Display EV pricing and charger availability on your price sign
As the world moves towards a greener future, the integration of electric vehicle (EV) charging stations into petrol stations is becoming increasingly common. However, displaying accurate EV price information alongside traditional petrol prices on your monolith sign poses significant challenges, especially when a local POS system is already in place.
To address these obstacles, Bever Innovations proudly presents the IC-Smart, a fast, cost-effective, and easy-to-implement solution.
1. IC SMART: INTEGRATE POS AND EV-STANDARDS INTO ONE DATA STREAM
The IC Smart is a cutting-edge interface converter that bridges the gap between petrol station POS data and online EV protocol standards. With minimal investment, petrol station owners can now effortlessly display EV kWh price information on their existing or new LED price signs, ensuring that customers have access to transparent and up-to-date pricing for both traditional fuel and electric charging.
Key features of the IC Smart include:
- Integration of POS and EV protocol data streams:
The IC Smart unifies the diverse data streams, ensuring accurate pricing information is shown on the LED Price Displays in the price sign. - Real-time charger availability:
The IC Smart enables the display of currently available charging spaces, providing convenience to EV drivers.
2. BEVER DASHBOARD: MANAGE YOUR PRODUCTS ONLINE
The Bever Dashboard is an online cloud-based system that integrates information from EV standard protocols, such as EV price information and charger availability. It also allows for the integration of customer-specific back-office systems. In this dashboard, Bever Innovations' products integrated with Bever Smart Technology are visible and manageable online, providing customers with real-time information.
The Bever Dashboard offers more benefits:
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Access and manage your locations through one dashboard:
In the user-friendly Bever Dashboard, owners and maintenance parties can easily view all their locations with Bever products. Data is organized here and forms a valuable source of information that enables customers to analyse sites and manage business processes. The system shows the operating conditions for each installed Bever product, for example temperature or average energy consumption. In this way, asset maintenance becomes possible and visibility and safety at sites is better ensured. -
Adjust price information manually:
Customers can remotely adjust fuel and EV prices manually in the Bever Dashboard if desired, even without a connection to a POS system. View an example here. -
Program dynamic content efficiently:
The Bever Dashboard allows for easy customization and programming of pricing and marketing information on an LED Screen, even if the screen is not connected to a POS system. View an example here. - Integration of a customer-specific back-office system is possible, facilitating asset management.
3. INTEGRATE YOUR BACK-OFFICE SYSTEM
The connection with a customer back-office system can be established upon the customer's request.
- An API software interface makes it possible to exchange collected data with an internal customer back-office system. This facilitates asset management, eliminating the need to check various maintenance systems to monitor the status of the systems.
- This makes Bever products remotely manageable. All information is now logged centrally in the oil company's own system with which the customer is already familiar. View an example here.
"With our EV integration solution, we are making it simple and cost-efficient for petrol stations owners to embrace the EV revolution while providing customers with transparent and accurate pricing information. Also, asset management is made much easier for oil companies, and we are committed to a sustainable future by seamlessly integrating EV pricing and charger availability. Bever Innovations is ready to transform your station and lead the way into an electric future."
Rutger van Dierendonck, Technical Director at Bever Innovations
Bever Innovations has successfully implemented these techniques for various clients. Here are some examples of these projects:
show CHARGER AVAILABILITY + LINKING BACK-OFFICE SYSTEM
Customer: Shell Recharge, EV station
Location: Fulham London, England
Project: Integration customer back-office system, installation of MID Sign, LED Screen and LED Canopy Downlights.
Customer requirement: Showing EV charger availability on the LED Screen, in combination with additional dynamic content.
Rutger van Dierendonck,
Technical Director, Bever Innovations.
DISPLAY Kwh and GNV PRICE INFORMATION + CO2 REDUCTION
Client: Karrgreen, Multi-Fuel station (GNV and EV chargers)
Location: Moréac, France
Project: Installation LED Price Displays. Integration onsite POS system and customer back-office system.
The customer's wish: Display price information GNV and kWh. In addition, the customer also wanted to indicate the precise calculation of the CO2 emission reduction achieved through the use of alternative energy sources.
"At the Karrgreen Moréac station, various LED Price Displays have been installed, including a specific CNG display. This LED display is locally managed via a standard POS connection, ensuring accurate CNG price information is displayed.
In addition, KarrGreen utilizes Bever Smart Technology to establish an online connection to their back-office system, enabling real-time access to EV price information and the calculation of CO2 emission reduction. These data are displayed on other LED Price Displays located within the same price sign."
Jean-Michel Ludot
Sales manager France, Bever Innovations
CHANGE EV PRICES REMOTELY, VIA BEVER DASHBOARD
Client: EVO ENERGY, EV-HyperHubs
Location: York, England
Project: Installation LED Price Displays. Integration customer back-office system.
Client's wish: Because York City Council uses standardized pricing in their network, EV price changes must be applied simultaneously across all locations.
