Power Transaction Management Server for Mobile Object P2P Trading

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing systems for peer-to-peer (P2P) power transactions using mobile objects, such as electric vehicles, lack the capability to provide comprehensive information on power transactions, making it difficult for mobile objects to participate in P2P power transactions with advantageous conditions.

Innovation Solution

A power transaction management server and processing device that manages and provides information on power transactions between mobile objects and charging/discharging facilities, allowing mobile objects to determine optimal tender conditions based on geographical and temporal parameters, including current location, travel routes, and market prices, thereby facilitating efficient participation in P2P power transactions.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If comprehensive power transaction information is provided to mobile objects, then mobile objects can participate in P2P power transactions with advantageous conditions, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetransaction advantageVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

A power transaction management server is introduced as an intermediary between charging/discharging facilities and mobile objects. The server receives power transaction information from facilities, manages individual transaction markets, and provides relevant information to mobile objects via processing devices, thereby reducing direct system complexity while enabling comprehensive information provision.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system segments power transaction information into distinct categories (positional information of facilities, tender conditions, market prices, travel route information) and processes them through separate functional modules (registration unit, retrieval unit, provision unit), making the complex information management task more manageable and scalable.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Measurement precision

If power transaction information is provided based on geographical range and travel routes, then information accuracy improves, but information processing time increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation accuracyVSAvoidinformation processing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-registering power transaction information including positional information of charging/discharging facilities and their operational characteristics in advance. When a mobile object requests information, the retrieval unit can quickly match pre-stored data with the object's geographical range and travel route, reducing real-time processing time while maintaining high accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Adaptability or versatility

If multiple individual transaction markets are managed for different charging/discharging facilities, then market coverage expands, but market management complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemarket coverageVSAvoidmarket management complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The power transaction management server implements a universal platform that handles multiple individual transaction markets through a unified set of functions: the registration unit accepts information from any charging/discharging facility, the retrieval unit searches across all registered markets, and the provision unit delivers relevant information to any mobile object, thereby expanding market coverage without proportionally increasing management complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS20230097499A1Power transaction management server and power transaction processing device for mobile object
Publication Date: 2023.03.30 TOYOTA JIDOSHA KK
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AI summary

In a power transaction management server, a registration unit receives power transaction information including positional information of a corresponding charging/discharging facility and tender conditions for a transaction of electric power and registers the received power transaction information in a storage device for each individual transaction market. An input unit receives information of a mobile object participating in a power transaction market. The information of the mobile object includes information indicating a geographical range in which the mobile object is able to supply or receive electric power. A setting unit sets retrieval conditions based on the information of the mobile object. A retrieval unit retrieves an individual transaction market matching the retrieval conditions out of a plurality of individual transaction markets. A provision unit provides the power transaction information in the individual transaction market matching the retrieval conditions.