All About EV Smart Charging

What Is Smart EV Charging?

In contrast to a conventional charging station, which is limited to understanding terms like 'battery full' or 'battery empty', a smart charging station is a sophisticated communicator – it speaks with both EVs, users and administrators.

EV chargers can be explained as:

Unlike Traditional chargers, EV smart charging allows the charging operator to manage how much energy is delivered to each plugged-in electric vehicle.

Smart electric vehicle (EV) charging uses intelligence to manage when and how an electric vehicle plugged into a smart charger will receive power for charging based on the cost of electricity, its availability, and the needs of the driver. EV smart charging lets you monitor, manage, and adjust energy consumption. It requires a data connection between the EV, the charger, the charge point operator’s cloud-based charging management platform and the grid.

Smart EV charging makes it easy to add and remove features to create a system that meets your needs. Existing charging stations can also be updated to include new features. This makes smart EV charging future-proof. Adapting to changing needs and demands will lead to new features being added to the smart system over time.

With smart charging, electric cars can interact with the power grid in a symbiotic way - they support one another. Smart charging makes this connection possible and prevents EVs from adding unnecessary strain to the grid.

How Do Smart EV Chargers Work?

• When an electric vehicle is charged using smart charging, the owner plugs in the charging cable and a communication session is established between the charger and the car.
• The smart EV charging platform recognizes the driver if he is already registered , initiates the session with the optimum energy utilization, monitors the battery charge in the vehicle, concludes the session when the vehicle is charged, and bills the driver based on their agreed-upon terms.

With smart charging, EV power consumption can be optimized based on the current state of the energy grid. It is therefore possible to optimize how costly charging events are for EV drivers.

Benefits of Smart EV Charging :-

To Drivers:

Wouldn’t it be tempting to think that it doesn’t really matter where you charge your vehicle, as long as it gets charged? Unfortunately that’s not the case.

EV drivers get benefits from Smart chargers , As:

• Fast Charging
• Cost Reduction
• Hustle-free Charging
• Convenient Charging

To Business:

EV Smart Charging isn't beneficial only for Electric Car drivers. Businesses have a lot to earn from it, as well. Regardless of your type of business, Smart Electric Vehicle Charging can provide you with the following:

• Monitoring Remotely
• No Payment Issue
• Custom pricing for employees , customers and guests etc
• Controlling the time

To Partners:

• Charge Point availability
• Up to date in business
• Updated with the dynamic world
• Stabilize

Elements of Smart EV Charging

• Make sure that the stations can be connected to the Cloud. Devices should include GPRS or 3G connections in order to communicate with the services
• Devices should include a standardized socket type:
  • Type 2 or CHAdeMO
  • CCS Combo (fast charging device)
• Devices should be compatible with the backend of your choosing. The most common standard protocol is called OCPP (Open Charge Point Protocol), which allows you to mix and match to create comprehensive charging experiences.

How can we start with EV Smart Charging

• Looking for smart charge point
• Using Smart EV charging App
• Data collection