Introduction to Smart Charging
Welcome to documentation on our Smart Charging technology, let’s start with a quick definition.
What is Smart Charging?
Definition: Smart charging is about increasing or decreasing the charge rate of an EV during its charging session.
Key Components:
- Real-time control of charge rates
- Load balancing to prevent grid overloads
- Integration with local meter to measure local consumption like buildings
- API suite to automate functionalities
Example Use Cases:
- Measure consumption of an office in real-time building and use remaining capacity to charge EVs
- Automatically charge EV during off-peak hours to reduce energy costs
Benefits of Smart Charging
- For Charge Point Operators:
- Enables more charging stations at a single location
- Reduces operational costs
- Avoid penalties for exceeding peak demand thresholds
- Manage your charge stations remotely from the cloud
- For End users:
- Reduced energy costs by charging EV during
- For the Environment:
- Use energy from solar and wind to charge EVs
- Reduce carbon emissions
Overview of Smart Charging Algorithms
Our Smart Charging system employs sophisticated algorithms that:
- Capacity Management AC: Manage combined consumption of multiple AC charge stations on a single location, adjusts to building consumption and avoid overloads.
- Capacity Management DC: Manage the combined consumption of multiple DC charge stations on a single location.
- Power Management: Aggregate charge stations from multiple locations into a single virtual group and align their combined power consumption with pre-purchased energy profiles to optimise day-ahead procurement, reduce imbalances, and enable energy trading.
Key Features and Functionalities
The GreenFlux Smart Charging solution offers:
- Dynamic load balancing across charging stations
- Real-time monitoring and adjustment capabilities
- Integration with multiple charge station manufacturers via OCPP
- Advanced analytics and reporting tools
Documentation Overview
Our Smart Charging system is integrated into the GreenFlux portal, providing you with an intuitive interface to manage and monitor your charging infrastructure. Whether you're a Charge Point Operator (CPO) with a large network of public charge stations, or managing network of fast chargers, our solution offers the flexibility and control you need.
In the following sections, we'll guide you through:
- Configuring charge stations for smart charging
- Creating and managing smart charging groups
- Integrating local meter data for advanced charging modes
- Understanding smart charging graphs and analytics