MACKAY WATCHMAN

pay and display machines, namely, electronic automated stand alone machines for motor vehicle parking lot management that receive payment via card or coin, issue receipt and authorization tickets and track allocation of parking services within a defined geographic area; multi-space machines, namely, electronic automated stand alone machines for motor vehicle parking lot management that receive payment via card or coin, track the allocation of individual parking spaces within a defined geographic area; coin identifiers for automated vending machines, parking meters, pay and display machines, pay-by-space machines, and multi-space machines to facilitate the acceptance, discrimination, validation, tabulation and storage of authorized and valid coins deposited for the purpose of purchasing goods and services; card reader modules for vending machines, parking meters, pay and display machines, pay-by-space machines, and multi-space machines to facilitate the acceptance, discrimination, validation, and tabulation and storage of information from cards used for the purpose of purchasing goods and services; software used in the management of electronic parking meter equipment; software for communicating with other computers and with electronic parking equipment such as parking meters, pay and display machines, pay-by-space machines, multi-space machines, automated vending machines and automated metering devices to configure, monitor and audit parking meters, to track the components of parking meter systems, to reconcile the count of cash validated and recorded by parking equipment with the physical count of cash collected from the equipment, to generate and maintain records, and to generate statistical reports; parking meter equipment, namely, parking meters, pay and display machines, pay-by-space machines, multi-space machines, automated vending machines, automated metering devices, housings, poles, meter yokes for installing multiple meters on the same pole, drop boxes for payment of fines, wheel locks for immobilizing vehicles, coin collection pouches, coin collection carts, coin collection boxes, hand held computers for communicating with parking equipment and with remote computers, cradles to interface between computers and hand held computers, and locks and keys; parking meters; credit card sized magnetic coded cards containing magnetic strip or microprocessor capable of information transfer and storage; automated stand alone vending machines that provide goods or services and receive, record, acknowledge, provide physical receipt for, and manage payment for goods and services by way of card or coins