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The charging apps that Bosch Software Innovations currently provides together with car manufacturers Mercedes-Benz, smart, and Renault are making electromobility even more practical for everyday use throughout Germany. Now drivers of electric and hybrid vehicles can conveniently find over 4,000 publicly available and web-enabled charge points via an app and pay there with the click of a button. For this solution, Bosch Software Innovations received the sMove360° Award in the Software & Apps category at the eCarTec trade fair in Munich.

The sMove360° Award for Connected & Autonomous Driving honors projects and products that bring the mobility of tomorrow closer. Evaluation is based on the following criteria: scientific and technical performance, sales performance and market traction, sustainability, safety, innovation, engineering and design, feasibility, potential for successful implementation, and cost-effectiveness.

“We see our charging apps as more than just simple tools,” says Kai Weber, product manager for eMobility solutions at Bosch Software Innovations GmbH. “They’re an excellent example for how more and more areas of our lives are benefiting from connectivity. In the e-mobility sector, the Internet of Things opens the door to alternative mobility concepts.” For Weber, electromobility encompasses not only vehicles with electric or hybrid powertrains and e-bikes, but also concepts for smart cities and intermodal transport along with the corresponding charging infrastructure.

With its innovative technology, Bosch Software Innovations is laying the foundation for bringing together various players – such as car manufacturers, the operators of charge spots, energy suppliers, retailers, and the drivers of electric cars – on one software platform. However, customers don’t see what is behind the app: a high-performance nexus of systems connected in real time. For example, many charge point operators are connected via e-roaming platforms such as Intercharge. The technical basis for the charging apps is provided by the Bosch IoT Suite – a cloud-enabled software package for developing applications in the Internet of Things.

Data and facts about the charging apps

• To date, more than 4,000 publically available and web-enabled charge spots have been connected.
• Available apps:
  Charge&Pay for Mercedes-Benz
  Charge&Pay for smart
  Z.E. Pass
• On average, each user uses their app 14 times per month – for example, to find out about charge spot locations.
• Average charging time is one hour.
• On average, charging app users charge their vehicles at public charging stations three times per month.
• Currently, there are collaborations in place for the charging apps with Allego, Belectric Drive, EmiS, EnBW, E.ON, E-Wald GmbH, Ladenetz, RWE, Stadtwerk am See, and Veniox.

Links for further information

• Further information about the charging apps: http://bit.ly/BoschSIChargingApps
  
  
• Bosch Software Innovations projects related to electromobility:
  http://bit.ly/BoschSI-E-Mobility
  
• Chairman of the Bosch board of management, Dr. Volkmar Denner: “The connected electric car is the best electric car”
  http://bit.ly/2egLEcr
  
  

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About us

The Eclipse Foundation announces a new collaboration between Internet of Things (IoT) industry leaders to develop interoperable IoT components that can be deployed to a Cloud platform. Bosch Software Innovations, Eurotech and Red Hat will be the initial participants in the collaboration. The collaboration will be part of the existing Eclipse IoT Working Group, a community of 26 open source IoT projects, hosted by the Eclipse Foundation.

IoT platform components provide capabilities that are useful for developing and managing IoT solutions. These commonly include components to implement secure, reliable communication between devices and services, manage and update devices, work with device data and integrate device information into existing enterprise applications. Such components may also be delivered as services on top of an underlying cloud infrastructure platform, like Cloud Foundry or OpenShift.

The initial release of the Eclipse Kapua source code, contributed by Eurotech and Red Hat, is the first important milestone on the roadmap of this collaboration. Eclipse Kapua offers a core integration framework and an initial set of modular components for device registry, device management, message routing, data management, and application enablement. As a next step, Eclipse Hono, a Bosch Software Innovations-initiated project that enables secure, reliable communication between devices and services, will be integrated as an extension to Kapua.

In the future it is expected that other Eclipse IoT projects, other open source projects and commercial vendors will provide additional components that integrate with Kapua and Hono. This will lead to an ecosystem of IoT platform core components that work well together and that can be used to bootstrap IoT applications and solutions.

The work will be done through the Eclipse IoT Working Group and the Eclipse IoT open source projects. Other organizations are welcome and encouraged to join the collaboration.

In parallel, GE Digital, which recently joined the Eclipse Foundation, has proposed a new project called Eclipse ACS. Eclipse ACS implements a simple, granular access control framework that makes it possible for IoT developers to integrate access control security into their IoT applications.

Bosch

“Bosch is a major industrial IoT company that supports a wide range of devices, in many different industries, such as automotive, manufacturing and home appliances. We believe the best way to support this complex environment is to base our commercial IoT platform, the Bosch IoT Suite, on open source components and open standards. These projects establish a horizontal open technology for IoT and provide the technical breeding grounds for successful business ecosystems.”

Dr. Stefan Ferber, VP of Engineering, Bosch Software Innovations

Red Hat

“To best address the complexity of industrial IoT, solutions and infrastructure providers must maintain a high level of collaboration, which is really only sustainable through an open source community. The Eclipse Kapua project, started by joint work between Red Hat and Eurotech, provides this open and transparent community approach and aims to help solve the complexities of the IoT by providing the required level of interoperability, scale, and flexibility in open IoT platforms.”

James Kirkland, Chief Architect for IoT, Red Hat

Eurotech

“Our commitment to open-source software is pivotal to our strategy in IoT. We consider our leadership in Eclipse Kapua as the logical next step to our previous contribution and commitment into Eclipse Kura, the open source application framework for IoT gateways. For Eurotech, having freely available production quality IoT software frameworks for gateways and for cloud platforms creates a larger opportunity to deliver end-to-end IoT products and solutions including Everyware Cloud and Eurotech IoT Gateways.”

Marco Carrer - Eurotech, CTO

More information about Eclipse Kapua, Eclipse Hono, and Eclipse ACS is available from each project website.

About Eclipse IoT

The Eclipse IoT Working Group is an industry collaboration, hosted at the Eclipse Foundation, that is focused on building open source IoT technology. Eclipse IoT has 26 open source projects building technology for IoT devices, IoT gateways and IoT cloud platforms.

About the Eclipse Foundation

Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on building an open development platform comprised of extensible frameworks, tools, and runtimes for building, deploying, and managing software across the lifecycle. A large, vibrant ecosystem of major technology vendors, innovative start-ups, universities, research institutions, and individuals extend, complement, and support the Eclipse Platform.

The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit, member supported corporation that hosts the Eclipse projects. Full details of Eclipse and the Eclipse Foundation are available at www.eclipse.org.