Project Goals

The R&D project DiPS4EV@work aims to minimize the effort required for the efficient integration of smart charging of electric vehicles into the energy management systems (EMS) of companies and buildings. The goal is to utilize the volatile renewable energy sources of wind and solar effectively while ensuring satisfactory charging for the owners of the electric vehicles, who can be both employees and visitors/customers. Simulation studies will assess scalability, future scenarios with high EV penetration, and the associated economic feasibility in terms of achievable business cases.

Innovation and System Integration

DiPS4EV intends to break down innovation barriers by investigating, specifying, and presenting interfaces and methods/protocols that support seamless system-of-systems digitalization. No new hardware or a "one-size-fits-all" solution is planned; rather, the necessary technical details for smart integration will be developed. This will be done using defined use cases resulting from the interplay of different customer systems, taking into account the operators' wishes and the bundling of experiences from relevant user groups.

Results and Benefits

The core outcome of the project is the integration profiles developed during the system integration trials, which address the interoperability issues encountered at the various demonstration sites. In accordance with the Integrating the Energy System (IES) Cookbook, these profiles will be published as Open Access and will cover all levels of interoperability (legal, semantic, syntactic, technical, and operational) across all layers of the Smart Grid Architecture Model (SGAM) (business processes, functions, information, communication, and components) as far as necessary for interoperability.

Future-proofing

Ultimately, the openly available IES integration profiles are intended to provide blueprints (templates) for the implementation of an immediately available smart coordination between independent building/company EMS and smart charging of electric vehicles. In line with the IES principles, these profiles will be maintained in a continuous improvement process to keep them as up-to-date as possible with the current state of the art.