An overview of the future smart charging infrastructure for electric vehicles

Abstract

Smart charging is a technology that allows electric vehicles (EVs) to communicate with charging devices. This paper presents an overview of smart EV charging. Smart charging is a future solution for businesses, allowing them to remotely monitor EV charging events, manage charging stations, and concentrate on their core operations. It also simplifies payments, regulates electricity consumption, and makes charging stations easy to manage. Smart charging solutions assist utility companies in developing their own EV charging networks by stabilizing the grid, adapting to changing demands, and easily managing multiple charging stations. Furthermore, the visibility of all actions at charging stations facilitates keeping track of business activities. Smart charging is a critical component of electric vehicles (EVs) because it provides future-proof features such as cloud connectivity, standardized socket types, and backend compatibility. Smart EV charging includes an admin panel for managing multiple charging points, automatic payments and billing, end-user mobile and web apps, charging station roaming, dynamic load management (DLM), and energy management. These features enable charging stations to better manage their resources, attract more users, and protect the local grid against peak loads.