to a second vehicle and the re-initialization of the mobile vehicle device can be supported.

The solution-induced triggering / enabling of the resolution of said data link can be based on one or more interaction effects of the mobile vehicle device with a mobile device provided on the mobile vehicle device, with which the mobile vehicle device is mounted in the vehicle, inversely to the already mentioned interaction effects in the Inclusion of the mobile vehicle device by the inclusion in the receiving device are: Thus, an interruption of the conductive connection between the mobile vehicle device and the receiving device can be detected at the removal of the mobile vehicle device from the receiving device and interpreted as an instruction for the corresponding manipulation of the data memory. The absence of a predetermined signal response to an interrogation signal of the recording device or the mobile vehicle device to the corresponding mounting partner can be considered as a request for manipulation of the data memory. This applies to both electrical and optical as well as magnetic and electromagnetic signal generation and detection.

The signal detection - for example, that of the above-mentioned pressure sensor - and possibly also the signal generation can be periodically controlled by a processor of the mobile vehicle device and / or the recording device to determine whether the mobile vehicle device still - or not more - in the recording device is attached.

1. a) eine Entfernung von auf das mobile Fahrzeuggerät übertragenen ersten Fahrzeugdaten aus einem ersten Speicherbereich des Datenspeichers des mobilen Fahrzeuggerätes;
2. b) die Adressierung eines zweiten Speicherbereiches im Datenspeicher zur Speicherung von zweiten Fahrzeugdaten eines zweiten Fahrzeugs;
3. c) das Setzen eines De-Initialisierungsflags, das einem Initialisierungsprogramm anzeigt, dass eine erneute Initialisierung (Neu-Initialisierung) vorzunehmen ist.
4. d) das Löschen eine Initialisierungsflags, das einem Initialisierungsprogramm anzeigt, dass das mobile Fahrzeuggerät initialisiert ist.

There are many possibilities for putting the data memory in a state that corresponds to the absence of vehicle data in the data memory:

1. a) removal of first vehicle data transmitted to the mobile vehicle device from a first storage area of the data memory of the mobile vehicle device;
2. b) the addressing of a second memory area in the data memory for storing second vehicle data of a second vehicle;
3. c) setting a de-initialization flag which indicates to an initialization program that a reinitialization (reinitialization) is to be performed.
4. d) clearing an initialization flag indicating to an initialization program that the mobile vehicle device is initialized.

For example, the state corresponding to the absence of vehicle data in the data memory may be due to i) deleting the vehicle data from the data memory, ii) shifting the vehicle data to another memory area in the data memory, and / or iii) allocating another memory area in the data memory to resume Vehicle data can be obtained in the data memory.

With a de-initialization of a vehicle device, it is ensured that the first vehicle data of the first vehicle is not erroneously used by the mobile vehicle device when it is intended for use in the second vehicle.

Preferably, the mobile vehicle device with or without de-initialization is lockable with respect to an initialization with vehicle data of another vehicle. Thus, the misuse of the mobile vehicle device z. B. be prevented as a result of loss or theft.

In principle, the device according to the invention also makes it possible to set up a mobile vehicle device for the charging of a second vehicle after the device of the mobile vehicle device for a first vehicle with a first transponder having first vehicle data has been carried out, by the following method steps: (a) the Solution of the mobile vehicle device from the first vehicle, (b) the transmission of second vehicle data of the second vehicle to the mobile vehicle device, activating a second transponder attached to the second vehicle and providing the second vehicle data, (c) storing the second Vehicle data in a memory area of the data memory of the mobile vehicle device and (d) the attachment of the mobile vehicle device in the second vehicle.

Preferably, the mobile vehicle device has means for locking and unlocking such a re-initialization, are written with the vehicle data of another vehicle in the data memory of the mobile vehicle device.

Thus, the user can decide at any time whether he releases his mobile vehicle device for use in another vehicle or blocks.

The off-vehicle registration device according to the present invention may include or be supplemented with a roadside control device having a roadside communication interface, the roadside control device being capable of establishing and / or providing a short-range radio communication for data transmission with a vehicle-side short-range communication interface of the mobile vehicular device to support.

The vehicle data preferably comprises a first data record of vehicle-identifying vehicle data which can be derived from a visual detection of external features of the first vehicle and at least one second data record of a hidden vehicle parameter which can not be derived from a visual detection of external features of the first vehicle.

An example of vehicle identifying vehicle data is the data of a vehicle license plate (eg, B-TC 1234) derivable from the visual registration of the license plate of the vehicle. An example of a hidden vehicle parameter is the pollutant class of a vehicle, which can not be derived from a visual detection of external features of the first vehicle, but can only be determined from an exhaust gas measurement.

Since one or more of such hidden vehicle parameters are usually relevant to charges in the sense that different values of these vehicle parameters are subject to different charges, the question of verification arises precisely for these hidden vehicle parameters.

Since it is provided in embodiments of the invention to have vehicle-identifying vehicle data linked to hidden vehicle parameters present in a data memory of the transponder, it becomes possible for a control device in a control method to control the device according to the invention of the mobile vehicle device from at least one optical detection of the vehicle Vehicle with vehicle identification data transmitted from the mobile vehicle device to the control device transmitted vehicle identifying data, which are included in the vehicle data of the vehicle to compare and in a positive result to close a properly set up mobile vehicle device.

An examination of hidden vehicle parameters for correctness can thus be omitted if vehicle-identifying data coupled with these hidden vehicle parameters has already been verified by the control device. To increase the security of this verification process, it is provided in embodiments of the inventive control method that the vehicle data comprise at least one digital signature which is transmitted from the mobile vehicle device to the control device and verified by the control device.

The invention makes it possible according to preferred embodiments that user data of a user of the mobile vehicle device vehicle data of the mobile vehicle device by data link in a central database are assigned to each other and this link is not in a data memory of the mobile vehicle device is present. Thus, the privacy of user data is better ensured than if the user data would be stored on the mobile vehicle device.

According to a second aspect of the invention, a vehicle device for charging a vehicle for use in traffic is equipped with at least one mobile vehicle device intended for entrainment in the vehicle, comprising (a) at least one data memory for receiving vehicle-identifying vehicle data of the vehicle and vehicle-classifying vehicle data of the vehicle in a memory area of the data memory, (b) at least one long-range communication interface for the wireless transmission of vehicle-identifying vehicle data of the vehicle and (i) vehicle-classifying vehicle data of the vehicle together with position data and / or position data derived traffic area data of at least one traffic area and / or (ii) at least one from vehicle-classifying vehicle data-dependent, derived from position data fee information to at least one arranged outside the vehicle Re (c) at least one processor having access to the data memory; and (d) at least one position determining device generating position data of the vehicle based on satellite data of a global navigation satellite system and at least one reading device for wirelessly receiving the vehicle-identifying vehicle data of the vehicle The vehicle and vehicle-classifying vehicle data of the vehicle is formed by at least one transponder attached to the vehicle and identifying the vehicle-identifying vehicle data of the vehicle and vehicle-classifying vehicle data of the vehicle, wherein the at least one processor is in data communication with the reading device and with the position-determining device and A) for transmitting vehicle-identifying vehicle data of the vehicle and vehicle-classifying vehicle eugdaten of the vehicle from the reading device to the data memory, (B) for receiving position data from the position determining means and (C) for transmitting at least one the vehicle identifying vehicle data of the vehicle comprising data set, (i) vehicle classifying vehicle data of the vehicle together with the position data and / or Traffic data derived from position data at least one traffic area and / or (ii) has at least one of vehicle-classifying vehicle data-dependent, derived from the position data fee information is configured to the long-range communication interface.

The recording of vehicle data of the vehicle in a memory area of the data memory effects an at least temporary data link of the vehicle to the mobile vehicle device on the mobile vehicle device.

Preferably, the long-range communication interface is a mobile radio interface that is provided by a mobile radio transceiver.

Vehicle-dependent charging information or data can be created by the processor of the mobile vehicle device, for example, by linking vehicle-independent information (traffic area data and / or basic charging data) with the vehicle-classifying vehicle data.

The reading device included in the vehicle device according to the invention helps to transfer vehicle data from the transponder attached to the vehicle to the mobile vehicle device, which the user attaches to a receiving device for entrainment in the vehicle, and thus to support an initialization of the mobile vehicle device. The vehicle device according to the invention makes a data exchange with a central, arranged outside the vehicle, data processing device for initialization purposes unnecessary and offers the user an increased Both in the Erstinitialisierung - the initial initialization of the mobile vehicle device with respect to a vehicle - and in the Uminitialisierung - the ease of use of the mobile vehicle device from a first vehicle to a second vehicle. The presence of the vehicle data on the transponder also precludes errors or lack of vehicle data at initialization.

In preferred embodiments of the invention it is provided that the processor controls the activation of the reading device for retrieving vehicle data from the transponder and / or the transmission of the vehicle data from the reading device to the data memory.

In preferred embodiments of the invention it is provided that the reading device is included in the mobile vehicle device. Thus, the formation of a very compact and inexpensive vehicle device is possible because of spatially extended material-bound transmission means, such as electrically conductive cables that are longer than the largest extension of the mobile vehicle device along a reference axis, can be dispensed between the mobile vehicle device and the reading device.

In embodiments of the invention it is provided that the vehicle device is characterized by a further reading device, which is designed for the wireless reception of further vehicle data from at least one further transponder attached to the vehicle, wherein the processor is in data communication with the further reading device and for transmitting the further vehicle data is formed by the further reading device for data storage.

This makes it possible, for example, to transfer a first part of vehicle data from a first transponder and a second part of vehicle data from a second transponder to the mobile vehicle device. For example, the first transponder of the tractor of a semitrailer may have vehicle data on the pollutant class of the semi-trailer and the number of axles of the semitrailer, while the second transponder of the semitrailer of the semi-trailer has vehicle data on the number of axles of the semitrailer. Depending on whether the truck is traveling alone or as a semitrailer tractor, varies the total number of axles, so that a collection of different fees for both vehicles is possible.

Preferably, during an initialization, both vehicle data of the first transponder, read out by a first reading device, and vehicle data of the second transponder, read out by a second reading device, triggered by a single action, for example of the processor, are transmitted to the mobile vehicle device.

A further development of this embodiment to a third transponder and a third reading device for a trailer of the semitrailer is possible according to the invention.

An alternative or optional further development of this embodiment is characterized in that at least the further reading device is provided for attachment to a region of the vehicle which is at a distance from the mobile vehicle device and which is opposite to the further transponder.

