# US 2017/0282736 A1 · Automated system for managing and providing a network of charging stations > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2017/0282736 A1 - Document ID: US20170282736A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 15/477,669 - Filed: 2017-04-03 - Published: 2017-10-05 - Earliest claimed: 2016-04-01 - Assignees: Ijuze Corporation Pte Ltd. - Applicants: Ijuze Corporation Pte Ltd. - Inventors: ESMOND GOEI - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20170282736A1 ## CPC - B60L 53/67: Controlling two or more charging stations - B60L 53/53: Batteries - B60L 53/60: Monitoring or controlling charging stations - B60L 53/62: in response to charging parameters, e.g. current, voltage or electrical charge - B60L 53/64: Optimising energy costs, e.g. responding to electricity rates - B60L 53/65: involving identification of vehicles or their battery types - B60L 53/665: {Methods related to measuring, billing or payment} - G01C 21/3469: {Fuel consumption; Energy use; Emission aspects} - B60L 53/16: Connectors, e.g. plugs or sockets, specially adapted for charging electric vehicles - B60L 53/66: Data transfer between charging stations and vehicles - B60L 2240/72: Charging station selection relying on external data - Y02T 10/70: Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries - Y02T 10/7072: Electromobility specific charging systems or methods for batteries, ultracapacitors, supercapacitors or double-layer capacitors - Y02T 10/72: Electric energy management in electromobility - Y02T 90/12: Electric charging stations - Y02T 90/14: Plug-in electric vehicles - Y02T 90/16: Information or communication technologies improving the operation of electric vehicles - 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] - Y04S 30/12: Remote or cooperative charging - Y04S 30/14: Details associated with the interoperability, e.g. vehicle recognition, authentication, identification or billing - B60L: PROPULSION OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES (arrangements or mounting of electrical propulsion units or of plural diverse prime-movers for mutual or common propulsion in vehicles B60K1/00, B60K6/20; arrangements or mounting of electrical gearing in vehicles B60K17/12, B60K17/14; preventing wheel slip by reducing power in rail vehicles B61C15/08; dynamo-electric machines H02K; control or regulation of electric motors H02P); SUPPLYING ELECTRIC POWER FOR AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES (electric coupling devices combined with mechanical couplings of vehicles B60D1/64; electric heating for vehicles B60H1/00); ELECTRODYNAMIC BRAKE SYSTEMS FOR VEHICLES IN GENERAL (control or regulation of electric motors H02P); MAGNETIC SUSPENSION OR LEVITATION FOR VEHICLES; MONITORING OPERATING VARIABLES OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES; ELECTRIC SAFETY DEVICES FOR ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLED VEHICLES - G01C: MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; GYROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY OR VIDEOGRAMMETRY (measuring liquid level G01F; radio navigation, determining distance or velocity by use of propagation effects, e.g. Doppler effects, propagation time, of radio waves, analogous arrangements using other waves G01S) - Y02T: CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION - Y04S: SYSTEMS INTEGRATING TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO POWER NETWORK OPERATION, COMMUNICATION OR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR IMPROVING THE ELECTRICAL POWER GENERATION, TRANSMISSION, DISTRIBUTION, MANAGEMENT OR USAGE, i.e. SMART GRIDS ## Abstract A system for managing a group of charging stations for a personal mobility device and includes a central personal mobility device charger controller for controlling system operations. A first interface enables communication between the central personal mobility device charge controller and a plurality of charging units for charging the personal mobility device. A second interface enables communications between the central personal mobility device charge controller and a plurality of charging applications enabling finding of locations of at least one of the plurality of charging units and making of reservations with the at least one of the plurality of charging units. A reservation controller stored on the central personal mobility device charger controller enables a user of one of the plurality of charging applications to select the at least one of the plurality of charging units and make a reservation with the at least one of the plurality of charging units at a selected time period. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A system for managing a group of charging stations for at least one personal mobility device, comprising: a central personal mobility device charger controller for controlling system operation; a first interface for enabling communication between the central personal mobility device charge controller and a plurality of charging units for charging the at least one personal mobility device; a second interface for enabling communications between the central personal mobility device charge controller and a plurality of charging applications enabling finding locations of at least one of the plurality of charging units and making of reservations with the at least one of the plurality of charging units; and a reservation controller stored on the central personal mobility device charger controller for enabling a user of one of the plurality of charging applications to select the at least one of the plurality of charging units and make a reservation with the at least one of the plurality of charging units at a selected time period. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1 further comprising: a member profile database for storing member data for users that have registered with the system; and a vendor profile database for storing vendor data for vendors that have registered with the system. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The system of claim 2 further comprising a registration controller stored on the central personal mobility device charger controller for enabling new members to register with the system through communications between the central personal mobility device charger controller and at least one of the plurality of charging applications and for enabling new vendors to register with the system through communications between the central personal mobility device charger controller and the at least one of the plurality of charging applications, the registration controller further storing new member data within the member profiled database and new vendor data within the vendor profile database. