INCH Duo Smart Charging Solutions
1. Smart Charging Solutions
Charging station
Etrel INCH DUO charging station supports many functionalities that can help with overload prevention, frequency regulation, power management of one charger or power management of a cluster of chargers.
Figure 1: Etrel INCH DUO charging station
All OCPP 1.6 SOAP is fully supported and all messages and methods of OCPP 1.6 JSON are also supported. The full support of OCPP 2.0 JSON is upcoming.
In addition, special algorithms were developed to optimize the charging process. Main scopes of algorithms of smart charging solutions:
Overload prevention
Frequency regulation
Charging process optimization
Economic/Price optimization of charging
Operation optimization
Power management
Cluster management
Each scope consists of several smart charging features, and new ones are being added routinely with normal charging station updates.
Additional measurements
The charging station can operate on its own, however, it can be beneficial to use additional data at the location where possible. For example, data of household consumption and data of possible production of energy at the location, can be measured and transmitted to the charging device where the data is evaluated, analysed and used in algorithms. One possibility for this is the collection of data with the use of Etrel Load Guard. Additional measurements enable better operation of smart charging.
Figure 2: Etrel Load Guard
Back Office (Software Solutions)
Additional option is the use of charging monitoring system, for example Etrel Ocean, which enables additional smart charging features and better operation of existent. With monitoring system, the overview and control of larger number of charging stations becomes simple. The major benefits, that are supported with the use of Etrel Ocean are:
Power management
Cluster management
Demand response activation
Load area power management
Figure 3: Etrel Ocean