Wireless communication and management system for E-Bike dynamic inductive power transfer lanes

• Autor(a) principal: Afonso, José A.
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Duarte, Helder G., Cardoso, Luiz Alberto Lisboa Silva, Monteiro, Vítor Duarte Fernandes, Afonso, João L.
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/67207
• topic: dynamic inductive wireless power transfer; network-based management system; automatic vehicle identification; wireless communication; Engenharia e Tecnologia::Engenharia Eletrotécnica, Eletrónica e Informática; Science & Technology

This paper presents the design, implementation, and testing of a wireless communication system for automatic identification of e-bikes and management of their battery charging in the context of dynamic inductive wireless power transfer (DIWPT) lanes. The proposed system checks if an e-bike, uniquely identified by its RFID tag, is authorized to receive energy from the lane coils and acts accordingly. An authentication mechanism was developed based on the use of embedded Wi-Fi boards attached to the coils and communicating with a central HTTP server with a MySQL database. The developed management system also provides other features, such as the recording of the number of lane coils used by each e-bike for billing purposes. The results from experimental tests on a laboratory prototype were used to validate the developed functionalities and assess the quality of service provided by the proposed system.