1. The Fabric ICT Platform for Managing Wireless Dynamic Charging Road Lanes.
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Cirimele, Vincenzo, La Ganga, Alessandro, Colussi, Jacopo, Gloria, Alessandro De, Diana, Michela, Bellotti, Francesco, Berta, Riccardo, Sayed, Nadim El, Kobeissi, Ahmad, Guglielmi, Paolo, Ruffo, Riccardo, and Khalilian, Mojtaba
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WIRELESS power transmission ,ELECTRIC vehicle charging stations ,POWER electronics ,CHARGE exchange - Abstract
As dynamic inductive power transfer for electric vehicles is growing in relevance, it is important to analyze solutions towards its deployment and integration in the cloud-based services for electric mobility. In this paper we present an Internet-enabling platform for Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment, which features a high-level Charging Station Control Unit and a Power Electronics Controller. The platform is a middleware that controls the charging process taking into account outside world information. Tests were performed in a safe driving track, in Italy, to verify the effectiveness and robustness of the installation, for one year, for a total of 120 drive hours, under various weather conditions. Tests showed the suitability of the platform in terms of ability to authenticate and authorize a vehicle even through a remote service, sequentially control each coil in a lane, monitor the charging process, assist the driver in keeping the vehicle aligned so as to maximize the energy exchange and deliver charging session information to the cloud (e.g. for billing). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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