This makes it possible to read out the further transponder at the location at which the mobile vehicle device is positioned for reading out the first transponder. The duration of an initialization of the mobile vehicle device with vehicle data of a plurality of transponders can thus be advantageously shortened.

In embodiments of the invention, it is provided that one or more reading devices, which are not included in the mobile vehicle device and each of which is assigned to a transponder, are connected to the mobile vehicle device are transmitting and receiving components of a wireless network (Wireless Area Network) in a data connection. These wireless networks include, for example, wireless local area network (WLAN) and wireless personal area network (WPAN) with appropriate interfaces and standards (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, etc.). The said WAN transmission / reception components are on the one hand comprised by the reading devices and on the other hand by the mobile vehicle device and / or the recording device. Preferably, the said WAN transmitting / receiving components are on the one hand by the reading means includes and on the other hand of the vehicle mounted in the receiving device, because it can thus be avoided that vehicle data "passers-by" can be read by a mobile vehicle device that is not from the recording device is included.

In embodiments of the invention it is provided that the vehicle-side receiving device comprises attachment means for attachment to the vehicle. This is a simple way of attachment of the recording device on the vehicle, for example in the vehicle, possible. A first example of such a fastener is an adhesive layer that provides a material bond between the vehicle component to which the receptacle is to be attached and the receptacle.

A second example of such a fastening means is a Velcro connection, for example consisting of two components, which are provided by an eyelet mat and a hook mat, each carrying an adhesive layer on their sides remote from their hooks or eyes. In this case, a first component of the Velcro connection is attached by means of the adhesive layer to the receiving device and attached a second component of the Velcro connection by means of the adhesive layer on the vehicle component.

Incidentally, this does not exclude that the receiving device itself may consist of not more than one of the components of a Velcro connection.

In embodiments of the invention, it is provided that the vehicle device is characterized in that the mobile vehicle device and the vehicle-mounted receiving device have cooperating components of an electrical energy transmission device, which enables the transmission of electrical energy to the mobile vehicle device when receiving the mobile vehicle device from the vehicle-side receiving device , Thus, the mobile vehicle device can be designed with an electrical energy storage low capacity or entirely without electrical energy storage, which reduces the size and cost of the mobile vehicle device. Furthermore, such an accidental operation of the vehicle device outside the vehicle is avoided.

In embodiments of the invention, it is provided that the vehicle device has at least one vehicle-side receiving device for repeatable loading and unloading of the mobile vehicle device, wherein the mobile vehicle device (260) and the vehicle-side receiving device have mutually cooperating components of a recording control means which, upon receiving the mobile Vehicle device from the vehicle-side recording device (i) a recording of vehicle data (f _i ) in a memory area of the data memory and / or (ii) at least a first attempt at automatic wireless transmission of the vehicle-identifying vehicle data and the vehicle-classifying vehicle data of the mobile vehicle device by means of the long-range communication interface the registration device causes or permits.

Effectiveness and permission differ in the result that the effect causes the result automatically and without further action of the user, that is: a sufficient condition to achieve the result forms, and the permission at least the fulfillment of another condition, such as the implementation of a further step by the user, requires, that is: only a necessary but not sufficient condition to achieve the result represents.

Thus, the device associated with the establishment of the mobile vehicle device initialization of the mobile vehicle device via the data link of the vehicle with the mobile vehicle device by a likewise belonging to the device of the vehicle device attachment of the mobile vehicle device in the vehicle causes or permitted.

Furthermore, these embodiments of the invention allow, in addition to the attachment-induced decentralized initialization, an automatic notification of the registration device via the decentralized initialization, whereby the data link of the vehicle to the mobile vehicle device is registered centrally.

For example, the recording control means is designed as an initialization means when it causes the result of the inclusion of vehicle data in a memory area of the data memory.

For this purpose, the initialization means can effect a use of the reading device for receiving vehicle data from the transponder. Such an initialization means has the advantage that the initialization of the mobile vehicle device is automatically performed when attaching or inserting on the receiving device, so that an initialization can not be forgotten by the user.

In general, the recording control means causes the initialization to be performed only in the position provided for the mobile vehicle device in the vehicle, forcing the user to bring the mobile vehicle device into its intended position. In particular, a readout of vehicle data from transponders by mobile vehicle devices from outside the vehicle, for example by unauthorized third parties, can thus be prevented. For example, a use of the reading device is effected by the initialization means in that the initialization means, when the mobile vehicle device is received by the vehicle-side recording device, causes the processor to activate and / or control the reading device for interrogating vehicle data from the transponder.

The cooperating components of the recording control means are preferably distributed to the two attachment partners "mobile vehicle device" and "recording device". A first attachment partner may for this purpose comprise an interrogation signal generator and a response signal analyzer which compares the interrogation signal manipulated by a signal manipulator (for example a filter) of the other, second attachment partner, which is detected as a response signal by a sensor of the first attachment partner, in accordance with a predetermined response signal , In this case, the interrogation signal generator, signal manipulator and response signal analyzer form or are included in the reception control means.

Alternatively or optionally, a first attachment partner to a signal generator and the other, second attachment partner have a signal analyzer, which receives the remote from the first attachment partner signal by means of a sensor and compares to match a predetermined, expected signal. In this case, the signal generator and the signal analyzer form or are included in the recording control means.

In both cases, the signals may be electrical, optical, magnetic, mechanical and / or data technology type. For further explanation, reference is made to the signal means listed under the first aspect of the invention, electrical current, light beam, magnet, electromagnetic wave, mechanical pressure and data.

Preferably, at least one of the attachment partners generates periodic (interrogation) signals and / or periodically reads out the signal receiving sensors with respect to certain (response) signals to determine whether the mobile vehicle device already - or not yet - is mounted in the receiving device is.

Conversely, in embodiments of the invention, it is provided that the mobile vehicle device and the vehicle-mounted receiving device have mutually cooperating components of a removal control means, which causes removal of the mobile vehicle device from the vehicle-mounted device or allows the data memory is placed in a state that Lack of vehicle data in the memory corresponds. This causes a resolution of the data link of the vehicle with the mobile vehicle device on the mobile vehicle device.

For example, the state corresponding to the absence of vehicle data in the data memory is determined by i) deleting the vehicle data from the data memory, ii) shifting the vehicle data to another memory area in the data memory, and / or iii) allocating another memory area in the data memory to resume Vehicle data obtained in the data memory.

By way of example, the mobile vehicle device and the vehicle-mounted receiving device can have mutually cooperating components of a de-initializing means which, when the mobile vehicle device is removed from the vehicle-side receiving device, causes vehicle data, which are located in a first memory area of the data memory of the mobile vehicle device, to leave the first memory area are removed and / or that, as a substitute to a first memory area in which the vehicle data is located, a second memory area in the data memory of the mobile vehicle device for receiving vehicle data is addressed.

The cooperating components of the sampling control means may be the same as those of the recording control agent. Such components may be provided by appropriate switches, contacts or sensors. In this connection, reference is also made to the signal generator, the signal manipulator and the signal analyzer attachment partners, which were given to describe the recording control means. Preferably, at least one of the attachment partners generates periodic (interrogation) signals and / or periodically reads out the signal reception sensors with regard to certain (response) signals to determine whether the mobile vehicle device is still - or not - attached to the receiving device is.

With a de-initialization can be advantageously avoided that vehicle data that may not be used in a device of the mobile vehicle device in another vehicle, remain in the mobile vehicle device or by the application of the vehicle device that is to use the data of the other vehicle used become.

In one example, such de-initialization is effected by the de-initializing means, upon removal of the mobile vehicle device from the vehicle-side cradle, causing the processor to retrieve vehicle data located in a first storage area of the data storage of the mobile vehicle device from the first storage area remove and / or alternatively to a first memory area in which the vehicle data are to address a second memory area in the data memory of the mobile vehicle device for receiving vehicle data.

In another example, vehicle data may be stored in a RAM data memory of the mobile vehicle device where the vehicle data remains stored only upon application of electrical current, such as a predetermined minimum voltage, to the RAM data memory and if there is a lack of electrical power to the RAM data memory , For example, when lowering the value of the voltage applied to the RAM data storage voltage below the value of the minimum voltage, automatically deleted. In this case, the de-initializing means consists of two separable electrical contacts for powering the data memory, of which a first contact from the mobile vehicle device is included and a second contact from the receiving device; the de-initialization is effected by a separation of the two contacts.

Preferably, a mobile vehicle device having an initialization means and / or de-initialization means comprises means for disabling and unblocking the initialization means and / or de-initialization means, thus blocking the transmission of vehicle data from another vehicle to the data memory of the mobile vehicle device. Thus, the user can decide at any time whether he releases his mobile vehicle device for use in another vehicle or blocks. If, in fact, the re-initialization of the mobile vehicle device is not possible, then, in the absence of available vehicle data, it is not possible to use the mobile vehicle device according to the invention for charging vehicle-dependent charges. When using a tolled traffic area with an uninitialized device, the user then falls on as a fee prompter.

Embodiments of the invention further contemplate that the mobile vehicle device, as long as it is received by the recording device, re-initializes at arbitrary or predeterminable time intervals by repeatedly interrogating vehicle data from the transponder, for example, each time after the mobile device Vehicle device has transmitted vehicle data and / or at least one of the vehicle data-dependent information via its first communication interface to the registration device arranged outside the vehicle.

Another query for the existence of an attachment in the receiving device ensures the intended use of the mobile vehicle device and can allow or support a re-initialization, that is, a data-related reconnection of the vehicle with the mobile vehicle device.

In this case, the re-initialization may include a de-initialization followed by a re-initialization. Thus, the user is forced to leave the mobile vehicle device while using toll traffic areas in the recording device to ensure reliable charging and / or control.

In order to charge a fee, it is provided according to the invention that at least one long-range communication interface identifies vehicle-identifying vehicle data of the vehicle and (i) vehicle-classifying vehicle data of the vehicle together with position data and / or traffic data derived from position data of at least one traffic area and / or (ii) at least one of vehicle-classifying vehicle data Position information derived wireless charge information to at least one arranged outside the vehicle registration device transmits at least one vehicle charging system. This ensures that the fees can be determined depending on the vehicle classifying vehicle data.

The position data according to the invention are provided by at least one of the vehicle device, preferably from the mobile vehicle device, comprising a position-determining device that accordingly evaluates satellite data of a global navigation satellite system.

