Integrated Infrastructure for Electro Mobility Powered by the Arrowhead Framework

Abstract

Electro Mobility is a rapidly growing and evolving application domain of the Internet of Things, with a huge market potential in various areas. It incorporates many stakeholders—from manufacturers to the players of the energy market—with all sorts of physical and virtual resources. It is essential to allow these devices and systems to collaborate in order to create advanced e-Mobility services. This collaboration requires accurate, yet flexible and scalable methods for information exchange related to configuration, security, orchestration, accounting, and several types of reporting. In order to fulfill such requirements, the Arrowhead framework is built upon the concepts of service-oriented architectures and aims at providing support for IP-based networking within industrial environments. This paper presents the establishment and operation of the e-Mobility infrastructure supported by the Arrowhead framework. First, the stakeholders and their relationships are identified based on well-known market models and state-of-the-art open standards. After this, a distributed, service-oriented infrastructure is proposed and demonstrated through the integration of legacy and new application systems within the framework. The integration between the recharging infrastructure and the smart grid is also covered.

Keywords

• Electric vehicles
• charging stations
• service-oriented systems engineering
• Internet of Things
• distributed computing
• industrial engineering