Practical implementation and field test evaluation of a decentralized grid-friendly charging algorithm for electric vehicles

This paper describes results of the research project “SMECON-Box” (Smart-MEter-CONtrol-Box). In this project, an algorithm for a smart FNN control box, the so called SMECON-Box, is implemented and tested in laboratory and field tests. The algorithms objective is to curtail the charging power of an electric vehicle (EV) in case of grid overloading. To keep the communication needs as low as possible, the SMECON-Box should decide whether the grid is overloaded, solely based on local measurements.