Abstract
This paper presents the design, implementation, and testing of a wireless communication system for automatic identification of e-bikes and management of their battery charging in the context of dynamic inductive wireless power transfer (DIWPT) lanes. The proposed system checks if an e-bike, uniquely identified by its RFID tag, is authorized to receive energy from the lane coils and acts accordingly. An authentication mechanism was developed based on the use of embedded Wi-Fi boards attached to the coils and communicating with a central HTTP server with a MySQL database. The developed management system also provides other features, such as the recording of the number of lane coils used by each e-bike for billing purposes. The results from experimental tests on a laboratory prototype were used to validate the developed functionalities and assess the quality of service provided by the proposed system.
Highlights
Bicycles, as an alternative to diminish the use of vehicles with combustion engines, can play an important role in combating climate change caused, in part, by the use of fossil fuels
Electronics 2020, 9, 1485 developed in the context of the aforementioned project provides an extensive set of features [7]: authentication of electric vehicles (EV) through local and remote services, local identification of EVs for sequential activation of the lane coils, charging process monitoring and delivering of charging session information to the cloud, as well as assisting the driver in keeping the EV aligned on the lane for maximum energy exchange, through the use of a vehicle camera
In the dynamic inductive wireless power transfer (DIWPT) lanes system proposed in [1,9], the primary coils installed on the lane are activated by a positive reading from an RFID tag placed on the e-bike
Summary
As an alternative to diminish the use of vehicles with combustion engines, can play an important role in combating climate change caused, in part, by the use of fossil fuels. Electronics 2020, 9, 1485 developed in the context of the aforementioned project provides an extensive set of features [7]: authentication of EVs through local and remote services, local identification of EVs for sequential activation of the lane coils, charging process monitoring and delivering of charging session information to the cloud, as well as assisting the driver in keeping the EV aligned on the lane for maximum energy exchange, through the use of a vehicle camera.
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