Next Generation EV Infrastructure Management
AI Comes To Charging Infrastructure
The first application for the STRATA platform is a solution designed to monitor and manage complex, multi-stakeholder charging networks. Capable of overseeing any number of CPOs/CMS it can supervise all of the key elements that make up the EV ecosystem including charging equipment, battery storage, vehicles, utilities and payment handling. The goal is to give drivers, both consumer and commercial, a dependable, seamless and easy charging experience that will give them confidence in using battery electric vehicles in their daily lives and businesses.
Advanced Features
- Powerful Mission Control subsystem for realtime monitoring and management
- Uniform payment rails that link with all major card issuers
- Charging can be initiated from mobile apps, charger terminals or vehicles themselves
- Supports automated asset management and field maintenance of charging equipment
Making Charging Seamless
Focusing on the end user experience, STRATA has been architected to provide true enterprise-grade monitoring and management services across multi-vendor charging networks. It’s designed to ensure that charging infrastructure is well maintained and secured, interfacing with vehicles, onsite battery storage, power utilities and other key ecosystem players to handle all facets of charging operations.
Designed For Scalability
- Transactions are logged in an immutable ledger
- Modular and scalable AI-enabled design
- Extensive library of supported interfaces and protocols
- Sophisticated Policy Engine
- Purpose-built to support large multi-stakeholder, multi-vendor charging systems
- Works with leading data analytics and reporting platforms
Standardized Payment Rails
To ensure a consistent driver experience, STRATA leverages the Automotive Payments Gateway developed by Mastercard, which brings together Mastercard, VISA, Amex, Discover and over 180 issuing banks onto a common set of ‘payment rails’ badly needed by the EV industry.
Keeping It All Running Smoothly
Working with IBM and its industry-leading Maximo asset and maintenance management platform, the overall reliability and dependability of charging stations and the chargers within them, plus other elements of a charging network operation, can be managed at true enterprise levels.
State-of-the-Art Monitoring
STRATA provides a powerful “Mission Control” front end that can be utilized remotely or in a centralized environment. Mission Control will alert system operators when faults are detected and allow them to drill in from a national level directly to where the fault is occurring. Trouble tickets and service calls can be initiated as needed via the IBM Maximo platform.
Advanced Tech Stack
The STRATA environment can operate on virtually any cloud service or on ‘bare metal’ dedicated servers. Microservices implement the various elements and features of the platform, and can be expanded readily when higher capacity is needed. Interfaces to widely employed APIs, languages and protocols provide flexibility and adaptability, whether connecting with an existing CMS or vehicle telematics system. When operated on AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), IBM Cloud, Microsoft Azure or Oracle Cloud, the platform conforms to ISO9001 requirements.