Detailed Description
The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, and not all of the embodiments. The components of embodiments of the present invention generally described and illustrated in the figures herein may be arranged and designed in a wide variety of different configurations. Thus, the following detailed description of the embodiments of the present invention, presented in the figures, is not intended to limit the scope of the invention, as claimed, but is merely representative of selected embodiments of the invention. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments of the present invention without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.
It should be noted that: like reference numbers and letters refer to like items in the following figures, and thus, once an item is defined in one figure, it need not be further defined and explained in subsequent figures. Meanwhile, in the description of the present invention, the terms "first", "second", and the like are used only for distinguishing the description, and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance.
Fig. 1 is a schematic view of a charging station management system according to a preferred embodiment of the invention. In this embodiment, the charging station management system includes a monitoring terminal 100, a charging pile 200, a user terminal 300, and a ground lock 401 disposed in a parking space 400. The monitoring terminal 100 acquires monitoring data of the charging pile 200 and the parking space 400 in a designated area through the camera device 101. The image pickup apparatus 101 may be a part of the monitoring terminal 100, and the image pickup apparatus 101 may also be an external image pickup apparatus that is in communication connection with the monitoring terminal 100. In this embodiment, the camera device 101 may have a night vision function, so that the monitoring data of the charging pile 200 and the parking space 400 acquired by the camera device 101 at night is clearer. In one embodiment, the monitoring terminal 100 can also control the rotation angle of the image pickup device 101 to realize shooting of video data at different angles.
The monitoring terminal 100 may transmit the monitoring data to the user terminal 300 through a network. The user terminal 300 is in communication connection with the charging pile 200 and the ground lock 401. In one example, the charging pile 200, the user terminal 300 and the ground lock 401 have a GPRS communication function, and the charging pile 200, the user terminal 300 and the ground lock 401 communicate with each other through the GPRS communication technology. The monitoring terminal 100 may be a Personal Computer (PC), a web server, or the like. The charging pile 200 is a device capable of supplying a charging current to a vehicle. The user terminal 300 may be a Personal Computer (PC), a tablet PC, a smart phone, a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), and the like.
Referring to fig. 2, a flowchart of a charging station management method applied to the charging station management system shown in fig. 1 according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention is shown. The specific process shown in fig. 2 will be described in detail below.
Step S101, the monitoring terminal monitors the state of the charging pile in a specific area to obtain monitoring data.
In this embodiment, the charging pile state includes an idle state. In an embodiment, the idle states may also include a first idle state and a second idle state, where the first idle state indicates that the charging pile does not provide charging for a vehicle, and no object such as a parked vehicle is located at a parking space corresponding to the charging pile; the second idle state represents that the charging pile does not provide charging for the vehicle, and objects such as the vehicle are parked at the parking space corresponding to the charging pile. It will be appreciated that the aforementioned charging post in the first idle state may charge the vehicle and the second idle state may not charge the vehicle.
In this embodiment, the monitoring data may include at least one of video data, image data, and text data and voice data. For example, the monitoring data may be an image of the specific area captured by the image capturing apparatus. For another example, the monitoring data may be status information of each charging pile marked with words.
In an embodiment, the monitoring terminal is externally connected with a camera device, and receives the collected monitoring data of the specific area, which is sent by the externally connected camera device. This example
In another embodiment, the monitoring terminal acquires video data of the specific area through a camera device of the monitoring terminal to obtain the monitoring data.
In the two above-mentioned embodiments, through with camera equipment acquires the video data that fills electric pile and correspond can supply user or monitoring personnel to look over effectively and carry out subsequent action with convenience of customers or monitoring personnel, for example, the user reserves the parking stall, and monitoring personnel drives out the unreasonable vehicle that occupies the parking stall etc..
And step S102, the monitoring terminal sends the monitoring data to the user terminal.
In an embodiment, the monitoring terminal may send the monitoring data to the user terminal according to a preset period. For example, the monitoring terminal sends the monitoring data to the user terminal every minute.
