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What is Open Charge Point Protocol?

Snehanshu Phukon on April 28, 2020

Originally posted on my blog (April 3, 2020) The Electric Vehicle, or EV for short, is the new kind of vehicles that will slowly phase out the...
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I see this can work easily with local installations where charge points connect to local servers and you don't have more than a few hundreds or thousands of charge points probably. But what about connectivity to central cloud services? I think websockets as a transport protocol would require tremendous ressources on the server side if millions of charge points connect to a cloud infrastructure?

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Hi @psnehanshu, did you write about the OCPP technical details? I would be grateful if you could share your ideas about the OCPP Node.js implementation and a few code examples, since I am also getting started. Best regards.