A model to locate charging stations

Quito, miércoles 10 julio 2019
Miguel Campaña during his presentation
Miguel Campaña during his presentation

 

Members of the Smart Electricity Grids Research Group participated in the IEEE Colombian Conference on Applications in Computational Intelligence ColCACI 2019, an international event organized by the IEEE, the University of Magdalena and the University of the North of Barranquilla, Colombia.

Over one hundred researchers from Latin America, Europe and the USA attended the conference. Miguel Campaña and Esteban Inga attended on behalf of Universidad Politecnica Salesiana (UPS), they presented a model to help locate charging stations based on the need of the user, vehicle flow and trajectories required for smart cities, the aim is to reduce the investment cost  for resources related to the location of electric stations, which will probably increase in Ecuador in 2025.

These two professors are working on a way to incorporate the capacity of the roads to distinguish if there are routes with vehicular traffic that saturate the trajectory of an electric vehicle to an electric station into the model and, thus, locate the load centers optimally, providing efficient and reliable service to users of electric vehicles.

The presentation attracted the interest of researchers from other universities which the university has the intention of working with in order to achieve a greater impact in the transfer of technology. The work was chosen to be part of the proceedings under the Springer seal, which will be indexed and will have ISBN. 

•  Colcaci 2019 - IEEE Colombian Conference on Applications in Computational Intelligence: Optimal Allocation of Public Charging Stations based on Traffic Density in Smart Cities 

• Communications in Computer and Information Sciences (CCIS) of Springer: Heuristic Method for Optimal Deployment of Electric Vehicle Charging Stations using Linear Programming