Development of the Web Platform for Management of Smart Charging Stations for Electric Vehicles Vitalijs Komasilovs 1 , Aleksejs Zacepins 1 , Armands Kviesis 1 , Corneliu Marinescu 2 and Ioan Serban 2 1 Department of Computer Systems, Faculty of Information Technologies, Latvia University of Agriculture, Jelgava, Latvia 2 Department of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics, Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania Keywords: Electric Vehicles, Charging Stations, Interactive Map, Smart Charging Infrastructure. Abstract: Shortage of fossil fuels and ecological thinking leads to shift in technologies for vehicle production. In the future only electric vehicles (EVs) would be produced. This will lead to huge increase in number of EVs worldwide, so it would be crucial to provide a broad public charging infrastructure. This paper exactly con- centrates on the essential role of infrastructure in the mass implementation of electric vehicles. A focus is placed on sharing the residential infrastructure for public usage. Paper describes authors developed Web plat- form for sharing the information about privately owned charging stations, describing the additional option to link station hardware with software for real-time charging data and station availability updates. Developed platform brings together drivers of EVs and owners of the infrastructure. Developed platform is built like an interactive map, based on Google Maps service. Together with software part, authors developed also hardware, which is one Microgrid based on renewable energy sources with EV charging station functionality. 1 INTRODUCTION Usage of electricity for car motors is becoming more popular nowadays and many European coun- tries made considerable efforts to increase a share of electric vehicles (EVs) in the transport sector (Mor- rissey et al., 2016). There are two main reason for that: a) huge increase in the usage of non-renewable energy resources can possibly result in their depletion (Berjoza and Jurgena, 2015; Xiong et al., 2015); b) ecological aspects (climate warning) should be taken into account, as EVs move pollution away from ur- ban areas (Hawkins et al., 2013). Electric vehicles has many advantages like emission free (Hess et al., 2012), energy efficient, and noiseless mean of trans- port (Hatton et al., 2009; Ruzmetov et al., 2013). Rapid growth of EVs is connected to notion of Smart cities (Schneider et al., 2008) and to the fact, that sev- eral countries announced ban of fossil fuel vehicles. The worlds largest car market just announced an imminent end to gas and diesel cars, as a Chinese official told the audience at an auto forum in Tianjin that the government is working on a timetable to end production and sales of traditional energy vehicles (https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/ 9/13/16293258/ev-revolution). Norway plans to completely ban petrol powered cars by year 2025 (http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate- change/norway-to-ban-the-sale-of-all-fossil-fuel- based-cars-by-2025-and-replace-with-electric- vehicles-a7065616.html). Aside China and Norway such countries as Netherlands, India, France, Great Britain, Germany and others plan to stop production of gas and diesel vehicles. It means that in our near future only EVs will be produced. This will significantly increase the number of EVs on the roads and infrastructure should be ready for comfortable usage and charging of EVs. Already today number of EVs is greater than 1200 thousands. Figure 1 shows worldwide number of battery electric vehicles in use from 2012 to 2016 (in 1,000s) (www.statista.com). But situation with EVs varies among countries, for example in Latvia there are only 313 electric vehicles registered (https://csdd.lv/statistika/transportlidzekli/ ). Most of them (184 EVs) appeared on the Latvian roads in year 2014, when it was possible to use European Union funds for car purchasing. Unfortunately, nowadays this number is not increasing, mainly because road infrastructure is not ready. In Romania situation is rather similar, where less than 400 EVs are registered to this moment. Due to mentioned facts and increase in EVs worldwide, it is important to provide a public charg- Komasilovs, V., Zacepins, A., Kviesis, A., Marinescu, C. and Serban, I. Development of the Web Platform for Management of Smart Charging Stations for Electric Vehicles. DOI: 10.5220/0006799205950599 In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Transport Systems (VEHITS 2018), pages 595-599 ISBN: 978-989-758-293-6 Copyright c  2019 by SCITEPRESS – Science and Technology Publications, Lda. All rights reserved 595