Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a charging station for charging electric vehicles. The charging station includes: at least two charging points, which are each connectable to an electric vehicle for charging an electric energy store of the electric vehicle; at least two rectifier branches for providing electrical energy, the rectifier branches being electrically connectable to the charging points and the electrical connection being switchable between at least one of the rectifier branches and the charging points; at least one energy meter for providing meter values which describe the electrical energy provided by the rectifier branches; and at least one meter value acquisition computer configured to determine, for each of the charging points, the amount of the electrical energy provided by the rectifier branches electrically connected to the charging point based on the meter values of the at least one energy meter.

Abstract: A control device which, in addition to pairing a charging station with a vehicle to be charged, also pairs a control connection to a mobile terminal of a charging station user. A control connection via a near-field communications interface is formed with the mobile terminal (MD) after an authorisation from a vehicle-side and terminal-side authorisation pair is received. After the control connection has been formed, the charging station is assigned based on an interaction between the control connection, formed using the near-field communications interface, and the vehicle-side authorization.

Abstract: A method for controlling a charging operation of a vehicle at a charging station includes monitoring, modifying, stopping, or terminating the charging operation, independent of an identification device initially used for approval of a charging. The charging is controlled via a control link established via a near-field communication link between a mobile terminal device and a control device of the charging station. The near-field communication link enables a receipt of a termination instruction by the control device for terminating the charging operation.

Abstract: A connecting unit for connection to an electric vehicle with two or more contact rails is provided. By way of example, one contact rail is provided for the connection DC+ and one contact rail is provided for the connection DC?. These contact rails are dependent on one another to a certain degree on account of the positive and negative polarity. Therefore, the contact rails are not arranged in any desired manner, but rather at a specific distance from one another. Furthermore, the connecting unit has a further contact rail to which a signal can be applied. The contact rails can be connected to corresponding vehicle-side contact rails of the electric vehicle.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a charging station for charging electric vehicles. The charging station includes: at least two charging points, which are each connectable to an electric vehicle for charging an electric energy store of the electric vehicle; at least two rectifier branches for providing electrical energy, the rectifier branches being electrically connectable to the charging points and the electrical connection being switchable between at least one of the rectifier branches and the charging points; at least one energy meter for providing meter values which describe the electrical energy provided by the rectifier branches; and at least one meter value acquisition computer configured to determine, for each of the charging points, the amount of the electrical energy provided by the rectifier branches electrically connected to the charging point based on the meter values of the at least one energy meter.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for establishing an end-to-end communication between two networks, wherein: a message is received from one first network, this message having a first header and an application-data part; data of said first header is coded into a second header within the application data part, with the aid of a first coding scheme, so as to produce a modified application data part; said modified application data part is coded with the aid of a second coding scheme so as to produce a coded message; and this coded message is transmitted to a second network.

Abstract: A method for controlling a charging operation of a vehicle at a charging station includes monitoring, modifying, stopping, or terminating the charging operation, independent of an identification device initially used for the approval of charging. The charging is controlled via a control link established via a near-field communication link between the mobile terminal device and a control device of the charging station. The communication link enables receipt of a termination instruction by the control device for terminating the charging operation.

Abstract: A control device which, in addition to pairing a charging station with a vehicle to be charged, also pairs a control connection to a mobile terminal of a charging station user. A control connection via a near-field communications interface is formed with the mobile terminal (MD) after an authorisation from a vehicle-side and terminal-side authorisation pair is received. After the control connection has been formed, the charging station is assigned based on an interaction between the control connection, formed using the near-field communications interface, and the vehicle-side authorization.

Abstract: The method for locating a certain object is a method for locating the object by means of a detected locating signal. With this method, locating of precisely this object is checked in such a way that an object with at least a temporally variable reflective property is used, and an influence of this reflective property on the detected locating signal is checked. The locating system has a locating sensor for locating an object by means of a locating signal detected by a locating sensor, as well as an evaluating device which is configured to check an influence of a temporally variable reflective property of the object on the locating signal detected by the locating sensor.

Abstract: A device and method is provided that establishes a charging connection and a communication connection between a charging station and a vehicle, the vehicle having a first charging device and a first communication device, the charging station having a second charging device and a second communication device. The first charging device is positioned with respect to the second charging device in a way that energy for charging a battery of the vehicle is transmitted via the charging connection, and an orientation of the second communication device with respect to the first communication device, is such that the communication connection can carry out a wireless exchange of information in a way that reception of the information by a further communication device is prevented. The first communication device and the second communication device are configured in a way that the information is emitted and/or received by means of at least one communication unit.