In order to control charging, embodiments of the invention preferably include at least one second short-range communication interface comprised of the mobile vehicle device and configured to wirelessly send charge data to a roadside controller of a toll collection system. For example, the second, short-range communication interface is provided by a DSRC transceiver, by means of which the control data, which may correspond to the billing data transmitted to the registration device via the long-range communication interface, can be sent to the roadside control device.

Preferably, the use of the mobile vehicle device is protected, in particular protected by the query of an authentication and / or a user authenticating input of a user identifier, such as a password.

A further development of the vehicle device according to the invention is provided by a vehicle device kit comprising the mobile vehicle device, the reading device, a vehicle-mounted receiving device provided for attachment to the vehicle, and the transponder.

According to a third aspect of the invention, it is provided to equip a vehicle with a vehicle device according to the invention and at least one transponder attached to the vehicle, which provides vehicle data for transmission to the mobile vehicle device.

Such a transponder is preferably a passive transponder, which does not have its own power supply and extracts the electrical energy which it requires for reading out the vehicle data from the transponder's own data memory and for transmission to the reading device, from the interrogation signal of the reading device. An activation of the transponder can thus be effected by the interrogation signal of the reading device.

This is a particularly favorable production and integration of the transponder in the vehicle - for example, by attachment to the vehicle either outside the vehicle or in the interior of the vehicle - possible. Less preferably, the transponder is an active transponder, which has its own power supply or is connected to an on-board power supply. Nevertheless, activation of an active transponder can also be done by the reader interrogation signal.

Embodiments of the invention provide that the processor controls the activation of the transponder for the delivery of vehicle data to the reading device. The activation of the transponder is preferably carried out by the reading device.

Preferred embodiments of the vehicle according to the invention provide that a receiving device of the vehicle device according to the invention is attached to a windshield of the vehicle, preferably on the inside of the windshield facing the vehicle interior.

In addition, various vehicle components are conceivable, to which the transponder can be attached. A first example is given by the fact that at least one transponder is attached to a, the vehicle license plate bearing or reproducing, shield of the vehicle. The sign may be, for example, the license plate of the vehicle. This has the advantage that for those responsible for attaching the transponder to the vehicle, the mounting location for the transponder is well defined. At this well-defined location, the transponder is also easy to find for the user. Further, with the choice of the license plate as the vehicle component to which the transponder is attached, driving the transponder forced.

A second example is given by the fact that at least one transponder is attached to the front windshield of the vehicle, preferably on the inside of the windshield facing the vehicle interior, preferably adhesively secured by gluing. The vehicle component windshield ensures by their indispensable function a constant entrainment of the transponder from the moment of its initial assembly. In this location, the transponder is advantageously also easy to find and is also protected in the case of an inside attachment in contrast to the former mounting location license plate from weather, theft and damage from the outside.

Preferably, the transponder on the side facing the windshield on a shield, which prevents reading of the transponder from the outside. Alternatively or optionally, the windshield on a shield, which prevents reading of the transponder from the outside.

A third example is given by the fact that at least one transponder is attached to the vehicle-side receiving device, which in turn is provided by the vehicle or attached to the vehicle. This also represents a well-defined and well-known place for the user.

Attachment of the transponder to the vehicle-mounted receiving device has the advantage, in particular for manufacturers of a vehicle device kit according to the invention comprising the mobile vehicle device including reading device, a vehicle-mounted receiving device and the transponder provided for attachment to the vehicle, that the interactions of all of the vehicle device kit belong to one another Components under use conditions outside of a vehicle, especially insofar vehicle-independent, can be tested. This mainly concerns the mechanical, electrical and communication interactions.

Preferred embodiments of the invention provide that the reading device is mounted in a position on the vehicle in which it is opposite the transponder at a distance of 0 to 10 cm. This distance corresponds to the range for a near-range communication - a so-called "close-coupling communication". This type of communication takes place, for example, with inductive coupling of a coil pair, of which a first coil is comprised by the reading device and a second coil is covered by the transponder, or by capacitive coupling a capacitor pair, of which first capacitor surfaces of both capacitors are covered by the reading device and second capacitor surfaces both capacitors are covered by the reader. However, this type of communication does not exclude the general electromagnetic data transmission. Typical operating frequencies are in the range of 1 to 30 MHz. The near-range communication favors the use of passive transponders, which take their supply energy from the query signal of the reading device.

A distance of 0 cm corresponds to the direct mechanical contact of the reading device - or in the case in which the reading device is comprised by the mobile vehicle device: the mobile vehicle device - and the transponder. In this case, in order to avoid the occurrence of high mechanical loads in the mechanical contact, one or both of the contact partners in the contact region can have correspondingly yielding sections of material and / or structural compliance, for example a foam layer.

Preferably, in each case reading device of the vehicle device according to the invention and associated transponder of the vehicle according to the invention form a short-range communication system - a so-called "close-coupling system". This has the advantage that the transponder can only be read from a distance of less than 10 cm. This makes it difficult to read out the data by third parties, in particular during the drive of the vehicle. Furthermore, far-reaching communication is more energy efficient than short-range communication, which can be several meters to several hundred meters away, such as DSRC communication. This allows in particular the already mentioned advantageous use of passive transponder.

If the mobile vehicle device is equipped with a DSRC communication interface for charging and / or for control purposes, the use of a different communication technology for data transmission from the transponder avoids problematic frequency overlaps. Preferably, therefore, communication technology between the reading device and the transponder uses the inductive magnetic coupling or the capacitive electrical coupling for near-range communication.

An example of a transponder according to the invention is the radio tag ("RFID Tag" for "Radio Frequency IDentification Tag"). The term RFID is also colloquially used for communication systems whose carrier frequencies are not only in the radio frequency range of 30 kHz to 300 MHz, but also in the low-frequency range below or in the higher-frequency microwave or terahertz range above. RFID thus affects all frequencies that enable RFID-typical contactless radio communication.

In the case of a short-range data communications connection between the reading device of the vehicle device according to the invention and the transponder of the vehicle according to the invention, the attachment of the transponder to the inside of the windscreen and the attachment of the transponder to a receiving device attached to the inside of the windshield then have the advantage that the vehicle owner himself can save the way to another location, which is not accessible from the vehicle interior, when the reading device according to the invention is included in the mobile vehicle device.

The vehicle data can be transmitted for example by a registration office for motor vehicles in the data memory of the transponder. For this purpose, the transponder can be integrated in the official registration sticker, which is glued to the license plate of the vehicle. In the case of alternative attachment to the inside of the windshield, it may also be up to the registration office to integrate the transponder in an official toll sticker and to hand over this to the vehicle owner.

Furthermore, the vehicle data can be transmitted by an accredited examination office in the context of a successful main investigation in the data memory of the transponder. For this purpose, an issued inspection sticker, which is stuck on the license plate of the vehicle, or the aforementioned toll sticker such a transponder.

Furthermore, the data memory of the transponder can be integrated in the license plate and the license plate have a receiving antenna, which is in electrical contact with the data memory. Such a receiving antenna may be applied to the license plate by means of a hardenable or dryable electrically conductive viscous fluid (for example silver conductive adhesive or silver ink).

Preferably, the data memory of the transponder or at least the memory area of the data memory of the transponder, which is provided for storing the vehicle data, can only be written once and can not be re-written. This prevents manipulation of the vehicle data.

Preferred embodiments of the vehicle according to the invention are characterized in that the vehicle device has at least one further reading device, which is designed for the wireless reception of further vehicle data from at least one further transponder, wherein the processor of the mobile vehicle device is in data communication with the further reading device and for transmission the further vehicle data from the further reading device to the data memory of the mobile vehicle device is operable, the further transponder one, a vehicle license plate bearing or reproducing, shield of the vehicle is mounted, and the further reading device is mounted in a position on the vehicle is arranged, in which it is opposite to the other transponder at a distance of 0 to 10 cm.

In this case, a first transponder can be fastened to a vehicle plate (for example the tractor of the vehicle) carrying or reproducing a license plate, or to the receptacle for the mobile vehicle device or to the inside of the windshield of the vehicle, while the further, second transponder is attached to a vehicle license plate bearing or reproducing second shield of the vehicle (e.g., the trailer or trailer of the vehicle).

Thus, the reading of data from multiple transponders that can be attached to different vehicle components, in a simple and cost-effective manner possible.

Embodiments of the invention provide that in a vehicle a plurality of couplable vehicle parts, each with a reading device and a respective transponder are provided, wherein a common power supply of all reading devices, which is carried by that designated as a tractor vehicle part, which carries the vehicle drive, and with the Decoupling a non-powered vehicle part of the tractor, the power supply is disconnected from the reading device included by this unpowered vehicle part.

This is advantageously prevented that a reading device read vehicle data from the transponder, which are not required by the mobile vehicle device, because the relevant unpowered vehicle part (semi-trailer, trailer) is not carried by the driving vehicle part (tractor). This advantage is particularly effective when the communication between the mobile vehicle device and the relevant reading device is at least partially wireless and the reading device for this purpose comprises a transmitting / receiving device of a wireless communication network (WLAN, WPAN). Without a power supply, the reading device is not operational, and a mis-initialization of the mobile vehicle device with vehicle data from located in close proximity to the tractor vehicle parts that are not coupled to the tractor and are therefore not provided for entrainment with the tractor can thus be advantageously excluded.

Preferred embodiments of the invention are characterized in that the receiving device is mounted on the inside of the front windshield of the vehicle, the transponder is mounted on the inside of the front windshield of the vehicle or on the receiving device, and the mobile vehicle device in a position in which it is received by the receiving device, the transponder opposite at a distance of 0 to 10 cm, wherein the reading device is included in the mobile vehicle device.

Thus, the use of a compact, inexpensive and easy-to-use vehicle device in the vehicle according to the invention is possible.

Embodiments of the invention are characterized in that the receiving device has at least one electrical connection which is in electrical connection with an electrical energy store and / or energy generator of the vehicle and with at least one electrical contact of the mobile vehicle device when receiving the mobile vehicle device from the vehicle-side receiving device electrical connection to the establishment of an electrical power supply of the mobile vehicle unit is received.

This ensures the power supply of the mobile vehicle device during operation in a simple and reliable manner.

Nonetheless, optionally or alternatively, the mobile vehicle device may also have its own internal power supply, such as a battery, for connection to an external power supply.

