E-mobility: Berlin wants to use magnetic sensors to track down charging point parking mistakes
Electric car drivers looking for a public charging point are interested in two things: First: “Where is the nearest station?”, and second: “Is it occupied?”. Both can already be found out in part via apps. It’s all the more annoying when the space is occupied by a wrong-way parker, which only becomes apparent when you arrive at the column. The city of Berlin wants to upgrade its stations with a new sensor system to prevent incorrect assignments in the first place and to be able to inform potential users in good time if they do. A field test begins in Berlin Mitte in Kreuzberg’s Graefekiez district.
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Sensors and open interface
Because the number of charging points is constantly being expanded, but no new staff can be released by the regulatory authorities for monitoring, the risk of having to drive past charging stations without having achieved anything increases. The “e-information platform” project launched in 2022 by the Senate Department for Mobility, Transport, Climate Protection and the Environment therefore wants to automate monitoring. For this purpose, a sensor system that is still to be installed and the existing public charging infrastructure are to be connected to the e-information platform in order to enable static and dynamic status information to be linked. It is planned to then make them available via an open interface (Open Data). The data is to be processed by the state-owned “Digital City Traffic Platform” of the Berlin Traffic Information Center.
Random hits are no longer enough
Initially, 220 parking space sensors are to be connected to charging points operated by Berliner Stadtwerke KommunalPartner GmbH. They make it easier to monitor the loading bays because they enable the regulatory authorities to take targeted action against incorrect occupancy. The patrolling of the charging points by forces from the regulatory authorities, which is common today, only results in random hits, in contrast to event-related controls.
The planned equipment with sensors not only allows more spaces to be kept free, but also increases the precision of the real-time information about availability. These are technically very simple magnetic field detectors on the surface of the parking spaces. This only detects whether a vehicle is in the space.
Car users don’t need to take any action
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The distinction between a charging e-car and a non-charging (electric or conventional) car is made by bringing together the data from sensors and charging points in the platform. If the sensor and the associated charging point report occupancy at the same time, a charging e-car parks there. However, if the sensor reports “occupied” and no electricity is being tapped at the column, it must be a question of incorrect occupancy. So nothing changes for the car users.
The public order offices involved in the “e-information platform” project will receive a user interface that displays incorrect charging point assignments and gives the coordinator the opportunity to send on-site staff to carry out an event-related check.
The Mitte district is participating in this experiment with the Roads and Parks Office and the Public Order Office. In the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district, he is supported at the charging facilities in Kreuzberg’s Graefekiez.
(fpi)
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2023-08-03 10:38:09
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