Self-service external battery rental, from the station to the console

Lend an external battery with nobody at the counter: a station hands it out, the customer brings it back, payment is settled by card imprint. The operator has to see the network at a glance and act remotely, including when something breaks down.

• A customer journey on the phone: the customer scans a code or taps their phone, then follows the rental.
• Payment by card imprint, linked to a payment provider.
• An operations console: the state of each station, rentals in progress, remote actions.
• A server that holds the rentals and talks to the stations, with notifications.
• Code split into separate packages: shared contracts, business core, database, payments, hardware, notifications.

On 29 October 2026, a complete acceptance run was played on a private server: the customer journey end to end, the console actions, five induced failures, then restoring a backup and resuming the rentals in progress. During the failure run, 25 rentals went through to closing. The stations and the payment provider were simulated.

• No real station is connected: the hardware and its protocol are awaited. The next slice makes the hardware acknowledgement durable.
• Payment is simulated: no real payment has been taken.
• The design is being overhauled: the visual direction is chosen and the component base laid. A test delivery is planned for 30 November 2026.
• The current name is provisional. The brand will be chosen after a prior-rights search, and no screenshot or address is published until then.
• No usage figure, no customer, no commercial result.