Charging facility proposition system

Abstract

To provide a charging facility proposition system that enables users to make efficient use of a waiting time during charging a secondary battery.SOLUTION: A charging facility proposition system according to the present disclosure comprises: a first acquisition unit that acquires information on respective interests of a plurality of users; a second acquisition unit that acquires information on a charging situation of a secondary battery loaded in a vehicle each user owns; a third acquisition unit that acquires information on a plurality of charging facilities; an extraction unit that extracts the user determined to have a common interest of the plurality of users; and a proposition unit that proposes a common charging facility out of the plurality of charging facilities to the user owing the vehicle determined to need charging the secondary battery, and determined to have the common interest, of the plurality of users.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Description

[Technical field]

[0001] The present disclosure relates to a charging facility presentation system. [Background technology]

[0002] Since it takes time to charge the secondary battery installed in an electric vehicle, methods for effectively utilizing the waiting time while the secondary battery is being charged have been studied. Patent Document 1 discloses a vehicle information processing device that provides guidance to charging facilities. [Prior art documents] [Patent documents]

[0003] [Patent Document 1] JP 2013-234924 A Summary of the Invention [Problem to be solved by the invention]

[0004] Patent Document 1 only describes how to guide each driver to an appropriate charging facility so that vehicles do not concentrate at a specific charging facility, but does not describe how to utilize the waiting time while the secondary battery is being charged. In other words, the device disclosed in Patent Document 1 has a problem in that it is not possible to effectively utilize the waiting time while the secondary battery mounted on the electric vehicle is being charged.

[0005] The present disclosure has been made in consideration of the above background, and has an object to provide a charging facility presentation system that enables a user to effectively utilize waiting time while a secondary battery is being charged. [Means for solving the problem]

[0006] The charging facility presentation system according to the present disclosure includes a first acquisition unit that acquires information on the interests of each of a plurality of users, a second acquisition unit that acquires information on the charging status of a secondary battery mounted on a vehicle owned by each of the users, a third acquisition unit that acquires information on a plurality of charging facilities, an extraction unit that extracts users determined to have a common interest from among the plurality of users, and a presentation unit that presents a common charging facility from among the plurality of charging facilities to users who own a vehicle determined to need charging of a secondary battery from among the plurality of users and who are determined to have a common interest. This charging facility presentation system presents a common charging facility to two or more users who have a common interest. As a result, the two or more users who have a common interest can talk to each other about their common interest during a waiting time while a secondary battery mounted on an electric vehicle is being charged, and therefore the waiting time during charging can be effectively utilized. Effect of the Invention

[0007] The present disclosure makes it possible to provide a charging facility presentation system that enables a user to effectively utilize the waiting time while a secondary battery is being charged. [Brief description of the drawings]

[0008] [Figure 1] FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a configuration example of a charging facility presentation system according to a first embodiment. [Diagram 2] 4 is a flowchart showing an operation of a charging facility presentation device provided in the charging facility presentation system shown in FIG. [Diagram 3] 2 is a diagram for explaining an example of the operation of a charging facility presentation device provided in the charging facility presentation system shown in FIG. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

[0009] The present invention will be described below through embodiments of the invention, but the invention according to the claims is not limited to the following embodiments. In addition, not all of the configurations described in the embodiments are necessarily essential means for solving the problems. For clarity of explanation, the following description and drawings are omitted and simplified as appropriate. In each drawing, the same elements are given the same reference numerals, and repeated explanations are omitted as necessary.

[0010] <Embodiment 1> FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration example of a charging facility presentation system 1 according to a first embodiment. The charging facility presentation system 1 presents a common charging facility to two or more users who have a common interest. As a result, the two or more users who have a common interest can talk with each other about their common interest during the waiting time while the secondary battery mounted on the electric vehicle is being charged, and therefore the waiting time during charging can be effectively utilized. This will be specifically described below.

[0011] As shown in Fig. 1, the charging facility presentation system 1 includes a charging facility presentation device 10, vehicles 20_1 to 20_m (m is any integer equal to or greater than 2), charging spots 30_1 to 30_n (n is any integer equal to or greater than 2), and a network 50. The charging facility presentation device 10 can be referred to as a charging facility presentation system by itself. The charging facility presentation device 10, the vehicles 20_1 to 20_m, and the charging spots 30_1 to 30_n are configured to be able to communicate with each other via the wired or wireless network 50.

[0012] The vehicles 20_1 to 20_m are electric vehicles owned by the users U1 to Um of the system, respectively. The vehicles 20_1 to 20_m are equipped with secondary batteries 21_1 to 21_m, respectively.

