Challenges and opportunities in infrastructure support for electric vehicles and smart grid in a dense urban environment-Singapore

There are challenges and opportunities in supporting the infrastructure for electric vehicle (EV) and smart grid in a dense urban city-state like Singapore. Automotive telematics which typically use cellular networks, can potentially be served by picocells of 5.9 GHz Dedicated Short Range Radio(DSRC) network for intelligent transport system(ITS), connected to our national fiber network (NG-NBN), which can provide up to 1 Gbps to every node (home, public lamp post, bus stop, etc). This integrated high speed network can potentially enhance the performance for EV ecosystem and users' experience. Our research, deployments and results in cyber security network, electric charging (wired and wireless) and telematics network for EV and smart grid will be presented.