JP2018045617A - Management device and management system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To promote a behavior which an owner of a vehicle performs to a user of a vehicle, in a service in which the owner of the vehicle lends the vehicle to the user.SOLUTION: The invention is configured so that, with a condition in which a behavior which an owner of a vehicle performs, such as oil supply, is performed by a user instead of the owner, any privilege is supplied to the user, for example, a lending fee of the vehicle is discounted. As a method for determining a condition formed of the above mentioned behavior and a date when the behavior is performed (hereafter, called a behavior condition), there are a method for determining the behavior condition on the basis of information related to the owner, method for determining the behavior condition on the basis of information related to the vehicle, method for determining the behavior condition on the basis of the information related to the user, and a method for determining the behavior condition on the basis of information related to an outside environment of the vehicle.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Description

  The present invention relates to a mechanism for sharing a vehicle.

  There is a so-called car sharing service in which a vehicle owner lends the vehicle to a user. Patent Document 1 discloses a system for lending a car owned by an individual to a temporary user. Patent Document 2 discloses that, out of a group of unoccupied vehicles, a vehicle that is closest to the current position of the user is determined as a rental target vehicle, and the state of the vehicle is changed to “lending”. Has been.

JP 2002-251581 A JP 2002-175589 A

By the way, in a service in which the owner of the vehicle lends the vehicle to the user, it is convenient for the owner if the user performs an action such as refueling on behalf of the owner.
Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a mechanism for encouraging the vehicle user to perform an action performed by the vehicle owner in a service in which the vehicle owner lends the vehicle to the user.

  In order to solve the above-described problems, the present invention reserves a determination unit that determines an action condition related to an action performed by a user of the vehicle on the vehicle and a date and time when the action is performed, and a user reserves a vehicle to be used And providing a presentation unit for presenting a rental condition for the vehicle to a user who satisfies the determined action condition.

  The determination unit may acquire information on the owner and determine the action condition based on the acquired information.

  The information regarding the owner may include information regarding the schedule of the owner.

The information regarding the owner may include information regarding communication of the owner. .

  The determination unit may acquire information about the user and determine the action condition based on the acquired information.

  The information regarding the user may include information regarding use of the vehicle by the user.

  The determination unit may acquire information regarding the vehicle and determine the action condition based on the acquired information.

  The determination unit may acquire information related to an external environment of the vehicle and determine the action condition based on the acquired information.

  Further, the present invention provides a determination unit that determines an action condition related to an action performed by the user of the vehicle on the vehicle and a date and time when the action is performed, and a reservation screen for the user to reserve a vehicle to be used, The present invention provides a management system comprising: a presentation unit that presents a rental condition of the vehicle to a user who satisfies the determined action condition.

  ADVANTAGE OF THE INVENTION According to this invention, the action which the owner of a vehicle performs in the service which the owner of a vehicle lends the vehicle to a user can be prompted to the user of a vehicle.

Diagram showing the overall configuration of the vehicle sharing system Block diagram showing the hardware configuration of the user terminal Block diagram showing the hardware configuration of the in-vehicle terminal Block diagram showing the hardware configuration of the management device Diagram illustrating the data structure of the management table The figure which illustrates the data structure of a vehicle table The figure which illustrates the data structure of a privilege table Functional block diagram showing the functions realized by the management device Flow chart showing processing of management device Sequence chart showing processing of vehicle sharing system The figure which illustrates the reservation screen which is displayed on the user terminal

  FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an overall configuration of a vehicle sharing system according to an embodiment of the present invention. The vehicle sharing system 1 provides a vehicle sharing service that allows a user to use a vehicle owned by the owner. As shown in FIG. 1, the vehicle sharing system 1 temporarily borrows a vehicle, a management device 100 for a service provider to manage this service, an owner terminal 200 operated by the vehicle owner, and the vehicle. A user terminal 300 operated by a user to use, an in-vehicle terminal 400 mounted on the vehicle, and an information storage device 500 that stores various types of information related to the owner of the vehicle. The user terminal 200, the owner terminal 300, the in-vehicle terminal 400, and the information storage device 500 are connected to the management device 100 via the network 900, and these communicate with each other. The network 900 is a wired or wireless communication network such as the Internet or a mobile communication network. The network 900 may be a network in which a plurality of communication networks having different communication methods are interconnected instead of a single communication network. 1 shows one each of the management device 100, the owner terminal 200, the user terminal 300, the in-vehicle terminal 400, and the information storage device 500, but there may be a plurality of them.

