Battery Lending Server Approval Control for Easier Borrowing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing battery rental systems lack user-friendliness, particularly for lenders who need to manage and control battery lending efficiently.
Innovation Solution
A management server that manages battery lending and borrowing between lenders and borrowers, featuring a lending management unit that determines an approval mode based on lender designation or predetermined conditions, and a borrowing permission granting unit that facilitates borrowing requests from borrower electronic equipment.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the lender requires approval for every borrowing request, then the lender can maintain control over battery usage, but the borrowing process becomes complex and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts the approval requirement based on the lending location. When the battery is located at a predetermined location (e.g., lender's home), approval is not required. When the battery is elsewhere, approval is required. This dynamic adjustment resolves the contradiction by making the control mechanism flexible rather than static.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the approval parameter based on the lending location condition. The approval requirement parameter is set to false when the battery is at the predetermined location and true when it is not. This parameter change allows the system to balance lender control with borrowing convenience based on contextual conditions.
2Productivity
If the lender designates specific locations for lending, then unnecessary approval requests are reduced, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The lender performs preliminary action by designating preferred lending locations in advance. The management server stores these predetermined locations and automatically compares them with current battery locations. This preliminary configuration reduces the need for manual approval requests while maintaining simple system operation.
3Ease of operation
If the management server automatically determines approval mode based on location, then user-friendliness is improved, but the need for manual control is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The management server provides self-service by automatically determining the approval mode based on the battery's current location and the lender's predetermined locations. The server compares locations and sets the approval parameter without requiring manual intervention from the lender, thereby improving user-friendliness while maintaining automated control.
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AI summary
A management server that manages lending and borrowing of a battery detachably provided in a moving body includes a lending management unit configured to determine an approval mode, which is one of an approval unnecessary mode in which permission for borrowing is granted to a borrower without receiving approval of a lender and an approval necessary mode in which permission for the borrowing is granted to the borrower after receiving approval of the lender, on the basis of designation by the lender or a predetermined condition allowed by the lender, and a borrowing permission granting unit configured to grant permission for the borrowing to the borrower by transmitting information necessary for borrowing of the battery to second electronic equipment, and the borrowing permission granting unit grants permission for the borrowing to the borrower in accordance with the approval mode determined by the lending management unit.