In another embodiment, the user terminal is installed with an application program for providing some operations related to charging pile, and the monitoring terminal sends the monitoring data to the user terminal when the user terminal starts the application program. In this embodiment, the application program may include a reservation unit, a scanning unit, a charging control unit, a charging pile state display unit, a parking space state display unit, a charging information display unit, a charging fee settlement unit, and the like.
In another embodiment, the monitoring terminal sends the monitoring data to the user terminal after receiving the data request of the user terminal. For example, the user terminal sends a data request to the monitoring terminal after receiving a user triggering a specified button or performing a specified operation, where the specified operation may be a pull-down operation performed on an interface of the application program.
And step S103, the user terminal receives a reservation operation that the user selects an idle charging pile according to the monitoring data, and sends a first locking instruction to the reserved charging pile.
In one embodiment, the user terminal may display an operation interface related to the reserved charging piles, and the operation interface may include information of each charging pile and monitoring data corresponding to each charging pile. In one example, each charging pile corresponds to one reservation button, and after the user terminal receives that a user clicks any reservation button corresponding to the charging pile, the first locking instruction is sent to the charging pile corresponding to the reservation.
And step S104, executing locking operation after the reserved charging pile receives the first locking instruction.
In this embodiment, the locking operation controls the reserved charging pile to be in a locked state at a designated time, so that other user terminals cannot start the charging pile. In this embodiment, if the user terminal does not release the locking state of the charging pile within the specified time for charging a vehicle, the charging pile releases the locking state, and other user terminals can start the charging pile to charge any vehicle. In one example, the specified time may be thirty minutes. For example, the user arrives at the position of the charging pile within thirty minutes, the user terminal executes the unlocking operation of the reserved charging pile through the application program, and the vehicle can be charged after the charging pile is unlocked. If the time exceeds thirty minutes, the user terminal does not unlock the reserved charging pile, and the charging pile automatically releases the locking state, so that other user terminals can start the charging pile in a designated mode to charge the vehicle.
In one embodiment, after any charging pile executes a locking operation after receiving a first locking instruction of the user terminal, other user terminals cannot send the first locking instruction to the charging pile any more during the locking period so as to reserve the charging pile. In another embodiment, after the charging pile receives the first locking instruction of the user terminal and performs the locking operation, the other user terminals cannot perform the unlocking operation during the locking period. In one embodiment, the charging post includes a display interface, and the display interface displays the charging post reservation status, for example, the reservation status may include "reserved" and "idle", and when the charging post is "reserved", the display interface may also display the reserved time.
According to the charging station management method provided by the embodiment of the invention, the monitoring terminal monitors the area where the charging pile is located, the monitoring data is sent to the user terminal to provide useful reference information for the user, and the user makes a reservation for the charging pile according to the monitoring data, so that the probability that the user makes a reservation for the effective charging pile is higher.
In other embodiments, the charging station management system further includes a ground lock corresponding to each charging post, as shown in fig. 3, and the charging station management method may further include the following steps.
And step S105, the user terminal sends a second locking instruction to the ground lock corresponding to the reserved charging pile.
And step S106, after receiving the second locking instruction, the ground lock locks within a specified time so that other user terminals cannot start the charging pile.
In this embodiment, the ground lock is in a locked state at a designated time after being locked, so that other user terminals cannot release the locking of the ground lock. In this embodiment, if the user terminal does not release the locking state of the ground lock within the specified time, the charging pile releases the reserved locking state, in one example, the ground lock still processes the locking state after releasing the reserved locking state, and only the right that other user terminals can unlock the ground lock is provided.
In another embodiment, the user terminal may not send the second locking specification, and after receiving the first locking instruction, the reserved charging pile sends a locking instruction to a ground lock corresponding to the reserved charging pile so that the ground lock is locked within a specified time.
In other embodiments, as shown in fig. 3, the method further comprises:
and step S107, the reserved charging pile does not receive an unlocking instruction of the user terminal within the designated time, and the reserved charging pile is unlocked.
