The low grade of current penetration of the Electric Vehicle into the market entails a still small impact on the electrical demand. However, as the volume of electric vehicles grows, this impact will be more and more notorious. This new scene can be confronted in two ways: by strengthening the fixed electrical infrastructure (which is expensive and inefficient) or implementing mechanisms of efficient management of the demand. Under these circumstances and the opportunities offered by this new market, a group of big companies (FICOSA and GTD) and entrepreneurs (MOVEOTECH and EDENWAY) in collaboration with a technological research center (ASCAMM), and thanks to the Program “Nuclis” of Generalitat of Catalonia, a R&D project called EVIC (Electric Vehicle Intelligent Charging) has been initiated. The “Nuclis” of Technological Innovation is a program inside the Global Grant for Business Innovation in Catalonia, being planned in Operational Program of the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER) 2007-2013 of Catalonia, to promote the collaboration between companies and technological agents, whether being of the same value chain, of the same business or those operating in the same technological field, in R & D proceedings aimed at developing key technologies of high impact and technological value that, because of their high risk, would be hard to carry out individually and without public support. The EVIC project is seeking to cover one of the greatest needs of the companies that offer products and/or services related to electric vehicle: the balance control of electrical power load to the network, by means of an intelligent management of the demand in real-time. To achieve that, EVIC will consider the geographical distribution of electric vehicles in real-time and also will keep updated its data on energy needs. The main objective of this project is the design and the development of embedded technology, with very advanced positioning capabilities, to be integrated into a centralized demand management system. This system will consist of a processing center controlling the electrical demand, and a module integrated to the electric vehicle which will provide the position (based on WLAN signals) and the battery charge level ubiquitously (including inner parts and areas of poor satellite coverage). Finally, the users of the electric vehicle will also benefit from this brand new system by accessing to a mobile application which will allow them to monitor their electric vehicle and to exchange data with the user. Thus, letting users remotely access real time data about their electric vehicle, enter custom data and also use it as a wizard in order to find the optimum point of charging.
