I'd like to know which companies and institutions are using or plan to use RISE V2G across the planet and how it helps them in their daily business. Therefore, I'd appreciate if you shared this information with me by [signing up in an email form](https://www.v2g-clarity.com/en/risev2g/), preferably providing the **email address of the company or organization you are associated with**.
And as a little thank you, you will get prioritized email support by me for any questions which you might have regarding RISE V2G. Sounds like a win-win situation, right?
RISE V2G is the **R**eference **I**mplementation **S**upporting the **E**volution of the **V**ehicle-**2**-**G**rid communication interface ISO 15118.
The international standard ISO 15118, entitled "Road vehicles - Vehicle to grid communication interface", defines a digital IP-based communication interface between an electric vehicle (EV) and a charging station (named Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment - EVSE). It allows for a user-friendly "Plug And Charge" mechanism for authentication, authorisation, billing, and flexible load control based on a wide set of information exchanged between the EV and EVSE.
A rise in the wide application of this standard is essential for reaching the goal of integrating EVs as flexible energy storage devices into a smart grid.
The RISE V2G project serves as an open source standard-compliant reference implementation and documentation. As such, the objective is to provide a test platform for interoperability testing and to offer an information resource for interested parties. The adoption of a new technology heavily depends on the interoperability of its various implementations. The more tests conducted, the more stable and reliable the developed solution will be.
RISE V2G shall evolve to cover all aspects of conductive and inductive charging and communication from the data link layer up to the application layer. However, it requires a lot of work to be done to fulfil this endeavor.
Your assistance would therefore be very appreciated, be it by testing this reference implementation against your own solution - this way uncovering possible bugs or making code optimisation suggestions - or by providing an implementation for yet missing parts.
- Have a look at the ISO 15118 Manual at [www.v2g-clarity.com/iso15118-masterclass](https://www.v2g-clarity.com/iso15118-masterclass) to fully understand how ISO 15118 works
- View the [getting started guide and further documentation](https://wiki.eclipse.org/RISE_V2G) and the [introductory video on RISE V2G](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TarCZqbQ-Ko) to get you up and running. Be sure to exchange org.eclipse.risev2g with org.v2gclarity.risev2g in the getting started guide. The instructions in the Eclipse guide will be obsolete as soon as a new documentation will be available.
- Join the [ISO 15118 User Group](http://extmgmt.kn.e-technik.tu-dortmund.de/) for discussing Q&As regarding the implementation of ISO 15118 standard requirements (for an account, mail to jens.schmutzler@tu-dortmund.de)
