Electronic fence (E-Fence) control technology for dockless sharing vehicles

• Main Authors: Lin, Shaorong, Hu, Zijie, Wang, Xinbo, Li, Angyun
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 14.05.2019
• Subjects: APPLIANCES PREVENTING OR INDICATING UNAUTHORIZED USE OR THEFTOF CYCLES; CHECKING-DEVICES; COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS; CYCLE STANDS; DEVICES FOR LEARNING TO RIDE CYCLES; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; LAND VEHICLES FOR TRAVELLING OTHERWISE THAN ON RAILS; LOCKS INTEGRAL WITH CYCLES; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; SIGNALLING; SUPPORTS OR HOLDERS FOR PARKING OR STORING CYCLES; TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS; TRANSPORTING; WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS

The present disclosure discloses a dockless vehicle-based electric fence control method. The method comprises: demarcating and forming, by a backend server, a non-parking area and/or a riding boundary of a vehicle by using a map engine tool, wherein longitude and latitude coordinates at which the non-parking area and/or the riding boundary is located is stored into a database of the backend server; when ride comes to an end, sending, by a mobile terminal or intelligent hardware installed in a ridden vehicle, the parking position coordinates of a current vehicle to the backend server; and receiving, by the backend server, parking position coordinates of the vehicle, comparing the parking position coordinates of the vehicle with the database, determining whether the parking position coordinates of the current vehicle are located in the non-parking area or beyond the riding boundary, and feeding back a determining result to the mobile terminal and/or the intelligent hardware. According to the present disclosure, existing problems that shared vehicles are inappropriately parked and placed and there is no riding boundary, which hinder management and operation of vehicles, are solved. By setting a virtual electric fence, as well as related non-parking areas and riding boundaries, parking of vehicles is regulated, and management is strengthened.