A charging system is further provided for the vehicle device according to the invention, which is characterized by (a) at least one transponder attached to the vehicle, which provides vehicle data for transmission to the mobile vehicle device, (b) at least one first central data processing device, in which (i) the assignment of User data of a user of the mobile vehicle device and vehicle device data of the mobile vehicle device by data link in a database are stored assigned to each other and which (ii) at least temporarily over the long-range communication interface of the mobile vehicle device in an at least partially wireless data communication with the mobile vehicle device, with the at least vehicle device data is transmitted from the mobile vehicle device to the first central data processing device, and by (c) at least one control device that (i) has an optical en detection unit for generating at least one optical recording of at least one vehicle-identifying feature of the vehicle and for obtaining vehicle-identifying data from the data processing of the at least one optical recording and (ii) at least temporarily via a short-range communication interface of the mobile vehicle device in an at least partially wireless data communication with the mobile vehicle device, with the at least part of vehicle data is transmitted from the mobile vehicle device to the control device, which comprises vehicle-identifying data of the vehicle.

With such a charging system, the reliable collection of vehicle fees for the use of a traffic area provided for the vehicle is advantageously ensured by the vehicle.

In particular, charging may be carried out in the course of connecting the first central data processing device to the long-range communication interface of the mobile vehicle device by transmitting vehicle data or vehicle data-dependent information, for example charge data, from the mobile vehicle device to the first central data processing device in addition to the vehicle device data. For this purpose, said long-range communication interface can be used as a mobile device, eg. B. according to the standard GSM, GPRS, UMTS and / or LTE, etc., is formed.

For wireless data technology connection between the mobile vehicle device and the control device can be contributed to the vehicle device side by a DRSC module as a short-range communication interface. Such charging systems according to the invention are suitable for charging road tolls (eg, zone toll, section toll, toll, tunnel toll, passes, bridges, etc.), vehicle transportation charges (eg, car train, car ferry), parking fees (e.g. B. in the parking garage or outdoors) etc ..

Furthermore, the charging system according to the invention can have an interoperable character, in particular that of a European Electronic Toll System (EETS) according to Directive 2004/52 EC, in that the first data processing device is that of a tolling station (in the toll context: service provider), and in addition to the vehicle device data, vehicle data and / or at least vehicle-data-dependent information is transmitted from the mobile vehicle device to the first central data processing device, the charging system has at least one second data processing device of a toll operator (at least temporarily) in at least one of partially wireless data-technical connection with the mobile vehicle device, with the at least vehicle device data and vehicle data and / or at least one vehicle data-dependent information from the mobile vehicle device to d the second central data processing device, and at least one at least temporarily between the first and the second data processing device existing communication connection via which at least vehicle device data and vehicle data or at least vehicle-data-dependent information is transmitted, the vehicle device data having identification data for identifying the charging point.

This makes it possible for the traffic area operator to query usage-specific data - in particular charge data - from the corresponding charging agency or to allocate charging data received from the charging agency to a use detected by the aforementioned control facility of the traffic area operator.

A use of the vehicle according to the invention is finally provided in a charging system according to the invention.

1. 1.) Mietwagengesellschaft: Eine Mietwagengesellschaft wird Fahrzeuggebühren, die dem Fahrzeugnutzer - der in diesem Fall ein Fahrzeugmieter ist - anzulasten sind, nicht seinen Mietern gegenüber auslegen wollen, sondern stattdessen verlangen, dass der Mieter die Gebühren direkt selbst zahlt. Dazu kann sie verlangen, dass jeder Fahrzeugmieter sein auf ihn persönlich registriertes mobiles Fahrzeuggerät zur Gebührenerhebung für den Mietwagen verwendet. Für den Fahrzeugmieter ergibt sich der positive Nebeneffekt einer besseren und schnelleren Kontrolle der Gebührenabrechnung.
2. 2.) Speditionsfuhrpark. Ein Speditionsfuhrpark unterhält beispielsweise 30 Lastkraftwagen (Lkw), von denen nur 10 ständig mautpflichtige Straßen benutzen und stationär mit jeweils einem fest installierten Fahrzeuggerät zur Mauterhebung ausgerüstet sind. Von den übrigen 20 benutzen alle gelegentlich mautpflichtige Straßen. Für diese übrigen 20 Lkw hat der Spediteur 5 mobile Fahrzeuggeräte angeschafft, die er je nach Bedarf in denjenigen der 20 übrigen Lkw zum Einsatz bringt, die vorübergehend mautpflichtige Straßen benutzen, wobei seiner Erfahrung nach nie mehr als 5 der übrigen 20 Lkw gleichzeitig vorübergehend mautpflichtige Straßen benutzen.
3. 3.) Car-Sharing-Gemeinschaft: In einer Car-Sharing-Gemeinschaft besitzt eine Eigentümergemeinschaft, die aus mehreren Fahrzeugnutzern besteht, ein gemeinsames Fahrzeug, das die Fahrzeugnutzer abwechselnd nutzen. Für eine solche Gemeinschaft ist die Zuordnung von Fahrzeuggebühren zu dem jeweiligen Nutzer dann besonders einfach, wenn jeder Eigentümer seine individuelle Nutzung mit seinem auf ihn personalisierten mobilen Fahrzeuggerät durchführt.
4. 4.) Defektes oder verlorengegangenes mobiles Fahrzeuggerät: Geht einem Fahrzeugnutzer sein mobiles Fahrzeuggerät verloren oder defekt, so kann er solange keine gebührenpflichtigen Verkehrsflächen mehr in Anspruch nehmen wie er kein neues Fahrzeuggerät zur Verfügung hat. Vorübergehend kann er jedoch gegebenenfalls leihweise das mobile Fahrzeuggerät einer Leihstelle (beispielsweise einer Tankstellenkette) nutzen. Aus der Abrechnung der Leihstelle geht hervor, wann und wo die Nutzung erfolgt ist, so dass eine Rückerstattung der Gebühren des Fahrers gegenüber der Leihstelle problemlos möglich ist.

For the invention, there are a variety of usage scenarios in which the advantages of the invention come into effect:

1. 1.) Car rental company: A car rental company will not charge the vehicle user - who in this case is a car rental company - to charge his tenants, but instead demand that the renter pay the fees themselves. For this purpose, it may require that each vehicle tenant uses his personally registered mobile vehicle device to charge the rental car. For the vehicle tenant there is the positive side effect of a better and faster control of billing.
2. 2.) Forwarding fleet. For example, a freight forwarding fleet maintains 30 lorries (lorries), of which only 10 use toll roads and are stationarily equipped with one permanently installed vehicle for toll collection. Of the remaining 20 all use occasionally toll roads. For these remaining 20 trucks, the forwarder purchased 5 mobile vehicle equipment, which he uses as needed in those of the 20 other trucks temporarily using toll roads, with no more than 5 out of the remaining 20 lorries temporarily tolled at the same time to use.
3. 3.) Car-sharing community: In a car-sharing community, a community of owners consisting of multiple vehicle users owns a common vehicle that vehicle users use in turn. For such a community, the allocation of vehicle fees to the respective user is particularly easy if each owner carries out his individual use with his personalized mobile vehicle device.
4. 4.) Defective or lost mobile vehicle device: If a vehicle user loses his mobile vehicle device or is defective, he can no longer use toll areas as long as he does not have a new vehicle device available. Temporarily, however, he may borrow the mobile vehicle device a rental point (for example, a gas station chain) use. From the billing of the rental agency shows when and where the use has been made, so that a refund of the driver's fees to the lending agency is easily possible.

In the following the invention will be explained in more detail with reference to several embodiments.

Fig. 1a

eine schematische Darstellung eines erfindungsgemäßen Fahrzeugs mit einer erfindungsgemäßen Fahrzeugeinrichtung gemäß einem ersten Ausführungsbeispiel,

Fig. 1b

eine schematische Darstellung der erfindungsgemäßen Fahrzeugeinrichtung des ersten Ausführungsbeispieles,

Fig. 1c

eine schematische Darstellung eines mobilen Fahrzeuggerätes der erfindungsgemäßen Fahrzeugeinrichtung des ersten Ausführungsbeispieles,

Fig. 2a

eine schematische Darstellung eines erfindungsgemäßen Fahrzeugs mit einer erfindungsgemäßen Fahrzeugeinrichtung gemäß einem zweiten Ausführungsbeispiel,

Fig. 2b

eine schematische Querschnittsansicht der erfindungsgemäßen Fahrzeugeinrichtung des zweiten Ausführungsbeispieles,

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eine schematische Darstellung eines mobilen Fahrzeuggerätes der erfindungsgemäßen Fahrzeugeinrichtung des zweiten Ausführungsbeispieles,

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eine schematische Ansicht des mobilen Fahrzeuggerätes der erfindungsgemäßen Fahrzeugeinrichtung des zweiten Ausführungsbeispieles in einer ersten Phase der Einrichtung,

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eine schematische Ansicht des mobilen Fahrzeuggerätes der erfindungsgemäßen Fahrzeugeinrichtung des zweiten Ausführungsbeispieles in einer zweiten Phase der Einrichtung,

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eine schematische Ansicht eines Wechsels eines mobilen Fahrzeuggerätes erfindungsgemäßen Fahrzeugeinrichtung des zweiten Ausführungsbeispieles von einem ersten Fahrzeug zu einem zweiten Fahrzeug,

Fig. 3a

eine schematische Darstellung eines erfindungsgemäßen Fahrzeugs mit einer erfindungsgemäßen Fahrzeugeinrichtung gemäß einem dritten Ausführungsbeispiel,

Fig. 3b

eine schematische Darstellung eines mobilen Fahrzeuggerätes der erfindungsgemäßen Fahrzeugeinrichtung des dritten Ausführungsbeispieles,

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eine schematische Ansicht des mobilen Fahrzeuggerätes der erfindungsgemäßen Fahrzeugeinrichtung des dritten Ausführungsbeispieles in einer Phase der Einrichtung,

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ein Schema für die erfindungsgemäße Verwendung eines Fahrzeugs des zweiten und dritten Ausführungsbeispieles in einem erfindungsgemäßen Gebührenerhebungssystem.