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1 further comprising a trip planning controller stored on the central personal mobility device charger controller for receiving trip planning data from the at least one trip planning application, the trip planning data comprising a plurality of geographic locations, the trip planning controller locating ones of the plurality of charging units located near the plurality of geographic locations and providing the identified charging units from the central personal mobility device charger controller to the at least one of the plurality of charging applications. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1 further including the plurality of charging units communicating with the central personal mobility device charger controller, the plurality of charging units each further comprising: a connector for connecting a connected personal mobility device to the charging unit; charging circuitry for providing a charging current to the connected personal mobility device; a charger reservation controller for communication with the reservation controller of the central personal mobility device charger controller to enable the reservations with the plurality of charging units; a battery charge controller for controlling a provisioning of electrical energy from a charging power source to a battery of the connected personal mobility device; and a payment controller for enabling acceptance of payment information for payment of charging services provided by a charging unit to the connected personal mobility device. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The system of claim 5, wherein each of the charging units further comprises: a power grid connector for connecting the charging unit to the power grid to provide first charging energy to the connected personal mobility device; an alternative electrical energy source network for provide second charging energy to the connected personal mobility device; and wherein the battery charge controller switches between the first charging energy and the second charging energy to the connected personal mobility device responsive to a cost of the first charging energy and the second charging energy. ### Claim 7 (depends on 5) The system of claim 5 further comprising a biometric device associated with at least one of the plurality of charging units, the biometric device obtaining biometric data from the user attempting to access the at least one charging unit to authorize use of the at least one charging unit. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1 further including the plurality of charging units communicating with the central personal mobility device charger controller, the plurality of charging units each further comprising: a locker for securing the personal mobility device and the charging unit; a connector for connecting a connected personal mobility device to the charging unit; charging circuitry for providing a charging current to the connected personal mobility device; a battery charge controller for controlling a provisioning of electrical energy from a charging power source to a battery of the connected personal mobility device and tracking a battery charging status; and a communications interface for communicating the battery charging status to the user. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1 further including the plurality of charging applications, wherein each of the plurality of charging applications further comprises: a reservation interface enabling the user to select the at least one of the plurality of charging units and the selected time period from the reservation controller of the central personal mobility device charger controller; a location controller for providing geographic position information to the trip planning controller of the central personal mobility device charger controller; and a payment controller for providing payment data for received charging services for the user's personal mobility device. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The system of claim 9, wherein the plurality of charging applications further provides a battery management controller for tracking a battery discharge rate of the personal mobility device and generating alerts to the user responsive to a determination of a low battery condition of the at least one personal mobility device. ### Claim 11 A system for managing a group of charging stations for at least one electric device, comprising: a central device charger controller for controlling system operation; a first interface for enabling communication between the central device charge controller and a plurality of charging units for charging the at least one electric device; a second interface for enabling communications between the central device charge controller and a plurality of charging applications enabling finding locations of at least one of the plurality of charging units and making of reservations with the at least one of the plurality of charging units; and a reservation controller stored on the central device charger controller for enabling a user of one of the plurality of charging applications to select the at least one of the plurality of charging units and make a reservation with the at least one of the plurality of charging units at a selected time period. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The system of claim 11 further comprising: a member profile database for storing member data for users that have registered with the system; and a vendor profile database for storing vendor data for vendors that have registered with the system. ### Claim 13 (depends on 12) The system of claim 12 further comprising a registration controller stored on the central device charger controller for enabling new members to register with the system through communications between the central device charger controller and at least one of the plurality of charging applications and for enabling new vendors to register with the system through communications between the central device charger controller and the at least one of the plurality of charging applications, the registration controller further storing new member data within the member profiled database and new vendor data within the vendor profile database. ### Claim 14 (depends on 11) The system of claim 11 further comprising a trip planning controller stored on the central device charger controller for receiving trip planning data from the at least one trip planning application, the trip planning data comprising a plurality of geographic locations, the trip planning controller locating ones of the plurality of charging units located near the plurality of geographic locations and providing the identified charging units from the central device charger controller to the at least one of the plurality of charging applications. ### Claim 15 (depends on 11) The system of claim 11 further including the plurality of charging units communicating with the central device charger controller, the plurality of charging units each further comprising: a connector for connecting a connected electric device to the charging unit; charging circuitry for providing a charging current to the connected electric device; a charger reservation controller for communication with the reservation controller of the central device charger