KR20190021596A - Electric vehicle charging cable for providing billing service when charging AC power with advanced metering infrastructure and method for providing billing service using the same - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a slow charging cable linked to an advanced metering infrastructure to provide a billing service when charging an electric vehicle with home AC power and a billing service providing method using the same. The slow charging cable comprises: a first communication unit to receive charging location information which is information on a location for receiving home AC power from a communication modem of an advanced metering infrastructure; a metering unit to measure energy of home AC power supplied to an electric vehicle and calculate charging energy charged in the electric vehicle based on the measured energy; and a second communication unit to perform user authentication, transmit charging information which is information on charging energy and charging location information to a power supply business server, and receive billing information calculated therefrom. The location of a home or a building supplying home AC power can be accurately identified based on charging location information received from an advanced metering infrastructure and a billing service for charging a fee for energy charged in an electric vehicle can be provided.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an electric power charging system for charging an AC power source, providing billing service using the same}

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention [0002] The present invention relates to a charging cable for charging a home AC power supply of an electric vehicle in connection with an intelligent power metering infrastructure, and a charging method using the charging cable.

Generally, an electric vehicle can be charged with a battery by receiving a household AC power using a constant-rate charging cable. When an owner of an electric vehicle receives household AC power from a home or building of another person, There is a problem in that it is not easy to determine the subject of charge for the household AC power source.

For example, if the owner of an electric vehicle charges an electric vehicle in his / her home, there is no reason to worry about the subject to charge the charge. However, because the electric vehicle is in the outskirts of the city due to travel or travel, When the electric vehicle needs to be charged in the building, the charge of the household AC power supplied and charged to the electric vehicle may be charged to the above-mentioned home or building of another person.

Therefore, conventionally, as a charging service for charging the owner of the electric vehicle when charging the household AC power of the electric vehicle, a charging tag is installed in advance in the outlet for supplying the household AC power, It is determined whether or not the household AC power is supplied to the electric vehicle. Then, information on the amount of electric power supplied to the electric vehicle is transmitted to the server of the electric power supplying company, so that the electric power supplied to the electric vehicle And a charge is imposed on the owner of the electric vehicle as much as the price used in the home or building of another person.

In addition, in the past, when an in-cable control box (ICCB) is provided in a charged charging cable as another charging service charging a charge of an owner of the electric vehicle when charging the household AC power of the electric vehicle, A method has been proposed in which the slow charge controller performs user authentication through wireless communication with a smart phone owned by the owner of the electric vehicle and then charges the mobile terminal for the household AC power supplied to the electric vehicle by mobile.

Meanwhile, in the case of a method of recognizing the charging outlet of the electric vehicle using the charging tag during charging of the home AC power of the conventional electric vehicle, a separate charging tag must be installed in the outlet for supplying the household AC power There is a problem that a charging tag must be installed in a home or building that does not own an electric vehicle in order to charge the electric vehicle of another person.

Further, in the case of a method of using a smart charging device of a charged charging controller of a charged charging cable and a smart phone owned by an owner of an electric vehicle among charging services for charging the AC power for home electric power of a conventional electric vehicle, a separate application (APP) And there is a problem in that it is impossible to confirm the location where the electric vehicle is supplied with the household AC power in the area where GPS reception is impossible.

That is, even if the owner of the electric vehicle does not install a separate app on the smart phone and does not install a separate charging tag in a house or building that does not own the electric vehicle, It is necessary to provide a billing service capable of easily grasping the position of a building and being able to charge the owner of the electric vehicle with a charge equal to the amount of electric power charged to the electric vehicle by receiving the household AC power.

In this regard, in recent years, electric power usage information has been provided to electric power supply companies and consumers in real-time in homes and buildings in both directions, thereby improving the efficiency of electric power supply and improving the intelligent power metering infrastructure Infrastructure (AMI) is installed. In conjunction with this intelligent power metering infrastructure, it will be possible to accurately identify the location where an electric vehicle is supplied with household AC power.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and it is an object of the present invention to provide an intelligent power metering infrastructure capable of accurately grasping the position of a home or a building that supplies home AC power to an electric vehicle, The present invention is directed to a method and system for providing a charged charging cable for charging an owner of an electric vehicle.