In this embodiment, the ground lock corresponding to the reserved charging pile does not receive the unlocking operation of the user terminal within the designated time, and the reserved locking state of the ground lock is released. Specifically, when the ground lock releases the reserved lock state, the ground lock is still in the lock state, but other user terminals may release the lock state.
According to the method in the embodiment, if the reserved charging pile does not receive the unlocking operation of the user terminal for reservation within the designated time, the reserved locking state of the reserved charging pile is released to supply other user terminals for reservation or starting charging, so that the charging pile resource waste caused by the fact that the charging pile is shelved is effectively avoided, and the utilization rate of the charging pile can be improved.
In other embodiments, as shown in fig. 3, the method further comprises: and S108, the charging pile receives an unlocking instruction of the user terminal within the appointed time, unlocks the charging pile and provides charging current for a vehicle connected with the charging pile.
In an embodiment, each charging pile is provided with an identification code, and the user terminal can realize control operation corresponding to the charging pile by reading the identification code, for example, starting charging, unlocking, locking and the like.
In this embodiment, the charging pile may further receive a charging stop instruction of the user terminal, and the charging pile stops the charging current after receiving the charging stop instruction. In this embodiment, the user terminal may further settle the charging fee, for example, the application program is associated with a third party payment platform, and the third party payment platform is started to pay the charging fee when the charging fee needs to be settled.
An embodiment of the present invention provides a charging station management method, which is applied to the user terminal 300 shown in fig. 1. The present embodiment is similar to the above-described embodiments, except that the method in the present embodiment is described based on a single side of the user terminal 300, and the charging pile management method in the previous embodiment is described based on a charging station management system including multiple terminals. As shown in fig. 4, the charging station management method includes the following steps.
Step S201, receiving the monitored monitoring data of the charging pile sent by the monitoring terminal.
And step S202, receiving the reservation operation of selecting the idle charging pile by the user according to the monitoring data.
Step S203, a first locking instruction is sent to the reserved charging pile according to the reservation operation, so that the reserved charging pile is locked within the designated time.
In this embodiment, the charging pile is in a locked state after being reserved, and other user terminals cannot start the charging pile in the locked state after being reserved.
In this embodiment, the user terminal may further send a second locking instruction to a ground lock corresponding to the reserved charging pile, so that the ground lock receives the second locking instruction and then locks within a specified time, so that other user terminals cannot start the charging pile.
In this embodiment, the user terminal may further send an unlocking instruction to the charging pile, so that the reserved charging pile is unlocked.
For other details of the present embodiment, further reference may be made to the description in the previous embodiment, which is not described herein again.
According to the charging station management method provided by the embodiment of the invention, the monitoring terminal monitors the area where the charging pile is located, the monitoring data is sent to the user terminal to provide useful reference information for the user, and the user makes a reservation for the charging pile according to the monitoring data, so that the probability that the user makes a reservation for the effective charging pile is higher.
Please refer to fig. 5, which is a functional block diagram of the charging station management system shown in fig. 1 according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention. Each terminal, module and unit in the charging station management system in the present embodiment are used for executing each step in the foregoing method embodiments. The charging station management system comprises a monitoring terminal 100, one or more charging piles 200 and a user terminal 300.
The monitoring terminal 100 includes: a monitoring module 110 and a sending module 120.
The monitoring module 110 is configured to monitor a state of the charging pile 200 in a specific area to obtain monitoring data. Wherein, fill electric pile state and include idle state.
The sending module 120 is configured to send the monitoring data to the user terminal.
The user terminal 300 includes a reservation module 310, configured to receive a reservation operation that a user selects an idle charging pile according to the monitoring data, and send a first locking instruction to the reserved charging pile.
The charging pile 200 includes a locking module 210, configured to execute a locking operation after receiving the first locking instruction, where the locking operation controls the charging pile to be in a locked state at a specified time, so that other user terminals cannot start the charging pile.
In this embodiment, the monitoring module 110 includes: a first acquisition unit 1101 and a second acquisition unit 1102.
