Development of Electric Vehicle Charging Station Management System in Urban Areas

In recent years, research and development of electric vehicles have been promoted in Indonesia as new technologies. The provision of charging station (CS) infrastructure for electric vehicle (EV) is essential to ensure flexibility. Managing the EV Charging Station is challenged due to communicating several brands into the central system. We successfully developed the charging station management system (CSMS). Application development is used to make a tool in the form of a CSMS application to monitor and control CS with the name SONIK (electric vehicle charging operation system). The system architecture and performance of CSMS has been shown. The design of the system has been connected to 3 kinds of CS in the three cities in the urban area. Totally 1663 times, CS injected the power into the EV from January to April 2020. From the fillings of three stations, the BPPT Thamrin station in Central Jakarta is the busiest station with a complete filling of 1545 times from January to April 2020. High usage at BPPT Thamrin station is due to a large number of customers from conventional taxis, online taxis, private vehicles, and official vehicles. Besides, the level of activity from the area around the station is also high, considering that it is the center of government and business.