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Fig. 1a

a schematic representation of a vehicle according to the invention with a vehicle device according to the invention according to a first embodiment,

Fig. 1b

a schematic representation of the vehicle device according to the invention of the first embodiment,

Fig. 1c

a schematic representation of a mobile vehicle device of the vehicle device according to the invention of the first embodiment,

Fig. 2a

a schematic representation of a vehicle according to the invention with a vehicle device according to the invention according to a second embodiment,

Fig. 2b

a schematic cross-sectional view of the vehicle device according to the invention of the second embodiment,

Fig. 2c

a schematic representation of a mobile vehicle device of the vehicle device according to the invention of the second embodiment,

Fig. 2d

a schematic view of the mobile vehicle device of the vehicle device according to the invention of the second embodiment in a first phase of the device,

Fig. 2e

a schematic view of the mobile vehicle device of the vehicle device according to the invention of the second embodiment in a second phase of the device,

Fig. 2f

a schematic view of a change of a mobile vehicle device according to the invention vehicle device of the second embodiment of a first vehicle to a second vehicle,

Fig. 3a

a schematic representation of a vehicle according to the invention with a vehicle device according to the invention according to a third embodiment,

Fig. 3b

a schematic representation of a mobile vehicle device of the vehicle device according to the invention of the third embodiment,

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a schematic view of the mobile vehicle device of the vehicle device according to the invention of the third embodiment in a phase of the device,

Fig. 4

a scheme for the inventive use of a vehicle of the second and third embodiments in a charging system according to the invention.

Identical or equivalent elements are provided with the same reference numerals.

The disclosure content of the embodiments is not limited to the combinations of features of individual embodiments, but rather includes all those exchange and supplementary combinations of all the features of different embodiments and those of the previous description with each other, which does not appear obvious to the expert as technically impossible and do not contradict the essence of the invention. In this sense, the disclosure content of this document is understood to be cross-documentary - in particular as an exemplary embodiment -, and each embodiment is currently the remaining embodiments and the foregoing description as readable and / or supplemented to read and understand corresponding features.

FIRST EMBODIMENT:

The first embodiment relates to a passenger car 100 having a front windshield 101 and a front license plate 102 and a rear license plate 102a ( Fig. 1a ). On the number plates the vehicle registration number of the vehicle (eg B - TC 100) is reproduced (not shown), why it can also be referred to as license plates. At the front license plate 102, a transponder 300 is mounted on the front side, whose data memory (not shown) provides vehicle data f _i for transmission to a mobile vehicle device 260. Alternatively, the transponder 300 may also be attached to the rear license plate (not shown).

The vehicle data f _i were transmitted by means of a writing device into the data memory of the transponder 300 by an official or an approval office having an official approval within the scope of an authorization of the vehicle 100. Optionally, the vehicle data f _{i can} also be transmitted to the data memory of the transponder 300 by means of a writing device as part of a main inspection by an accredited certification authority (TÜV, Dekra).

In any case, the vehicle data f _{i are provided} with a digital signature of the approval or certification body or include one that is responsible for the correctness of the vehicle data f _i . To check the correctness of the vehicle data, this digital signature together with the vehicle data f _{i is} transmitted to a control point which has the public key of the signature. The vehicle data f _i include the vehicle registration number as a first data set f for vehicle-identifying vehicle data and two data sets f ₂ and f ₃ for vehicle-classifying vehicle data, namely a vehicle class representing the passenger car 100 with a second data set f ₂ and a displacement class corresponding to one area corresponds to the cubic capacity of the vehicle engine between a lower displacement limit (for example, 1.0 liter) and an upper displacement limit (for example, 1.5 liters) and applies as a third record f _{3 of} a hidden vehicle parameter, which can not be derived from a visual detection of external characteristics of the vehicle is. The vehicle data "vehicle license plate" and "vehicle class", however, are derivable from a visual detection of external features of the vehicle.

The mobile vehicle device 260 is comprised of a vehicle device 200, which is located both in Fig. 1a as well as separately in Fig. 1b is shown and a receiving device 270 includes and a reading device 205 and a communication connection between the mobile vehicle device 260 and reading device 205. The communication connection is designed as electrical communication line 207 and may alternatively be at least partially formed as a wireless communication connection. To use the vehicle device 200, (a) the reading device 205 is fixed at a position in the vehicle 100 where the reading device 205 faces the transponder 300 with respect to the front license plate 102, (b) the receiving device 270 on the inside of the windshield 101 in the interior of the vehicle Vehicle (100), (c) a communication line between the receiving device 270 and the reading device 205 laid by the vehicle and (d) the mobile vehicle device 270 inserted into the receiving device 270, wherein the mobile vehicle device 260 in a data-technical contact with that of the receiving device 270 provided connection of the communication line 207 device.

The distance of the reading device 205 from the transponder 300 is 5 cm. This corresponds to half the range of the communication method of a specifiable inductive coupling, by means of which vehicle data f _i are read out of the transponder 300 by the reading device 205. The reading is triggered by the establishment of the data connection between the mobile vehicle device 260 and the reading device 205, the mobile vehicle device 260 and the reading device 205 having cooperating components of an initialization means, namely contacting terminals to the communication line 207, of which the vehicle device side with Reference numeral 264a in FIG Fig. 1c is provided. The interaction of the connections is thereby detected by the processor 264, which with the thus made setting up a data connection between the mobile vehicle device 260 and the reading device 205, an activation of the reading device 205 to query and for receiving vehicle data f _i from the transponder 300 by issuing a corresponding signal to the reading device 205 via the communication line 207.

As a result, the processor 264 of the mobile vehicle device 260 controls the reading device 205 and transmits the vehicle data f _{i of} the transponder 300 received by the reading device 205 into a memory area of a dedicated data memory 261 of the mobile vehicle device 260.

The mobile vehicle device shows how out Fig. 1c also visible, a mobile communication unit 267, which serves as a communication interface for the wireless transmission of vehicle data f _i and vehicle data-dependent charge data b _{i, j} at least one arranged outside the vehicle registration device at least one vehicle charging system. The mobile radio transmitting / receiving antenna necessary for the communication is not included in the mobile vehicle device 260, but instead (not shown) in the receiving device 270. For contacting the mobile radio transmitting / receiving antenna, the vehicle device 260 has a mobile communication unit 267 provided mobile transceiver antenna port 267b. Likewise, the GNSS receiver 266 in the mobile vehicle device 260 has a GNSS receive antenna port 266b.

When driving on a toll route section of a toll collection system, the processor 264 of the mobile vehicle device 260 receives vehicle position data p _j , which represent the current position of the vehicle, via the position determining device 266 embodied as a GNSS receiver. By comparison with the link segment position data representing a link segment s _j , the processor 264 is caused to derive from the vehicle data f _i with the vehicle identifier a first vehicle identification data set f ₁ derivable from a visual detection of external features of the vehicle 100 with the vehicle class, a second set of vehicle classification data f ₂ , which are also derived from a visual detection of external features of the vehicle 100 and the displacement class a third record of a hidden vehicle parameter f ₃ , not from a visual detection of external features of the vehicle 100 can be derived, together with the mobile vehicle device 260 and its user identifying vehicle device data g _i and the digital signature of the vehicle data f _i to be taken from the data memory 261 and via the mobile communication unit 267 together with a K Name s _{j of} the route section to send to the registration device designed as a central survey device. With the reception of these data by the central survey facility, the proper use of the road by the vehicle is registered. Due to the fact that the survey device vehicle data f _i and vehicle device _data g _{i are} linked, it is valid not only as a registration device within the meaning of the invention, but also as a charging device, because the presence of the vehicle device _data g _i allows a conclusion to be drawn to the user against whom the charges have been levied and can be charged.

Further, on the roadside, on the said link section, there is installed a control device equipped with a camera which makes a front photographic digital photograph of the vehicle 100 and extracts from the image data of the photographic image by means of an image evaluation program the license plate number plate 102 as vehicle identifying data from the image , This vehicle-identifying data is sent by the decentralized control device together with the route segment identifier s _j to the central survey device and compared there with vehicle identification data of the vehicle registration number transmitted from the mobile vehicle device 260 to the survey device. If the vehicle registration number obtained by the control device via the camera coincides with the vehicle registration number communicated to the charging device by the mobile vehicle device 260, a charging that is carried out by the charging device based on the vehicle parameters transmitted by the mobile vehicle device 260 then applies as valid if in addition one Verification of the digital signature by the surveyor by means of the public key of a body responsible for the correctness of the data is successful.

The central survey device also links the vehicle parameters obtained in connection with the vehicle registration number and the vehicle device data g _i with data of the section subject to the charge to a vehicle-dependent fee b _ij , which it transmits back to the mobile vehicle device 260 via knowledge of the vehicle device data g _i via mobile radio. Due to the present in the data processing device of the toll collection point linking user data n _i with vehicle device data g _i , the fee can be assigned to a user and debited from a deposited account of the user.

SECOND EMBODIMENT

To explain the second embodiment shows Fig. 2a a passenger vehicle 100 with front license plate 102, which carries the license plate "B-TC 100", and a front windshield 101. On the inside of the frontal windshield 101 is the vehicle device 200 according to the invention, consisting of receiving device 270 and mobile vehicle device 260, together with a transponder 300 fastened, as follows from the Fig. 2b The receiving device 270 is fastened to the inside of the windshield 101 by means of an adhesive tape (double-sided adhesive tape) 271 coated on both sides with adhesive as a fastening means for the receiving device 270. The receiving device 270 is U-shaped, wherein between the two U-legs of the receiving device 270 of the transponder 300 is arranged, which is attached to the windshield 101 with a double-sided adhesive tape 301. On the inner sides of the U-legs of the receiving device 270 guide grooves 272 are opposite to each other, engage in the use of the mobile vehicle device 260 in the receiving device 270, not shown guide springs of the mobile vehicle device 260 form fit. The U-base of the receiving device 270 has a device-side power supply terminal 273 corresponding to a device-side power supply terminal 263 of the mobile vehicle device 260 and with which it makes electrical contact on the last 5 mm of the displacement of the mobile vehicle device 260 in the guide grooves 272 of the receiving device 270 is established in the direction of the U-base.

Thus, in the course of attaching the mobile vehicle apparatus 260 to the cradle 270, an electrical connection is made to a vehicle-side power supply device such as a battery of the vehicle through the power supply line 203 connected to the U-base of the cradle and to the device side power supply terminal 273 is in electrical contact.

