Interoperability of fast charging station with battery booster

Schindler J, Watson V, Waedt K (2019)


Publication Type: Conference contribution

Publication year: 2019

Publisher: Gesellschaft fur Informatik (GI)

Book Volume: 295

Pages Range: 295-307

Conference Proceedings Title: Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI), Proceedings - Series of the Gesellschaft fur Informatik (GI)

Event location: Kassel DE

ISBN: 9783885796893

DOI: 10.18420/inf2019_ws33

Abstract

Before a high proportion of Electric Vehicles (EV) will be deployed, sufficient charging infrastructure for these EVs must be provided. In Germany, this deployment is hindered by the lack of a universal standard for the geometry of the charging plugs, the different charging voltage levels, the structure of data that is provided by the charging station and so forth. Related standards such as ISO/IEC 15118 and ISO/IEC 61850, respectively addresses front-end communication between EVs and common charging stations and defines communication messages for grid automation. Whilst ISO/IEC 15118 does address interoperability between charging infrastructures from different manufacturers, its restriction to front-end communication limits the extent of advanced interoperability. In this paper, we investigate the interoperability on battery boosted charging stations based on OPC Unified Architecture (OPC UA). OPC UA, powered by the OPC Foundation, is the primary interoperability standard for Industry 4.0 (I4.0). OPC UA enables data exchange regardless of the manufacturer of individual components. OPC UA can be implemented in embedded devices and controllers without considering additional "black boxes", "windows boxes" or gateways in front of the equipment. This level of interoperability provides significant costsaving for the utilities during all lifecycle phases. It also ensures transparent data acquisition for customers. In this paper, an example of fast charging station with battery booster is used to demonstrate the interoperability feature of OPC UA compared to that of ISO/IEC 15118. Also, their differing structure makes it necessary to consider these charging stations separately from common ones. Therefore, various data representation formats are utilized to show information sharing within two model user groups.

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APA:

Schindler, J., Watson, V., & Waedt, K. (2019). Interoperability of fast charging station with battery booster. In Claude Draude, Martin Lange, Bernhard Sick (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI), Proceedings - Series of the Gesellschaft fur Informatik (GI) (pp. 295-307). Kassel, DE: Gesellschaft fur Informatik (GI).

MLA:

Schindler, Josef, Venesa Watson, and Karl Waedt. "Interoperability of fast charging station with battery booster." Proceedings of the 49. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft fur Informatik: 50 Jahre Gesellschaft fur Informatik - Informatik fur Gesellschaft, INFORMATIK 2019 - 49th Annual Meeting of the German Informatics Society: 50 years of the German Informatics Society - Computer Science for Society, INFORMATICS 2019, Kassel Ed. Claude Draude, Martin Lange, Bernhard Sick, Gesellschaft fur Informatik (GI), 2019. 295-307.

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