Battery Recommendation Server for Lifespan-Based Device Matching
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Solution Overview
Problem
The increasing demand for personal mobility batteries has led to challenges in efficiently managing and redistributing secondary batteries, as existing systems lack the ability to optimize battery allocation based on user needs and device requirements, resulting in inefficient battery usage and rental fee structures.
Innovation Solution
A server system that acquires battery status information, determines the lifespan of each battery, and recommends suitable batteries for users based on their device requirements, adjusts rental fees according to battery lifespan, and redistributes batteries to optimize usage across regions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If batteries are managed without considering lifespan and device requirements, then management simplicity is maintained, but battery allocation efficiency deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The server determines the lifespan of each battery in advance based on charge/discharge count, usage history, and maximum charge capacity information. This preliminary assessment enables efficient battery-device matching without increasing operational complexity, as the lifespan data is prepared beforehand for quick comparison with device requirements.
Solution Approach 2:
The battery management system segments batteries into different lifespan categories (first lifespan, second lifespan, third lifespan) based on their status information. This segmentation allows the server to efficiently match batteries with appropriate devices without complex real-time analysis, improving allocation efficiency while maintaining manageable complexity through structured classification.
2Ease of operation
If uniform rental fees are charged for all batteries, then pricing simplicity is maintained, but user satisfaction deteriorates due to mismatched battery performance
Solution Approach 1:
The server applies different rental fee standards to batteries of different lifespans. Batteries with first lifespan (longer duration) are charged at a first rental fee standard, while batteries with second or third lifespan are charged at different standards. This localized differentiation in pricing based on battery quality ensures users pay appropriately for the performance they receive, improving satisfaction while maintaining clear pricing rules.
3Productivity
If batteries are not redistributed based on output state, then redistribution operations are minimized, but battery output efficiency deteriorates in certain regions
Solution Approach 1:
The server continuously monitors the output state of batteries across different regions and uses this feedback to determine redistribution needs. When a region's battery output state falls below optimal levels, the server automatically generates redistribution plans, ensuring battery output efficiency is maintained without unnecessary redistribution operations that would waste time and resources.
4Reliability
If all batteries are allocated without considering lifespan matching, then allocation speed is maintained, but device performance reliability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The server performs preliminary matching of battery lifespan with device requirements before final allocation. By comparing the determined battery lifespan against the target device's required output, the server ensures reliable performance matching occurs in advance, maintaining allocation speed through pre-computed compatibility assessments rather than slow post-allocation verification.
Data Source
AI summary
A server includes a communicator and a controller configured to acquire battery status information of each of a plurality of batteries through the communicator, acquire target device information from a user terminal through the communicator, determine a battery from the plurality of batteries having a lifespan corresponding to a required output of a target device among the plurality of batteries as a recommended battery based on the battery status information and the target device information, and control the communicator to transmit information on the recommended battery to the user terminal.