Safety Design for Smart Electric Vehicle Charging with Current and Multiplexing Control

Conference · Mon Oct 21 00:00:00 EDT 2013

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/SmartGridComm.2013.6688014· OSTI ID:1332738

Chung, Ching-Yen; Youn, Edward; Chynoweth, Joshua; Qiu, Charlie; Chu, Chi-Cheng; Gadh, Rajit

As Electric Vehicles (EVs) increase, charging infrastructure becomes more important. When during the day there is a power shortage, the charging infrastructure should have the options to either shut off the power to the charging stations or to lower the power to the EVs in order to satisfy the needs of the grid. This paper proposes a design for a smart charging infrastructure capable of providing power to several EVs from one circuit by multiplexing power and providing charge control and safety systems to prevent electric shock. The safety design is implemented in different levels that include both the server and the smart charging stations. With this smart charging infrastructure, the shortage of energy in a local grid could be solved by our EV charging management system.

• Research Organization: City of Los Angeles Department
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Electricity (OE)
• DOE Contract Number: OE0000192
• OSTI ID: 1332738
• Report Number(s): DOE-UCLA-00192-9
• Resource Relation: Conference: 2013 IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm Vancouver, BC 21-24 October 2013
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English