  In this vehicle sharing service, the owner of the vehicle should do something such as refueling, car washing, oil exchange, etc. on the condition that the user performs on behalf of the owner. Benefits are given to users. Here, there is a method of determining an action condition based on information about the owner as one of methods for determining the condition including the content of the above action and the date and time when the action is performed (hereinafter referred to as an action condition). Here, the information regarding the owner includes, for example, information regarding the owner's schedule or information regarding the owner's communication. Information regarding the owner's schedule is registered in the information storage device 500 by software such as a scheduler by the owner. The information regarding the owner's communication is, for example, a history of mailers, SNS (Social Networking Service), Internet messengers, calls, etc. for the owner to communicate with others, and is registered in the information storage device 500. As another method for determining the action condition, there is a method for determining the action condition based on information about the vehicle. For example, the action condition is determined based on the amount of remaining fuel in the vehicle, the travel distance, or the reservation status for the vehicle.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating a hardware configuration of the user terminal 300. The user terminal 300 is a communicable computer such as a smart phone, a tablet, or a personal computer, and includes a control unit 31, a communication unit 32, a storage unit 33, and a UI unit 34. The control unit 31 includes an arithmetic processing device such as a CPU (Central Processing Unit) and a storage device such as a ROM (Read Only Memory) and a RAM (Random Access Memory). The ROM stores a program executed by the CPU. The CPU controls the operation of each unit of the user terminal 300 by executing a program stored in the ROM or the storage unit 33 using the RAM as a work area. The communication unit 32 includes an antenna and a communication circuit, and performs wireless communication with a base station of a mobile communication network. The storage unit 33 is a storage unit such as an EEPROM (Electronically Erasable and Programmable ROM) or a flash memory, and stores a data group and a program group used by the control unit 31. A UI (User Interface) unit 34 includes an operation unit provided with operators such as keys and touch sensors, a display unit such as a liquid crystal panel and a liquid crystal drive circuit, and an audio output unit such as a speaker or earphone terminal. Including.
Since the hardware configuration of the owner terminal 200 is the same as that of the user terminal 300, description thereof is omitted.

  FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating a hardware configuration of the in-vehicle terminal 400. The in-vehicle terminal 400 is a communicable computer such as a car navigation device, and includes a control unit 41, a communication unit 42, a storage unit 43, a UI unit 44, and a sensor unit 45. The control unit 41 includes an arithmetic processing device such as a CPU and a storage device such as a ROM and a RAM. The ROM stores a program executed by the CPU. The CPU controls the operation of each unit of the in-vehicle terminal 400 by executing a program stored in the ROM or the storage unit 43 using the RAM as a work area. The communication unit 42 includes an antenna and a communication circuit, and performs wireless communication with a base station of the mobile communication network. The storage unit 43 is a storage device such as a hard disk, for example, and stores a data group and a program group used by the control unit 41. The UI unit 44 includes an operation unit provided with operators such as keys and touch sensors, a display unit such as a liquid crystal panel and a liquid crystal drive circuit, and an audio output unit such as a speaker or an earphone terminal. It is out. The sensor unit 45 is a detection unit for detecting the state of the vehicle, and includes, for example, a fuel gauge, a raindrop sensor, or a timer.

