Vehicle charging station with built-in wireless access point, computing and storage
An electric vehicle charging station has a power supply, a controller and a power regulator and relay/driver for connecting to an electric vehicle. An edge computing module and a cellular base station are also included. The edge computing module is connected to the power supply and to an IP network for the internet mobile gateway of a cellular network. The cellular base station is connected to the power supply and to cellular antenna system.
1. An electric vehicle charging station comprising:
a power supply;
a power regulator and relay/driver in electrical communication with said power supply, said power regulator configured to connect with an electric vehicle;
an edge computer;
a cellular base station, said edge computer and said cellular base station together supporting a plurality of cellular calls for a 5G cellular network, and
a controller configured to control components of said electric vehicle charging station including said power supply, said power regulator said edge computer, and said cellular base station,
wherein said edge computer is connected to said power supply and to an internet mobile gateway of said 5G cellular network, said edge computer being at least a first distributed component connected to at least one coupled internet mobile gateway of said 5G cellular network, and
wherein said cellular base station is connected to said power supply and to cellular antenna system, said cellular base being at least a second distributed component connected to at least one cellular antenna of said 5G cellular network, and wherein said edge computer, connected with said internet mobile gateway, and said cellular base station, connected with said cellular antenna system, together form a portion of a cell within said cellular network that is capable of supporting a plurality of cellular calls and communications of users of said cellular network.
2. The electric vehicle charging station as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising a back-up battery connected to said power supply.