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Features

The intensive use of our charge management system and the associated experience give rise to new ideas for product features. To make your everyday life easier, the best ones have been implemented in MOBILEcharge and are therefore available to every user.

Multi Operator Support

Management of different operators

With the help of Multi Operator Support, you can coordinate different bus operators in one depot and use your resources efficiently.

Central management of multiple depots

The ability to centrally manage multiple depots in different cities or countries gives you unprecedented control over your entire operating fleet.


Full control of your fleet(s)

Your operators only charge at assigned points and within specified load limits. In addition, tariffs and interfaces can be assigned individually.

Substation Monitor

Always monitor the utilization of your charging infrastructure

  • Energy quantity: Checking the energy availability
  • Energy sources: Consideration of auxiliary consumers

Automated energy control

  • Energy flows: independent control and visibility
  • Substation control: flexible adjustment of energy distribution and avoidance of outages

Energy Manager

Authorized user role for comprehensive control of your charging infrastructure

  • Simple tariff management
  • Adjustment of charging targets
  • Limitation of energy consumption
  • Specialized access control
  • Creation of efficient charging profiles

Power Boost Button

Fast charging at the touch of a button

  • Prioritized charging of buses in special cases
  • Clever use of energy reserves without impairment
  • Boost of multiple buses possible

Use of the button for

  • Rail replacement services
  • Unexpected situations such as traffic jams/demonstrations
  • Delays of all kinds

Notification Center

Targeted notifications

Error messages are sent directly to the relevant persons by e-mail or SMS.

Flexible and user-friendly

Simple categorization and prioritization of errors as well as a comprehensive history of all messages.


Simple control of charge management

Intuitive user interface for effortless configuration and optimization according to your needs.

Real Time Power Meter

Monitoring energy consumption live

  • Real-time display: Track the performance and total consumption of your depot live
  • Limit setting: Set your energy budget
  • Consumption overview: See total daily and weekly consumption
  • Offline charging stations: Keep an eye on reserved power


Your benefits

  • Full control: Overview of energy consumption and depot utilisation
  • Cost management: Stay within the set energy limit
  • Efficient decisions: Important KPIs centralised in the dashboard for quick actions

Maintenance Mode

How it works available and unavailable resources

  • Charging station is set to maintenance mode either manually or time-controlled
  • Carrying out maintenance work
  • Connection to the system is maintained
  • Charging infrastructure can continue to work as usual


Your benefit

  • Technical operation is maintained
  • Operational business is not disrupted
  • Early planning of available and unavailable resources
  • Efficient distribution of charging power to available charging stations

Local Controller

Independent Charging Processes

  • ensures the continuation of the charging process regardless of the internet connectivity
  • intelligent charging of e-buses even in case of server failures or network problems


Substation Monitoring

  • reading out data from individual substations
  • Notifications in case of faults and evaluation of energy flows


Automatic Preconditioning

  • Provides the technical requirements for the VDV 261 standard if these are not available

Charger Based Planning

Optimized E-Bus Departure

  • Departure times set directly at charging stations
  • Flexible and efficient charging schedules
  • Simplified planning with automated rules
  • Ensures buses are fully charged and ready
  • Reduces planning time and administrative tasks

Cost savings through peak shaving

Control all processes through peak shaving. This method aims to balance power drawn from the energy grid. Optimized charging and preconditioning based on departure times and target charging status. Power peaks are capped and energy costs are reduced.

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Why MOBILEcharge?

Intelligent charging processes

Intelligent charging processes incorporating operational data, variable electricity tariffs, energy storage and vehicle data.

Centralized charge management

Streamlined monitoring and control during operation and charging of the entire fleet.

Optimized charging performance

Parallel, controlled and automated charging processes.

Battery saving

Protection of the battery by balancing the total current load.

Standards

OCPP (Open Charge Point Protocol), ISO 15118 VAS (Value Added Services), VDV 463 and VDV 261.

Control

Active diagnostics and remote control of charging points and transformers.

Independent and safe data

As a third-party provider, we offer independent data you can trust. Our long experience in data collection guarantees the security of the data.

