A Smart Charging System to Efficiently Run EV Fleets

Smart charging is a means of monitoring and actively controlling EV chargers to optimize the distribution and consumption of energy, with a focus on peak-load avoidance. In our paper, we discuss requirements on smart charging in the specific context of enterprise fleets. We consider smart charging as a component of a more comprehensive system architecture and deal with problems related to the integration with other functional modules and data sources. We present a practical software implementation of smart charging, which was realized as an extension of the open-source charge-point management solution ”Open E-Mobility”, and share evaluation results collected in a real-world deployment scenario.