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RISE V2G is a **R**eference **I**mplementation **S**upporting the **E**volution of the **V**ehicle-**2**-**G**rid communication interface ISO/IEC 15118.
The international standard ISO/IEC 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.
### Mission Statement
The RISE V2G project shall serve 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.
As the ISO/IEC 15118 consists of eight documment parts - with part 1 to 3 defining use cases and requirements for conductive charging, parts 4 and 5 dealing with conformance tests, and parts 6 to 8 specifying use cases and requirements for inductive charging - the RISE V2G project shall evolve to cover all aspects of conductive and inductive charging from the physical 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.
### More Information
More information about the RISE V2G project can be found on the [Eclipse Foundation project website](http://www.eclipse.org/risev2g).
- Contribute any questions and suggestions to the [developers' mailing list](https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/risev2g-dev).
- Join the [community forum](http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php?t=thread&frm_id=310) for any discussions.
- View the [getting started guide and further documentation](https://wiki.eclipse.org/RISE_V2G) to get you up and running.
- If you encounter a bug, [file it in Bugzilla](https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/enter_bug.cgi?product=Risev2g).
### License
RISE V2G is published under the [Eclipse Public License v1.0](http://projects.eclipse.org/content/eclipse-public-license-1.0)
