Technical News Issue #80 | Spring 2018 | Page 12

NHP Technical News SUMMARY Load management Billing Data reporting 1 – no load management, suitable for small installations 1 – no special billing requirements, billing either not needed or captured elsewhere 1 – no special data reporting requirements 2 – electrical load management, suitable for use as a backup 2 – billing for access to charging equipment, not for electrical energy usage 2 – check metering, manually inspected 3 – local smart load management 3 – embedded network using trade approved energy meters 3 – Metering with web server to log and report data into existing systems 4 – cloud-based load management (consider using electrical as well) 4 – cloud-based billing solution 4 – cloud-based data reporting Summary Notes • Each vertical can be treated independently, but: o Load Management 3 will typically give you Data Reporting 3 o Load Management 4 will typically give you Data Reporting 4 o Billing 3 will typically give you Data Reporting 3 o Billing 4 will typically give you Data Reporting 4 • Total system lifetime cost typically increases from 1 to 4 in each vertical • Items (in italics) will require ongoing service contracts • For data reporting, if option 2, 3, or 4 is required, how granular does the reporting needs to be? o Individual data from individual EV chargers, or treating them as a group? o Frequency of data collection - each minute, hour, day, month, quarter? If you would like previous copies of Technical News, simply visit the Media page* on NHP’s website and navigate to ‘White Papers‘ or download the free NHP eCatalogues App on the iTunes or Google Play stores. NHP Electrical Engineering Products AUSTRALIA NEW ZEALAND A.B.N. 84 004 304 812 nhp.com.au nhp-nz.com NHPTNL80 2018 © Copyright NHP 2018 SALES 1300 NHP NHP SALES 0800 NHP NHP [email protected] [email protected]