An IoT -based Power Management System for EV Chargers

Abstract

In the fast developing world, EV plays a major role. Less resource utilization, cost efficient, less maintenance, long durability are some factors which make people to shift towards Electrical vehicles. Even though a huge number of people are now showing interest towards Electrical Vehicles, there are only limited power stations available and most of the time the coordinates of the power stations are unknown to EV users. Hence, a power management system is required wherein the EV users can access the power stations easily and increase the number of Electrical Vehicles stations. As in other side people are now shifting towards Internet of Things and Cloud technology to make their life better and to access things easily. Using EV's as their source of traveling, it reduces cost and enhances many other factors. Since both IoT and EV are becoming the fast adapting technologies, these two technologies can be merged in future. In the proposed research work, both IoT and EV's plays a main role. Here, a prototype to easily access charging station was developed and then integrated with Web Technology to show where and when the user can access the charging stations. The proposed idea would help in increase the number of charging stations, which indirectly increase the usage of EVs.