TW202223827A - Rental item allocation system and method capable of effectively stimulating and increasing the willingness of renters to immediately return the rental items to the rental station that offers return discounts - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a rental item allocation system and method. The rental item allocation method includes the following steps: when a rental item is rented or returned, a rental station outputting an available number of rental items currently available for rent; and when the available number of rental items at the rental station is less than the corresponding discount trigger value, a central control station wirelessly pushing a return discount message corresponding to the rental station for each rental item that has been rented. Through the design of pushing the return discount message for the rental station when the available number of rental items at the rental station is less than the corresponding discount trigger value, the willingness of renters to immediately return the rental items to the rental station that offers return discounts can be effectively stimulated and increased, thereby helping to improve the operation efficiency of the rental station.

Description

Rental goods allocation system and method

The present invention relates to a rental system, in particular to a deployment system for rental items.

In order to make full use of various rental item resources and maximize the benefits of purchased rental items, many stores currently provide rental services for specific rental items, such as vehicles, audio-visual guide equipment, mobile devices, computers, and wireless network sharing devices. Etc., some large chain stores will set up rental stations in various places, and a central control station will control the rental and return of rental items at these rental stations, and even provide the service of renting and returning from one place to another.

However, each rental station has a rated capacity for a specific rental item. Taking the rental of electric vehicles as an example, each rental station has a limited number of parking devices that can be used to return electric vehicles. When the car is parked, it will cause many renters to find the parking device to return the car, causing inconvenience to the renter, and the rental station that is full of electric cars can only provide rental services, which will reduce its service efficiency by half. Similarly, because the number of electric vehicles that can be rented at each rental station is limited, when all the electric vehicles of a rental station are lent, in addition to the temporary idling of the rental station and waste of resources, the surrounding areas of the rental station The public will also face the situation that there are no electric vehicles to rent and use. Therefore, how to effectively allocate and control the rental and return of rental items at each rental station, so as to improve the rental efficiency of each rental station and each rental item, is the primary task of many rental companies.

Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a rental item dispensing system that ameliorates at least one of the disadvantages of the prior art.

Therefore, the rental item allocation system of the present invention is suitable for controlling the rental and return of a plurality of rental items capable of receiving push broadcast messages. The rental item distribution system includes at least one rental station, and a central control station with a signal connected to the at least one rental station and capable of wirelessly communicating with the rental items. The at least one rental station includes a rental and return unit, and a station management unit signally connected to the rental and return unit, the rental and return unit capable of accommodating a rated capacity of the rental items and operable for rental and return The rental items, and when a rental item is rented or returned, a corresponding loan message will be sent to the site management unit, and the site management unit will receive and analyze the loan message, and statistically output an item with the loan Return the leasable item value of the quantity of the rental items currently available for renting by the unit to the central control station. The central control station includes a site privilege setting unit, and a message push control unit, the site privilege setting unit being operable to set a discount trigger value smaller than the rated capacity for the at least one rental station, and a return Offer message, the message push control unit will receive the value of the rentable item of the at least one rental station, and when the value of the rentable item is less than the discount trigger value, push and broadcast the return to each rental item that has been lent Offers.

Accordingly, another object of the present invention is to provide a method of dispensing rental items that ameliorates at least one of the disadvantages of the prior art.

Therefore, the rental item allocation method of the present invention is suitable for managing the rental and return of a plurality of rental items in a plurality of rental stations. Each rental station has a rated capacity of rental items that can be rented and returned, and each rental item can be wirelessly received. Push message. The rental item allocation method comprises the following steps: (A) when each rental station accepts the return of a rental item or when a rental item it has is rented, statistically output a number representing the rental items currently available for rent. and (B) cause the central control station to receive and record the value of the leasable item for each rental station, and the value of the leasable item at one rental station is less than that of the rental station When corresponding to a preferential trigger value, wirelessly push and broadcast a return preferential message corresponding to the rental station for each rental item that has been rented at present.

The effect of the present invention is: when the value of the leasable item of a rental station is lower than the corresponding discount trigger value, the design of pushing and broadcasting the return discount message to the rental station can effectively stimulate the renter to immediately go to provide the return The willingness of the rental station to return the rental items at a discount will help improve the operational efficiency of the rental station.

Referring to FIGS. 1 and 3 , an embodiment of the rental item dispatching system of the present invention is suitable for managing and dispatching the rental and return of a plurality of rental items 800 , and can wirelessly communicate with the rental items 800 , and the wireless communication is through normal actions Communication network system or wireless network system such as WiFi. Each rental item 800 is an electronic product with positioning function and wireless communication function, which can locate its current position through GPS and/or network positioning technology, and send a corresponding position data, and can wirelessly receive and display push broadcast messages. The rental item 800 can be a bicycle, an electric vehicle, a motor vehicle, an audio-visual guide, a mobile phone, or other electronic products known in the market that can be rented and that can perform positioning and receive and display push messages.

