Electric Vehicle monitoring and control
Student Projects
"Within vehicle-to-grid energy transfer we hope to address how to design a charging station that is capable of bidirectional power flow, which concerns grid stability."
"This is where the smart grid technology can be used in charging stations to monitor usage, shifting power from low demand charges to high demand charges without overloading the energy use already in place."
"...how EVs can store power and create the possibility for consumers to become the suppliers themselves"
"...research on the different charging characteristics of different models of smart meters and the resulting pricing for various makes and models of EVs"
"The end goal of this project is to prove the viability of integrating EV charging... done with grid-related constraints and restrictions in mind."
"Using EVs as storage devices could... handle spikes in power usage and in turn providing financial benefit to the owners for allowing their cars to be used for power storage."
"...would EVs be too great a burden for our traditional grid system?"
"...introduce wireless monitoring and charging for electric vehicles."
"...electric vehicles (EV’s) can be integrated onto the infrastructure of a smart grid in order to provide both the consumers and producers of power a number of benefits, and lead to an improved and vastly more efficient and dynamic grid."
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