[0013] The charging spots 30_1 to 30_n are all spots (facilities) where secondary batteries 21_1 to 21_m mounted on the vehicles 20_1 to 20_m, respectively, can be charged.

[0014] The charging facility presentation device 10 is a device that presents common charging spots to two or more users who have a common interest among users U1 to Um. Specifically, the charging facility presentation device 10 includes a first acquisition unit 11, a second acquisition unit 12, a third acquisition unit 13, an extraction unit 14, and a presentation unit 15.

[0015] The first acquisition unit 11 acquires information on the interests of each of the users U1 to Um. Information on the interests of the users is, for example, the user's hobbies, business, interactions with other users, and the like. For example, the first acquisition unit 11 acquires information on the interests of each of the users U1 to Um from the browsing history of websites using a communication terminal such as a smartphone owned by each of the users U1 to Um. Alternatively, the first acquisition unit 11 acquires information on the interests of each of the users U1 to Um from the driving history (including destinations and places visited) of the vehicles 20_1 to 20_m by the users U1 to Um.

[0016] The second acquisition unit 12 acquires information relating to the charging status of the secondary batteries 21_1-21_m mounted on the vehicles 20_1-20_m, respectively. The information relating to the charging status of the secondary batteries is, for example, the remaining capacity of the secondary batteries.

[0017] The third acquisition unit 13 acquires information relating to the charging spots 30_1 to 30_n. The information relating to the charging spots is, for example, the location of the charging spot, the congestion state, the facilities attached thereto, and the like.

[0018] The extraction unit 14 extracts two or more users who are determined to have a common interest from among the users U1 to Um. For example, if the hobby of user U1 is "fishing," the hobby of user U2 is "fishing" and "watching movies," and the hobby of user U3 is "reading," the extraction unit 14 extracts users U1 and U2 who have the common hobby of "fishing."

[0019] The presentation unit 15 presents common charging spots among the charging spots 30_1 to 30_n to users among the users U1 to Um who own vehicles whose secondary batteries are determined to need charging and who are determined to have a common interest. More preferably, the presentation unit 15 presents common charging spots among the charging spots 30_1 to 30_n that are installed within the predetermined area to users among the users U1 to Um who own vehicles whose secondary batteries are determined to need charging and who are determined to have a common interest.

[0020] For example, if it is determined that charging is required for secondary batteries 21_1, 21_2 installed in vehicles 20_1, 20_2 located within a specified area, and the hobby of users U1, U2 who own vehicles 20_1, 20_2 is both "fishing," the presentation unit 15 presents information to users U1, U2 encouraging them to charge at a common charging spot 30_1 installed within the specified area.

[0021] It is preferable that the presentation unit 15 presents preferentially a charging spot with a smaller number of vehicles waiting to start charging among a plurality of charging spots located within a predetermined area.

[0022] The presentation unit 15 displays the presentation information on a monitor of a car navigation device mounted in a vehicle owned by the presentation target user, or outputs the presentation information as audio from a speaker mounted in a vehicle owned by the presentation target user. Alternatively, the presentation unit 15 may display or notify the presentation information on a mobile terminal such as a smartphone owned by the presentation target user.

[0023] Next, the operation of the charging facility presentation device 10 will be described with reference to Fig. 2 and Fig. 3. Fig. 2 is a flowchart showing the operation of the charging facility presentation device 10. Fig. 3 is a diagram for explaining an example of the operation of the charging facility presentation device 10.

[0024] First, the charging facility presentation device 10 acquires information on the interests (hobbies, business, interactions with other users, etc.) of each of the users U1 to Um of the system (step S101). The charging facility presentation device 10 also acquires information on the charging states (remaining capacity, etc.) of the secondary batteries 21_1 to 21_m mounted in the vehicles 20_1 to 20_m, respectively (step S102). The charging facility presentation device 10 also acquires information on the charging spots 30_1 to 30_n (locations, congestion status, information on adjacent facilities, etc.) (step S103).

[0025] After that, the charging facility presentation device 10 extracts two or more users who are determined to have a common interest from among the users U1 to Um (step S104).

[0026] Thereafter, the charging facility presentation device 10 presents common charging spots among the charging spots 30_1 to 30_n to users among the users U1 to Um who own vehicles whose secondary batteries are determined to need charging and who are determined to have a common interest (step S105). More preferably, the charging facility presentation device 10 presents common charging spots among the charging spots 30_1 to 30_n that are installed within the predetermined area to users among the users U1 to Um who own vehicles whose secondary batteries are determined to need charging and who are determined to have a common interest.