Abstract: A method for providing a web service may include generating an XML-based schema based on a service description of said web service, which generated XML-based schema defines XML-based messages to be interpreted by the respective web service, generating a binary XML processor code for encoding and decoding said XML-based messages based on the generated XML based schema, transforming said service description of said web service into a procedure skeleton code comprising one or more skeleton procedures each becoming an application procedure by implementing an application logic for the respective skeleton procedure, and generating a dispatcher code based on the service description, said dispatcher code configured to interpret a byte stream produced by said binary XML processor code to invoke one of the implemented application procedures. This provides an innovative approach to generate source code for developing XML-based web services for small embedded devices with constraint resources.

Abstract: The method for locating a certain object is a method for locating the object by means of a detected locating signal. With this method, locating of precisely this object is checked in such a way that an object with at least a temporally variable reflective property is used, and an influence of this reflective property on the detected locating signal is checked. The locating system has a locating sensor for locating an object by means of a locating signal detected by a locating sensor, as well as an evaluating device which is configured to check an influence of a temporally variable reflective property of the object on the locating signal detected by the locating sensor.

Abstract: A device and method is provided that establishes a charging connection and a communication connection between a charging station and a vehicle, the vehicle having a first charging device and a first communication device, the charging station having a second charging device and a second communication device. The first charging device is positioned with respect to the second charging device in a way that energy for charging a battery of the vehicle is transmitted via the charging connection, and an orientation of the second communication device with respect to the first communication device, is such that the communication connection can carry out a wireless exchange of information in a way that reception of the information by a further communication device is prevented. The first communication device and the second communication device are configured in a way that the information is emitted and/or received by means of at least one communication unit.

Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and apparatuses for allocating amounts of energy for prosumers, wherein the prosumers provide minimum and maximum amounts of energy for a future interval of time and the respective amounts of energy from the prosumers are generated in such a manner that, on the one hand, a relative position of the amount of energy within an interval for the particular prosumer, as defined by the minimum amount of energy and the maximum amount of energy, assumes an identical value for all prosumers and, on the other hand, a sum of the amounts of energy from all prosumers produces a value of zero. The invention can be used in the distribution of amounts of energy in a power supply system having conventional energy producers and energy consumers as well as in novel participants in the power supply system which can both consume and provide energy, for example an electric vehicle.

Abstract: The invention substantially relates to a method, wherein operational control parameters and/or control limits, which are to be conveyed using communications technology, are determined on the operator side for each of the distributed storage devices in such a way that a specific cost function is minimal for all of the distributed storage devices on the basis of locally measured variables determined at the respective storage device and transmitted to the operator and on the basis of installation-dependent control limits stored locally in each case and which are also transmitted to the operator, and wherein the operational control parameters and/or control limits, which are to be conveyed using communications technology, are transmitted from the operator side to the corresponding distributed storage devices and implemented there.

Abstract: A measurement method, used when there is a fairly large distance between a vehicle and a charging station, determines a distance by way of absolute propagation time measurement. In a proximity zone between the charging station and the vehicle, a relative propagation time measurement is carried out between received signals.

Abstract: In a method for communicating between a number of first services and a number of second services. The number of first services belongs to a service-oriented architecture, in which a respective first service is provided by messages based on a question-answer mechanism by a first protocol. The number of second services belongs to a data-based architecture, in which second services can be switched together by a second protocol. The second protocol specifies data input and data output of the second service and transfers the data between the second services. A message of a first service, entering into the service converter, is converted into data input of a second service associated with the first service and/or data output of a second service, entering into the service converter is converted into a message emitted by the service converter, of a first service associated with the second service.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for charging at least one energy store of an electric vehicle via a charging point, using a first terminal having first connecting elements of a charging cable connected to the charging point. The first connecting elements are connected to corresponding second connecting elements of a second terminal on the vehicle, and the first and second connecting elements are designed to supply alternating current for charging the at least one energy store. Direct current from the charging point for charging the at least one energy store is supplied to the electric vehicle via at least two first connecting elements or at least two third connecting elements of the first terminal, wherein PLC communication between the electric vehicle and charging point in order to exchange information relating to the charging operation occurs via one or more first connecting elements on which no direct current for charging is carried.

Abstract: Certain exemplary embodiments can provide and/or utilize a system, device, and/or method for managing changes to data, such as a method that includes transmitting a change to a static object (SO1) by means of a change object (SO*) in a data distribution service that communicates a plurality of static objects (SO1, . . . , SO5) via a carousel transmission (KUE) and real time data (RD) via a streaming transmission (SUE), wherein the change object (SO*) is formed on the basis of at least one information item (I*) to be changed and on the basis of at least one change rule (R*) specifying a procedure for carrying out the change, and the change object (SO*) is communicated via the streaming transmission (SUE).

Abstract: A method for transmitting a vector having at least two vector components, each of the vector components described in a frequency. Each vector is represented as a bit number with a predetermined number of bit levels. The bit numbers are encoded according to a priority of the bit levels and the encoded bit numbers are transmitted.