“Electric Vehicle Charging Station Finding App”

Introduction
One of the most promising approaches to developing sustainable transportation networks is
the use of electric vehicles (EVs). However, there are some features with EV-based
transportation that make wider market adoption difficult. Customers see the overhead of
charging operations (such as long recharging times) and the absence of precise information
regarding the availability of EV supply stations (EVSSs) while riding in an EV as key
restrictions, which contribute to the low user adoption. ICT-based solutions must be used to
give EV drivers additional support in order to address these difficulties. In order to enable a
greater uptake of EV-based mobility, we explain in this paper the creation of an Android
mobile application that has been implemented inside the EU Internet of Energy (IoE) project.
The app fully supports EV drivers with its battery monitoring, dynamic range prediction, and
on-the-go EVSS discovery functionalities. Additionally, it supports the IoE semantic
architecture and enables EV drivers to book a charging spot based on their preferences and
the current state of EVSS availability. A questionnaire was used to assess the application's
user approval. The importance of charging reservation schemes to reduce EV driver anxiety
issues is supported by test findings.

Scope
1. Charging Station Database: The system will maintain a comprehensive database of all
available EV charging stations, including their locations, charging rates, and other
relevant information.
2. User Interface: The system will provide an easy-to-use interface for EV drivers to
search for and locate nearby charging stations, including the ability to filter results by
charging rate, station type, and availability.
3. Navigation: The system will provide navigation and routing guidance to the nearest
available charging station.
4. Real-Time Data: The system will use real-time data to provide up-to-date information
on the availability of charging stations, including current usage, charging rate, and
estimated time to charge.
 5. Reservation System: The system may include a reservation system that allows users to
reserve a charging station ahead of time, ensuring availability when they arrive.
6. Payment System: The system will provide a payment system that allows users to pay
for their charging sessions directly through the app.
7. User Feedback: The system may include a feedback system that allows users to rate
and provide feedback on charging stations, helping to improve the overall charging
experience.

Objective:
Electric Vehicle charging based on energy price, user preference and grid capacities.
• Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) focuses on two-way communication and energy flow.
• Vehicle-to-building (V2B) uses EV fleet storage to support building loads.
• Grid services—mitigate the PV duck-curve with focus on V2G and grid-to-vehicle
infrastructure to smooth the over-generation from renewable sources.
• Grid services—automated demand response demonstration that involves both actual and
simulated real-time grid services, including demand response program participation by using
V2G technologies.

Existing System
The Existing System of EV Charging Station Finder web application is a project that provides
a web-based platform for electric vehicle (EV) drivers to find and locate nearby charging
stations. The project aims to address the growing demand for EV charging infrastructure by
providing a convenient and efficient way for drivers to locate available charging stations,
helping to reduce range anxiety and promote the adoption of electric vehicles.

Proposed System
The main purpose of the project is to develop a useful product for the EV users which will be
very convenient for them. This app will not only provide service to the user, but it will also
be used by the vendor (Electric station owners) as an interactive system. It can also generate
more data of user which owns the electric vehicles and also the vendors which have charging
station. By using this one can used to find as well as to navigate to stations. This app will also
be expanded in the future as a commercial product with more features that will also use
subscription packs and as well as features like charge and chill which will generate more
revenue.

Level 0 DFD
User

Service Provider
Literature Survey
1. Design and Implementation an Online Location Based Services Using Google Maps for
Android Mobile By Dr. Omar A. Ibrahim, Khalid J. Mohsen. This paper introduces an
application for android mobile, which is implemented to provide the android mobile user to
add, remove and review specific locations on the online map. The proposed applications also
presents the basics navigation operations like showing directions with the optimal path
between source and destination and calculating the distance and expected driving time.
Google Maps APIs, Google Direction APIs, PHP, JSON and MySQL have been integrated
and used in this application to obtain solutions. [7]
2. The Study and Implementation of Mobile GPS Navigation System Based On Google Maps
By H. Li, L. Zhijian Google Maps API provides a number of utilities for adding individual
content to the google maps. Google Maps API is a set of application programming interfaces
that lets us talk to its services. It will allow us to build simple apps to very sophisticated
location-based apps for Web, iOS, and Android. [2]
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By A M Qadir , P.Cooper Working of Web based application by using Global Positioning
System (GPS). GPS is a system of 30+ navigation satellites circling Earth. We know where
they are because they constantly send out signals. A GPS receiver in your phone listens for
these signals. Once the receiver calculates its distance from four or more GPS satellites, it can
figure out where you are. [3]
4. API Recommendation System for Software Development By F.Thung APIs simplify how
developers integrate new application components into an existing architecture, they help
business and IT teams collaborate. Business needs often change quickly in response to ever
shifting digital markets, where new competitors can change a whole industry with a new app.

