Importance of Digital Solution in Electric Vehicles Adoption and Management

The world requires a dependable alternative to fuel-based transportation, and electric vehicles may very well help. No one can dispute that the electric vehicle (EV) revolution is taking place all over the world, particularly in India. However, EV adoption has its own set of hurdles, which will be solved over time by a collaborative effort from government and business stakeholders. Meanwhile, automotive OEMs, EV service providers, and digital firms must collaborate to deliver seamless user experiences that will lead to accelerated public acceptance of EVs.

An electric vehicle is, by nature, a connected vehicle, and software plays a vital role in gaining a competitive advantage. IoT devices, cloud-based software, and data analytics are key components of the approach to increasing EV adoption and increasing market share for new entrants or incumbents equally.

For Any electric vehicle infrastructure, battery and charging management system are at its heart. Battery and related aspect is taken by OEMs and EV manufacturers but charging infrastructure needs equal attention. This is where software plays a very important and significant role.

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EV chargers and battery swap systems are managed from a designated hub using cloud-based software solutions.

OEMs and CSOs deploy these software systems, also known as CSMS, to manage users, their authentication, charging authorization, flexible billing transactions, and firmware maintenance, among many other things. Let me explain to you with a few examples.

1. Battery Health - Battery health determines EV performance and lifetime to a large extent, therefore software solutions can be very valuable in determining/predicting defects and so averting difficulty for the EV owner.
2. Fleet Navigation and Tracking - In the case of fleets, management becomes very if handled using a centralized system.
3. Cloud Firmware Management -With the high adoption of the cloud, OTA has become a common buzzword among firmware developers and using CSMS to manage firmware versioning and deployment can become very secure, easy and efficient.
4. User Authentication and authorization.
5. EVCS communication, Vehicle charging and digital payment interface.
6. Remote Diagnostics and many more scenarios.

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Many OEMs, Multiple EVCS Providers (Charging Stations Manufactures) so how the standardization shall take place?

For this, there is one of the most efficient and standard communication protocols known as the Open Charge Point Protocol (OCPP). Simply put, any EV charging station that is OCPP-compliant can be configured to run any similarly OCPP-compliant software. The EV communication protocol is a very detailed topic and I shall cover this sometime later. to put things in perspective you may check the infographic below or read this article for more details.

The electric car experience will undoubtedly be inefficient without digital platforms such as online and mobile, and information created by the electric vehicle and gathered, processed, and monitored over time. Using current digital social identities and secure payment channels, electric car adoption can be made faster and easier.

What's Beyond Standard CSMS for Software Industry, opportunities in innovations for EV across the digital spectrum?

1. Driving Analytics - Advance EV telematics gathers the data from DTG (Digital Tachometer Graph) and GPS to depict the state of the vehicle in terms of distance travelled, time taken, overspeeding during the journey, malfunctioning records exceptional events, and warnings.
2. AI-based Driver Behavior System and Driving Video Analytics
3. Predictive Maintenance
4. In Big Data/ analytics, AI/ML
5. In IoT and Cloud
6. Web applications
7. Mobile apps
8. Robotics and automation
9. Battery charge flow management
10. EV Roaming/Shared mobility networks etc.

Electric car adoption may be accelerated and simplified by leveraging existing digital social identities and secure payment mechanisms. Without digital platforms such as web and mobile, the electric vehicle experience would surely be inefficient. The quantity of data generated by the electric car must be collected, stored, evaluated and analyzed over time, and software can play a key role in this respect.

To sum up, in our linked world, where every hand carries a gadget that is linked to the network, embracing digital technologies and approaches will not only assure effective administration but will also promote adoption. The future is highly important and exciting for the electric vehicle industry, and I am optimistic that the IT sector, particularly in India, will play a key role in its expansion and success.

TZi Solutions has created an Electric Vehicle Charging Station Management Web & Mobile Application by employing the above mentioned protocols and thus we have the potential to do so in the future. We expect that our CSMS Development Solutions will contribute to the continued success of various global EV OEMs and product enterprises throughout the coming decade. This is a really exciting decade for the electric vehicle sector, and we aim to make our contribution.