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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

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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

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OCPP 2.0.1

Open Charge Point Protocol

OCPP 1.6 plus added functionalities
Device Management
Improved Transaction handling
Added Security
Added Smart Charging functionalities
Support for ISO15118
Display and messaging support
additional improvements requested by the EV charging community

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OSCP 2.0

Open Smart Charging Protocol

Communicate prediction of local available capacity for production and generation
Fitting production and generation of flexibility resources to grid capacity
Acts between Flexibility Providers and Capacity Providers
Applicable for site owners, utilities and more

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