EV smart charging and distributed device estates
Electric Nation: keeping 673 smart chargers online
Commissioned by EA Technology as communications systems integrator for the world's largest home smart charging trial, funded through Ofgem's Network Innovation Allowance and hosted by Western Power Distribution. We identified the secure Wi-Fi bridge that went into 82 per cent of installations, configured and dispatched the charger controllers, ran the resilient backhaul for around 650 gateway devices, and completed 346 on-site fault visits. Fleet communications reliability reached the level the trial needed to produce its findings.
Read the Electric Nation case study
How we write these up
Every figure on these pages comes from a published report, a system record or a signed-off project document. We do not round up, we do not quote peak numbers as though they were typical, and where a project report criticises our work we say so on the page. If a client has asked to stay unnamed, we say that too rather than describing them in a way that identifies them anyway.
Looking for something similar
Most of our work sits in one of these shapes. If yours looks like one of them, talk to our engineering team.
- Connected device estates in premises you do not control. Charge points, meters, sensors and kiosks, where the last hundred metres and the backhaul are both your problem.
- Multi-site networks that cannot go dark. Bonded and failover architectures built on Peplink SpeedFusion, with central monitoring.
- Temporary and mobile deployments. Live events, broadcast, and anything that has to work first time with no second visit.
- Rescue work. Estates already deployed that are not staying online, where the fix is diagnosis before hardware.