The objects of the present invention are not limited to the above-mentioned objects, and other objects not mentioned can be clearly understood by those skilled in the art from the following description.

In order to accomplish the above object, the present invention provides a continuous charge cable for charging a home AC power of an electric vehicle in connection with an AMI (Advanced Metering Infrastructure) A first communication unit for receiving charging position information, which is information on a position where the household AC power is supplied from the communication modem of the intelligent power metering infrastructure when the full charging cable is connected to the household AC plug connected to the power system; A power metering unit for measuring a power amount of the household AC power source supplied from the household AC plug to the electric vehicle and calculating the charged electric power amount charged in the electric vehicle based on the measured electric power amount when charging of the electric vehicle is completed; And charging information, which is information on the charging position information received from the first communication unit and the amount of charging power calculated from the power metering unit, to the power supply company server, and calculates from the power supply company server And a second communication unit for receiving the charging information.

In a preferred embodiment, the information processing apparatus further includes a display unit for displaying on the predetermined screen information including the charging power calculated from the power metering unit and the charging information received from the second communication unit.

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the second communication unit includes charging information transmitting means for transmitting charging position information together with charging information to the power supply company server, The address of the household AC power source used for charging the electric vehicle is discriminated and the amount of electric power used for the household AC power source used for charging the electric vehicle is calculated based on the charging information.

In a preferred embodiment, the second communication unit further comprises charging information receiving means for receiving charging information from the power supply company server, wherein the received charging information is information for charging the household AC power source And information on the charge collected based on the used power amount of the battery.

In a preferred embodiment, the second communication unit further includes user authentication means for performing user authentication using a Universal Subscriber Identity Module (USIM).

In a preferred embodiment, when the charging information and the charging position information that have not yet been transmitted from the charging information transmitting means to the power supply company server exist, the second communication unit confirms the information yet to be transmitted, And an untransmitted data processing means for retransmitting the untransmitted data.

In a preferred embodiment, the first communication unit receives charging position information using one of a PLC communication and a Zigbee communication scheme.

In a preferred embodiment, the second communication unit transmits charging information or receives charging information using any one of a mobile communication including CDMA communication and a wireless Internet communication including a WiFi.

In a preferred embodiment, a self-diagnosis unit diagnoses the presence of a leakage current, a cable connection state, and a state of an internal relay before charging the electric vehicle when the charging cable is connected to the household AC plug .

In addition, the present invention provides a billing service providing method for a charged charging cable that provides a billing service for charging an AC power source of an electric vehicle in connection with an Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), comprising: (4) Receiving charging position information, which is information on a position where the household AC power is supplied from the communication modem of the intelligent power metering infrastructure, when the cable is connected to the household AC plug connected to the power system for charging the household AC power; (5) The charged charging cable measures the amount of electric power of the household AC power source supplied from the household AC plug to the electric vehicle, and when the charging of the electric vehicle is completed, Calculating a power amount; (6) transmitting the charging information, which is information on the calculated charging power amount, to the electric power supplying company server together with the received charging position information; And (7) receiving the charging information calculated by the charging server from the power charging company server.

In a preferred embodiment, after the step (7), (8) the step of displaying the information including the calculated charging power amount and the received charging information on the predetermined screen .

In a preferred embodiment, the charging position information and the charging information transmitted from the slow charging cable in the step (6) may include information indicating that the household AC power is used for charging the electric vehicle based on the charging position information And calculates the amount of electric power used by the household AC power source used for charging the electric vehicle based on the charging information.

In a preferred embodiment, the charging information received by the charging cable in the step (7) includes a charging fee based on the amount of electric power used by the household AC power source used for charging the electric vehicle from the electric power supplying company server .

