An Intelligent Electronic Device prototype for electric vehicle environments

In the future scenario of transport and human mobility, the optimization of electric vehicles and their infrastructures (transport and energy supply) will be a key. This is the reason why it will have to provide adequate intelligent systems, both in electric vehicles and in infrastructures that provide service. Moreover, the development nowadays of Intelligent Electronic Devices (IED) and communications Machine To Machine (M2M) have enabled commercial solutions with relatively inexpensive cost. This paper discusses the design of M2M-based IED to develop a prototype with a flexible architecture, incorporating GPRS as wireless WAN solution and GPS technology to equip the system with geo-location functions, in order to cover future applications between electric vehicles and the different infrastructures to provide service.