The rental item distribution system includes a plurality of rental stations 3 distributed in different locations, and a central control station 4 that is connected with a signal to the rental stations 3 and can wirelessly communicate with the rental items 800 . The signal connection between the central control station 4 and the rental stations 3 may be through wireless network, wired network and/or mobile communication network. For the convenience of description, the rental item 800 in this pattern is described by taking an electric vehicle as an example, that is to say, the rental stations 3 in this embodiment are electric vehicle rental stations.

Each rental station 3 includes a rental return unit 31 , and a station management unit 32 . The rental and return unit 31 has the function of processing the rental and return of the rental items 800, and can only accommodate the rental items 800 of a rated capacity, for example, an electric vehicle with the rated capacity can be parked, and the rated capacity can be parked within the range of the rated capacity. The internal operation is used for renting and returning the rental items 800 , and when a rental item 800 is rented or returned, a loan and return message is correspondingly sent to the site management unit 32 .

The site management unit 32 has the rated capacity built in, and will receive and process the borrowing and returning information to count the number of rental items 800 currently available for rental in the rental and returning unit 31, and output a value of the available rental items to Central control station 4. And the site management unit 32 will also drive the rental and return unit 31 to suspend the return function when the value of the rentable item is equal to the rated capacity, and can only be operated for renting the rental item 800, but cannot be operated for return. Operation.

The central control station 4 includes a site preferential setting unit 41 , a preferential quota calculation unit 42 , a range screening unit 44 , a timing unit 43 , and a message push control unit 45 .

The site discount setting unit 41 is operable to set a discount trigger value, a discount stop value, a discount time, a screening distance threshold, and a return discount message for each rental station 3, respectively. Both the discount trigger value and the discount cut-off value are smaller than the rated capacity of the corresponding rental station 3, but the discount cut-off value is greater than the discount trigger value. The content setting of the return discount message is mainly to inform the renter that if the rented item 800 is returned under the specific return discount conditions entrained in the return discount message, the renter will get a discount on the rent. The preferential return conditions are, for example, Return it within a specific time, or be the first N who have completed the return procedure immediately.

The discount quota calculation unit 42 is triggered and activated by the message push control unit 45 to calculate the difference between the discount cut-off value set by a specific rental station 3 and the value of the rentable item currently uploaded by the rental station 3, and record A preferential quota corresponding to the rental station 3, and the preferential quota will be adjusted correspondingly with the change of the value of the rentable item transmitted by the rental station 3, and the maximum value of the preferential quota is the discount cut-off value. For example, the rated capacity corresponding to a rental station 3 is twenty, the discount trigger value is five, the discount cut-off value is ten, and the currently uploaded value of the rentable items is three, then the discount quota is seven , when the rental station 3 has two rental items 800 returned, the value of the leasable items changes to five, then the preferential quota is reduced to five, when the remaining three rental items 800 of the rental station 3 are all rented When the value of the rental item changes to zero, the preferential quota will be increased to ten.

The range screening unit 44 has a plurality of built-in site coordinates representing the positions of the rental stations 3, which will be triggered and activated by the message push control unit 45, and wirelessly communicate with each rental item 800 currently being rented. , it will drive each rental item 800 that has been rented to return the location data correspondingly, and will be triggered to calculate the relationship between each rental item 800 that returns the location data according to the site coordinates of the specific rental station 3 The distance between the rental stations 3 is then screened out for each rental item 800 whose distance is less than the screening distance threshold corresponding to the rental station 3 .

The timing unit 43 is triggered by the message push control unit 45 to start timing the preferential time corresponding to the specific rental station 3 .

The message push control unit 45 will receive the values of the rentable items sent by the rental station 3 at any time, and analyze the relationship between each value of the rentable items and the corresponding discount trigger value. When the value of the rentable item of a rental station 3 is less than the corresponding discount trigger value, the message push control unit 45 will activate the push function of the return discount message of the rental station 3 .

When the information push control unit 45 activates the preferential information push function for the rental station 3 , the preferential quota calculation unit 42 , the range screening unit 44 and the timing unit 43 are triggered for the rental station 3 . At this time, the triggered discount quota calculation unit 42 will calculate the preferential quota corresponding to the rental station 3 . The range screening unit 44 will drive each rental item 800 that has been rented to return the location data, and calculate the distance between the rental station 3 and each rental item 800 that has been rented, and then filter out that the distance is less than The rental station 3 corresponds to each rental item 800 of the screening distance threshold. The timing unit 43 starts timing the preferential time corresponding to the rental station 3 .