Valuable insights & actionable advice

Gain valuable insights in real-time energy management, live fault alerts, operational reports and smart charging. Benefit from forecasts for depots and power suppliers.

Easy to integrate

Easy integration with the application landscape between ITCS, depot management system and energy supplier. You can optimize your fleet operations and charging performance regardless of your software system.

Find your solution with us

  • Implemented projects with OCPP 2.0.1
  • Mature understanding of the procedures of transport companies
  • Previous integration of leading charging infrastructure manufacturers
  • Numerous successfully completed system tests
  • Active co-creatation of standard interfaces (VDV 261, VDV 463, etc.)
  • VDV 463 to operational IT pre-systems (receive charging request, provide charging process status)
  • VDV 261 / ISO 15118 VAS to pre-conditioning of vehicles

Use of standards

MOBILEcharge is compatible with systems from different manufacturers thanks to its compliance with VDV standards. MOBILEcharge uses the best standards for bus communication with both the infrastructure and with the pre-systems.

Insights into the application

See the advantages for yourself

Dashboard

Get a quick and easy overview of your charging performance and energy consumption, historically and in real time.

Charging plan

This is your timetable for all parent and upcoming charging processes.

Basic information

You can find detailed and exciting videos about MOBILEcharge and the processes of the charging management system here:


We coordinate your growing electric bus fleet and make ideal use of charging windows in the depot and on the route through charging management. Our management system ensures parallel, controlled and automated charging processes. It links charging points, energy supply and operational information systems. The result is a balanced load management system that incorporates your operational requirements, lower peak power and the use of cost-effective energy tariffs.


Many aspects have to be considered and the overall strategy must be defined before electric buses can be successfully incorporated into your fleet. E-bus integration has an impact on numerous operational processes – from planning and scheduling to operations control. Electromobility is nothing short of a complete paradigm shift – but it can be mastered successfully in 7 steps.


Tide succeeds in starting to operate electric buses in Bergen with complete success. With MOBILEcharge, charging processes can be controlled and monitored. This makes it possible to see remotely if there is a fault, if a charge is not working, and how the state of charge of each bus develops during the night. This innovative and sustainable solution could be a model for many other cities.
In this webinar, you will learn how you can reduce the costs of charging your electric buses by using MOBILEcharge.

Este webinar se centrará en la presentación del sistema de gestión de carga MOBILEcharge. No solo analizaremos los conceptos básicos del sistema, sino que también proporcionaremos información exclusiva sobre las últimas funciones que aún no se han presentado de forma oficial.

About MOBILEcharge

All at a glance

Learn more about MOBILEcharge in our Product Description and in our article about Potential Cost Savings of a Charge Management. You can get support for the creation of tenders from our Tender Support.

Are you interested in further documents? Visit our download area.

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Leandro Campo
Sales Manager Public Transport

Public Transport insights

Maintain processes with departure-optimized e-bus charging planning

July 25, 2024
We present the latest feature in the charge management system MOBILEcharge: The new tool, Charger Based Planning, allows you to set departure times directly at the charging stations instead of at vehicles.

Völklinger Verkehrsbetriebe expands integrated e-mobility solutions from INIT Group

July 23, 2024
The Völklinger Verkehrsbetriebe Ltd. has now also opted for the charge management system MOBILEcharge from CarMedialab, a subsidiary of the INIT Group, to efficiently manage the charging processes of its constantly growing fleet of e-buses.

Technical standards – Martin Schmitz from VDV

June 13, 2024
The VDV (Verband Deutscher Verkehrsunternehmen = Association of German Transport Companies) plays a crucial role in the German transport industry. Read more about standards and interfaces and watch the interview with Managing Director Martin Schmitz.

Large Scale Bus Electrification: IT Systems Checklist

May 24, 2024
The UITP has recently published a comprehensive checklist for the electrification of bus fleets within a working group. This checklist provides a valuable resource for public transport operators looking to convert their bus fleets to electric vehicles.

CarMedialab and INIT at the IT-Trans 2024

May 22, 2024
IT-Trans, the international conference and trade fair for public transport, took place in Karlsruhe from May 14 to 16, 2024. Read more about CarMedialab’s participation at the trade fair.

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