In a preferred embodiment, prior to the step (4), (1) the state of charge of the continuous charging cable is determined by the presence of a leakage current, a cable connection state, And diagnosing the state of the relay.

In a preferred embodiment, the step (1) and the step (4) include: (2) performing the user authentication using the Universal Subscriber Identity Module (USIM) .

In a preferred embodiment, between the (2) and the (4) steps, (3) when the charged charging information and the charging position information that have not yet been transmitted to the power supply company server exist in the charging cable, And transmitting the re-transmitted information to the power supply company server.

In a preferred embodiment, in the step (4), the charged charging cable receives charging position information using one of a PLC communication and a Zigbee communication.

In a preferred embodiment, in the step (6) and the step (7), the slow charging cable is any one of a communication method including a mobile communication including CDMA communication and a wireless Internet communication including a WiFi And transmits the charging information or receives the charging information.

According to the above-mentioned problem solving means, according to the present invention, when connected to a household AC plug, a first receiving unit that receives charging position information, which is information on a position where a home AC power is supplied from a communication modem of an intelligent power metering infrastructure (AMI) A power metering unit for measuring the amount of electric power of the household AC power source supplied from the household AC plug to the electric vehicle and calculating the amount of electric power charged in the electric vehicle based on the measured amount of electric power when charging of the electric vehicle is completed, Which is information on the charging position information received from the first communication unit and information on the charging power amount calculated from the power metering unit, to the power supply company server and receives the charging information calculated from the power supply company server Since the communication unit is provided, the charging position information received from the intelligent power metering infrastructure It is possible to accurately grasp the position of a home or a building that supplies home AC power using an electric vehicle and to charge the owner of the electric vehicle with a charge equal to the electric power of the household AC power charged in the electric vehicle from the home or building The service can be provided.

Further, in order to provide a billing service, the present invention does not require a separate charging tag or the like to be installed in a house or a building that does not own an electric vehicle, It is possible to prevent the inconvenience of installing the light emitting diode on the light emitting diode.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS Fig. 1 is a view for explaining a fast charging cable according to an embodiment of the present invention; Fig.
2 is a diagram for explaining a detailed configuration of a fast charging cable;
3 is a diagram illustrating a process in which a first communication unit receives area ID information of an intelligent power metering infrastructure using PLC communication;
4 is a diagram illustrating a process in which a first communication unit receives area ID information of an intelligent power metering infrastructure using Zigbee communication;
FIG. 5 is a diagram for explaining a billing service providing method according to an embodiment of the present invention; FIG.

It will be understood by those skilled in the art that the specific details of the invention are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the present invention and that the present invention may be readily practiced without these specific details, It will be clear to those who have.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 1 to 5, and a description will be given centering on parts necessary for understanding the operation and operation according to the present invention.

FIG. 1 is a view for explaining a detailed charging / discharging cable according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a view for explaining a detailed configuration of a charged charging cable, FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining a process of receiving the area ID information of the intelligent power metering infrastructure using the Zigbee communication by the first communication unit.

1 to 4, a fully charged cable 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a self-diagnosis unit 110, a first communication unit 120, a power metering unit 130, a second communication unit 140 And a display unit 150. [0033]

Hereinafter, a fully charged cable 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention may be constructed as a home or building that supplies home AC power to an electric vehicle 20 in connection with an Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) Of the electric vehicle 20 that collects the charge to the user who owns the electric vehicle 20 while excluding the electric power of the electric power from the home or building by the amount of electric power charged in the electric vehicle 20, And may be implemented to provide charging services upon power charging.

The self-diagnosis unit 110, the first communication unit 120, the power metering unit 130, the second communication unit 140, and the display unit 150 described above are substantially the same as those of the self- It may be embedded in the In-Cable Control Box (ICCB) or formed on the outer surface.

