Electro Mobility automation through the Arrowhead Framework

The study and engineering of Electro Mobility (EM) involves many industrial and academic players due to its potential significant benefits on society, economy, transportation and eco-sustainability. This article proposes a solution for EM automation, a crucial aspect for the future evolution of the EM market. The solution is based on a service-oriented, IoT and cloud centric ecosystem of charging stations conceived to support EM scenarios. The Eclipse Kura framework ensures the information exchange between the charging stations and the cloud infrastructure, providing remote management and data processing. The cloud platform is based on Eurotech EC and provides an internal service abstraction that offers efficient and secure mechanisms to collect raw data from the field. Kura is used to process data and store them on the cloud as semantically referenced information. Cloud services are accessible through a simple REST interface and published on the Arrowhead Framework, which is responsible for the integration of the multi-domain EM scenario. A real use case about the automation of a rural fast charging infrastructure is described and the benefits of applying the proposed solution to the use case are discussed with the help of the simulation results.