controller to enable the reservations with the plurality of charging units; a battery charge controller for controlling a provisioning of electrical energy from a charging power source to a battery of the connected electric device; and a payment controller for enabling acceptance of payment information for payment of charging services provided by a charging unit to the connected electric device. ### Claim 16 (depends on 15) The system of claim 15, wherein each of the charging units further comprises: a power grid connector for connecting the charging unit to the power grid to provide first charging energy to the connected electric device; an alternative electrical energy source network for provide second charging energy to the connected electric device; and wherein the battery charge controller switches between the first charging energy and the second charging energy to the connected electric device responsive to a cost of the first charging energy and the second charging energy. ### Claim 17 (depends on 11) The system of claim 11 further comprising a biometric device associated with at least one of the plurality of charging units, the biometric device obtaining biometric data from the user attempting to access the at least one charging unit to authorize use of the at least one charging unit. ### Claim 18 (depends on 11) The system of claim 11, wherein the plurality of charging units each further comprising: a locker for securing the electric device and the charging unit; a connector for connecting the electric device to the charging unit; charging circuitry for providing a charging current to the connected electric device; a battery charge controller for controlling a provisioning of electrical energy from a charging power source to a battery of the connected electric device and tracking a battery charging status; and a communications interface for communicating the battery charging status to the user. ### Claim 19 (depends on 11) The system of claim 11 further including the plurality of charging applications, wherein each of the plurality of charging applications further comprises: a reservation interface enabling the user to select the at least one of the plurality of charging units and the selected time period from the reservation controller of the central device charger controller; a location controller for providing geographic position information to the trip planning controller of the central device charger controller; and a payment controller for providing payment data for received charging services for the user's electric device. ### Claim 20 (depends on 19) The system of claim 19, wherein the plurality of charging applications further provides a battery management controller for tracking a battery discharge rate of the electric device and generating alerts to the user responsive to a determination of a low battery condition of the at least one electric device. ### Claim 21 A method for managing a system of charging stations for at least one personal mobility device, comprising: enabling communication between a central personal mobility device charge controller and a plurality of charging units for charging the at least one personal mobility device; enabling communications between the central personal mobility device charge controller and a plurality of charging applications; finding locations of at least one of the plurality of charging units; selecting at least one of the plurality of charging units; selecting a time for charging the at least one personal mobility device with the selected at least one of the plurality of charging units; and making a reservation with the selected at least one of the plurality of charging units at the selected time. ### Claim 22 (depends on 21) The method of claim 21 further comprising: storing member data for users that have registered with the system; and storing vendor data for vendors that have registered with the system. ### Claim 23 (depends on 22) The method of claim 22, further comprising: enabling new members to register with the system through communications between the central personal mobility device charger controller and at least one of the plurality of charging applications; and enabling new vendors to register with the system through communications between the central personal mobility device charger controller and the at least one of the plurality of charging applications; and storing new member data within the member profiled database and new vendor data within the vendor profile database. ### Claim 24 (depends on 21) The method of claim 21 further comprising: receiving trip planning data from the at least one trip planning application, the trip planning data comprising a plurality of geographic locations; locating ones of the plurality of charging units located near the plurality of geographic locations; and providing the identified charging units from the central personal mobility device charger controller to the at least one of the plurality of charging applications. ### Claim 25 (depends on 21) The method of claim 21 further comprising: connecting a connected personal mobility device to the charging unit; providing a charging current to the connected personal mobility device; communicating with the reservation controller of the central personal mobility device charger controller to enable a reservation with the connected charging unit; controlling a provisioning of electrical energy from a charging power source to a battery of the connected personal mobility device; and enabling acceptance of payment information for payment of charging services provided by a charging unit to the connected personal mobility device. ### Claim 26 (depends on 25) The method of claim 25 further comprising: connecting the charging unit to the power grid to provide first charging energy to the connected personal mobility device; connecting the charging unit to an alternative electrical energy source network to provide second charging energy to the connected personal mobility device; determining a cost of the first charging energy and the second charging energy; and switching between the first charging energy and the second charging energy to the connected personal mobility device responsive to the cost of the first charging energy and the second charging energy. ### Claim 27 (depends on 21) The method of claim 21 further comprising: enabling the user to select the at least one of the plurality of charging units and the selected time period from the reservation controller of the central personal mobility device charger controller; and providing geographic position information to the trip planning controller of the central personal mobility device charger controller; and providing payment data for received charging services for the user's personal mobility device. ### Claim 28 (depends on 27) The method of claim 27 further comprising: tracking a battery discharge rate of the personal mobility device; and generating alerts to the user responsive to a determination of a low battery condition of the personal mobility device.