Next, the message push control unit 45 compares the return offer message corresponding to the rental station 3, and includes the offer quota and the offer time in the return offer message. Then, the return offer message is pushed to each rental item 800 screened by the range screening unit 44 . With this design, when a rental item 800 receives the return offer message, in addition to displaying the preset preferential discount, the preferential quota and the preferential time are also displayed. During implementation, the display mode of the preferential time can be designed to drive the rental item 800 to display the timing result of the preferential time in real time, or only to drive the rental item 800 to display the preferential time entrained in the return preferential message. No real-time timing function.

In addition, the message push control unit 45 will drive the preferential quota calculation unit 42 to re-calculate the preferential quota, and drive the range screening unit 44 to re-select these The rental item 800, and then, for each of the re-screened rental items 800, the return promotion message containing the changed preferential quota and the current timing result of the promotion time is pushed.

The message push control unit 45 will send a discount to each rental item 800 that previously sent the return discount message to the rental station 3 when the discount quota corresponding to the rental station 3 is equal to zero, or when the discount time expires End message.

Referring to FIGS. 1, 2, and 3, the dispensing method of the rental item dispensing system of the present invention includes the following steps performed in sequence:

Step 100: Statistically output the value of the rentable item. When each rental station 3 accepts the return of a rental item 800 or when a rental item 800 it owns is rented, it statistically outputs the value of the leasable item to the central control station 4 .

In step 200 , the central control station 4 enables the return promotion of a rental station 3 when the value of the leasable item of a rental station 3 is less than the corresponding discount trigger value. Contains sub-steps 201~203:

In sub-step 201 , the central control station 4 calculates the preferential quota of the rental station 3 .

Sub-step 202, the central control station 4 drives each lent rental item 800 to return the position data representing its current position correspondingly, and analyzes the position data of each rental item 800 to the rental station 3. The distance of the journey is then screened out for each rental item 800 whose journey distance is less than the screening value of the range corresponding to the rental station 3 .

Sub-step 203, make the central control station 4 compare the return preferential message and the preferential time corresponding to the rental station 3, and entrain the preferential time and the preferential quota in the return preferential message, and then perform the sub-step The rental items 800 screened out in 202 push the return offer message.

In step 300, the central control station 4 is made to analyze whether the return preferential activity of the rental station 3 is stopped. Contains sub-steps 301~305:

In this sub-step 301, the central control station 4 is made to judge whether the value of the rentable item of the rental station 3 has changed, if the value of the rentable item has not changed, then the sub-step 302 is executed to judge whether the preferential time is over, if the If the preferential time has not expired, go back to the sub-step 301, and if the preferential time has expired, go to the sub-step 303. In the sub-step 303 , the central control station 4 pushes the offer end message to each rental item 800 that previously pushed the return offer message to the rental station 3 .

When the central control station 4 determines in the sub-step 301 that the value of the rentable item has changed, execute the sub-step 304 to determine whether the preferential quota after the value of the rentable item is changed is equal to zero, and when the preferential quota is equal to zero, continue to execute This step 303 . When the preferential quota is not equal to zero, the sub-step 305 is executed to determine whether the preferential time ends. If the central control station 4 judges in the sub-step 305 that the preferential time has expired, then executes the sub-step 303; if it judges that the preferential time has not expired, then returns to the execution of the step 200 to recalculate the preferential quota and filter the route For each rental item 800 whose distance is less than the corresponding screening distance threshold, then re-broadcast the return offer message.

In this embodiment, the central control station 4 will limit the valid time limit of the return discount message of each rental station 3 through the discount time. However, in implementation, in another embodiment of the present invention, the discount may not be set. The discount time function, that is, the discount activity is not limited by time, and the return discount will only be provided according to the discount quota.

In addition, in this embodiment, the range screening unit 44 will filter out the rental items 800 within a specific distance of the rental station 3, and then push and broadcast the return offer message to the selected rental items 800. However, in the implementation, in this implementation For example, in another embodiment, the range screening may not be performed, and the return offer message may be pushed to all the rented items 800 that have been rented.

To sum up, when the value of the leasable items of a rental station 3 is lower than the corresponding discount trigger value, the design of sending the return discount message to the rental items 800 located within a specific distance of the rental station 3 , can effectively stimulate and improve the willingness of the renter to immediately return the rental items 800 to the rental station 3 that provides return discounts, help the rental station 3 to keep a certain number of rental items 800 available for rent, and can greatly improve the rental station 3. 3. Operational efficiency. Therefore, the object of the present invention can be achieved indeed.