Justification For Selecting A Particular Methodology For Completing The

Processor - Intel i5 or i3

Speed - 1.4 Ghz

RAM - 8GB(min)
Hard Disk - 500 Gb

Software Requirement for Development:

Operating system - Windows

Platform - Android mobile platform

Coding Language - Java

IDE - Android Studio

Hardware Components for Implementation:

Processor - Snapadragon 420

Speed - 1.2 Ghz

RAM - 1GB (min)

Software Requirement for Implementation:

Operating System - Above Marshamaallow 6.0

Project Modules
AMap Activity On selecting user and logged in into the app the first activity is map
activity .This page have the Full in built Map and have markers of all available stations on
map and a separate list of them also. The user can select their nearby station.
1. Station On clicking the nearby station this activity opens. This activity has the all
information of station such as image of station, location of station, Distance of station from
users live location, Number of ports available at this station, Cost of charging the EV per
hour, booking the slot feature.
2. Slot Booking On clicking the book slot this activity opens. This activity has booking
details to be filled to book slot for charging such as Car company ,car model , type of charger
used to charge car , time of slot for charging.
3. Navigation Feature This feature is to navigate the user directly to the station from user’s
current location. This open the google maps and directly starts the turn by turn maps activity
of google maps. B. Booking List Activity This is the activity which has data of all users
booking details at the charging stations and from here user can also delete booking at the
specific stations.
C. Profile Activity 1. Contribute Feature This feature allows the user to add the new stations
to the map and to the database of the app. This feature helps to add new stations as EV
industry is growing in India and new stations are opening in India. 2. Profile This has all
information of user such as name, live user location and you can edit it also. 3.3 Vendor A.
Dashboard Activity It has the total charging income of vendor from the bookings. It also has
the number of available ports at the charging station.
B. Station Activity It has all the stations list of particular vendor. A vendor can add as many
station as he want with the valid sources. For adding a new station vendor requires GST
number of station, station image, station location, name of station and charging cost of it per
hour. Each station has all booking list of that selected station. A vendor can also delete the
booking of user if necessary. Vendor also has the Profile Activity same as the user such as
Profile having name and location of the vendor and vendor can also edit its profile details.
C. Profile Both the user and vendor has the same information about the app in the about us
section in the Profile Activities of them which will give the basic information of the app to
the user and the vendor.
D. Slot Swapping Module
This feature includes for user to swap the booked slot into new slot by using swapping mode.

System Architecture
Architecture focuses on looking at a system as a combination of many different components,
and how they interact with each other to produce the desired result. It involves the process of
defining a collection of hardware and software components and their interfaces to establish
the framework for the development of an android application.
Architecture Diagram
The above mentioned Architecture Diagram consists of 3 Layers
• Front End Layer

• Middle Layer

• Database Layer

1. Front End Layer

o Admin

o User

o Service Provider

2. Middle layer
In our project to interact between the actors and the database is done by the middle layer is
used. The PHP is used to interact between the user and the database. So that the data is
stored effectively in the database and helps them to easy to fetch and display from the
database.

3. Database Layer
The MYSQL database is used to store the data into database. The effective analysis is done to
create the database design and to store the data. The every actions related from the front end
are accessed from the database by the PHP.

Architecture Diagram
Conclusion
This paper describes work that has been developed in order to provide a conceptual system to
assist and manage Electrical Vehicles (EV) charging process. This proposed Smart EV
Charging System uses Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) technology, in order to connect not only
Electric Vehicles, but also renewable energy sources, to Smart Grids (SG). The new
paradigm of Electrical Markets (EM), with deregulation of electricity production and use, is
also explored in this developed system, in order to optimize the prices of selling or buying
electrical energy, to or from the electrical network. In the proposed Smart EV Charging
System, the introduction of mobile applications will facilitate connectivity user’s interaction.
A simulation tool helps on this smart charging process, and can be used to identify
overloaded electrical distribution lines, and also to simulate behaviour and operating
conditions under different assumptions. Electrical energy producers can also benefit from this
data collection and manipulation, because they can tune their production according to users’
consumption needs.

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