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With the rapid growth of electric vehicle ownership, the market demand for household charging piles is becoming increasingly strong. For equipment manufacturers, the lack of a unified monitoring platform for effective management and analysis of all their products is highly unfavorable for product optimization and upgrading and for improving service quality. In the process of actual promotion and use, they face a series of thorny problems.

First, data acquisition is difficult. Household charging piles are widely distributed and scattered, and different users have different installation environments. This makes it difficult to collect the operating data of charging piles, such as charging current, voltage, power, charging duration, and equipment status, in a unified and efficient manner.

Second, the lack of remote monitoring brings many hidden risks. When a charging pile fails, users often cannot accurately describe the problem and can only wait for the manufacturer to arrange for technical personnel to visit and troubleshoot. This not only wastes time and labor costs but may also prevent users from using the charging pile normally for a long time, affecting user experience and brand reputation.

In response, by deploying industrial intelligent gateways into household charging pile equipment, important data such as voltage, current, power, temperature, and charging time are collected and uploaded through 4G networks to the enterprise's remote monitoring and management platform, thereby realizing functions such as remote monitoring, fault alarms, intelligent operation and maintenance, and intelligent management. Enterprises can use mobile phones and computers to view information such as the location distribution, operating status, and maintenance quality of charging piles in real time, effectively improving management level and work efficiency and enhancing after-sales operation and maintenance service capabilities.

System Architecture Construction

Perception layer: Install various sensors and intelligent gateways on each household charging pile. Current sensors and voltage sensors collect current and voltage data during charging in real time, power sensors measure charging power, and timing modules record charging duration. These sensors and modules transmit the collected data to the industrial intelligent gateway through communication interfaces such as serial ports and network ports.

Transmission layer: The industrial intelligent gateway is responsible for receiving data from the perception layer. According to the on-site network environment, the gateway can flexibly choose communication methods such as 4G/5G to stably transmit processed data to cloud servers. When the network is unstable, the gateway has a data caching function, which can temporarily store data locally and automatically resume transmission after the network recovers, ensuring data integrity.

Platform layer: Build a data management and monitoring platform in the cloud, responsible for receiving, storing, and managing data transmitted from the gateway, providing a data visualization interface, and displaying information such as the operating status of charging piles and charging data statistics in intuitive charts and reports, making it convenient for manufacturers to view and make decisions.

Functional Features

The real-time operating status of any charging pile, such as charging current, voltage, power, and charging duration, can be viewed at any time, allowing timely grasp of equipment working conditions.
Conduct in-depth mining of historical data to analyze the usage habits, energy consumption trends, and correlations with external factors of household charging piles. Through data analysis, potential optimization directions can be identified, providing a basis for manufacturers to improve products and services.

When abnormalities occur in charging piles, such as excessive current, abnormal voltage, or charging interruption, the system immediately automatically triggers the alarm mechanism and sends alarm information to management personnel through various methods such as SMS, email, and WeChat.

Establish an information-based and visualized operation and maintenance management mechanism, create, edit, review, and accept operation and maintenance work orders online, and record information such as operation logs and processing progress, realizing standardized operation and maintenance management.

Through the electronic map, the distribution and operating status of charging piles in different regions can be viewed in real time, with different colors identifying normal, abnormal, and other statuses of equipment, and charts displaying charging data statistics and energy consumption trend changes of charging piles.