Smart Vehicle to Grid Interface Project: Electromobility Management System Architecture and Field Test Results

TL;DR

This paper details the architecture and field testing of an electromobility management system that enables real-time, remote control of electric vehicle charging, integrating user preferences and grid constraints.

Contribution

It introduces a centralized demand side management algorithm and discusses its implementation and field test results within a comprehensive system architecture.

Findings

Successful real-time remote control of PEV charging stations

Identification of critical issues from field deployment

Validation of the system's effectiveness in managing demand

Abstract

This paper presents and discusses the electromobility management system developed in the context of the SMARTV2G project, enabling the automatic control of plug-in electric vehicles' (PEVs') charging processes. The paper describes the architecture and the software/hardware components of the electromobility management system. The focus is put in particular on the implementation of a centralized demand side management control algorithm, which allows remote real time control of the charging stations in the field, according to preferences and constraints expressed by all the actors involved (in particular the distribution system operator and the PEV users). The results of the field tests are reported and discussed, highlighting critical issues raised from the field experience.