  FIG. 4 is a block diagram illustrating a hardware configuration of the management apparatus 100. The management device 100 is a computer such as a server machine, and includes a control unit 11, a communication unit 12, and a storage unit 13. The control unit 11 includes an arithmetic device such as a CPU and a storage device such as a ROM and a RAM. The CPU controls the operation of each unit of the management apparatus 100 by executing a program stored in the ROM or the storage unit 13 using the RAM as a work area. The communication unit 12 is connected to the network 900 and performs communication processing. The storage unit 13 is a storage device such as a hard disk, for example, and stores a data group and a program group used by the control unit 11. The storage unit 13 stores at least a reservation management table, a vehicle table, and a privilege table described below.

  FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a data structure of the reservation management table. As shown in FIG. 5, the reservation management table is created in units of vehicle IDs that identify owner IDs that identify each owner and vehicles owned by the owner. In this reservation management table, information related to vehicle use reservation is described. In the example of FIG. 5, for example, the use reservation by the user Z is made at 16: 00-17: 00 on July 5. Further, in this reservation management table, a schedule accompanied by going out using the vehicle by the owner himself / herself is described. In FIG. 5, for example, the schedule is such that the owner goes shopping on July 13 and the owner goes on a trip from July 20 to July 22. The schedule accompanying going out using the vehicle by the owner himself / herself is described in the management table by the control unit 11 based on the schedule information of the user registered in the information storage device 500. In addition, in this reservation management table, information on the above-mentioned action conditions is described. In the example of FIG. 5, for example, the act of refueling on July 12, July 17 to July 19, July 27, and July 28 is described as an action condition. The act of oil change on Sunday and July 31 is described as an action condition.

  Next, FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating a data structure of the vehicle table. As shown in FIG. 6, in the vehicle table, the owner ID of the owner who owns the vehicle, the vehicle type of the vehicle, the hourly unit price of the rental fee of the vehicle, the remaining fuel amount in the vehicle, The last car wash time and the last oil change time of the vehicle are described.

  Next, FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating a data structure of the privilege table. As shown in FIG. 7, the privilege table describes the content of the action included in the action condition and the privilege (here, discounting the rental fee) given to the user when the user performs the action. Has been. For example, if a user refuels, the rental fee is reduced by 10%.

  FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating a functional configuration of the management apparatus 100. The acquisition unit 101 in FIG. 8 acquires information for determining an action condition related to an action performed on the vehicle by the user of the vehicle and a date and time when the action is performed. The determination unit 102 determines an action condition based on the information acquired by the acquisition unit 101. The presentation unit 103 presents a vehicle rental condition to the user who satisfies the action condition determined by the determination unit 102 on the reservation screen in which the user reserves a vehicle to be used. The reservation unit 104 performs processing for reserving a vehicle designated by the user. The acquisition unit 101 is a function realized by the control unit 11 and the communication unit 12, the determination unit 102 is a function realized by the control unit 11 and the storage unit 13, and the presentation unit 103 is a control unit 11 and the communication unit 12. The reservation unit 104 is a function realized by the control unit 11 and the storage unit 13.

[Operation]
Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described.
[Operation until the rental condition is determined]
In FIG. 9, the acquisition unit 101 of the management apparatus 100 acquires information for determining an action condition (step S11). The information acquired here includes information regarding the owner provided from the information storage device 500 and information regarding the vehicle provided from the in-vehicle terminal 400.

  Next, the determination part 102 of the management apparatus 100 determines action conditions based on the acquired information (step S12). When determining the action condition based on the information regarding the owner, the determination unit 102 determines the action condition based on the information regarding the schedule of the owner or the information regarding the communication of the owner. Specifically, when the owner has a plan to use the vehicle, the act condition of refueling on the date and time before the schedule (for example, the previous day) is determined. Further, when determining the action condition based on the information about the vehicle, for example, when the remaining amount of fuel described in the vehicle table becomes equal to or less than the threshold value, the determination unit 102 thereafter (for example, from the next day to a predetermined period). Determine the conditions for refueling. Further, the determination unit 102 determines an action condition of performing a car wash after a predetermined time has elapsed from the previous car wash time described in the vehicle table (for example, a predetermined period from the next day). In addition, the determination unit 102 determines an action condition of performing an oil change after that (for example, a predetermined period from the next day) after a predetermined time has elapsed since the previous oil change time described in the vehicle table.

