Overcome EV-charging challenges with AI-led solutions

Projections for 2024 show that India’s EV market is set to grow 66% in 2024, likely to represent nearly one-third of PV sales by 2030. This essentially translates to 4 out of 10 ? total passenger vehicle sales. Two key drivers to this growth is the entry of new players and government subsidies.?

However, what is not in sync with the boom in EV fleet is the pace of infrastructure growth for EV charging. What India needs is a ratio of at least 1 public EV charging station per 20 vehicles.

Some of the key roadblocks in India’s EV ride includes:?

• Lack of public EV charging stations: The Bureau of Energy Efficiency expects 46,397 public charging stations to be built across 9 cities in India by 2030. Currently there are around 6,000 EV charging stations in India.??
• Inadequate power grid: Adding electric vehicles to an already saturated power grid is adding pressure.?
• Lack of surveillance in EV charging stations: Let’s take an example, you have driven 5 kms to find a fast-charging station on your way to a meeting, only to find upon reaching that while the app run by your charging point operator (CPO) was showing 2 charging sockets available, there was no parking slot within 5 metres for you to park your car and connect to the charging cable.
• Other security challenges include damage or sheer theft of steel bollards or the charging gun and its misuse. Additionally, very often non-EV vehicles are parked in EV designated spaces leading to challenges for EV owners to park and charge their vehicle.

These shortcomings threaten to stymie government efforts to boost EV adoption in the world's third-biggest vehicle market behind the U.S. and top-ranked China.

Solution:?

A true AI-enabled Remote Monitoring Solution (RMS) will impart several capabilities to a traditional CCTV infrastructure. Some key features include real-time alerts for immediate actions and monitoring to ensure all elements of your CCTV setup (cameras, video recorders, storage devices, etc.) are functioning optimally. It also offers a centralized live view of all cameras on a single console or through a mobile app (Android/iOS), with the ability to download footage remotely and provide cloud backup. Two way communication at EV charging site can act as a big deterrent to thefts. This proves to be very useful in the event of theft of any asset at the charging station.?

An advanced AI-enhanced remote surveillance solutions can go beyond the conventional surveillance methods to collect useful, unstructured data from an EV charging station. For instance, at a very basic level, if you are a charging point operator running multiple charging stations across the city, a simple API overlay on your existing app can give your customers a complete dashboard view of not only the closest charging stations but also available parking slots for the car. While a 2-way warning system can alert a non-EV driver from parking their vehicle in EV-designated spaces.?

The foremost advantage of an advanced surveillance is to support both Web portals and apps of the CPO with live feed and footage retrieval. Thus, live viewing and footage retrieval becomes easy and hassle-free. You can tap into necessary security footage on the go with the right credentials as opposed to reactive manual eye-ball monitoring. ?

The capability to customise use cases in line with business operations can help CPOs fine tune their business model, making it more efficient for enhanced customer experience.??

The foremost advantage of an advanced surveillance is to support both Web portals and apps of the CPO with live feed and footage retrieval. Thus, live viewing and footage retrieval becomes easy and hassle-free. You can tap into necessary security footage on the go with the right credentials as opposed to reactive manual eye-ball monitoring. ?

The capability to customise use cases in line with business operations can help CPOs fine tune their business model, making it more efficient for enhanced customer experience.??