US 12,333,939 B2
E-scooter parking method and system
Thomas Bråten, Fjellhammer (NO); and Igor Pancevski, Oslo (NO)
Assigned to Sparkpark AS, Oslo (NO)
Appl. No. 18/024,966
Filed by Sparkpark AS, Oslo (NO)
PCT Filed Aug. 23, 2021, PCT No. PCT/NO2021/050180
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 6, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/050846, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 10, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 20200961 (NO), filed on Sep. 4, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0368667 A1, Nov. 16, 2023
Int. Cl. G08B 21/00 (2006.01); B62J 45/00 (2020.01); G08G 1/14 (2006.01)
CPC G08G 1/143 (2013.01) [B62J 45/00 (2020.02)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An e-scooter parking method for notifying a backend service of the presence of a free-standing e-scooter within a parking zone for free-standing parking of e-scooters, the e-scooter parking method comprising the steps of:
a) deploying a stationary field appliance at a stationary field appliance location suitable for free-standing parking of the e-scooter;
b) defining the parking zone as an area within a distance L from the stationary field appliance;
c) transmitting a communication signal by a stationary field appliance first transmitter of the stationary field appliance;
d) detecting the communication signal by a mobile field appliance receiver of a mobile field appliance;
e) transmitting a response signal by a mobile field appliance transmitter of the mobile field appliance as a response to the mobile field appliance receiver detecting the communication signal;
f) detecting the response signal by a stationary field appliance receiver of the stationary field appliance;
g) determining, by the stationary field appliance, based on at least the detected response signal, whether the mobile field appliance is within the parking zone;
h) notifying the backend service, by the stationary field appliance, by means of a stationary field appliance second transmitter and a backend service receiver, whether the mobile field appliance is present within the parking zone; and
i) enabling deactivation of the e-scooter by a user of the e-scooter, by the backend service, upon determination by the stationary field appliance that the mobile field appliance is present within the parking zone,
wherein the mobile field appliance is connected to the e-scooter.