STRATA for State & Local Agencies

The implementation of new charging infrastructure by local, state and federal agencies can utilize STRATA as a primary monitoring and management platform. With the cost of downtime for drivers being significant, STRATA is designed to alleviate the issues that have caused problems with early charging networks, and bring new capabilities that improve and sustain efficiency, including

  • Comprehensive Maintenance Capability with IBM Maximo
  • Integration With New & Legacy Systems
  • Telematics Synchronization for Government Fleet Vehicles

Comprehensive Maintenance Capability

STRATA utilizes sophisticated remote monitoring to detect problems in the field. All critical charging network components can be monitored, including onsite battery storage, power switchgear, physical security elements and others. Once a problem is isolated, STRATA invokes IBM’s class-leading Maximo maintenance and asset management system to issue and manage trouble tickets, arrange repairs and provide ongoing statistical analysis of individual charging unit performance. Maximo meets GAO TRL9 requirements. 

Integration With New & Legacy Systems

Designed for large enterprises, STRATA can interoperate with virtually any internal or external end system, including dispatching, traffic management centers (TMCs), asset management, ERP, existing or downstream CMS, electrical Dynamic Energy Resource Management (DERM), fleet management, payment systems and others. STRATA provides an extensive library of APIs and intelligent “connectors” that support the majority of current and legacy software interfaces. Terbine can work closely with third party systems integrators to produce turnkey solutions that bring the charging network into alignment with corporate goals and operating procedures. 

Telematics Synchronization

Virtually all EV models in all classes have built-in 4G or 5G cellular telematics transceivers that can be utilized to synchronize vehicles with the charging network. Through STRATA, where OEM or fleet telematics are accessible, the system will allow the vehicles themselves to reserve specific chargers that are known to be fully operational prior to arriving at charging stations, ensure that a valid payment method is present when required, initiate and conclude sessions without the driver having to use a mobile app. Realtime matching of vehicles with working and available charging units can be achieved based on a variety of data feeds and processing through AI. The result is drivers being routed to chargers that are known to be operational and available. The reservation information can be presented via the in-vehicle display, mobile app or proprietary route planner/dispatching system, to include tablet computers running fleet management software. 

Advanced Reporting

Through direct APIs and “smart” interfaces to Microsoft Power BI and Salesforce Tableau, STRATA supports generation of virtually any type and format of report based on the data that the platform captures. Uses such as internal cost and revenue accounting, submittals for carbon capture monitoring, maintenance operations and many others can be facilitated readily.