Charging station advertisement on digital multimedia broadcasting platform

Abstract

This paper first designs and implements an advertisement management framework based on digital multimedia broadcasting facilities and then presents a status posting system for charging stations, aiming at facilitating a battery charging service to electric vehicles. The implemented system consists of advertiser interfaces, data service managers, and provincial broadcasting equipments, making it possible for an advertiser to create or change contents via Internet connection, while the update latency remains below 10 seconds. The charging station information on the queue length, waiting time estimation will be automatically sent to the telematics server via telematics networks to complement the absence of upload path in digital broadcasting. With the interaction between the telematics server and data service manager, this service can distribute electric vehicles over multiple charging stations, reducing the average waiting time. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.