The self-diagnosis unit 110 is for diagnosing whether or not the state of the state-of-art charging cable 100 itself is suitable for charging before charging of the electric vehicle 20 is started. In order to charge the household AC power supply, And operates when the fully charged cable 100 is connected to the household AC plug 11 to diagnose the presence of a leakage current, the cable connection state, and the state of the internal relay.

The self-diagnosis unit 110 may further perform a process of re-inspecting the state of the state-of-charge cable 100 by a preset number of times when the state of the state-of-charge cable 100 is not accurately diagnosed or when it is diagnosed that a predetermined problem has occurred.

On the other hand, if the self-diagnosis unit 110 determines that there is no abnormality in the continuous charging cable 100 itself, the user authentication process by the second communication unit 140 and the charging process by the first communication unit 120 The process of receiving the information is performed.

The first communication unit 120 is for communicating with the communication modem of the intelligent power metering infrastructure 10 connected to the household AC plug 11. The first communication unit 120 is connected to the household AC plug 11 connected to the power system When the one end of the charging cable 100 is connected, it receives charge position information, which is information on the position of the home power supply to be supplied from the communication modem of the intelligent power metering infrastructure 10 described above.

Here, the charging position information received by the first communication unit 120 from the communication modem of the intelligent power metering infrastructure 10 is the area ID information of the intelligent power metering infrastructure 10, and information previously allocated in accordance with each address Lt; / RTI >

Also, the first communication unit 120 may be configured to receive charging position information using any one of PLC communication and Zigbee communication. In addition, when the charging position information is received using the PLC communication, it is preferable to have a high-frequency filter for separating a signal transmitted together with the household AC power source.

3, the first communication unit 120 may receive the local ID information of the intelligent power metering infrastructure 10 using the PLC communication. In this case, the intelligent power metering infrastructure 10 may receive the local ID information of the intelligent power metering infrastructure 10, When the charging position information, that is, the above-mentioned area ID information, is transmitted to the general power line frequency between 50 Hz and 60 Hz via the communication modem, the signal is transmitted to the first communication unit 120 through the household AC plug 11, The first communication unit 120 can receive the area ID information included in the normal power line frequency by separating the signal using a predetermined filter, for example, a high-frequency filter.

Here, the communication modem of the intelligent power metrology infrastructure 10 may be a PLC modem.

4, the first communication unit 120 may receive the local ID information of the intelligent power metering infrastructure 10 using Zigbee communication, in which case the intelligent power metering infrastructure 10 The ZigBee signal including the charging position information, that is, the above-mentioned area ID information, is transmitted from the communication modem of the first communication unit 120 to the first communication unit 120 via the mesh network including the plurality of nodes, 1 communication unit 120 can receive the area ID information included in the ZigBee signal using a predetermined communication module, for example, a ZigBee module.

The power meter 130 is for measuring the amount of charged electric power charged in the electric vehicle 20 and is supplied to the electric vehicle 20 from the household AC plug 11 when charging of the electric vehicle 20 is started Calculates the amount of electric power charged in the electric vehicle (20) based on the measured amount of electric power when the electric power of the electric vehicle (20) is terminated.

At this time, the power metering unit 130 may be provided to calculate the charging power amount charged in the electric vehicle 20 to a predetermined number of times in order not to calculate the charging power amount accurately, or to increase the accuracy of the calculation.

The second communication unit 140 is for communicating with an external device including a power supply company server and includes a user authentication unit 141, an untransmitted data processing unit 142, a charging information transmission unit 143, (144).

In addition, the second communication unit 140 performs user authentication and simultaneously transmits charging position information received from the first communication unit 120 and charging information, which is information on the charging power amount calculated from the power metering unit 130, To the server, and to receive the charging information calculated from the power supplying company server.

The second communication unit 140 may be configured to transmit charging information or receive charging information using any one of a mobile communication including CDMA communication and a wireless Internet communication including a WiFi .

The user authentication unit 141 performs user authentication using a Universal Subscriber Identity Module (USIM). That is, the subscriber identification information loaded in the USIM is transmitted to the server of the mobile communication company for authentication, or is transmitted to the power supply provider server to perform authentication.

