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Open Charge Alliance
GLOBAL PLATFORM FOR OPEN PROTOCOLS
The Open Charge Alliance (OCA) is a global consortium of public and private electric vehicle infrastructure leaders that have come together to promote open standards through the adoption of the Open Charge Point Protocol (OCPP) and the Open Smart Charging Protocol (OSCP).
OCPP 1.5
Open Charge Point Protocol
- SOAP
- 10 Charge Point operations
- 15 Central System operations
- Extensible Markup Language (XML)
- Easy to learn
- Used in more than 30 countries
OCPP 1.6
Open Charge Point Protocol
- OCPP 1.5
- SOAP and JSON
- Smart Charging support for load balancing and use of charge profiles
- (Local) list management support
- Additional status
- Message sending requests such as CP time or status at the CP
OCPP 2.0
Open Charge Point Protocol
- OCPP 1.6 plus added functionalities
- Device Management
- Improved Transaction handling
- Added Security
- Added Smart Charging functionalities
- Support for 15118
- Display and messaging support
- additional improvements requested by the EV charging community
OSCP 1.0
Open Smart Charging Protocol
- Communicate 24 hour prediction local available capacity
- Fitting charging profiles to grid capacity
- Acts between charge point and energy management system
- Applicable for site owners and DSO’s
PARTICIPANTS ALL OVER THE WORLD
