Smart Grid Charger for Electric Vehicles Using Existing Cellular Networks and SMS Text Messages

Author

Hochgraf, Clark ; Tripathi, Rahul ; Herzberg, Spencer

Author_Institution

Coll. of Appl. Sci. & Technol., Rochester Inst. of Technol., Rochester, NY, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

4-6 Oct. 2010

Firstpage

167

Lastpage

172

Abstract

Charging large numbers of Plug-in Electric Vehicles may result in overloading sections of the electric power grid at certain times of the day. Smart grid technologies can be used to delay charging or regulate charging rates, enabling the existing power system to handle the increased load without having to increase peak power capacity of feeders or add generation. A key component of the Smart Grid is its communication system. We discuss the use of the GSM network and SMS text messages as an option for SmartGrid communication and present a system that provides the ISO control of thousands of mobile PEV chargers using a simple SMS text message interface.

Keywords

battery chargers; cellular radio; electric vehicles; electronic messaging; smart power grids; GSM network; ISO control; SMS text messages; cellular network; communication system; electric vehicle supply equipment; mobile PEV charger; plug-in electric vehicles; smart grid charger; smart grid communication; Cellular phones; Electric vehicles; GSM; ISO; Mobile communication; Power systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm), 2010 First IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Gaithersburg, MD

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6510-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SMARTGRID.2010.5622038

Filename

5622038