You need a eCarUp Premium subscription per station to bill the imported data or to transfer it to other systems.
General
With the 15-minute consumption, load profile data billing can be realised. This enables extended tariff structures such as ZEV billing or multi-tariff systems. With the help of the data import tool, data from specific charging stations can be imported into the smart-me Cloud.
Link to the data import tool: https://sm-3rdparty-import-web-prod.azurewebsites.net/
Note: The quality is defined by the third-party provider and cannot be changed or improved by smart-me or eCarUp.
Important, we recommend installing a smart-me meter at the e-mobility feeder for the following reasons:
If a smart-me meter is not installed, support will not help you find differences between smart-me billing and the electricity provider's bill. This is always the case when metering is done by a third party.
With smart-me billing, the total e-mobility consumption can be referenced.
A separate billing unit can be created and displayed for the total consumption (use case: external administration).
Account structure requirements
Please note the following information about the account structure, it is important to ensure smooth operation without unnecessary additional costs.
OCPP stations in the eCarUp account automatically create transaction counter points in the smart-me account of the same name and automatically created.
Authentication eCarUp and billing in the multi-tariff system:
If eCarUp authentication is desired but billing is to take place via the smart-me billing platform in the multi-tariff system, the OCPP stations must not be installed in the automatically created eCarUp account of the same name. When importing the OCPP load profile data via the import tool, additional load profile meter points are created. If the eCarUp account also corresponds to the ZEV account, there will be twice as many meter points for transaction data and load profile meter points in the account, which would all be subject to licensing.
To prevent this, a separate eCarUp account can be created and the OCPP stations installed separately from the ZEV / house installation.
Green diagram area: 15min Data import into the property account.
The migration to the green diagram area can be carried out in the background for already installed charging stations and without any impact on the end customer (as the authentication is not changed on site).
Attention: In this variant, the authentication works on site / with the charging stations directly. eCarUp has no influence on the activation.
Advantage: As it is a data import in the background, customers do not notice anything in the event of a migration.
Disadvantage: Since there is no authentication via eCarUp, the charging data of the customers is not recorded and cannot be viewed.
Red: 15min data import with activation via eCarUp App.
Here a separate account must be created for the activation of the charging stations via eCarUp. incl. the OCPP implementation via one of the following instructions depending on the charging station manufacturer used (Zaptec / easee)
Advantage: Customer can activate via the app or RFID card and sees his charging history.
Disadvantage: Two separate logins must be managed.
Supported third parties:
Zaptec
Data quality:
The current data is retrieved from the Zaptec Cloud at 15-minute intervals. The reason for this is that the historical data of the Zaptec Cloud only contains transaction-based data, which is incompatible with a conventional load profile. Zaptec only provides 15-minute data during the transaction, not outside of it, but a load profile meter must be able to provide continuous data.
Note: This configuration does not affect the measurement and billing of charging transactions.
In the event of internet failure, missing data will be replaced by a single replacement value. This single 15-minute data point corresponds to the total interim consumption from the last contact until the connection is resumed. When exporting the data to other systems, the substitute value is distributed interpolated.
2. Log in to the tool with the smart-me target account (ZEV account).
3. Create a Zaptec data import via "Add"
4. Enter the account of the Zaptec Cloud installation to be imported.
Important: Please do not work with the main Zaptec account but with the authorisation that has now been set up for the property or ZEV account.
5. Wait approx. 25 minutes until the first data has been imported.
What happens?
For each imported station, a meter point is created in the smart-me account.
Meter points of e.g. public stations that are not used can be set to inactive in the meter configuration in order not to be subject to licensing.
Now you can continue configuring on the smart-me page (smart-me billing).
Note: All future stations connected to this installation will automatically be migrated to the smart-me portal.
easee
Data quality:
15-minute readings are stored on the smart-me cloud for your easee charging stations. These are normally available with a delay of 1-3 hours.
In the event of internet or server failures, it may exceptionally take longer. As soon as the outage is resolved, the readings from the outage period are automatically transferred to the smart-me Cloud.
Configuration of easee charging station
smart-me configures easee charging stations with a measurement interval of 15 minutes. This affects all charging stations of your easee account configured for import. The configuration is done once per charging station, namely:
when setting up the import: all charging stations already existing in the easee account
charging stations newly installed in the easee later: within 3h.
Note: This configuration has no influence on the measurement and billing of charging transactions.
Attention:
If you (or an authorized person) change the measurement interval of an easee charging station, this will affect the measurement values available in the smart-me Cloud. In this case, the measurement interval will not be corrected by smart-me.
Further information can be found in the easee documentation:
Import procedure:
Create an account in the easee Cloud for each ZEV object, the registration is done via an e-mail (here in this example an alias e-mail address). The mobile phone number is a mandatory field and the same number can always be entered.
E-mail must be confirmed
Share the permissions for the corresponding installation in it.
2. Log into the tool with the smart-me target account (ZEV account).
3. create an easee data import via "Add".
4. Important: Please always enter as "owner or admin of the site".
5. Log into the tool with the smart-me target account (ZEV account). 6.
6. create an easee data import via "Add".
7. Important: Please do not work with the main account of easee but with the authorisation that has now been set up for the property or ZEV account. 8.
8. Wait approx. 3 hours until the first data is imported.
What happens?
A meter point is created in the smart-me account for each imported station.
Unused meter points of e.g. public stations can be set to inactive in the meter configuration in order not to be subject to licensing.
Now you can continue configuring on the smart-me page (smart-me billing).
Note: All future stations connected to this installation will automatically be migrated to the smart-me portal.