However, the above are only examples of the present invention, and should not limit the scope of implementation of the present invention. Any simple equivalent changes and modifications made according to the scope of the patent application of the present invention and the contents of the patent specification are still included in the scope of the present invention. within the scope of the invention patent.

100~300: steps 201~305: Substeps 3: Rental station 31: Rental Return Unit 32: Site Snap-in 4: Central control station box 41: Site Privilege Setting Unit 42: Calculation unit of preferential quota 43: Timing Unit 44: Range Filter Unit 45: Message push control unit 800: Rental items

Other features and effects of the present invention will be clearly presented in the embodiments with reference to the drawings, wherein: Fig. 1 is an embodiment of the rental item allocation system of the present invention, a schematic diagram of the structure when used with a plurality of rental items of electric vehicle types; FIG. 2 is a flow chart of the steps of the dispensing method of the embodiment; and FIG. 3 is a functional block diagram of this embodiment.

100~300: steps

201~305: Substeps

Claims (7)

A rental item allocation system, suitable for managing the rental and return of a plurality of rental items capable of receiving push broadcast messages, and comprising at least one rental station, and a signal connected to the at least one rental station and capable of wirelessly communicating with the rental items Central Control Station, where: The at least one rental station includes a rental and return unit, and a station management unit signally connected to the rental and return unit, the rental and return unit capable of accommodating a rated capacity of the rental items and operable for rental and return The rental items, and when a rental item is rented or returned, a corresponding loan message will be sent to the site management unit, and the site management unit will receive and analyze the loan message, and statistically output an item with the loan Return to the central control station the leasable item value of the quantity of the rental items currently available for rent in the unit; The central control station includes a site privilege setting unit, and a message push control unit, the site privilege setting unit being operable to set a discount trigger value smaller than the rated capacity for the at least one rental station, and a return Offer message, the message push control unit will receive the value of the rentable item of the at least one rental station, and when the value of the rentable item is less than the discount trigger value, push and broadcast the return to each rental item that has been lent Offers. The rental item allocation system according to claim 1, wherein the site preferential setting unit is further configured for operation to set a preferential stopping value that is greater than the preferential triggering value but less than the rated capacity, and the central control station further includes a preferential quota A calculation unit, the discount quota calculation unit is triggered when the value of the rentable item is less than the discount trigger value, and calculates a discount quota representing the difference between the discount stop value and the value of the rentable item, and will When the value of the rentable item is changed, the preferential quota is correspondingly changed, and the information push control unit will entrain the preferential quota in the return preferential message pushed and broadcasted for each rental item. The rental item allocation system according to claim 2, wherein the site preferential setting unit is further operable to set a preferential time for the at least one rental station, the central control station further comprises a timing unit, and the message push broadcast The control unit drives the timing unit to start timing the discount time when the value of the rentable item is less than the discount trigger value, and includes the discount time in the return discount message pushed and broadcasted for each rental item. The rental item allocation system according to claim 3, wherein the message push control unit will push a message for each rental item that has received the return offer message when the discount quota is equal to zero or when the offer time expires Offer end message. The rental item distribution system as claimed in claim 4 includes a plurality of rental stations, the central control station is signally connected to each rental station, and the rated capacities of the rental and return units of the rental stations are the same or different , the site discount setting unit can be operated to individually set the discount trigger value, the return discount message, the discount time and the discount stop value for each rental station, and the message push control unit will receive the information of each rental station. The value of the rentable item, and when the value of the rentable item at one of the rental stations is less than the corresponding value of the discount trigger, push and broadcast the return discount message to each rental item currently rented. A rental item allocation method, which is suitable for managing the rental and return of a plurality of rental items in a plurality of rental stations, each rental station has a rated capacity of rental items that can be rented and returned, and each rental item can wirelessly receive push broadcast messages , the rental item allocation method includes the following steps: (A) When each rental station accepts the return of a rental item or when one of the rental items it has is leased, statistically output a value of leasable items representing the number of such rental items currently available for rent into a control station; and (B) Make the central control station receive and record the value of the leasable item of each rental station, and when the value of the leasable item of a rental station is less than a discount trigger value corresponding to the rental station, the currently rented item Each rental item wirelessly broadcasts a return offer message corresponding to the rental station. The rental item allocation method according to claim 6, wherein the step (B) includes the following sub-steps: (B1) when the value of the leasable item at a rental station of the central control station is less than the discount trigger value, Calculate a discount quota representing the difference between the rental station's value of the rentable items and a discount stop value set at the rental station, the discount stop value being greater than the discount trigger value but less than the rated capacity, and ( B2) Make the central control station entrain the preferential quota in the return preferential message pushed and broadcast for each rental item.

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