eMobility Solution

Bosch Software Innovations develops a web-based software solution for charging infrastructure. The eMobility Solution serves as a common software and IT platform for all eMobility stakeholders including electric utilities, charging spot manufacturers, mobility service providers, fleets, electric vehicle manufacturers and parking lot managers to single drivers. It enables the efficient realization of open business models.

The eMobility Solution supports and integrates all the core processes for the eMobility infrastructure including:

• identification of drivers and charging of electric vehicles (EVs)
• billing of energy consumption and services (e.g. connection to ERP system)
• finding and reserving charging stations
• navigating EVs to charging stations
• managing load of charging station groups (demand side management)
• collecting vehicle data for analyzing purposes
• operating and maintaining charging infrastructure
• offline operations to ensure reliable charging in the event of connectivity failure in the public network

By means of an open, flexible, and scalable architecture, the eMobility Solution can also be used to support other services in the urban area: e.g. intermodal mobility concepts or location based services.

The eMobility Solution is made up of the following components:

• eMobility Core

The eMobility Core is the central software component of the eMobility Solution and operates the charging infrastructure and the stakeholder portals. Business processes for charging, billing, and reporting are deployed here. Based on internet technology and state-of-the-art security infrastructure, the "eMobility Core" provides for flexible, robust, and secure operation of the charging infrastructure and the associated business processes.

• Stakeholder Portals

A portal provides each stakeholder with his relevant view of the charging infrastructure to enable ease of use. Typical stakeholders include: drivers, mobility service providers, utility companies, and electric vehicle manufacturers. The portal concept allows enhancements for additional stakeholders. With the help of dynamic applications, stakeholders, such as utility companies, will be able to adapt their portal according to their individual needs, for example test and manage price models for energy provisioning.

• Mobile Portal

The mobile smart phone portal (e.g. iPhone App) offers the driver of the electric vehicle remote information about the charging station locations, the charging process, and the billing details. Furthermore, the interface to the vehicle provides the battery state-of-charge and the travel distance on a map.

• Charging Sites

Charging stations include an embedded web-enabled Linux computer that contains the functional logic e.g. for the charging process and are integrated to central servers by means of internet technology. This allows system-wide processes like regular software upgrades, health monitoring etc. The platform supports area-wide installations with tens of thousands of charging stations.

The Linux-based component allows dynamic business models and applications to be deployed at selective charging stations or the entire charging infrastructure.

• Third Party Interfaces

The open architecture allows for provisioning of interfaces to third party systems via multiple technologies. This includes local information services, parking site management services, billing systems, and utility systems.