Vehicle-to-Grid Energy Transfer Using Transport Priority Levels
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing transportation systems lack an efficient mechanism for prioritizing energy transfer from vehicles to charging stations based on the priority of passengers or cargo, leading to inefficient energy distribution and potential delays in service.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that utilize a blockchain network to determine the priority of vehicles within an accessible range of a charging station, allowing for energy transfer only when the vehicle's priority level is below a threshold, ensuring that essential transportation needs are met before diverting energy to the grid.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If vehicles transfer energy to charging stations without priority consideration, then energy distribution efficiency is improved, but essential transportation services may be delayed
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies different quality levels (priority classifications) to different vehicles based on their transportation needs. Vehicles are categorized into priority levels (e.g., high priority for essential services, low priority for non-essential), allowing the charging station to selectively manage energy transfer based on local conditions of each vehicle's mission criticality.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary assessment of vehicle priority levels before initiating energy transfer. By evaluating and classifying vehicles in advance based on their transportation needs, the system ensures that essential services are identified and protected before the energy distribution process begins, preventing delays to critical transportation.
2Reliability
If high priority vehicles are restricted from energy transfer, then essential transportation needs are met, but overall energy utilization efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The system changes the parameter of energy access based on vehicle priority classification. High priority vehicles maintain full energy access with no transfer restrictions, while low priority vehicles subject to energy transfer when surplus is available. This parameter change ensures reliable energy supply for essential services while optimizing overall energy utilization across the network.
Solution Approach 2:
Low priority vehicles with surplus energy automatically become energy sources for the network when conditions permit. The system enables these vehicles to self-service the energy needs of high priority vehicles through controlled energy transfer, reducing the need for external energy infrastructure and improving overall energy utilization efficiency.
3Device complexity
If a centralized system manages energy transfer without priority levels, then system complexity is reduced, but energy distribution efficiency deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The centralized energy management system is segmented into discrete priority levels (e.g., high, medium, low priority categories). This segmentation allows the system to manage complexity through structured classification while maintaining centralized control. Each priority level has defined energy transfer rules, enabling efficient energy distribution without requiring complex real-time decision-making for every vehicle.
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AI summary
An example operation includes one or more of receiving, by a server, an energy transfer request from a charging station, determining, by the server, a current priority level of the at least one transport within an accessible range of the charging station, and responsive to the current priority level being below a threshold, sending an instruction to the at least one transport to transfer energy to the charging station based on the energy transfer request.