nir-vana innovation network

This company develops a cloud-based software platform to manage charge stations and charge cards. Everything is cloud-based, meaning all of their services and tools can be used and adopted on charge stations online, without the need to physically go to a charge station. They develop tools and services in five categories, these are: - Asset management - ensuring proper two-way communication with charge stations with insightful diagnostics of charge stations. Easily manage who has access to charge stations and what the opening times of charge stations/locations are. - Billing - facilitating in all payment streams. From EV driver to electric mobility service provider (Retail billing), from electric mobility service provider to charge point operator (Wholesale billing) and potentially from charge point operator to location owner (Reimbursement billing). They supports here in the easy set-up of billing rules with flexibility in tariffs. With this, parties can use various basic tariff structures (energy-based, time-based, parking fee) and tailor these with the use of thresholds or different time blocks. Finally, they offer multiple payment methods to pay for charge sessions. - Roaming - there are many different charge point operators and electric mobility service providers throughout Europe. With roaming agreements with many of these parties, these agreements can be used, so that charge stations and charge cards are open to a wide network through all of Europe. - App for electric vehicle drivers - they have developed a mobile phone app for electric vehicle drivers that is continuously improved and updated (Charge Assist, available in App Store and Google Play Store). EV drivers can use it to find charge stations, view information about charge stations, start and stop a charge session and to pay for charging. - Smart charging - They also offer multiple cloud-based algorithms to perform energy management on charge stations. These algorithms can be used to optimally use the grid connection whilst making sure the connection is never overloaded and to smartly schedule charging to minimize for CO2 emissions and/or costs. In the energy management, electric vehicle charging behaviour, user needs, local renewable energy generation and local energy needs are taken into account.