The user authentication process by the user authentication means 141 is performed after the diagnosis process by the self diagnosis unit 110. When the user authentication process is completed, the charging process for charging the electric vehicle 20 Can be performed.

The untransmitted data processing means 142 is for retransmitting information that has not yet been transmitted due to a sudden stop of charging or a natural disaster or the like. The untransmitted data processing means 142 receives the charging information transmitted from the charging information transmitting means 143, When the charging position information exists, it confirms the information that has yet to be transmitted and retransmits the information to the power supply company server.

The charging information transmitting means 143 transmits the charging information together with the charging position information to the power supply company server. Thus, the electric power supplying company server can determine the place where the household AC power source is used for charging the electric vehicle 20 based on the charging position information, and can determine the electric power source used for charging the electric vehicle 20 It is possible to calculate the used electric power of the household AC power source.

Here, the charging information transmitted from the charging information transmitting means 143 may be information on the amount of charged electric power charged in the electric vehicle 20 calculated from the electric power metering section 130 described above.

The billing information receiving means 144 performs a function of receiving billing information from a power supply company server. At this time, the billing information received by the billing information receiving means 144 may be information on the bill collected based on the amount of electric power used by the household AC power source used for charging the electric vehicle 20 from the electric power supplying company server.

On the other hand, the user confirms the charging information transmitted from the charging information transmitting means 143 to the electric power supplying company server and the charging information received from the electric power supplying company server by the charging information receiving means 144 through the display unit 150 .

The display unit 150 may be provided as a display device including a liquid crystal display (LCD) and a touch screen for displaying information on charge and charge details of the electric vehicle 20 to a user. And displays information including the charging power calculated from the power metering unit 130 and the charging information received from the second communication unit 140 on a predetermined screen.

At this time, the display unit 150 first displays the calculated amount of charged electric power from the electric power metering unit 130 to allow the user to check the amount of electric power charged in the electric vehicle 20, It may be arranged to display the billing information.

Accordingly, when the charging cable 100 for charging the domestic AC power of the electric vehicle 20 is to be provided, the charged charging cable 100 according to the embodiment of the present invention is separately installed in a home or building that does not own the electric vehicle 20 It is possible to accurately grasp the position of a home or a building that supplies the household AC power to the electric vehicle 20 based on the charging position information received from the intelligent power metering infrastructure 10.

In addition, even if the owner of the electric vehicle 20 does not install a separate app for mobile payment on the smartphone, the charged charging cable 100 according to the embodiment of the present invention can be installed in the household AC It is possible to provide the owner of the electric vehicle 20 with the billing information for the charge equal to the power amount of the electric power source.

3 is a diagram for explaining a billing service providing method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3, a method of providing a billing service performed in a fully charged cable according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described.

However, since the functions performed in the billing service providing method shown in FIG. 3 are all performed in the fast charge cable described with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2, all of the functions described with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2 Is performed in the billing service providing method according to the preferred embodiment of the present invention, and all the functions described with reference to FIG. 3 are performed in the full charge cable according to the preferred embodiment of the present invention.

In addition, the billing service providing method according to an embodiment of the present invention grasps the location of a home or a building that supplies home AC power to an electric vehicle in conjunction with an AMI (Advanced Metering Infrastructure) It may be implemented to provide a billing service for charging the household AC power of an electric vehicle collecting a charge to a user who owns the electric vehicle, while excluding the electric power charged in the vehicle from the electric charge of the home or building.

First, before the self-diagnosis unit starts charging the electric vehicle, the state of the continuous charge cable itself is diagnosed (S110).

For example, if the self-diagnosis unit is connected to the household AC plug connected to the power system for charging the household AC power source, the existence of the leakage current, the cable connection state, and the state of the internal relay are diagnosed (S111) If the state of the charging cable is not accurately diagnosed or if it is diagnosed that a predetermined problem has occurred, charging of the electric vehicle may be terminated (S112).

