Transactional service life cycle management in smart electromobility ecosystems

Smart connected electromobility will leverage the cross-domain cooperation along a new value chain of stakeholders from the automotive and energy industry. Intelligent charge management, i.e. charging the electric vehicle as a tradeoff between charging costs and personal or operational constraints, represents an important service in an electronic service market for electromobility. The market features the energy supplier as a service provider, the electric vehicle as a service consumer along with intermediate brokers in between. All of them continuously interact to exchange data, thus implementing the vision of an open and global Internet of Services in an electromobile ecosystem. A joint service life cycle management which considers both, the build-time and the runtime view of a service, is essential for such a service market. It allows the service provider to design, implement and deploy services while investigating systems of deployed services and their on-demand consumption at run-time. In this paper we present such an integrated service life cycle model for electronic electromobility market places. The life cycle model will be elaborated by means of an intelligent charge management use case.