Share&Charge, a decentralized marketplace that connects electric vehicle owners with private and public charging stations, has released its mobile app, available now in both the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store.The platform, which already has over 1,000 charging stations listed in Germany, seeks to support the concept of the sharing economy.In Germany, about 92% of the 45,150 electric vehicle owners have a charging station at home.Share&Charge allows these individuals to rent their home charging stations in a peer-to-peer fashion.Through the platform, private charging stations can independently determine the charging method and the price of their electricity service, while electric vehicle owners can search for the next charging station on an interactive map.Share&Charge uses the Ethereum blockchain as a transaction layer.On Share&Charge, transactions are handled in a “crypto-euros” that is backed with real euros held in escrow.At the moment, the token cannot be traded and is reserved for use exclusively within the Share&Charge project.

However, an e-money license being sought by XTECH, a payment provider part of the project, could see its use extended to it to other fields, according to Stephan Tual, the founder of Slock.it, a blockchain startup that helped develop the platform.All Share&Charge users – charging station owners and electric vehicle drivers – are given a Share&Charge wallet, which holds real-time information about all transactions.Money can be cashed-in using credit card, PayPal or Sofortüberweisung, an online payment system, and cashed-out using SEPA transactions.“We hope that in the future, once the smart contract system is battle-proven and bug free, Share&Charge will be able […] to create a truly decentralized market for electric vehicle charging,” Tual wrote in a blog announcement.Moving forward, Tual said the team intends to “extend this concept to bring value to operators of mobility services, to easily share or rent their mobility assets, including energy, parking spots, and eventually the vehicles themselves.”Share&Charge is the first product from a soon-to-be-launched Innogy Innovation Hub startup called MotionWerk.bitcoin geld senden

Innogy is a subsidiary of RWE, Germany’s second largest energy group.“Share&Charge has a clear vision of the future of driving: it is electric, autonomous and follows the sharing concept.The entire automotive market structure and related energy industry is changing,” said Dietrich Sümmermann, co-founder of Share&Charge and head of B2C enablement, Smart and Connected Lighthouse at RWE.“Cars with combustion engines need a central service station – but thanks to e-mobility, such infrastructure monopolies will soon become history.bitcoin center meetupThey will be replaced by hundreds of plug-in sockets.conversion litecoin eurWith Share&Charge, we are pursuing clear goals.”Within one year, the startup hopes to become one of the top five infrastructure providers for charging stations in Germany.Alongside Share&Charge, Innogy is also involved in another blockchain project called Car eWallet.

At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January, the company presented a prototype it had developed with partners ZF and UBS.Car eWallet is a new car payment system using blockchain that allows users to pay on-the-go for highway tolls, parking fees and electric charging.It also lets users collect fees for car-sharing or delivery services.The projects are part of RWE’s broader plan to use blockchain to transform the e-mobility industry and bring down costs through use of the technology for authentication and billing.The firm sees the technology as an integral part of a new series of technologies to be introduced to its core businesses.German blockchain startup Slock.it is most known for its involvement with The DAO, a project that emerged last year that sought to create a decentralized venture capital fund running on the Ethereum blockchain.The DAO raised US$162 million through a crowdsale and was subsequently targeted by a hacker who exploited a vulnerability in the smart contract allowing them to steal US$60 million worth of ether.

The funds were recouped only by engineering a controversial rollback of the Ethereum ledger.Despite The DAO failure, Slock.it has remained active in the blockchain and Internet-of-Things space.In March, the company raised US$2 million in seed funding to develop the Universal Sharing Network (USN).The project seeks to revamp the sharing economy by enabling companies and individuals to exchange ownership of objects connected to the Internet-of-Things.Sign Up / Sign In Smart Contracts And Ethereum Explained Summary : of 4 1Here’s How Ethereum Could Restore Online Freedom & Transform the Internet “If you think the Internet has affected your life, Ethereum will have that same pervasive influence on our communications and our entire information infrastructure,” says Joseph Lubin, who’s the founder of the Brooklyn-based software-production studio ConsenSys.“It will impact every aspect of our existence.”Sign in to follow this 0 Started by Takio, April 29 5 posts in this topic Create an account or sign in to comment You need to be a member in order to leave a comment Create an account Sign up for a new account in our community.

Register a new account Sign in Already have an account?Sign In Now Sign in to follow this 0Blockchainfirst’s aim for 2017 is to deliver functional, tangible real-life blockchain-enabled products for everyone.At the beginning of this year we launched our blockchain-enabled multi- purpose charging station for electric cars and motorbikes.According our mission “Blockchainfirst bring together IoT Devices and Blockchain Technology” last year we presented a bunch of Blockchain enabled IoT Devices like:After having presented our solutions at last year’s International Blockchain Week 2016 in Shanghai, we received a lot of positive feedback and realised that we were on the right track.Thus we decided to invest more into developing real and easy-to-understand use cases for everybody — based on IoT and blockchain technologyDue to the slow, yet steadily growing market for electric driven cars and bikes (and even vehicles we’ve never seen before), we believe it to be essential to have not only many more EV charging stations, but smarter ones at that.