Next, if the state of the fast charging cable is diagnosed as being suitable for charging, the user authentication means of the second communication unit performs user authentication using a Universal Subscriber Identity Module (USIM) (S120).

At this time, the user authentication means of the second communication unit transmits the subscriber identification information mounted on the USIM to the server of the mobile communication company and carries out authentication or transmits the authentication to the power supply company server (S121) The charging of the electric vehicle may be terminated (S122).

Then, the untransmitted data processing means of the second communication unit checks the information that has not yet been transmitted due to a sudden charge interruption or natural disaster, and retransmits it (S130).

At this time, the untransmitted data processing means of the second communication unit confirms whether there is charge information and charge position information that has not yet been transmitted to the power supply company server (S131). If there is any information yet to be transmitted, (S132).

Next, from the communication modem of the intelligent power metering infrastructure connected to the household AC plug, the charging position information which is information on the position where the first communication unit is supplied with the household AC power is received (S140).

At this time, the first communication unit can receive the charging position information using any one of PLC communication and Zigbee communication (S141). When the charging position information is normally received, charging of the electric vehicle is started, If the location information is not received, the charging may be terminated (S142).

Further, the charging position information may be area ID information of the intelligent power metering infrastructure, and may be information previously allocated to each address.

Next, the electric power metering section calculates the amount of electric power charged in the electric vehicle (S150).

At this time, when the charging of the electric vehicle is started, the electric power metering unit measures the amount of electric power of the household AC power source supplied from the household AC plug to the electric vehicle (S151). When the charging of the electric vehicle is completed, The charging electric power charged in the electric vehicle can be calculated (S152).

Then, the charging information transmitting means of the second communication section transmits the charging information, which is information on the charging power amount calculated from the power metering section, to the power supply company server together with the charging position information (S160).

In this case, the second communication unit may transmit the charging information using any one of the mobile communication including the CDMA communication and the wireless Internet communication including the WiFi. The charging position information and the charging information, The power supply provider server causes the home electric power source of the home electric power source to be used for charging the electric vehicle on the basis of the charging position information and calculates the electric power usage amount of the household AC power source used for charging the electric vehicle based on the charging information Information.

Next, the charging information receiving means of the second communication unit receives the charging information from the power supplying company server (S170).

At this time, the billing information received by the billing information receiving means of the second communication unit may be the information including the information on the charge collected based on the amount of electric power used by the household AC power source used for charging the electric vehicle from the electric power supplying company server have.

Then, the display unit displays the information including the charging power amount and the charging information on a predetermined screen (S180).

At this time, the user can easily grasp the amount of electric power charged in the electric vehicle and the billing details to be imposed later by confirming the information displayed on the display unit. On the other hand, when the charging power amount is calculated from the above-mentioned power metering unit, information on the charging power amount is displayed on the display unit first, and thereafter, when the charging information is received from the power supply company server, The charging power amount and the charging information can be sequentially displayed.

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed embodiments, but, on the contrary, is intended to cover various modifications and equivalent arrangements included within the spirit and scope of the invention.

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Claims (18)

It is a fully charged charging cable that provides billing service for household AC power charging in connection with an intelligent electric power meter metering infrastructure (AMI)
And a controller for receiving the charging position information, which is information on a position where the household AC power is supplied from the communication modem of the intelligent power metering infrastructure, when the charging cable is connected to the household AC plug connected to the power system for charging the household AC power. 1 communication unit;
A power metering unit for measuring a power amount of the household AC power source supplied from the household AC plug to the electric vehicle and calculating the charged electric power amount charged in the electric vehicle based on the measured electric power amount when charging of the electric vehicle is completed; And
And transmits charging information, which is information on charging position information received from the first communication unit and charging power calculated from the power metering unit, to the power supply company server, And a second communication unit for receiving charging information.
The method according to claim 1,
And a display unit for displaying on the predetermined screen information including the charging power calculated from the power metering unit and the charging information received from the second communication unit.
The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the second communication unit comprises:
And charging information transmission means for transmitting charging position information together with charging information to the power supply company server,
The power supply provider server determines the address where the household AC power is used for charging the electric vehicle based on the charging position information and calculates the amount of electric power used for charging the electric power of the household AC power source based on the charging information Wherein the cable is connected to the cable.

