Charge Monitoring

Charge Monitoring

Overview

Charge Monitoring allows you to see every charger’s status, key real-time information, and filter chargers by Customer and Garage. The page offers two different views, Tile view and List view, which allows users to see both aggregate charging behavior and individual charger behavior. You can use the page to perform Charger Actions that send basic OCPP commands remotely to chargers.

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Using the Charge Monitoring page

Filtering chargers

You can select between 3 different Filters and 2 different Views to change what is shown on the page. Only the filtered items will be displayed.

Filters:

  1. Customer - Select one or multiple customers

  2. Garage - Select one specific garage of chargers

  3. Charger - Select one specific charger

Views:

  1. Tile View - Presents all chargers in tile format

  2. List View - Presents all chargers in a list format, with two graphs on the top of the page (“Vehicles on Chargers” and “Charging Power”)

Charging States

You can select to view chargers by Charging Status: All Chargers, Available, Charging, Faulted, Waiting to Charge, and Not Reporting. Each status has a corresponding color, as seen below:

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Tile View

Tiles are designed to show key data for individual chargers and connectors,. Tiles are grouped by status. For chargers that are Charging, they will be sorted from lowest SoC to highest SoC.

Tile Details

Each Tile will show


Field

Description

Charger name

The name of the charger, as defined by user

Connector #

Which connector is in use, if a multi-connector charger

Status, by Color

  • Green = Available

  • Blue = Charging

  • Red = Faulted

  • Yellow = Waiting to Charge

  • Grey = Not Reporting

Energy

Total energy sent to vehicle by charger since the session started

Power Offered

How much power the charger is willing to give to the vehicle

Power

How much power the vehicle is accepting from the charger

Start SoC

The vehicle’s SoC at the start of the session

Session Start Time

The time the charge session started

Current SoC

The vehicle’s current SoC

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Behavior when clicked

Clicking on a tile will open up the Side Panel view


List View

List View allows you to see chargers in a tabular format. You can customize the variables of the table, filter by specific variables, search the table, and export the table as both a CSV and PDF file.

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The total list of possible fields in the table is:


Field

Description

OEM PCS Name

The name assigned to the charger (power cabinet) by the OEM

Customer Name

The Customer Organization who owns the charger

Charger name

The name assigned to the charger in Valence

Customer Charger Name

The name assigned to the charger by the Customer

Connector ID

Which connector is in use, if a multi-connector charger

Session Start Time

The time the charge session started

Session End Time

The time the charge session ended, if it has ended

Status

Available, Charging, Faulted, Waiting to Charge, & Not Reporting

SoC %

The vehicle’s current SoC

Vehicle Name

The name of the vehicle currently on the charger, as recorded in Valence

Vehicle Model

The model of the Vehicle currently on the charger

Charging power

How much power the vehicle is accepting from the charger

Fault Summary

The current fault status of the vehicle connected to this connector:

  • Red

  • Green

  • Yellow

Last Charger Data Transmission

The last time the charger sent data to the server

Current Energy

The amount of energy (kWh) in the vehicle battery

Vehicle Odometer

The number of miles on the vehicle’s odometer

Vehicle Cabin Temperature

The interior temperature of the vehicle’s cabin

Exterior temp

The temperature outside of the vehicle

Last Vehicle Data Transmission

The last time the vehicle sent data to the server

MDJB Serial Number

The serial number of the multi-dispenser junction box

Charger Model

The model of the charger

Charger Current

The active current being sent by the charger

Charger Voltage

The active voltage being sent by the charger

Vehicle VIN

The VIN of the Vehicle currently on the charger

Session (kWh)

Total energy sent to vehicle by charger since the session started

ID Tag

Authorization ID sent from the charger. Typically the Vehicle charge controller ID.

Actions

See the Charger Actions section

Vehicles on Chargers

The Vehicles on Chargers graph is a histogram that shows the number of vehicles that are actively charging in buckets of 10%. You can expand this graph to full screen, share a PDF snapshot, and use the hovering tooltip feature to see the precise number of vehicles per bucket.

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Charging Power

The Charging Power graph is a line graph showing both Power Offered and Power (Actively imported) over the previous 4 hours. You can select either variable at the top of the graph to turn it off/on. You can expand this graph to full screen, share a PDF snapshot, and use the hovering tooltip feature to see the precise value at every minute.

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Charger Actions

In the List View, there is a column labeled Actions. When a charger is charging, You can click on the 3 dots associated with that charger to complete any of the 4 actions listed:

Field

Description

Reset

Sends a reset command to the charger

Clear Profile

Clears any Profile associated with the charger

Charge at Max Power (only while charging)

Charge at the max power associated with each charger’s asset model

Limit to Zero Power (only while charging)

Charge at 0 kW (note, this may end a charging session, which can only be restarted by physically unplugging and replugging charger).

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Side panel

Clicking on a tile (in Tile View) or a charger name (in list view) will open up the Side Panel view. he side panel view has three tabs: Charge Session, Vehicle Details, and Charger Details, with corresponding details for all four tabs. It also contains links to both Charger Faults and Vehicle Faults.
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Charge Session

The following data is available on the Charge Session tab of the side panel:

Field

Description

Time spent

Indicates the length of the current session

Session Start Time

Indicates the start time of the current session

Session End Time

Indicates the end time of the current session (defined by the charger changing state and sending a stop transaction message)

SOC: Start

Initial vehicle state of charge (as communicated by the charger)

SOC: Current

Current vehicle state of charge (as communicated by the charger)

SOC: Added

Incremental vehicle state of charge added during the session

Session Energy

Energy transferred to the vehicle as metered at the charger (net of import and export)

Charging Power

Current power at which the charger is charging

Energy Import

Energy added to the vehicle

Energy Export

Energy exported from the vehicle back to the charger

Last Data Transmission (Charger)

Timestamp of the last message received from the charger

Vehicle Details

The following data is available on the Vehicle Details tab of the side panel:

Field

Description

Customer name

Name of customer organization

Vehicle name

Customer name for a vehicle

VIN

Unique vehicle identification number

Model

Manufacturer’s model

Charge controller ID/IDtag

Identification number of the vehicle charge controller or other authorization credential provided to the charger

Charger Details

The following data is available on the Charger Details tab of the side panel:

Field

Description

Charger name

Name of charger

OCPP ID

OCPP ID of the charger

Charger vendor

Charger manufacturer

Charger model

Manufacturer model

Customer charger name

Name of charger given by the customer

MDJB serial number

Multi dispenser junction box serial number (specific to Proterra multi dispenser chargers)

Connector ID

Unique connector on the dispenser

Status

Current status of the charger

Fault Summary

Not currently used

Charger Voltage/Current

Most recent meter value sent by the charger for voltage and current

Last data transmission

Timestamp of the last data received from the charger

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