[0027] In the example of FIG. 3, vehicles 20_1 to 20_3 owned by users U1 to U3 are located within a predetermined area A1, and charging spots 30_1 to 30_3 are installed. Here, in the example of FIG. 3, the hobby of user U1 is "fishing", the hobby of user U2 is "fishing", and the hobby of user U3 is "reading". Therefore, the charging facility presentation device 10 extracts users U1 and U2 who have the common hobby of "fishing", and presents information encouraging the extracted users U1 and U2 to charge at the common charging spot 30_1. As a result, users U1 and U2 who have a common interest can talk about their common interest during the waiting time while the secondary battery mounted on the electric vehicle is being charged, and therefore the waiting time during charging can be effectively utilized.

[0028] In this way, the charging facility presentation system 1 according to the present embodiment presents a common charging facility to two or more users who have a common interest. This allows the two or more users who have a common interest to talk about their common interest during the waiting time while the secondary battery mounted on the electric vehicle is being charged, thereby making effective use of the waiting time during charging.

[0029] In addition, the present disclosure can be realized by causing a CPU (Central Processing Unit) to execute a computer program, partly or entirely, of the processing of the charging facility presentation device 10.

[0030] The above-mentioned program includes a set of instructions (or software code) for making the computer perform one or more functions described in the embodiment when the program is loaded into the computer. The program may be stored in a non-transitory computer-readable medium or a tangible storage medium. By way of example and not limitation, the computer-readable medium or the tangible storage medium includes a random-access memory (RAM), a read-only memory (ROM), a flash memory, a solid-state drive (SSD) or other memory technology, a CD-ROM, a digital versatile disc (DVD), a Blu-ray® disk or other optical disk storage, a magnetic cassette, a magnetic tape, a magnetic disk storage or other magnetic storage device. The program may be transmitted on a transitory computer-readable medium or a communication medium. By way of example and not limitation, the transitory computer-readable medium or the communication medium includes an electrical, optical, acoustic, or other form of propagating signal.

[0031] A part or all of the above-described embodiments can be described as, but is not limited to, the following supplementary notes.

[0032] (Appendix 1) The charging facility display system Obtaining information about the respective interests of a plurality of users; Acquire information regarding a charging state of a secondary battery mounted in a vehicle owned by each of the users; Obtain information about multiple charging facilities, Extracting users determined to have a common interest from the plurality of users; presenting a common charging facility among the plurality of charging facilities to a user who owns a vehicle determined to require charging of a secondary battery and who is determined to have a common interest among the plurality of users; How charging facilities are presented.

[0033] (Appendix 2) obtaining information regarding respective interests of a plurality of users; A process of acquiring information regarding a charging state of a secondary battery mounted in a vehicle owned by each of the users; Obtaining information about a plurality of charging facilities; A process of extracting users determined to have a common interest from the plurality of users; A process of presenting a common charging facility among the plurality of charging facilities to a user who owns a vehicle determined to require charging of a secondary battery and who is determined to have a common interest among the plurality of users; A control program that causes a computer to execute the above. [Explanation of symbols]

[0034] 1. Charging facility display system 10. Charging facility display device 11 First acquisition part 12 Second acquisition part 13 Third acquisition part 14 Extraction part 15 Presentation section 20_1~20_m Vehicle 21_1~21_m Secondary battery 30_1~30_n Charging spots 50 Network

Claims

1. A first acquisition unit that acquires information regarding the interests of each of a plurality of users; a second acquisition unit that acquires information regarding a charging state of a secondary battery mounted in a vehicle owned by each of the users; A third acquisition unit that acquires information about a plurality of charging facilities; An extraction unit that extracts users determined to have a common interest from among the plurality of users; a presentation unit that presents a common charging facility among the plurality of charging facilities to a user who owns a vehicle determined to require charging of a secondary battery and who is determined to have a common interest among the plurality of users; A charging facility presentation system comprising:

2. the presentation unit presents a common charging facility among the plurality of charging facilities that is located within the predetermined area to a user among the plurality of users who owns a vehicle located within a predetermined area in which charging of a secondary battery is determined to be necessary and who is determined to have a common interest. The charging facility presentation system according to claim 1 .

3. the first acquisition unit acquires information on the interests of each of the plurality of users from at least one of information on a driving history of a vehicle owned by each of the users and information on a browsing history of a website by each of the users using a communication terminal; The charging facility presentation system according to claim 1 .

4. The interest is one of a hobby and a business. The charging facility presentation system according to claim 1 .

5. The interest is interacting with other users. The charging facility presentation system according to claim 1 .

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