  And the presentation part 103 of the management apparatus 100 determines rental conditions based on said action conditions and the content of a privilege table (step S13). Specifically, the privilege corresponding to the action included in the action condition is read from the privilege table, and the privilege is stored in association with the date and time included in the action condition.

[Operation at the time of use contract]
In FIG. 10, first, a user operates the user terminal 300 to access the management apparatus 100, selects a vehicle type or the like on a predetermined menu screen displayed on the user terminal 300, and is a vehicle to be used. Specify an ID. In response to this operation, the user terminal 300 requests the management apparatus 100 for a reservation screen for making a reservation for use of the vehicle with the designated vehicle ID (step S21). In response to this request, the presentation unit 103 of the management device 100 generates reservation screen data for displaying the reservation screen of the vehicle with the specified vehicle ID (step S22), and transmits it to the user terminal 300 ( Step S23). The user terminal displays a reservation screen as illustrated in FIG. 11 based on the reservation screen data.

  In the reservation screen illustrated in FIG. 11, whether or not the vehicle use reservation is possible is displayed, and here, the date and time marked “x” cannot be used. For example, the reservation cannot be made at 16: 00-17: 00 on July 5. This is because the use reservation has already been made by another user (user Z) as shown in FIG. For example, reservations cannot be made from July 20 to July 22. This is because the travel schedule by the owner is included as shown in FIG.

  In addition, the management table displays lending conditions including action conditions and a privilege given to the user by satisfying the action conditions. In FIG. 11, it is described that, for example, if the act of refueling is performed from July 17 to July 19, the lending fee is discounted by 10%. Further, for example, it is described that if the act of oil change is performed on July 30 and July 31, the rental fee is discounted by 20%. In this way, on the reservation screen in which the user reserves the vehicle to be used, the vehicle rental condition for the user who satisfies the action condition is presented.

  The user refers to the reservation screen and performs an operation for designating the date and time for which the reservation is desired. In response to this operation, the user terminal 300 requests the management device 100 to reserve the vehicle at the designated date and time (step S24). In response to this request, the reservation unit 104 of the management apparatus 100 performs a reservation process for the designated date and time (step S25). For example, the reservation unit 104 performs processing such as writing this use reservation in the management table. Then, the reservation unit 104 of the management device 100 transmits a reservation completion notification to the user terminal 300 (step S26). The user terminal 300 displays this completion notification and notifies the user.

  According to the embodiment described above, in a service in which the vehicle owner lends the vehicle to the user, the vehicle user can be prompted to perform an action performed by the vehicle owner.

[Modification]
The embodiment described above can be modified as follows. The following modifications may be implemented in combination with each other.

[Modification 1]
The method for determining the action condition is not limited to the example of the embodiment. For example, the determination unit 102 may determine the action condition based on information related to the external environment of the vehicle. For example, the information storage device 500 acquires and stores information on the location of the vehicle (parking storage location) and the weather on the moving route, and the determination unit 102 determines the action condition based on the information on the weather. Specifically, the determination unit 102 stores the type of weather (rain, snow, wind, etc.) that the car wash is likely to need, and the location of the vehicle (parking storage location) and the weather on the moving route are the type. If it matches, the act of car washing is determined as an act condition at the date and time after the loan. In addition, the determination unit 102 acquires the pavement status of the moving route of the vehicle from a map database or the like, stores the conditions regarding the presence or absence of pavement that needs to be washed (non-paved road is 30 km or more, etc.), When the travel route matches the condition, the act of car washing is determined as the action condition at the date and time after the lending.
Moreover, the determination part 102 may determine an action condition based on the information regarding a user. Specifically, the determination unit 102 acquires a plan (planned destination, planned travel distance, etc.) for using the user's vehicle from the user terminal 300, and the condition that the plan is considered to require refueling in advance. When satisfying (the distance from the lending position to the planned destination is equal to or greater than the threshold value or the planned travel distance is equal to or greater than the threshold value), the act of refueling is determined as an action condition at the date and time after the lending.
In addition, the determination unit 102 includes designation of details of an action such as refueling, oil change, and car wash (regular or high-octane gasoline type, oil brand, car wash service type, etc.), and designation of a store that performs the act. Action conditions may be determined. In this case, as for the store, the store designated by the owner in advance or the store that the owner always uses from the past behavior history of the owner is designated. At that time, whether or not the owner has used the store is determined based on the user's action history (stay place, stay time), or a receipt image or settlement history (credit card or mobile phone payment) notified to the management device 100 by the owner. Etc.). In addition, when an act is implemented in the designated store, you may set the value of a privilege higher. Similarly, for the details of the action, the detailed contents designated in advance by the owner and the detailed contents that the owner always performs from the past action history of the owner are designated.

