INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM

• US 20140100708A1
• Filed: 05/25/2012
• Published: 04/10/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/21/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Ukita, Masakazu, Moriai, Shiho, Katagi, Masanobu
• Granted Patent: US 10,001,798 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/297
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/72 Charging station selection relying on external data
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/80 Time limits
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/305 Communication interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/63 in response to network capacity
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/64 Optimising energy costs, e.g. responding to electricity rates
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/65 involving identification of vehicles or their battery types
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/68 Off-site monitoring or control, e.g. remote control
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 55/00 Arrangements for supplying energy stored within a vehicle to a power network, i.e. vehicle-to-grid [V2G] arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G05F 1/66 Regulating electric power
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/32 using batteries with converting means
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/381 Dispersed generators
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00036 Charger exchanging data with battery
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00047 with provisions for charging different types of batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/00 Enabling technologies; Technologies with a potential or indirect contribution to GHG emissions mitigation
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/70 Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/7072 Electromobility specific charging systems or methods for batteries, ultracapacitors, supercapacitors or double-layer capacitors
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/72 Electric energy management in electromobility
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/12 Electric charging stations
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/14 Plug-in electric vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/16 Information or communication technologies improving the operation of electric vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/167 : 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 Class Codes: Y04S 10/126 : the energy generation units being or involving electric vehicles [EV] or hybrid vehicles [HEV], i.e. power aggregation of EV or HEV, vehicle to grid arrangements [V2G]
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 10/14 : Energy storage units
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 30/12 : Remote or cooperative charging
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 30/14 : Details associated with the interoperability, e.g. vehicle recognition, authentication, identification or billing

Abstract

There is provided an information processing device including an acquisition unit that acquires power supply request information that includes information on a supply period during which an electric power system is requesting supply of electric power, and reservation information for a vehicle, a calculation unit that, on the basis of the reservation information, calculates supply power to be supplied to the electric power system from the vehicle during the supply period, and a notification unit that notifies the electric power system of the calculated supply power.

Claims

1. An information processing device comprising:

an acquisition unit that acquires power supply request information that includes information on a supply period during which an electric power system is requesting supply of electric power, and reservation information for a vehicle;

a calculation unit that, on the basis of the reservation information, calculates supply power to be supplied to the electric power system from the vehicle during the supply period; and

a notification unit that notifies the electric power system of the calculated supply power.

2. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein

the calculation unit calculates the supply power by totaling power to be supplied by each of the vehicle that is not reserved during the supply period.

3. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein

the calculation unit calculates power to be supplied by each of the vehicle in a manner that, between a time when the supply period ends and a time when the reservation starts, an amount of charge that is used for usage of the vehicle according to the reservation is charged.

4. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein

the calculation unit calculates power to be supplied by each of the vehicle by adding together a first amount of power charged in the battery at a current time, a second amount of power charged from a current time up to a start time of the supply period, and a third amount of power charged from an end time of the supply period up to a start time of the reservation, subtracting from the added value a fourth amount of power to be used for usage of the vehicle according to the reservation, and converting the subtracted value into a value per unit time.

5. The information processing device according to claim 4, wherein

when a sum of a product of a length of time from the current time to the start time of the supply period and a charge power, and the first amount of power, exceeds a charge capacity, the calculation unit calculates the supply power by taking a sum of the first amount of power and the second amount of power as a value of the charge capacity.

6. The information processing device according to claim 5, wherein

when the sum of the product of the length of time from the current time to the start time of the supply period and the charge power, and the first amount of power, does not exceed the charge capacity, the calculation unit calculates the supply power by taking the product of the length of time from the current time to the start time of the supply period and the charge power as the second amount of power.

7. An information processing method comprising:

acquiring power supply request information that includes information on a supply period during which an electric power system is requesting supply of electric power, and reservation information for a vehicle;

calculating, on the basis of the reservation information, supply power to be supplied to the electric power system from the vehicle during the supply period; and

notifying the electric power system of the calculated supply power.

8. A program for causing a computer to function as an information processing device including

an acquisition unit that acquires power supply request information that includes information on a supply period during which an electric power system is requesting supply of electric power, and reservation information for a vehicle,

a calculation unit that, on the basis of the reservation information, calculates supply power to be supplied to the electric power system from the vehicle during the supply period, and

a notification unit that notifies the electric power system of the calculated supply power.

9. A computer-readable recording medium having a program recorded thereon, the program causing a computer to function as an information processing device including

an acquisition unit that acquires power supply request information that includes information on a supply period during which an electric power system is requesting supply of electric power, and reservation information for a vehicle,

a calculation unit that, on the basis of the reservation information, calculates supply power to be supplied to the electric power system from the vehicle during the supply period, and

a notification unit that notifies the electric power system of the calculated supply power.

10. An information processing system comprising:

an electric power system that transmits power supply request information that requests supply of electric power in a time period during which power demand is predicted to exceed supply;

a user device that transmit reservation information for a vehicle; and

an information processing device that includes

an acquisition unit that acquires the power supply request information as well as the reservation information related to a plurality of the vehicles,

a calculation unit that, on the basis of the reservation information, calculates supply power to be supplied to the electric power system from the vehicles during a supply period included in the power supply request information, and

a notification unit that notifies the electric power system of the calculated supply power.