Installing charging stations in the company car park or at employees' homes is a first step. To get the most out of them, you need to know who is charging, how much each session costs and whether the charging stations are working properly. That is the role of monitoring software: it connects the charging stations to a single platform to track their activity, manage access, act remotely and manage the charging budget.
Find out what charging station monitoring is, why it is essential for private charging stations and how Chargemap Business helps you set it up.
- Monitoring a charging station means connecting it to software to collect its activity data and act remotely.
- Monitoring secures access to charging stations: open to all, reserved for a group or accessible by badge.
- It calculates the cost of each charging session, on site and at home, to simplify reimbursement or rebilling.
- Real-time tracking and remote maintenance limit service interruptions.
- Chargemap Business brings together workplace, home and public charging in a single interface.
What does charging station monitoring mean?
Monitoring a charging station means connecting it to the internet and linking it to software in order to collect its activity data and carry out maintenance remotely. It is a prerequisite for any charge point operator wishing to open its infrastructure to the public.
But a monitoring solution is not only useful for public charge point operators. Companies also have every interest in using monitoring software for their private charging stations installed on site or at their employees' homes.
Why monitor your private charging stations?
First of all, monitoring lets you secure access to your company's charging infrastructure. You can configure how users authenticate at your charging stations, for example with building access badges.
It is also the ideal tool to track your charging stations' activity in real time, produce statistics and define your company's charging strategy.
If you are familiar with public charging, you will know that it is much cheaper to charge at private charging stations. The charging budget is simply based on the price per kWh in your energy contract.
Monitoring software lets you calculate the cost of each charging session at your connected charging stations, whether they are on site or at your employees' homes. You then have everything you need to manage the reimbursement or rebilling of charging sessions to your employees.
🎬 In 1 minute, Mathieu, our e-mobility project manager, explains monitoring and its benefits for company fleets (video in French).
Charging station monitoring by Chargemap Business
Chargemap Business offers its own charging station monitoring solution, developed with its customers. Since the beginning of Chargemap's services for professionals, we have been committed to building our offer together with our customers. This helps us better understand the real issues and needs of the market. Let's review the key features of our charging station monitoring tool, 100% developed in-house.
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Control the cost of all your charging sessions
Chargemap Business centralises the data from all your charging sessions at the workplace, at your employees' homes and at public charging stations via the Business Chargemap Pass. It is the ideal tool to help you control your charging budget.
In Chargemap Business, set the price per kWh of your energy contract to identify the overall cost of your private charging. From the dashboard, analyse all your fleet's charging sessions and spot ways to save. Internally, for example, encourage your employees to charge during off-peak hours. With the same goal in mind, identify the more expensive public charging sessions so they can be done on site instead.
For employees who use your charging stations for their personal electric vehicle, you can rebill them in proportion to their consumption by accessing the charging history for each employee.
Manage access to your private charging stations at different levels
Define who can charge at your charging stations by setting up the different user profiles that are or are not authorised to charge. You can open them to everyone, use individual badges (e.g. building access badges), target a group of users, and more.
Track and analyse your charging stations' activity in real time
View your employees' charging sessions live and understand how your installations are used. The Chargemap Business interface lets you keep an eye on electricity consumption, availability, occupancy rates and more. You can then make informed decisions about developing your infrastructure.
Monitor status and carry out maintenance remotely
For each charging point, get alerted to any malfunction by monitoring the connector status reported in your interface. If there is a problem, some maintenance actions can be carried out: firmware updates, unlocking a connector, restarting a charging station, and more.
Manage the reimbursement of your employees' home charging
Connect the charging stations installed at your employees' homes to the Chargemap Business software. Then reimburse your employee for the electricity used to charge the company vehicle.
Communicate about your CSR approach
Finally, from the dashboard, you also have access to some CSR data, such as the amount of CO2 and litres of fuel saved by your company fleet. In the context of the French LOM law, use these figures to communicate about the progress your company has made in reducing its carbon footprint.
And because a video is worth a thousand words, we leave you with a short presentation of the Chargemap Business Monitoring tool (video in French).
The Chargemap Business team supports you in deploying and monitoring private charging stations, adapting to your company's needs.
