Information processing system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11358488-B2
Application number	US-201916964769-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 14, 2019
Priority date	Feb 23, 2018
Publication date	Jun 14, 2022
Grant date	Jun 14, 2022

Abstract

An information processing system includes: a first acquisition unit that acquires battery information on a battery of each of one or more vehicles; a second acquisition unit that acquires supply source information on a state of a power supply source; a selection unit that selects a vehicle for providing electric power for the power supply source as a power source out of the one or more vehicles, based on the supply source information and the battery information; and a request unit that requests the vehicle selected as the power source to provide the electric power.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An information processing system comprising:
at least one processor configured to:
acquire, from a device storing battery information on a battery of each of a plurality of vehicles, the battery information, wherein the battery information includes at least travel histories of each of the plurality of vehicles;
acquire a predicted amount of shortage of a power plant from a supply source terminal of the power plant;
select a vehicle moving to a power transmission area of the power plant as a power source out of the plurality of vehicles, based on the predicted amount of shortage and the travel histories;
determine a designated place in the power transmission area as a movement destination in which the vehicle selected as the power source is scheduled to supply an electric power;
transmit, to the vehicle selected as the power source, an electric power request which is a data signal for requesting the vehicle selected as the power source to provide the electric power, wherein the electric power request includes a movement instruction to cause the vehicle selected as the power source to move to the designated place.

2. The information processing system according to claim 1 ,
wherein the at least one processor is configured to:
acquire environment information from an environment information database that stores the environment information indicating weather;
adjust the predicted amount of shortage by multiplying the predicted amount of shortage by a predetermined coefficient based on the weather indicated by the environment information; and
select the vehicle as the power source based on the adjusted predicted amount of shortage and the travel histories.

3. The information processing system according to claim 1 , wherein, when supply of electric power is permitted at the vehicle having received the request, a user terminal corresponding to the vehicle transmits a permission signal, and
wherein the at least one processor is configured to:
estimate actual supply of electric power from the one or more vehicles selected as the power source by collecting one or more of the permission signals; and
transmit to the power plant estimation information indicating a schedule of electric power to be provided to the power plant.

4. The information processing system according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one processor is configured to select the vehicle in which an SOC of the battery is equal to or greater than a threshold as the power source.

5. The information processing system according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one processor is configured to:
determine at least one of an amount of electric power to be provided, a provision destination, and a provision date and time for the vehicle selected as the power source; and
transmit the electric power request further including at least one of the amount of electric power to be provided, the provision destination, and the provision date and time to the vehicle selected as the power source.

6. The information processing system according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to provide an incentive to a user corresponding to the vehicle selected as the power source.

Assignees

• Ihi Corp

Inventors

• Fujiwara Eiichiro
• Takahashi Kenichi
• Kono Shinya
• Araki Jun

Classifications

• H02J2105/37

  exchanging power with electric vehicles [EV] or with hybrid electric vehicles [HEV] · CPC title

• H02J7/50

  acting upon multiple batteries simultaneously or sequentially · CPC title

• Y02T90/167

  Systems integrating technologies related to power network operation and communication or information technologies for supporting the interoperability of electric or hybrid vehicles, i.e. smartgrids as interface for battery charging of electric vehicles [EV] or hybrid vehicles [HEV] · CPC title

• H02J3/322 Primary

  the battery being on-board an electric or hybrid vehicle, e.g. vehicle to grid arrangements [V2G], power aggregation, use of the battery for network load balancing, coordinated or cooperative battery charging · CPC title

• H02J13/00

  Circuit arrangements for providing remote monitoring or remote control of equipment in a power distribution network · CPC title