Charging facility information 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 guides users to charging facilities. [Prior art documents] [Patent documents]

[0003] [Patent Document 1] Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2013-234924 Summary of the Invention [Problem to be solved by the invention]

[0004] Patent Document 1 merely 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 the problem 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 aims to provide a charging facility presentation system that enables a user to effectively utilize the waiting time while a secondary battery is being charged. [Means for solving the problem]

[0006] A 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 installed in 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 the plurality of users, and a presentation unit that presents a common charging facility from the plurality of charging facilities to users of the plurality of users who own a vehicle determined to need charging of its secondary battery 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, for example, talk about their common interest while waiting for the secondary battery installed in their electric vehicle to be charged, thereby making effective use of the waiting time while charging. [Effects 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 explanation of the drawings]

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

[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. Furthermore, 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 have been omitted and simplified as appropriate. In each drawing, the same elements are given the same reference numerals, and duplicate explanations are omitted as necessary.

[0010] <First Embodiment> FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a configuration example of a charging facility presentation system 1 according to a first embodiment. The charging facility presentation system 1 presents common charging facilities to two or more users who share a common interest. This allows the two or more users who share a common interest to talk about their common interest while waiting for the secondary battery mounted on the electric vehicle to be charged, thereby making effective use of the waiting time while charging. This will be specifically described below.

[0011] 1, charging facility presentation system 1 includes 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 network 50. Charging facility presentation device 10 can also be referred to as a charging facility presentation system by itself. Charging facility presentation device 10, vehicles 20_1 to 20_m, and charging spots 30_1 to 30_n are configured to be able to communicate with each other via wired or wireless network 50.

[0012] Vehicles 20_1 to 20_m are electric vehicles owned by users U1 to Um of the system, respectively. Secondary batteries 21_1 to 21_m are mounted on the vehicles 20_1 to 20_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 among users U1 to Um who have a common interest. 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 about the interests of each of the users U1 to Um. Information about the interests of each user is, for example, the user's hobbies, business, interactions with other users, etc. For example, the first acquisition unit 11 acquires information about 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 about 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 to 21_m mounted on the vehicles 20_1 to 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 includes, for example, the location of the charging spot, the congestion status, and facilities attached thereto.

[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 hobbies of user U2 are "fishing" and "watching movies," and the hobby of user U3 is "reading," the extraction unit 14 extracts users U1 and U2 who share 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 the secondary batteries 21_1, 21_2 installed in the vehicles 20_1, 20_2 located within a specified area need to be charged, and the hobby of the users U1, U2 who own the vehicles 20_1, 20_2 is "fishing," the presentation unit 15 presents information to the users U1, U2 urging 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, among a plurality of charging spots located within a predetermined area, a charging spot with a small number of vehicles waiting to start charging.

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

[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 about 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 about the charging status (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 about the charging spots 30_1 to 30_n (locations, congestion status, information about adjacent facilities, etc.) (step S103).

[0025] Thereafter, 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. In the example of FIG. 3, user U1's hobby is "fishing," user U2's hobby is "fishing," and user U3's hobby is "reading." Therefore, charging facility presentation device 10 extracts users U1 and U2 who share the common hobby of "fishing," and presents information to the extracted users U1 and U2 encouraging them to charge at the common charging spot 30_1. As a result, users U1 and U2 who share a common interest can talk about their common interest while waiting for the secondary batteries installed in their electric vehicles to be charged, thereby making effective use of the waiting time during charging.

[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 share a common interest. This allows the two or more users who share a common interest to talk about their common interest while waiting for the secondary battery mounted on the electric vehicle to be charged, thereby making effective use of the waiting time while charging.

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

[0030] The above-described program includes a set of instructions (or software code) that, when loaded into a computer, causes the computer to perform one or more functions described in the embodiments. The program may be stored in a non-transitory computer-readable medium or a tangible storage medium. By way of example and not limitation, computer-readable media or tangible storage media include random-access memory (RAM), read-only memory (ROM), flash memory, solid-state drives (SSD) or other memory technologies, CD-ROMs, digital versatile discs (DVDs), Blu-ray discs or other optical disk storage, magnetic cassettes, magnetic tapes, magnetic disk storage or other magnetic storage devices. The program may also be transmitted on a transitory computer-readable medium or a communication medium. By way of example and not limitation, transitory computer-readable media or communication media include electrical, optical, acoustic, or other forms of propagated signals.

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

[0032] (Appendix 1) The charging facility information system Obtaining information about the respective interests of a plurality of users; Acquire information about the charging status 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 about the interests of each of a plurality of users; A process of acquiring information about the charging status 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 information 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 about interests of each of a plurality of users; a second acquisition unit that acquires information about a charging status 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 the plurality of users; a presentation unit that presents common charging facilities among the plurality of charging facilities to users who own vehicles that are determined to need charging of a secondary battery and who are 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 the 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 either a hobby or 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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