Currently, most charging stations are either free to use or one has to register at a local provider in advance, authorising them to charge from one’s bank account.If the charging station takes credit card payments, the fee is still as high as other, more general credit card payments.The market is pretty fragmented and centralised.It can happen that driving to a different city and needing to recharge the EV might be impossible, due to different local EV charging providers (at least this is the case where I come from in Germany).There are a few hurdles one has to deal with when driving from city to city and wanting to recharge one’s EV.Private public parking spaces (e.g.exhibition grounds, university campuses, business parks) require a standardised payment system for part-time or one-time users — without the need to pre-register with a local provider in advance.P2P charging is de facto still impossible, as private users do not wish to sign a contract with a payment provider for a single charging station at their home.This lead us to the idea of developing an EV charging station for smart cities based on blockchain technology and for a sharing economy where people have easy access to and sufficient supply of EV charging services.Blockchain-enabled basically means that the end-user has an easy and secure payment system which uses cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin or Ether, either using a standard wallet app or RFID/NFC card.

The main advantages of paying for a charging cycle this way are:Over the past 3 months we have developed a multi-purpose blockchain-enabled outdoor charging station for electric driven cars and motorbikes.This charging station is ready to use and operational and we are about to roll-out to some stations within the next few weeks.The charging stations can be installed in walls as well as street lamps or pillars.The charging station fulfills all necessary industrial requirements and standards according to IEC 61851–1 and CE.The official approval is still pending, as we are currently still designing a modern looking casing.On 16th January 2017, we successfully accomplished our first full P2P charging cycle in Germany using our Ethan BIoT© Charging Station.Many thanks at this point to Alexandra Grefe for joining us and being so brave in trying it out!Our Charging Stations consists of separate modules:At the heart of our charging station lies an industrial SOC (System On Chip) with built-in cryptographic functions.

It operates on a linux operating system and can run either a full ethereum blockchain node or a light client.The SOC sits on an electronic board with a bunch of GPIO (General-Purpose Inputs and Outputs).Due to the modular structure of our industrial Ethan BioT© Device, it can be integrated into other charging systems, as well as in other industrial environments such as gate openers, autonomous cars et al.The Ethan BIoT© Charging Station can be installed outside and everywhere.As a blockchain client (light client) operates inside the charging station, it captures any kind of data and transfers it directly, securely and tamper-proof into the blockchain.Therefore, as an add-on, we have developed a built-in IoT Oracle with up to 6 sensors which capture data like air pollution, temperature, humidity etc.The accuracy of the environmental data in a particular region grows with every charging station.Using this device, capturing environmental data has never before been as easy or as economic.There are two ways to pay:Firstly, you can use a wallet app, like Jaxx, Coinbase or Freewallet.

Users scan a QR code which is displayed on the touchscreen of the charging station and input their required amount.When the transaction is confirmed, the touchscreen prompts you to plug in the charging cable to your car.The charging cycle begins automatically.Secondly, you can pay with an NFC card.We call this card the Ethan Card.The NFC card is basically a wallet and a wallet address.The user can purchase a prepaid card with different amounts, e.g.10, 25, 50, 100 USD or EUR or any other Fiat currency.The amount the user purchased is stored in a cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin or Ether.The user may otherwise buy an empty card and send any amount of Ether or Bitcoin to the card‘s wallet address.The Ethan Card can be recharged at any time with any amount.In order to prevent unauthorised use, the card has a 4-digit PIN code.Ethan NFC card for easy and secure paymentsCharging an electric driven car is a pretty complex process.There are various industrial standards and different types of cars involved.

While charging, the car communicates with the charging station and every manufacturer has to implement this protocol accordingly.The environmental requirements are quite high.The charging station must operate at temperatures of -20 to +60 degrees Celsius (-4 up to 140 Fahrenheit).All the components inside an EV charging station must fulfil these requirements and be operational under these harsh conditions.In the end, we found a solution for every issue faced.Due to the modularity of our EV charging station we could allocate different development tasks to separate engineers.Our charging station designs won’t win design awards, but we are planning on letting designers work out modern looking cases.However, as a proof of concept we should be alright for now.We are about to implement a so-called “Long Range UHF RFID Reader” into the charging station.This technology allows payments to be automated, for example by an autonomous car itself.We’re going to publish more on this technology within the next month.