Abstract: The present disclosure is enclosed in the area of validation of vehicles in road tolls, which may also be designated as tolling systems. The prior art systems require the installation of a device —a camera and/or a wireless communication device—for each lane of a toll, in order to determine that a vehicle has crossed such lane of the toll. The present solution allows that, only with two fixed wireless devices which issue wireless beacons to be received by a mobile device, the lane which the vehicle crosses is still determinable. This also enables that each of the fixed wireless devices may be placed in locations of the toll which are accessible without closing the lane, and thereby does not require that the circulation of vehicles has to closed, whichever is the lane. The present solution thereby promotes retrofit in existing tolls with multiple lanes.

Abstract: The present disclosure is enclosed in the area of validation of vehicles in road tolls, which may also be designated as tolling systems. The prior art systems require the installation of a device—a camera and/or a wireless communication device—for each lane of a toll, in order to determine that a vehicle has crossed such lane of the toll. The present solution allows that, only with two fixed wireless devices which receive wireless beacons from a mobile device, the lane which the vehicle crosses is still determinable. This also enables that each of the fixed wireless devices may be placed in locations of the toll which are accessible without closing the lane, and thereby does not require that the circulation of vehicles has to closed, whichever is the lane. The present solution thereby promotes retrofit in existing tolls with multiple lanes.

Abstract: The present disclosure is enclosed in the area of validation of vehicles in road tolls, which may also be designated as tolling systems. The present disclosure includes an automated computational method for the determination of the validity of the passage of a vehicle in a toll which includes two detection modes of a vehicle, through optical means and a mobile device receiving a wireless beacon with unique information associated with the toll and subsequently in connection with a remote backend server. The wireless beacon is a simple type of message which does not require that the mobile device and a fixed wireless device establish a connection. Such feature is one particularly relevant in the applications of the present disclosure, as it highly improves the efficacy of the receipt of the unique information associated with the toll by the mobile device. The present disclosure further includes a corresponding system.

Abstract: The present invention is enclosed in the area of local access and validation, specifically by means of wireless systems. It is an object of the present invention an apparatus (1) for secure local access and validation with a mobile device (10), comprising wireless communication means and proximity detection means, and configured to issue a wireless beacon (S1) comprising an identification, detect a first proximity value (S2a) and a second proximity value (S2b) of said mobile device (10), such second value on receipt of an at least one wireless message issued by the mobile device (10), and being further configured to, based on said first proximity value and second proximity value, determine a detected proximity (S3) and cause an action to initiate (S4) based on such detected proximity. Such apparatus (1) provides for secure and simplified identification of a mobile device (10), for access purposes.

Abstract: The present disclosure is enclosed in the area of validation of vehicles in road tolls, which may also be designated as tolling systems. The present disclosure includes an automated computational method for the determination of the validity of the passage of a vehicle in a toll which includes two detection modes of a vehicle, through optical means and a mobile device receiving a wireless beacon with unique information associated with the toll and subsequently in connection with a remote backend server. The wireless beacon is a simple type of message which does not require that the mobile device and a fixed wireless device establish a connection. Such feature is one particularly relevant in the applications of the present disclosure, as it highly improves the efficacy of the receipt of the unique information associated with the toll by the mobile device. The present disclosure further includes a corresponding system.

Abstract: The present invention is enclosed in the area of local access and validation, specifically by means of wireless systems. It is an object of the present invention an apparatus (1) for secure local access and validation with a mobile device (10), comprising wireless communication means and proximity detection means, and configured to issue a wireless beacon (S1) comprising an identification, detect a first proximity value (S2a) and a second proximity value (S2b) of said mobile device (10), such second value on receipt of an at least one wireless message issued by the mobile device (10), and being further configured to, based on said first proximity value and second proximity value, determine a detected proximity (S3) and cause an action to initiate (S4) based on such detected proximity. Such apparatus (1) provides for secure and simplified identification of a mobile device (10), for access purposes.