
Explore advanced OCPP 1.6 features, from remote station resets and offline authorization options to reservations, firmware management, diagnostics, and smart charging, with practical tips for selecting caches or whitelists.
Learn basic terminology for OCPP 1.6, including charging station, connector, socket, and charging point, and how stations connect to a central system via the OCP protocol.
Examine fault scenarios at charging stations and how the OCPP reset works, including hard resets that restart hardware and soft resets that stop transactions, reestablish WebSocket connections, and boot notification.
Learn how offline stations rely on an authorization cache to authorize RFID tags without central system access. Understand how cached and whitelist RFID data, plus cache expiration, shape offline behavior.
Local authorization lists enable offline RFID tag verification, with the central system uploading versioned or differential local lists and managing station capabilities and tag statuses.
Compare four offline modes for OCPP 1.6 charging stations—station unavailability, always accept all requests, local authorization cache, and local authorization lists—and explain their benefits, drawbacks, and ideal use cases.
Learn how reserve now works in OCPP 1.6, letting a station reserve a connector immediately for a duration, only when available, using connector id, expiry, id tag, and reservation id.
Learn how the central system initiates OCPP 1.6 firmware updates by directing a station to fetch firmware from an FTP server, while the station handles download, installation, and status notifications.
Explore how get diagnostics works in ocpp 1.6, detailing how stations upload diagnostic files (logs, metering data) to an ftp server, with status notifications, retries, and central system coordination.
Explore how OCP charging profiles let central systems limit and adjust station power using absolute, recurring, and relative profiles, with practical examples.
Recap the core OCPP 1.6 topics, from hard and soft resets and offline configurations to local authorization lists, reservations, firmware updates, diagnostics uploads, and charging profiles.
Welcome to "OCPP 1.6 Advanced Features." This online course will help you understand OCPP 1.6 better and improve your skills in electric vehicle charging.
We'll start by looking at offline strategies. We'll show you how to manage charging stations when they're not online. You'll learn about things like the local authorization cache and whitelists, and how to use OCPP tools for offline stations.
Next, we'll talk about how to reserve charging stations. We'll give you detailed information on how this works and why it's useful.
After that, we'll cover important topics like updating firmwares and finding and solving problems with stations. With what you learn here, you'll be ready to handle firmware updates and analyse any issues with stations.
Towards the end, we'll dive into smart charging. Smart charging is not just about charging your vehicle. It's about timing it right, using energy when it's least expensive and most abundant, and ensuring your vehicle is ready when you need it. It's a way to make the best use of our energy resources, reduce costs, and support a cleaner environment. We'll share tips and strategies to help you integrate smart charging into your routine effectively.
Before we finish the course, we'll review everything you've learned. By the end, you'll be really good at using the advanced features of OCPP 1.6 and ready to make the most of electric charging.
Let's get started with "OCPP 1.6 Advanced Features." Your journey to understanding OCPP begins now!