For reading vehicle data f _i from a memory of the transponder 300, the mobile vehicle device 260 comprises a reading device 205, which is the transponder 300 in the end position of the guide of the mobile vehicle device 260 in the receiving device 270 (contact position of the contacts 263 and 273) at a distance of 3 mm opposite. In this position, the communication behavior between the reading device 205 and the transponder 300 by means of inductive coupling via a transmitting / receiving antenna 205a of the reading device 205 (see Fig. 2c ) optimal. Furthermore, the mobile vehicle device 260 includes, as in FIG Fig. 2c a processor 264, a data memory 261, a display device 268 embodied as an LCD display, a GNSS receiver 266 with a GNSS receiving antenna 266a, and a mobile radio communication unit 267 with a mobile radio transmitting / receiving antenna 267a. In this case, the processor 264 is in data communication with both the reading device 205 and the data memory 261, the LCD display 268, the GNSS receiver 266 and the mobile communication unit 267, indicated by the connecting lines between the individual components Fig. 2c ,

In the non-volatile memory area of the data memory 261, the vehicle device data g _i and the address of the memory location stored in a nonvolatile storage area of the data memory 261, are stored in the vehicle data f _i during the external power supply to the mobile vehicle device 260th

By receiving the mobile vehicle device 260 in the receiving device 270, the electrical contacts 263 and 273 are closed. Thus, the recording causes the initialization of the mobile vehicle device by the processor 264 is powered by the end of the contacts 263 and 273 and thus automatically generates a signal for driving the reading device 205, which leads to that of the reading device vehicle data f _i of the transponder 300 are queried. This moment of the device of the vehicle device 260 is in Fig. 2d Thus, the LCD displays the text "Initialization", with three LEDs 269a (red), 269b (yellow), and 269c (green) illuminating the yellow LED 269b to correctly perform the initialization process Device of the mobile vehicle device 260 display. After the signal-coded transmission of vehicle data f _i from the transponder 300 to the reading device, the vehicle data f _{i are obtained} from the signal and transmitted by the processor 264 to the address of the volatile memory area of the data memory 261, which is requested from the non-volatile memory area of the data memory 261 was called.

With the illumination of the green LED 269c and the display of the flag "B-TC 100" of the vehicle 100 in the LCD display 268 obtained from the vehicle data f _i , the successful setup and accompanying surveyability of the mobile vehicular device 260 is displayed in a charging system (please refer Fig. 2e ).

Charging takes place as a result of receipt of information s _j which identifies the chargeable item, for example a road segment, which has recognized by the processor 264, as a result of the position data pj received from the GNSS receiver 266, as being used by the vehicle. By linking the road section data s _j with the vehicle classifying vehicle data f _i (i> 1), the processor determines a charge b _{i, j} subtracted from the credits of a memory card (not shown) removably inserted into the mobile vehicle device 260 , The use of such a memory card offers the user additional protection against the misuse of his mobile vehicle device 260, provided that he kept the mobile vehicle device 260 and the memory card separately from each other, which makes their common theft difficult.

In addition, a survey message is sent to a central recording device via the mobile radio communication unit, which contains the vehicle-identifying vehicle identifier f ₁ together with the fee b _{i, j} charged.

Upon removal of the mobile vehicle device 260 from the receiving device 270, the contacts 263 and 273 are separated from each other and thus interrupted the power supply of the mobile vehicle device. This causes a de-initialization to return the mobile vehicle device 260 to an un-set state by deleting the vehicle data f _i from the volatile memory area of the data memory 261.

An alternative variant of the de-initialization is the use of a purely non-volatile data memory 261, characterized in that when removing the mobile vehicle device 260 from the receiving device 270 capacitive and / or inductive residual currents are used after disconnecting the power supply to the address at the Vehicle data f _i to save are to change.

When re-use of the mobile vehicle device finds a program running on the processor computer program that at the modified address is not a vehicle data f _i are stored, and performs re-initialization of the mobile vehicle device by.

This function can be blocked by the user, for example, by turning off the de-initialization function. Then the address to the stored vehicle data f _{i is} retained. In a renewed use of the mobile vehicle device 260 in a recording device 270 is triggered by the initialization, first checked by the computer program, if and if so, which vehicle data f _{i are available} at the specified address. Connecting-βend the reading out of vehicle data f _j from the transponder 300 are controlled by the reading means 205 and the vehicle data received from the transponder f _j checked to see whether they coincide with the vehicle data f _i from the data memory. If they match, the vehicle data f _i and f _j is signaled an elevation standby of the mobile vehicle device 260 through the lighting of the green LED 269c. In the absence of conformity of the vehicle data f _i and f _j is "locked FZG" by lighting of the red LED 269a in conjunction with the display a lack of willingness elevation of the mobile vehicle device 260 signals the LCD display 268th

By turning on or off the de-initialization function, it is thus optionally possible for the user to allow or prohibit the use of his mobile vehicle device in another vehicle. Disabling the de-initialization function, for example, by flipping a switch prior to removal of the mobile vehicle device 260 from the cradle 270, thus inhibits re-initialization of the mobile vehicle device 260 for use in a vehicle other than that to which it was last initialized ,

In any case, it is the user of the mobile vehicle device 260 in the course of a in Fig. 2f illustrated vehicle change from a first vehicle 100 to a second vehicle 100 ', which is equipped with a second transponder 300' and a second receiving device 270 ', with a re-initialization of the mobile vehicle device 260 possible, first vehicle data f _{i of} a first vehicle 100, which were prior to the transmission of second vehicle data f _i 'of a second vehicle 100' in a first memory area of the data memory 261 on the mobile vehicle device 260 to replace by the second vehicle data f _i 'of the second vehicle 100' and / or a second memory area of the Data memory 261 for storing the second vehicle data f _i 'of the second vehicle 100' to address.

In an alternative variant of the second embodiment, not shown, the transponder 300 is attached to the license plate 102 of the vehicle 100 and the mobile vehicle device 260 has its own power supply of the type of a rechargeable battery, without the recording device being connected to an on-board power supply. Reading in of vehicle data f _i from the transponder takes place by the user turning on the mobile vehicle device 260 and holding it in front of the transponder 300 at a distance of less than 10 cm so that the reading device 205 performs a successful retrieval of the vehicle data f _i from the transponder 300 can. However, a disadvantage of this method is that for the user the two steps for setting up the mobile vehicle device 260, namely the reading in of data from the transponder 300 and the attachment of the mobile vehicle device, are distributed over two locations: a location outside of the vehicle 100 Recording the vehicle data f _i at the license plate 102 and a location within the vehicle 100 for attachment to the inside of the windshield 101 and thereby according to the invention effected initialization.

According to the invention, this alternative variant of the readout of data from the transponder 300 alone does not result in vehicle data being stored in the memory area of the data memory 261 provided for this purpose. Consequently, a proper data link of the vehicle 100 with the mobile vehicle device outside the vehicle 100 has not yet taken place. Instead, the vehicle data f _{i are} first stored in another memory area of the data memory 261, which corresponds to no linking of the vehicle 100 with the mobile vehicle device 260. Alternatively, the vehicle data f _{i can} also be stored in a completely different data memory of the mobile vehicle device 260.

The inclusion of the mobile vehicle device 260 of the receiving device 270 within the vehicle 100 is detected by the light beam of an infrared light emitting diode of the mobile vehicle device 260 diffracted at a grid of the recording device in a first diffraction order and this by a mirror of the recording device to a sensor of the mobile vehicle device 260 is reflected back. This detection process is triggered by a switch on the mobile vehicle device 260, which is held pressed by the receiving device 270 by the receiving device 270 by the reception of the mobile vehicle device 260. The processor 264 receives two signals simultaneously - that of the depressed switch and that of the illuminated sensor - and evaluates this coincidence as evidence of a recording of the mobile vehicle device 260 in the receiving device 270, with the result that he vehicle data f _i , which is still on a non-initial storage location are stored on the mobile vehicle device 260, in the intended for initialization of the mobile vehicle device 260 memory area in the data memory 261 shifts. Thus, the mobile vehicle device is set up according to the invention. The processor receives a predetermined time period of one minute are not both signals, so it deletes the data stored so far at the initialisierungsfremden location on the mobile vehicle device 260 vehicle data f _i, are no longer available as a result for initialization available.

The processor 264 subsequently monitors both signals and evaluates the absence of one of the two as evidence of the removal of the mobile vehicle device 260 from the recording device 270, in which it deletes the vehicle data f _i stored in said memory area of the data memory 261.

The process of checking the proper setup of the mobile vehicle device 260 and the charging by the mobile vehicle device 260 will be described in detail in the fourth embodiment.

THIRD EMBODIMENT

The third embodiment relates to the use of the invention for a in Fig. 3a illustrated truck 100, which is equipped with a tractor 110, coupled to the tractor 110 semi-trailer 120 and a trailer attached to the trailer 130. The tractor 110 has a front-side first license plate 112 and three wheel axles 116a, 116b and 116c; the semi-trailer 120 has a rear second license plate 122 and two axles 126a and 126b; the trailer 130 has a rear third license plate 132 and three axles 136a, 136b and 136c. At each of the three number plates 112, 122 and 132, a transponder 310, 320 and 330 are respectively secured, in the data memory of each vehicle data f _{1, i} (tractor), f _{2, i} (semitrailer) and f _{3, i} (trailer) stored are. The vehicle data f _{x, i} include vehicle flags f _{x, 1} (x = 1: B-TC 110, x = 2: B-TC 120, x = 3: B-TC 130), vehicle type f _{x, 2} (x = 1 : Tractor, x = 2: semitrailer, x = 3 trailer), gross vehicle weight f _{x, 3} , (x = 1: 6 t, x = 2: 8 t, x = 3: 8 t), number of axles f _{x , 4} (x = 1: 3, x = 2: 2, x = 3: 3) and the pollutant class f _{x, 5} (x = 1: 3, x = 2: 0, x = 3: 0), where Pollutant class 0 stands for a vehicle without an engine.

Through the windshield 111 of the tractor 110, it can be seen that a mobile vehicle device 260 is mounted in a receiver 270, which in turn is attached to the inside of the windshield 111. Alternatively, the cradle 270 is provided by the passenger side portion of the console. In any case, the receiving device 270 has a connection to an on-board power supply.

The transponders 310, 320 and 330 lie on the side facing away from the transponders sides of the number plates from the license plates each a respective transponder 310, 320 and 330 associated with reading device 215 (assigned to the first transponder 310), 225 (assigned to the second transponder 320) and 235 (assigned to third transponder 330). The readers 215, 225 and 235 receive the electrical energy necessary for their operation from an onboard power supply, which they share with the license plate lights. In terms of data, the reading devices 215, 225 and 235 are connected to the mobile vehicle device 260 via data lines 217, 227 and 237. In an alternative embodiment, the data connection takes place by means of a wireless network for which the mobile vehicle device 260 provides the access node (master) and the reading devices provide the end points (slaves).