[Modification 2]
The privilege given to the user who satisfies the action condition is not limited to the embodiment. As another example of benefits, whether or not the vehicle can be used (lending if the action conditions are met, but not lending if not, etc.), points corresponding to the value for the user (for example, the communication fee of the user terminal can be applied) Or points that can be used instead of money at commercial stores).

[Modification 3]
The vehicle is not limited to an automobile but may be a two-wheeled vehicle.

[Other variations]
In addition, the block diagram used for description of the said embodiment has shown the block of the functional unit. These functional blocks (components) are realized by any combination of hardware and / or software. Further, the means for realizing each functional block is not particularly limited. That is, each functional block may be realized by one device physically and / or logically coupled, and two or more devices physically and / or logically separated may be directly and / or indirectly. (For example, wired and / or wireless) and may be realized by these plural devices.

  Each aspect / embodiment described herein includes LTE (Long Term Evolution), LTE-A (LTE-Advanced), SUPER 3G, IMT-Advanced, 4G, 5G, FRA (Future Radio Access), W-CDMA. (Registered trademark), GSM (registered trademark), CDMA2000, UMB (Ultra Mobile Broadband), IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi), IEEE 802.16 (WiMAX), IEEE 802.20, UWB (Ultra-WideBand), The present invention may be applied to a Bluetooth (registered trademark), a system using another appropriate system, and / or a next generation system extended based on the system.

As long as there is no contradiction, the order of the processing procedures, sequences, flowcharts, and the like of each aspect / embodiment described in this specification may be changed. For example, the methods described herein present the elements of the various steps in an exemplary order and are not limited to the specific order presented.
Each aspect / embodiment described in this specification may be used independently, may be used in combination, or may be switched according to execution. In addition, notification of predetermined information (for example, notification of being “X”) is not limited to explicitly performed, but is performed implicitly (for example, notification of the predetermined information is not performed). Also good.

  As used herein, the terms “system” and “network” are used interchangeably.

  As used herein, the terms “determining” and “determining” may encompass a wide variety of actions. “Judgment” and “decision” are, for example, judgment, calculation, calculation, processing, derivation, investigating, looking up (eg, table , Searching in a database or another data structure), considering ascertaining as “determining”, “deciding”, and the like. In addition, “determination” and “determination” include receiving (for example, receiving information), transmitting (for example, transmitting information), input (input), output (output), and access. (accessing) (e.g., accessing data in a memory) may be considered as "determined" or "determined". In addition, “determination” and “decision” means that “resolving”, “selecting”, “choosing”, “establishing”, and “comparing” are regarded as “determining” and “deciding”. May be included. In other words, “determination” and “determination” may include considering some operation as “determination” and “determination”.

  As used herein, the phrase “based on” does not mean “based only on,” unless expressly specified otherwise. In other words, the phrase “based on” means both “based only on” and “based at least on.” Also, as long as the terms “including”, “comprising”, and variations thereof are used in the specification or claims, these terms are similar to the term “comprising”. Intended to be comprehensive. Furthermore, the term “or” as used herein or in the claims is not intended to be an exclusive OR. Also, throughout this disclosure, if articles are added by translation, for example, a, an, and the in English, these articles must be shown to be clearly not in context. For example, a plurality of items are included.