The method of claim 3,
Wherein the second communication unit comprises:
And billing information receiving means for receiving billing information from the power supply company server,
Wherein the received charging information includes information on a charge collected based on an amount of electric power used by the household AC power source used for charging the electric vehicle.
5. The method of claim 4,
Wherein the second communication unit comprises:
Further comprising user authentication means for performing user authentication using a Universal Subscriber Identity Module (USIM).
5. The method of claim 4,
Wherein the second communication unit comprises:
And an untransmitted data processing means for confirming the untransmitted information and retransmitting the untransmitted information to the power supply company server when the charging information and the charging position information that have not yet been transmitted from the charging information transmitting means to the power supply company server exist Wherein the cable is connected to the cable.
7. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 6,
Wherein the first communication unit receives charging position information using one of a PLC communication and a Zigbee communication scheme.
7. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 6,
Wherein the second communication unit transmits charging information or receives charging information using any one of a mobile communication including CDMA communication and a wireless Internet communication including a WiFi .
7. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 6,
And a self diagnosis unit for diagnosing the presence or absence of a leakage current, the cable connection state, and the state of the internal relay before charging the electric vehicle when the charging cable is connected to the household AC plug, Slow charge cable.
A method of providing a billing service performed on a continuous charge cable that provides a billing service for charging an AC power source of an electric vehicle in connection with an Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI)
(4) When the charged state charging cable is connected to a household AC plug connected to the power system for charging the household AC power source, charging position information, which is information on a position where the household AC power is supplied from the communication modem of the intelligent power metering infrastructure, ;
(5) The charged charging cable measures the amount of electric power of the household AC power source supplied from the household AC plug to the electric vehicle, and when the charging of the electric vehicle is completed, Calculating a power amount;
(6) transmitting the charging information, which is information on the calculated charging power amount, to the electric power supplying company server together with the received charging position information; And
(7) receiving the charging information calculated from the power supplier server by the charging cable.
11. The method of claim 10,
After the step (7)
(8) The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of displaying the information including the calculated charging power amount and the received charging information on a predetermined screen.
11. The method of claim 10,
In the step (6), the charging position information and the charging information transmitted from the charged charging cable may cause the power supplying company server to determine the address where the household AC power is used for charging the electric vehicle based on the charging position information , And calculates the amount of electric power used by the household AC power source used for charging the electric vehicle based on the charging information.
11. The method of claim 10,
In the step (7), the charging information received on the charged charging cable includes information on the charge collected based on the amount of electric power used by the household AC power source used for charging the electric vehicle from the electric power supplying company server A method of providing a billing service characterized by.
11. The method of claim 10,
Before the step (4)
(1) diagnosing the presence or absence of a leakage current, the state of the cable connection and the state of the internal relay before the charging cable is connected to the domestic AC plug and charging of the electric vehicle is started To provide a billing service.
15. The method of claim 14,
Between the step (1) and the step (4)
(2) performing the user authentication using the Universal Subscriber Identity Module (USIM) by the fast charging cable.
16. The method of claim 15,
Between the step (2) and the step (4)
(3) when the charged charging cable and charging information and charging position information that have not yet been transmitted to the power supplying company server exist, confirming the untransmitted information and retransmitting the information to the power supplying company server Wherein the billing service providing method comprises:
7. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 6,
Wherein in the step (4), the charged charging cable receives charging position information using one of a PLC communication method and a Zigbee communication method.
17. The method according to any one of claims 10 to 16,
In the step (6) and the step (7), the fully charged cable may be any one of a mobile communication including CDMA communication and a wireless Internet communication including a WiFi, Or receives the charging information.

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