Design and Implementation of IoEV Platform for Grid Integration of Electric Vehicles

Abstract

Nowadays, the internet of electric vehicles (IoEV) has opened many new opportunities for various applications such as traffic safety, congestion avoidance, charging station selection, and user-comfort services. IoEV communication will support different applications such as vehicle to infrastructure (V2I), vehicle to vehicle (V2V), and vehicle to pedestrian (V2P). Different requirements for data rate, reliability, latency, security, and privacy are needed in order to support reliable IoEV communications. Extensive research has been conducted on the suitability of various short-range and long-range wired/wireless technologies for IoEV communications. These challenges include, for example, transmission range, latency, throughput, and power consumption. Different wired/wireless communication technologies are believed to play an essential role in supporting different IoEV applications. This work aims to investigate the performance of different communication architectures for supporting various IoEV applications such as Grid-to-Vehicle (G2V), Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G), and V2V. The developed architectures are evaluated considering real scenarios for parking vehicles and vehicles on-the-move. Furthermore, the developed communication network is evaluated using off-the-shelf prototypes (sensors and MCU units) under practical scenarios on the UTFSM campus. The performance of the communication network has been evaluated with respect to latency and network reliability.