Software, whether it is called software, firmware, middleware, microcode, hardware description language, or other names, instructions, instruction sets, codes, code segments, program codes, programs, subprograms, software modules , Applications, software applications, software packages, routines, subroutines, objects, executable files, execution threads, procedures, functions, etc. should be interpreted broadly.
Also, software, instructions, etc. may be transmitted / received via a transmission medium. For example, software may use websites, servers, or other devices using wired technology such as coaxial cable, fiber optic cable, twisted pair and digital subscriber line (DSL) and / or wireless technology such as infrared, wireless and microwave. When transmitted from a remote source, these wired and / or wireless technologies are included within the definition of transmission media.

  The terms “connected”, “coupled”, or any variation thereof, means any direct or indirect connection or coupling between two or more elements and It can include the presence of one or more intermediate elements between two “connected” or “coupled” elements. The coupling or connection between the elements may be physical, logical, or a combination thereof. As used herein, the two elements are radio frequency by using one or more wires, cables and / or printed electrical connections, and as some non-limiting and non-inclusive examples By using electromagnetic energy, such as electromagnetic energy having a wavelength in the region, microwave region, and light (both visible and invisible) region, it can be considered to be “connected” or “coupled” to each other.

As described in the embodiment, the management apparatus 100 according to the present invention can be realized by an apparatus that has all of the functions integrally, and the functions of the respective apparatuses are further distributed to a plurality of apparatuses. It may be an implemented system. For example, the management unit 100 may be a management system in which the acquisition unit 101, the determination unit 102, the presentation unit 103, and the reservation unit 104 are respectively mounted on a plurality of devices and realize functions equivalent to the management device 100 as a whole.
In addition, the owner terminal 200 and the user terminal 300 are not limited to devices that perform wireless communication such as smartphones and tablets, but may be devices that perform wired communication such as notebook personal computers.

  The present invention can also be implemented in the form of an information processing method performed by the management apparatus 100 or a program for causing a computer to function as the management apparatus 100. Such a program may be provided in a form recorded on a recording medium such as an optical disc, or may be provided in a form such that the program is downloaded to a computer via a network such as the Internet, and the program can be installed and used. Is possible.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 100 ... Management apparatus, 11 ... Control part, 12 ... Communication part, 13 ... Memory | storage part, 101 ... Acquisition part, 102 ... Determination part, 103 ... Presentation part, 104・ ・ ・ Reservation part 200 ... Owner terminal 300 ... User terminal 31 ... Control part 32 ... Communication part 33 ... Storage part 34 ... UI part 400 ... in-vehicle terminal, 500 ... information storage device, 900 ... network.

Claims (9)

A determination unit that determines an action condition related to an action performed by the user of the vehicle on the vehicle and a date and time when the user performs the action;
A management device, comprising: a presentation unit that presents a rental condition of the vehicle to a user who satisfies the determined action condition on a reservation screen for a user to reserve a vehicle to be used. The management device according to claim 1, wherein the determination unit acquires information about the owner and determines the action condition based on the acquired information. The management apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the information regarding the owner includes information regarding the schedule of the owner. The information regarding the owner includes information regarding the owner's communication.
The management apparatus according to claim 2. The management device according to claim 1, wherein the determination unit acquires information about the user and determines the action condition based on the acquired information. The management apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the information related to the user includes information related to use of the vehicle by the user.   The management device according to claim 1, wherein the determination unit acquires information about the vehicle and determines the action condition based on the acquired information.   The management device according to claim 1, wherein the determination unit acquires information related to an external environment of the vehicle, and determines the action condition based on the acquired information. A determination unit that determines an action condition related to an action performed by the user of the vehicle on the vehicle and a date and time when the user performs the action;
A reservation system for reserving a vehicle to be used by a user, comprising: a presentation unit that presents a rental condition of the vehicle to a user who satisfies the determined action condition.

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