Ayesa deploys its ‘GridPilot’ technology to improve European intercity mobility
It uses Artificial Intelligence to optimise the battery power of vehicles parked in park-and-ride car parks.
Ayesa, a global provider of technology and engineering services, is participating in the European ‘Scale-Up’ project, an R&D initiative funded by the Horizon 2020 programme that plans to implement at least 28 new measures to improve urban mobility in Europe.
One of these measures seeks to combine improvements in mobility with the optimisation of energy efficiency in cities, for which Ayesa has developed a V2G (Vehicle to Grid) solution for park-and-ride car parks. This will test the use of electric vehicle batteries as storage systems to provide energy services to the user and the community.
V2G technology allows the bi-directional flow of energy between the vehicle and the adjacent building or grid. To control these systems, optimisation must take into account, among other considerations, the constraints of vehicle availability, charging time, energy price, building consumption and grid requirements.
Grid Pilot
The pilots of the European ‘Scale-Up’ project, endowed with nearly 10.5 million euros, have been carried out in three urban centres in three different European cities, Turku (Finland), Antwerp (Belgium) and Madrid. Ayesa has deployed its use case in Madrid, where it has implemented its proprietary GridPilot technology, which allows the management of charging and unloading of electric vehicles in park-and-ride car parks, enabling users to benefit economically from long-term parking.
In this way, they will be able to charge their vehicles according to their needs, monetising their parking and providing the availability of their electric vehicle battery to provide services to the community.
To this end, Ayesa has applied technologies based on Artificial Intelligence to jointly manage distributed energy resources, predict the electricity consumption of users and the duration of parking according to the type of users, as well as controlling in real time the charging/discharging according to the electricity consumption of the installation and the needs of the network to be covered.
The project, coordinated by the city of Antwerp, has 22 other partners in addition to Ayesa. https://www.scale-up-project.eu/
