Challenging Service Extensions for Electric Vehicles in Massively Heterogenic System Landscapes

The national goal of the federal government of Germany is to have one million fully electric vehicles in use until year 2020. Since an average tour of vehicles in inner-city logistic is about 80km, it is promising that such logistic companies use electric vehicles for their tours. However, there are some reasons for doubts in companies: unknown behaviors, inaccurate range forecasts, and high costs. The research project Smart City Logistik will provide a service to optimize, monitor, and analyze electric vehicles in logistic scenarios for abolishing those barriers. There, the integration of a service system in existing ITsolutions by using predefined interfaces is challenging. This service system needs special implementations for each company solution, what could be avoided by using a more standardized way in logistic softwares. The overhead can be reduced by a harmonized terminology in combination with a standardized service bus to enable specific internal service extensions in existing logistic solutions.