Public Charging Stations and the UK EV Charging Network
Public Charging Stations and the UK EV Charging Network EV Sales in June 2020 has brought a raft of new electric car models and a surge in electric vehicle sales. In spite of the recent fall in overall UK new car registrations, June saw electrical vehicles, EVs and hybrids, outselling the still freefalling Diesel Market […]
ByteSnap Participates In 1st Ever Remote OCPP 1.6 PlugFest
ByteSnap’s engineering flexibility pays off at 1st ever remote OCPP 1.6 PlugFest OCPP 1.6 PlugFest is a testing symposium organised by the Open Charge Alliance (OCA). This is where different companies who’ve built their own OCPP clients or servers – which correspond to charge points or central systems respectively – can test against each other […]
QNX RTOS used to Ensure Highly Reliable V2G Charge Posts
ByteSnap choses QNX RTOS to ensure high-reliability in V2G charge post project ByteSnap Design selected Blackberry’s QNX Neutrino RTOS [1] components – supplied by Direct Insight [2] – as part of its new vehicle charging system. This is the UK’s first integrated vehicle-to-grid system for charging electric cars. QNX RTOS & VIGIL project: The new […]
Hybrid Vehicles & Their Peak Growth in View
The EV Smart Charging rEVolution: Hybrid Vehicles & Their Peak Growth in View About The EV Smart Charging rEVolution Column This month we’re looking into Hybrid Vehicles & Their Peak Growth… I’m Julian Skidmore, a senior software engineer at ByteSnap Design and helping to develop our EV – electric vehicle – charging solutions. We’re a […]
Applications Processors Head-to-Head: STM32MP1 vs I.MX7ULP
A comparison of STM32MP1 vs I.MX7ULP The STM32MP1 and I.MX7ULP chip series are manufactured by STMicro and NXP respectively. They both offer a combination of low-power and high-performance with full support for high-performance operating systems. This article will be looking at some of the differences between the two, and also highlighting best fits for various […]
VIGIL V2G Project Successfully Completed
VIGIL: UK’s First Comprehensive Communication and Control Platformfor V2G Systems and Electrical Networks Management The collaborative research project VIGIL (‘VehIcle to Grid Intelligent controL’) has successfully met its aim of building and trialling an off-vehicle communication and control platform. Further, this platform will encourage DNOs, building owners and EV/EV infrastructure owners to adopt V2G (vehicle-to-grid) […]
Working From Home & Electronics Design During the Pandemic
COVID 19-Proof Your Electronics Product Design Projects for Working From Home It’s fair to say that – due to the COVID-19 pandemic – the world of work will never quite be the same again. We’ve been working from home, in lockdown, for a few weeks now. To date, a number of problems and solutions have […]
Pandemic rEVerberations for the EV Smart Charging Industry
The EV Smart Charging rEVolution: Pandemic rEVerberations About The EV Smart Charging rEVolution This month we’re looking into Pandemic rEVerberations… I’m Julian Skidmore, a senior software engineer at ByteSnap Design and helping to develop our EV – electric vehicle – charging solutions. We’re a progressive embedded consultancy with an interest in EVs going back to […]
10 Dos and Don’ts for a Successful IoT Project
10 Dos and Don’ts for a Successful IoT Project Determining the practicality of a proposed (Internet of Things) IoT project is the first and most important step in IoT product design. If done correctly, this will set up the project for success. Want to turn a good concept into a brilliant, IoT product? There are […]
The EV Smart Charging rEVolution – Traction Scalability in EVs
The EV Smart Charging rEVolution – Traction Scalability in EVs About The EV Smart Charging rEVolution Column I’m Julian Skidmore, a senior software engineer at ByteSnap Design and helping to develop our EV – electric vehicle – charging solutions. We’re a progressive embedded consultancy with an interest in EVs going back to 2012 when we […]