| CPC H04W 12/068 (2021.01) [B60L 53/60 (2019.02); H04W 12/73 (2021.01); B60L 53/65 (2019.02)] | 20 Claims |
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1. An Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment (EVSE) configuration management system, the system comprising:
a centralized system configured to supply locally or remotely a series of known valid Wi-Fi Service Set Identifier (SSID) and password credential combinations to a group of EVSEs on a sharing basis;
a first parent EVSE and a child EVSE wherein the first parent EVSE has a Long-Term Evolution (LTE) modem such as a device that allows a wireless device to connect to internet using cellular network and a hot spot such as a wireless access point that allows a user to connect wireless devices to the internet, such that that the child EVSE is connected to the first parent EVSE who can support multiple child EVSEs; and
a first EVSE communicatively coupled to the centralized system, the first EVSE comprising: a first processor and a first memory storing instructions that, when executed by the first processor, cause the first EVSE to:
store in the first EVSE locally or remotely a first Wi-Fi configuration based on a first valid Wi-Fi SSID and password credential combination associated with a first Wi-Fi network that has a first Wi-Fi SSID and a first password, and
store in the first EVSE remotely a second Wi-Fi configuration based on a second valid Wi-Fi SSID and password credential combination associated with a second Wi-Fi network that has a second Wi-Fi SSID and a second password such that when configuring the first EVSE not to load all of Wi-Fi configurations but to load based on a location, an association to a company and having user rights to the company, wherein the centralized system further comprising:
a cloud that is configured to manage the configuration of the first EVSE so once the first EVSE is network connected it can receive multiple pre-known valid Wi-Fi SSID and password credential combinations from the cloud.
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