Charge Sharing and Smart Charging Infrastructure Integration for Electric Vehicles

摘要

A system for Peer to Peer Charge Sharing and Smart Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Integration using Internet of Things (IoT) are disclosed. It utilizes an on demand EV charging model with a mobile app to locate nearest available charging for users through GPS, sms text messaging notification to confirm booking in real time. A new way of automatic location finder was also described, for example, when the charging unit is integrated by IoT where sensors are embedded in the charging unit with mounted micro-controller board to send signal via mesh network WiFi or mesh network Blutooth or GPS to cloud. This signal is also sent to the Electric Vehicle's WiFi network to automatically find the charge location which interacts with the vehicle's battery unit. So when the battery's charge amount is low and reaches a certain threshold, the signal is sent out to locate nearby available charging unit.;The availability of nearest charging unit is achieved by GPS signal and API of the softwares in the charging unit and in the battery unit of the electric vehicle. This automatic charge location finder eliminates range anxiety for Electric Vehicle drivers and long line at the charging station.;This invention also describes how vehicle ID is associated with users booking information to authenticate for charge to initialize to ensure correct mapping of vehicle to the charge unit. During the charging process, data is collected from the charging unit and other useful information via IoT and into cloud to trigger any necessary action by the charging unit. This methodology herewith includes machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) to predict charge unit failure or maintenance ahead of time.;Lastly, the payment system is integrated into the mobile app where block chain is used for secured, efficient, transparent payment process.;Currently, there is no prior art that solves multiple problems for high demand for charging electric vehicles. This patent is offering (i) Peer to Peer EV charge sharing solution that solves this demand which also solves range anxiety problem for EV drivers in a seamless charge location finder with seamless payment process and secured charging process that uses encryption and authentication process (ii) Integration with Internet of Things (IoT) in charging infrastructure is offered in this patent. This is useful as the charging unit can communicate directly to the electric vehicle's communication ecosystem for the state of its battery's charging needs and take action accordingly to find the nearest charger and the automated payment process without the intervention from the EV drivers (iii) The invention, further solves charging unit downtime and loss of revenue by doing predictive maintenance so that EV charging station managers can schedule maintenance ahead of time (iv) The usefulness of this invention is further achieved by seamless and automated payment integration for secured, efficient and transparent payment process using the block chain.