The mobile vehicle device 260 itself is in Fig. 3b shown schematically. It comprises a processor 264, a data memory 261, a display 268, a rechargeable battery 263b having an external power supply terminal 263 for recharging, a GNSS receiver 266 having a GNSS receiving antenna 266a for receiving global navigation satellite data. Systems (GNSS), a mobile device 267 with a mobile transmitting / receiving antenna 267a and a DSRC communication unit 265 with a DSRC transmitting / - Empfangsantenne 265a.

In this case, none of the antennas mentioned must be integrated in the mobile vehicle device 260. They can also be arranged outside the mobile vehicle device to improve communication and / or reception, for example integrated in the receiving device 270 or mounted on the outside of the vehicle.

The top view of the mobile vehicle device 260 of Fig. 3c shows the mobile vehicle device 260 in a phase of the device in which the initialization of the mobile vehicle device 260 is completed.

With the operation of the switch 263a in the ON position, the mobile vehicle device 260 is turned on. The processor detects the recording of the mobile vehicle device in the designated recording device on the console in the cab of the tractor (not shown) by analyzing a digital filter in the recording device to which the mobile vehicle device is connected to the recording.

As a result of the detected recording, the mobile vehicle device 260 automatically controls, by means of its processor 264, the reading devices 215, 225 and 235 for interrogating vehicle data f _{x, i} from the transponders 310, 320 and 330. The vehicle data f _x read out from the transponders by the reading devices _{, i} are transmitted by means of the processor in the data memory 261 and reproduced to the sign of successful initialization via the display device - in this case an OLED display (OLED = Organic Light-Emitting Diode) -. The processor 264 adds the vehicle-classifying vehicle data f _{x, i} (i> 1) of all vehicle components to fee-relevant vehicle data f _i (i> 1) for the entire truck 100. This summary vehicle data f _i = f _{1, i} + f _{2, i} + f _{3, i} respectively for (i> 1) form the basis for determining the amount of a toll that the user of the lorry has to pay for the use of a toll section: i = 2 - Type of vehicle: lorry with trailer, i = 3 - total permissible total weight: 22 tons, i = 4 - total wheel axle number: 8, i = 5 - effective pollution class: 3. The process of checking the proper setup of the mobile vehicle device 260 and the charging by the mobile vehicle device 260 becomes the fourth embodiment described in more detail.

FOURTH EMBODIMENT

A scheme for the inventive use of a vehicle of the second and third embodiments in a charging system according to the invention is in Fig. 4 represented by an EETS scenario with the four instances user N, vehicle F, traffic area operator S and fee collection point G.

Each vehicle 100 for which charges are to be charged with the mobile vehicle device according to the invention is equipped with at least one transponder 300 (310, 320, 330) which holds vehicle data f _{i of} the vehicle 100 stored [F1].

By registering, the user N requests the disclosure of his user data n _i , the name, address and account information of the user at a fee collection point G (for the collection of toll an EETS provider) a mobile vehicle device 260 (here as FZ device designated) [N1]. The charging point G selects a mobile vehicle device 260 and assigns the toll collection device data g _i including a charging point identification, a manufacturer number, a device type number, and a serial number of the mobile vehicle device to the user data n _i in a database of its central processing device. This process is called personalization [G1].

Subsequently, the mobile vehicle device 260 is made available to the user by the charging point G. The user selects a vehicle 100 that is already provided with a pickup device 270 for the mobile vehicle device 260 [N2]. He attaches the mobile vehicle device 260 in the receiving device 270 and transmits with a fixing-based initialization of the mobile vehicle device 260 vehicle data f _i from the transponder 300 (310, 320, 330) in the data memory 261 of the vehicle device, in which the vehicle device data g _i are stored , Attachment and initialization make the device of the mobile vehicle device 260, which thus structurally (in terms of arrangement technology) and informally (data technology) is assigned to the vehicle 100. The process of linking vehicle data f _i with vehicle device data g _i in a data memory 261 in general - in this case in particular that of mobile vehicle device 260 - is referred to as initialization [F2].

The remote initialization in the mobile vehicle device 260 causes the processor 264 to instruct the mobile communication device 267 to set up a mobile communication link with the charging point and to transmit an initialization message to the charging point. Thus, the decentralized initialization is registered centrally and a linkage of the vehicle device data g _i with the vehicle data f _{i is} generated in the database of the toll collection point [G2].

In the course of using a toll road surface element, in this case a road section, a traffic area operator (in this case, a toll chargers), the processor 264 of the mobile vehicle device 260 processes traffic area data s _j (here road sections s _j ) corresponding to a determination of usage stand. To this traffic area data s _j , the processor 264 passes by receiving satellite data of a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) by means of the GNSS receiver 266, determining the current position of the vehicle by the GNSS receiver and comparing the determined position data with geographical Data associated with the road section s _j is provided by the processor 264 as in the third embodiment.

The processor of the 264 mobile vehicle device 260 links the road section data s _j with vehicle data f _i to a road section and vehicle dependent charge b _{i, j} whose data includes an identifier for identifying the traffic area operator [F3].

The transmission of the vehicle identifying vehicle data f _1, the charge data b _{i, j} and the vehicle device data g _i made at the charging point G by the fact that the data b _{i, j,} f ₁ and g _i of the vehicle-side mobile device 267 over a mobile network to which the Database-compliant data processing device of the charging point G are transmitted, as provided in the third embodiment [N3].

In the charging agency G, the fees b _{i, j can be assigned} due to their connection with vehicle device data g _i user data n _i , because user data n _i in the database of the toll collection agency linked to vehicle device data g _i are available [G3, G4].

Roadside controllers include a DSRC communication unit and a digital camera. The digital camera takes a frontal digital image of the vehicle 100 including its license plate 102 and image analysis means Extract the vehicle license plate f ₁ from the digital image data of the license plate 102. The DSRC roadside communication unit requests, by means of microwave signals, vehicle data f _i (vehicle identifying vehicle data f and vehicle classifying vehicle data f _i with i> 1) and vehicle device data g _i from the mobile vehicle device 260 for receiving the microwave signal via a vehicle-side DSRC communication unit 265 has. Data f _i and g _i received by the mobile vehicle device 260 also include the vehicle identifier f ₁ . The controller compares the vehicle license plate and vehicle license plate registration data transmitted from the mobile vehicle device 260 and, if coincident, determines correct vehicle mobile device 260 compliance with concealed vehicle parameter acceptance (f ₄ (gross vehicle weight) and f ₅₎ (Pollutant class) in the case of the truck of embodiment three) is used. Thus, the vehicle license plate f can be deleted from the control device and so the anonymity of the vehicle owner and the use are secured.

Further, the control device receives charge data b _{i, j} reported by the mobile vehicle device 260 and calculates this control purposes itself based on the transmitted from the mobile vehicle device 260 vehicle data f _i and the associated control device of the road section S _i. A comparison of both charge data b _{i, j} represents a check of the correct charging by the mobile vehicle device 260 (provider control) [S4].

In the mobile vehicle device, the use of the traffic area s _i together with the associated charge data b _{i, j} are stored continuously, for example as a text file in the data memory 261 [F4]. The user has access to this data via a serial interface and can compare it with the data of the invoice provided by the charging agency G (user control) [N4].

Compared to the charging agency G, the traffic area operator S has a demand for return, that is to say the transfer of the fee amounts which the charging agency G has collected from the user's account. In order to legitimize its request, the traffic area operator maintains a database of the data of the control devices which, together with a time stamp of the control time, includes the road section data s _i associated with the charge data b _{i, j} and the vehicle device data g _i [S5]. From the vehicle device _data g _i , the

Traffic area operators S identify and approach the relevant fee collection point G if fee reimbursement on the part of the fee collection agency G falters. The reimbursed fees b _{j, j} may be checked by the traffic area operator S on the basis of the receivables b _{i, j} stored in its database [S5]. The charging point G can determine from the charge data b _{i, j} which traffic area operator S is entitled to reimbursement of fees [G5] ,

Reference and symbol list:

100

vehicle

101

front windshield

102

license plate

102

rear / back license plate

110

Tractor of a vehicle

111

Windshield of tractor

112

License plate of tractor

116a

first axle of tractor

116b

second axle of tractor

116c

third axle of tractor

120

Semi-trailer of a vehicle

122

License plate of semi-trailer

126a

first axle of semi-trailer

126b

second axle of semi-trailer

130

Trailer of a vehicle

132

License plate of trailer

136a

first axle of trailer

136b

second axle of trailer

136c

third axle of trailer

200

vehicle equipment

203

Power line

205

reader

205a

Transmitting / receiving antenna of the reading device

207

Communication line between mobile vehicle device 260 and reading device 205

215

Reading device for tractor

217

Communication line between mobile vehicle device 260 and reader 215

225

Reading device for semi-trailers

227

Communication line between mobile vehicle device 260 and reader 225

235

Reading device for trailers

237

Communication line between mobile vehicle device 260 and reading device 235

260

mobile vehicle device

261

data storage

263

Device-side power supply connection

263a

switch

263b

battery

264

processor

265

DSRC communication unit

265a

DSRC Transmit / Receive Antenna

266

GNSS receiver

266a

GNSS receiver antenna

265b

GNSS Post - / - receiving antenna connection

267

mobile device

267a

Mobile transmitting / receiving antenna

265b

Mobile radio transceiver antenna connection

268

display

269a

first LED

269b

second LED

269c

third LED

270

cradle

271

Fastener for receiving device

272

groove

273

Device side power supply connection

300

Transponder, first transponder

301

Fasteners for transponders

310

first transponder, transponder for tractor

320

second transponder, transponder for semitrailers

330

third transponder, transponder for trailer

b _{i, j}

charge data

F

vehicle

f _i

vehicle data

G

Charging agency, EETS provider

g _i

Charging device data

N

user

_i

user data

S

Traffic area operator, great charger

s _j

Traffic area data

Claims (15)