"Changing prices via the Bever Dashboard is utilized in EVO Energy's HyperHubs. In these Hyperhub projects, the ability to make remote price changes across all sites was a very important requirement. York City Council has standardized pricing across their network, so price changes must be made at all sites simultaneously.
The Bever Dashboard connected sites meet these requirements as well as offering operators a very simple way to make their sites future-ready."
Howell Griffiths
Business Development Director UK, Ireland and Scotland, Bever Innovations.
Display YOUR EV PRICES - explore the possibilities
By adding an IC Smart in your totem, Bever Innovations provides a quick integration of the right POS and EV data streams, so that the right prices can be shown in a LED Price Display or LED Screen. There are several options, according to the customer's needs and budget.
Some possibilities:
- Convert an existing Bever petrol LED Price Display into an EV LED Price Display
- Add a new LED price sign to an existing monolith, to show EV prices
- Add a new LED display, to indicate the number of charging spaces available
- Add a LED Screen to the totem, to show (dynamic) promotions in addition to EV information
1. Convert an existing Bever LED Price Display into an EV price display
If there are Bever Innovations’ price displays in the totem, one (or more) of these existing LED displays can easily be used as an EV price display.
- Add the IC Smart to your totem.
- The IC Smart provides a data stream integration between EV standards and POS system information, so that the correct EV price as well as the correct petrol prices are displayed.
- Only the sticker at the price sign needs to be changed to indicate the kWh price.
2. Add a new LED display to the existing monolith
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For a monolith with Bever LED Price Displays it is possible to add a new LED display, in order to show the EV price on it.
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The IC Smart is added to the totem and ensures that both petrol prices are shown on the existing price signs, as well as the EV price on the new Bever LED display.
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If you have price signs from another manufacturer in your monolith, we will gladly look at the possibilities with you.
2. Add a new LED display to the existing monolith
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For a monolith with Bever LED Price Displays it is possible to add a new LED display, in order to show the EV price on it.
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The IC-Smart is added to the totem and ensures that both petrol prices are shown on the existing price signs, as well as the EV price on the new Bever LED display.
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If you have price signs from another manufacturer in your monolith, we will gladly look at the possibilities with you.
3. Add a LED display to your totem to indicate the number of charging spaces available
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If desired, a LED display can be used to show the number of EV chargers available at the station.
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This offers customers the convenience of being able to see quickly how many chargers are available at the station when multiple EV charging spaces are present
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The IC Smart in the totem provides integration with EV standards to ensure that this information is always up to date
4. Add a LED Screen to you monolith to show promotions in addition to EV information.
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With a LED Screen, there is the possibility to show EV (price) information and the number charging spaces available, in addition to petrol prices.
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The LED Screen functions as a price sign, information screen and dynamic promotional tool all in one.
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The InMo LED Screen can be accessed online via the Bever Dashboard. All product and promotional information is available and editable in this dashboard, making remote management very easy.
4. Add a LED Screen to your monolith to show promotions in addition to EV information.
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With a LED Screen, there is the possibility to show EV (price) information and the number charging spaces available, in addition to petrol prices.
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The LED Screen functions as a price sign, information screen and dynamic promotional tool all in one.
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The InMo LED Screen can be accessed online via the Bever Dashboard. All product and promotional information is available and editable in this dashboard, making remote management very easy.
We look at the possibilities
If you currently don't have a Bever price sign in your monolith but you are interested in an IC Smart and its possibilities, no problem.
We would be happy to have a look at the possibilities the IC Smart can offer you.
Display EV pricing on your price sign
Integrating EV pricing with traditional petrol signage can be a complex task, especially when you have an existing Point of Sale (POS) system in place.
We introduce the solution: the IC Smart
The IC Smart (interface converter) is designed to make the integration of EV charging information into your petrol station signage:
- fast
- cost-effective
- hassle-free
Key Features of the IC Smart:
- Integration of POS and EV protocol data:
The IC Smart bridges the gap between your petrol station's POS data and online EV protocol standards. You can effortlessly display EV kWh price information alongside traditional fuel prices on your existing or new LED price signs.
- Real-Time charger availability:
With the IC Smart, you can provide your EV-driving customers with real-time information about the number of charging spaces available, enhancing their convenience
Manage your products online:
Features:
- Centralized management
- Manual price adjustment
- Dynamic content programming
- Back-office system integration with API software interface
Display EV prices - explore the possibilities
1. Convert existing LED Price Displays
2. Add a new EV LED Display to your price sign
3. Display charging space availability
4. Dynamic Promotional LED Screen
Projects
Take a look at some of our EV integration and back-office integration projects:
Shell Recharge, UK:
Display charger availability and dynamic content, back-office connection.
KarrGreen, France:
Display kWh and GNV price information + CO2 reduction.
E. Leclerc:
Display parking space availability, back-office connection to Assmann Group.
EVO Energy, UK:
Change EV prices remotely, via Bever Dashboard.