Project Description

E-MOBILITY FOR YOUR POCKET

INNOGY EMOBILITY SOLUTIONS

BRIEF

innogy eMobility Solutions’ eCharge+ App helps you find the closest available charging station for your electric vehicle. Start quick and easy charging with your preferred payment methods, such as PayPal and credit card. In 2019 innogy eMobility Solutions launched the new eBox: an intelligent, modular and intuitive charging box for businesses and private users. This new charging solution urged the need to have a new extended version of the app. innogy eMobility Solutions requested Mediaan Conclusion for assistance in the following areas:

  • Requirement engineering

  • Back and front-end developments

  • Hardware & software integrations

  • System integrations

Innogy eCharge+ app

THE CONCEPT

The new app should act as a platform that enables users to find public charging stations, proceed to payment and manage their eBox with it. The app should work on both Android and iOS operating system. Another requirement was the integration of a white label concept.

CUSTOMER CHALLENGE

The recent launch of innogy eMobility Solutions’ eBox smart and eBox professional, together with the desire to improve the performance of its existing app, urged the need to have a new extended version of the app. For front-end and back-end developments, innogy eMobility Solutions requested Mediaan Conclusion for assistance. We are also working on converting their existing architecture into a future proof Microservice architecture. This way the whole charging process is fully supported; from charging with IOT possibilities to the whole payment process.

MEDIAAN IN ACTION

Combining our expertise in areas of front and back-end development, our team successfully tackled the migration to the micro services. Through an agile approach and highly efficient productivity, we helped innogy eMobility Solutions transform their existing app into an innovative hybrid app. We put together a team of four full-stack developers to deliver the best possible solution. Mediaan Conclusion team used the techniques listed below:

  • Angular

  • Cordova

  • Android / iOS

  • Java Spring Boot

  • GraphQL

  • Firebase Technology

  • Scrum/agile

  • CI/CD

THE ECHARGE+ APP

The new eCharge+ app is an all-in-one app which offers countless options for a better charging experience.

As a user, you can:

  • Use the app to navigate to your desired charging point and add it as your favourite
  • See the actual status of the charge points within the European innogy partner network in real-time
  • Filter the options based on your vehicle’ plug type and charging power
  • Easily find a charging point based on its location or code
  • Have an overview of your charging history

As a home eBox user you get the possibilities to:

  • Link the app to your eBox
  • View the status of your eBox and the current charging session
  • Look back at your charging history
  • Co-own the eBox with others

RESULTS

Combining our expertise in areas of front-end and back-end developments, our team successfully tackled the microservices challenge. Added to that, we also implemented the white label concept into the app. Through an agile approach and highly efficient productivity, we helped Innogy transform their existing app into an innovative charging app. The eCharge+ app is an all-in-one app which offers countless options for a better charging experience.

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