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Can anyone in the industry enlighten me to the drive for putting a full OS into a vehicle charger? If you've been watching Phoenix Contact, they are going all i
by TheJoeMan 2y ago
Can anyone in the industry enlighten me to the drive for putting a full OS into a vehicle charger? If you've been watching Phoenix Contact, they are going all in on marketing their EV charger controllers and such. I'm just not seeing what additional functionality they are leveraging vs. an embedded system?
- hulitu 2y ago> Can anyone in the industry enlighten me to the drive for putting a full OS into a vehicle charger? Price ? "Look, the software is tested by the OS maker. We only need to develop and test this tiny programm" There is an entire industry of blame shifting.
- TheJoeMan 2y agoI can see the reduced time to market. I ask because in my field my taste of dealing with hospital IT-compliance-checkbox “security” is that disclosing that your device contains an OS in it, somewhere, means a lot of paperwork and you will get calls anytime bad mention of that OS is in the news. These vehicle chargers are supposed to be installed in nowhere Kansas and not touched for 10 years and that seems the opposite of shipping Windows IoT.
- teunispeters 2y agoThis one's easy : v2g with plug-n-charge needs full crypto including some levels of validation (but not others, it's in the specs), as well as infrastructure for organizing certificates, and support for a good IPv6 networking stack (stack is IPv6 only). Wireless support with WPA3/Enterprise is also essential. I mean it's doable on some embedded platforms, but it's still a pretty large stack of requirements. There's an additional gotcha that all the prototypes are either java or python. Doesn't seem like any of the others (rust, C) have completely caught up with handling the data and EXI layers. (embedded XML). I work on V2G now.