Electric vehicle charging station identification
AssigneePowerFlex Systems, LLC
InventorsZachary Jordan Lee, John Horn
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Abstract
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for electric vehicle charging management. In some examples, a method includes detecting a charge session associated with a charging station; generating an encoded identification message that includes an identifier; sending the encoded identification message to the charging station, the encoded identification message configured to cause the vehicle connected to the charging station to alter a battery charging rate based on the identifier; receiving telematics data from the vehicle, the telematics data including the battery charging rate; decoding the identifier from the battery charging rate; and assigning the charge session to an account associated with the vehicle based on the decoded identifier.
Claims20
A method for charging management of a vehicle, the method comprising:
- detecting a charge session associated with a charging station;
- generating an encoded identification message that includes an identifier;
- sending the encoded identification message to the charging station, the encoded identification message configured to cause the vehicle connected to the charging station to alter a battery charging rate based on the identifier;
- receiving telematics data from the vehicle, the telematics data including the battery charging rate;
- decoding the identifier from the battery charging rate;
- and
- assigning the charge session to an account associated with the vehicle based on the decoded identifier.
A method for electric vehicle charging management, the method comprising:
- generating an encoded identification message that includes an identifier;
- in response to detecting a vehicle plugging into a charging station, manipulating an operation of the vehicle based on the encoded identification message;
- and
- providing operation data from the vehicle, the operation data including indicia resulting from manipulating the operation of the vehicle based on the encoded identification message,
- wherein the identifier is decoded from the indicia, and a charge session is assigned to an account associated with the vehicle based on the decoded identifier.
A charge management system comprising:
- at least one processor;
- and
- memory comprising instructions that, when executed, cause the at least one processor to:
- detect a charge session associated with a charging station communicatively coupled to the charge management system;
- generate an encoded identification message that includes an identifier;
- send the encoded identification message to the charging station, the encoded identification message configured to cause a vehicle connected to the charging station to alter a battery charging rate based on the identifier;
- receive telematics data from the vehicle, the telematics data including the battery charging rate;
- decode the identifier from the battery charging rate;
- and
- assign the charge session to an account associated with the vehicle based on the decoded identifier.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.