Method for setting up a mobile vehicle device (260) suitable for charging at least one traffic area by a vehicle (100) and intended to be carried in the vehicle (100), which is used to provide vehicle - identifying vehicle data (f ₁ ) of the vehicle Vehicle (100) and i) fahrzeugklassifizierenden vehicle data (f _i, i> 1) of the vehicle (100) derived together with position data (p _j) and / or (from position data p _j) the traffic area data (s _j) at least one traffic area and / or ii) at least one of vehicle-classifying vehicle data (f _i , i> 1) dependent, from position data (p _j ) derived billing information (b _{i, j} )
for wireless transmission by means of at least one long-range communication interface (267) of the mobile vehicle device (260) in connection with the use of at least one traffic area, - Their use by the vehicle (100) by means of a satellite data of a Global navigation satellite system position data (p _j ) of the vehicle (100) generating position determining means (266) of the mobile vehicle device (260) is determined
and for which a fee has to be determined and paid in dependence on the vehicle-classifying vehicle data (f _i , i> 1) of the vehicle (100), at least one registration device of at least one vehicle charging system arranged outside the vehicle (100) is formed,
full: the transmission of vehicle-identifying vehicle data (f ₁ ) of the vehicle (100) and vehicle-classifying vehicle data (f _i , i> 1) of the vehicle (100) to the mobile vehicle device (260) and the at least temporary storage of the vehicle-identifying vehicle data (f ₁ ) of the vehicle (100) and vehicle-classifying vehicle data (f _i , i> 1) of the vehicle (100) in a memory area of a data memory (261) of the mobile vehicle device (260)
characterized in that for the transmission of the vehicle-identifying vehicle data (f ₁ ) and the vehicle-classifying vehicle data (fi> 1) to the mobile vehicle device (260) an activation of at least one outside of the mobile vehicle device (260) attached to the vehicle (100) and the vehicle-identifying vehicle data (f ₁ ) and the vehicle-classifying vehicle data (f _i , i> 1) providing transponder (300, 310, 320, 330) takes place. A method according to claim 1, characterized in that
at least a first attempt to wirelessly transmit the vehicle-identifying vehicle data (f ₁ ) and the vehicle-classifying vehicle data (f _i , i> 1) from the mobile vehicle device (260) automatically and depending on the event of storing the vehicle-identifying vehicle data (f ₁ ) of the vehicle (100) and vehicle-classifying vehicle data (f _i , i> 1) of the vehicle (100) in a memory area of a data memory (261) of the mobile vehicle device (260) is undertaken by means of the long-range communication interface (267) to the registration device, A method according to claim 2, characterized in that
the device of the mobile vehicle device comprises a releasable attachment of the mobile vehicle device (260) in the vehicle (100),
and
at least the first attempt of automatic wireless transmission of the vehicle-identifying vehicle data (f ₁ ) and the vehicle-classifying vehicle data (fi, i> 1) to the registration device is triggered or enabled by attachment of the mobile vehicle device (260) in the vehicle (100). Method according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that
the transmission of vehicle data (f _i ) of the vehicle (100) to the mobile vehicle device (260) and / or its storage in a memory area of the data memory (261) triggered by attachment of the mobile vehicle device (260) in the vehicle (100) or is possible. Method according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that
setting the data memory (261) to a state corresponding to the absence of vehicle data (f _i ) in the data memory (261) by the solution of the mobile vehicle device (260) from the vehicle (100). Method for operating a mobile vehicle device (260) set up according to one of the preceding claims, characterized by - Receiving position data (p _j ) of the position-determining device in the mobile vehicle device (260) - a retransmission of the vehicle-identifying vehicle data (f ₁ ) and the vehicle-classifying vehicle data (f _i , i> 1) from the transponder (300, 310, 320, 330) to the mobile vehicle device (260) by reactivating the vehicle-identifying vehicle data ( f ₁ ) and the vehicle-classifying vehicle data (f _i , i> 1) providing transponder (300, 310, 320, 330) a wireless transmission of the vehicle-identifying vehicle data (f) of the vehicle (100) read again from the transponder (300, 310, 320, 330) associated with i) the vehicle-classifying vehicle data (f _i , i> 1) of the vehicle (100) read again from the transponder (300, 310, 320, 330) together with the position data (p _j ) and / or from the position data (p _j ) Traffic area data (s _j ) of at least one traffic area
and or ii) at least one of the vehicle-identifying vehicle data (f _i , i> 1), which is again derived from the transponder (300, 310, 320, 330) and derived from the position data (p _j ), fee information (b _{i, j} )
by means of the at least one long-range communication interface (267) of the mobile vehicle device (260) to the registration device. Method for checking the proper setting up of a mobile vehicle device (260) set up according to a method according to one of Claims 1 to 5, characterized in that
at least one control device compares vehicle-identifying data (f ₁ ) obtained from at least one optical detection of the vehicle (100) with vehicle-identifying data (f ₁ ) transmitted from the mobile vehicle device (260) to the control device by means of a short-range communication interface (265). Vehicle device (200) for charging for the traffic surface use of a vehicle (100) with - At least one for entrainment in the vehicle (100) certain mobile vehicle device (260), the - At least one data memory (261) for receiving i) vehicle-identifying vehicle data (f ₁ ) of the vehicle (100) and ii) vehicle-classifying vehicle data (f _i , i> 1) of the vehicle (100)
in a memory area of the data memory (261), at least one long-range communication interface (267) for the wireless transmission of vehicle-identifying vehicle data (f ₁ ) of the vehicle (100) and (i) vehicle-classifying vehicle data (f _i , i> 1) of the vehicle (100) together with position data (p _j )
and / or derived from location data (p _j) the traffic area data (s _j) at least one traffic area and / or (ii) at least one of vehicle-classifying vehicle data (f _i , i> 1) dependent on position data
(p _j ) derived fee information (b _{j, j} )
on at least one outside of the vehicle (100) arranged traffic surface registration device of at least one vehicle charging system, - At least one processor (264) with access to the data memory (261) and at least one position determination device (266) which generates position data (p _j ) of the vehicle (100) on the basis of satellite data of a global navigation satellite system, marked by - at least one reading device (205, 215, 225, 235) for wirelessly receiving the vehicle-identifying vehicle data (f ₁ ) of the vehicle (100) and vehicle-classifying vehicle data (f _i , i> 1) of the vehicle (100) from at least one outside the transponder (300, 310, 320, 330) provided on the vehicle and which identifies the vehicle-identifying vehicle data (f ₁ ) of the vehicle (100) and vehicle-classifying vehicle data (f _i , i> 1) of the vehicle (100) is formed by the mobile vehicle device (260) is in which - The at least one processor (264) is in data communication with the reading device (205) and with the position determining means (266) and for transmitting vehicle-identifying vehicle data (f ₁ ) of the vehicle (100) and vehicle-classifying vehicle data (f _i , i> 1) of the vehicle (100) from the reading device (205, 215, 225, 235) to the data memory (261), - For receiving position data (p _j ) from the position determining means (266) and - For transmitting at least one vehicle identifying vehicle data (f ₁ ) of the vehicle (100) comprising data set, the i) fahrzeugklassifizierende vehicle data (f _i, i derived> 1) of the vehicle (100) together with the position data (p _j) and / or (from position data p _j) the traffic area data (s _j) at least one traffic surface
and or ii) at least one of vehicle-classifying vehicle data (f _i , i> 1) dependent, derived from the position data (p _j ) fee information (b _{i, j} ) to the long-range communication interface (267).
is configured. Vehicle device (200) according to claim 8 characterized by
at least one vehicle-side receiving device (270) for the repeatable loading and unloading of the mobile vehicle device (260),
in which
the mobile vehicle device (260) and the vehicle-side receiving device (270) have mutually cooperating components of a recording control means which, upon receiving the mobile vehicle device (260) from the vehicle-side receiving device (270) - A recording of vehicle data (f _i ) in a memory area of the data memory (261) and / or - At least a first attempt of automatic wireless transmission of the vehicle-identifying vehicle data (f ₁ ) and the vehicle-classifying vehicle data (fi, i> 1) of the mobile vehicle device (260) by means of the long-range communication interface (267) causes or allows the registration. Vehicle device according to one of claims 8 or 9
characterized in that
the mobile vehicle device (260) and the vehicle-side receiving device (270) have mutually cooperating components of a removal control means, which on removal of the mobile vehicle device (260) from the vehicle-side receiving device (270) causes or allows the data memory (261) in a State corresponding to the absence of vehicle data (f _i ) in the data memory (261). Vehicle (100)
equipped with a vehicle device (200) according to one of claims 8 to 10
and at least one transponder (300, 310, 320, 330) attached to the vehicle (100) of the vehicle data (f _i ) for transmission to the mobile vehicle device (260). Vehicle (100) according to claim 11
characterized in that
the vehicle device (200) has at least one further reading device (225, 235), which is designed for the wireless reception of further vehicle data (f _{x, i} , x> 1) from at least one further transponder (320, 330), wherein the processor (264) of the mobile vehicle device (260) is in data communication with the further reading device (225, 235) and for transmitting the further vehicle data (f _{x, i} , x> 1) from the further reading device (225, 235) to the data memory ( 261) of the mobile vehicle device (260) is operable,
the further transponder (320, 330) is fastened to a plate (122, 132) of the vehicle (100) which carries or reproduces a vehicle registration number (f _{1, i} , x> 1), and
the further reading device (225, 235) is mounted in a position on the vehicle (100) in which it is opposite the further transponder (320, 330) at a distance of 0 to 10 cm. Vehicle according to claim 11 or 12
characterized in that
the receiving device (270) is fastened to the inside of the front windshield (101) of the vehicle (100),
the transponder (300) is fixed to the inside of the front windshield (101) of the vehicle (100) or to the receiving device (270), and
the mobile vehicle device (260) in a position in which it is received by the receiving device (270), the transponder (300) opposite to a distance of 0 to 10 cm,
wherein the reading device (205) is included in the mobile vehicle device (260). Charging system with a vehicle device according to one of claims 8 to 10,
marked by at least one transponder (300, 310, 320, 330) attached to the vehicle (100) and providing vehicle data (f _i ) for transmission to the mobile vehicle device (260), at least one first central data processing device, in which - the assignment of user data (n _i ) of a user of the mobile vehicle device (260) and vehicle device data (g _i ) of the mobile vehicle device (260) are stored by data link in a database associated with each other,
and which - At least temporarily over the long-range communication interface (267) of the mobile vehicle device (260) in an at least partially wireless data connection to the mobile vehicle device (260), with the at least vehicle device data (g _i ) from the mobile vehicle device (260) to the first be transmitted to the central data processing device, and - at least one control device, the - An optical detection unit for generating at least one optical recording of at least one vehicle identifying feature (102) of the vehicle (100) and for obtaining vehicle identifying data (f ₁ ) from the data processing of the at least one optical recording and the is at least temporarily in a short-range communication interface (265) of the mobile vehicle device (260) of an at least partially wireless data connection to the mobile vehicle device (260), with the at least a portion of vehicle data (f _i ) from the mobile vehicle device (260). is transmitted to the control device comprising vehicle identifying data (f ₁ ) of the vehicle (100). Use of a vehicle (100) according to one of claims 11 to 13
in a charging system according to claim 14.

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