Patent ID: 9685798
Date: 2017-06-20
CPC Classifications: B60L,H02J,Y02E,Y02T,Y04S

Claim:
1. An electric vehicle charging system, comprising: one or more first power managers that are located on a first level of a parking structure, each of the one or more first power managers including a short-range wireless transceiver; one or more second power managers that are located on a second level of the parking structure, each of the one or more second power managers including a short-range wireless transceiver; a third power manager located on a third level of the parking structure, the third power manager including a short-range wireless transceiver and a long-range cellular transceiver; and a local electric vehicle charging mesh network configured to interconnect the short-range wireless transceivers of the one or more first power managers, the short-range wireless transceivers of the one or more second power managers, and the short range wireless transceiver of the third power manager, wherein each of the first, second, and third power managers are configured to receive data packets that are transmitted by each of the first, second, and third power managers on the local electric vehicle charging mesh network, and wherein the long-range cellular transceiver of the third power manager is configured to connect the local electric vehicle charging mesh network to a remote server via a cellular connection.