The first acquisition unit 1101 is configured to receive the acquired monitoring data of the specific area, which is sent by an external camera device.
The second acquiring unit 1102 is configured to acquire the video data of the specific area through the camera device of the monitoring terminal to obtain the monitoring data.
In this embodiment, referring to fig. 5 again, the charging station management system further includes a ground lock 401 corresponding to each charging pile 200.
The reservation module 310 of the user terminal 300 is further configured to send a second locking instruction to the ground lock corresponding to the reserved charging pile.
The charging pile 200 further includes an instruction sending module 230, configured to send a second locking instruction to a ground lock corresponding to the reserved charging pile.
The ground lock 401 is configured to lock within a specified time after receiving the second locking instruction, so that other user terminals cannot start the charging pile.
In this embodiment, the charging pile further includes a charging module 220, configured to receive an unlocking instruction of the user terminal within a specified time, unlock the charging pile, and provide a charging current for a vehicle connected to the charging pile.
For other details of this embodiment, further reference may be made to the descriptions of the foregoing two method embodiments, which are not described herein again.
According to the charging station management system provided by the embodiment of the invention, the monitoring terminal monitors the area where the charging pile is located, the monitoring data is sent to the user terminal to provide useful reference information for the user, and the user makes a reservation for the charging pile according to the monitoring data, so that the probability that the user makes a reservation for the effective charging pile is higher.
In the embodiments provided in the present application, it should be understood that the disclosed apparatus and method can be implemented in other ways. The apparatus embodiments described above are merely illustrative, and for example, the flowchart and block diagrams in the figures illustrate the architecture, functionality, and operation of possible implementations of apparatus, methods and computer program products according to various embodiments of the present invention. In this regard, each block in the flowchart or block diagrams may represent a module, segment, or portion of code, which comprises one or more executable instructions for implementing the specified logical function(s). It should also be noted that, in some alternative implementations, the functions noted in the block may occur out of the order noted in the figures. For example, two blocks shown in succession may, in fact, be executed substantially concurrently, or the blocks may sometimes be executed in the reverse order, depending upon the functionality involved. It will also be noted that each block of the block diagrams and/or flowchart illustration, and combinations of blocks in the block diagrams and/or flowchart illustration, can be implemented by special purpose hardware-based systems which perform the specified functions or acts, or combinations of special purpose hardware and computer instructions.
In addition, the functional modules in the embodiments of the present invention may be integrated together to form an independent part, or each module may exist separately, or two or more modules may be integrated to form an independent part.
The functions, if implemented in the form of software functional modules and sold or used as a stand-alone product, may be stored in a computer readable storage medium. Based on such understanding, the technical solution of the present invention may be embodied in the form of a software product, which is stored in a storage medium and includes instructions for causing a computer device (which may be a personal computer, a server, or a network device) to execute all or part of the steps of the method according to the embodiments of the present invention. And the aforementioned storage medium includes: a U-disk, a removable hard disk, a Read-Only Memory (ROM), a Random Access Memory (RAM), a magnetic disk or an optical disk, and other various media capable of storing program codes. It is noted that, herein, relational terms such as first and second, and the like may be used solely to distinguish one entity or action from another entity or action without necessarily requiring or implying any actual such relationship or order between such entities or actions. Also, the terms "comprises," "comprising," or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of elements does not include only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus. Without further limitation, an element defined by the phrase "comprising an … …" does not exclude the presence of other identical elements in a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises the element.
The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention and is not intended to limit the present invention, and various modifications and changes may be made by those skilled in the art. Any modification, equivalent replacement, or improvement made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the protection scope of the present invention. It should be noted that: like reference numbers and letters refer to like items in the following figures, and thus, once an item is defined in one figure, it need not be further defined and explained in subsequent figures.
The above description is only for the specific embodiments of the present invention, but the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and any person skilled in the art can easily conceive of the changes or substitutions within the technical scope of the present invention, and all the changes or substitutions should be covered within the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present invention shall be subject to the protection scope of the claims.