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A cloud-native energy platform for connecting, managing, and monetizing EV charging infrastructure. Documentation covers the v1 REST API, OCPP 2.0.1 Raw Direct APIs, load management, payment processing via Stripe, grid services, and device management for batteries, solar inverters, and meters.

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What's inside Voltra

  1. Overview of Voltra Charger Authentication

    Voltra's Charger authentication provides fine-grained control over how EV charging is authorized. It supports various deployment scenarios including fleet management (authorization via vehicle ID), residential complexes (occupancy-based free charging), and commercial offices (employee free charging and visitor paid charging).

  2. Overview of Voltra Energy asset management

    Voltra Energy allows users to connect and manage physical energy assets, including batteries, solar inverters, and meters. The platform provides tools for managing device profiles, firmware updates, connectivity, and secure tunnels for remote access.

  3. Overview of Voltra Payment Processing

    Voltra provides a payment provider agnostic solution for collecting payments from users. This allows developers to integrate their preferred payment platform into the software. Primary use cases include using a white-labelled payment portal to accept payments from electric vehicles (EVs) charging on the network and analyzing transaction data to identify payment patterns and optimize pricing strategies.

  4. Overview of the Otto driver experience

    Otto is Voltra's driver-facing mobile application designed for EV drivers to find, use, and pay for charging. Key capabilities include map-based charger discovery with real-time availability, session authorization via QR codes, RFID, or Plug and Charge, and integrated payment management with session history.

  5. Overview of Voltra Platform Services

    Voltra uses a modular architecture where functionality is provided by services that can be enabled on a per-project basis. Services are organized into three functional layers:

    • Connect Layer: Handles hardware and site infrastructure (e.g., Device Management, Locations).
    • Conduit Layer: Handles data movement to external systems (e.g., Data Bridge).
    • Command Layer: Handles business logic, payments, and operational control (e.g., Charge Authorization, Payment Processing, Pricing Engine, Load Management, QR Code Manager, Proxy).

  7. Overview of Voltra platform capabilities

    Voltra is a cloud-native platform designed for connecting, managing, and monetizing EV charging infrastructure. The platform is divided into three primary functional areas:

    1. Platform: Handles foundational infrastructure including Organizations, projects, access control, locations, security, telemetry, and the data bridge.
    2. EV Charging: Manages operational charging logic such as charge authorization, pricing, sessions, payments, load management, demand response, and OCPI compliance.
    3. Energy: Provides device connectivity for energy assets like batteries, solar inverters, and meters, supporting protocols including Modbus, DNP3, BACnet, MQTT, and IEEE 2030.5.

  8. Overview of Voltra Products

    Voltra packages its platform capabilities into specific products tailored for different use cases. The available products include:

    • Charge: Complete EV charging station management.
    • Otto: Driver-facing mobile experience.
    • Grid: Energy and load optimization.
    • EMS: Enterprise Energy Management System.
    • Vantage: AI-powered operations platform.

  9. Overview of Voltra Workflows

    Workflows are automated sequences used to orchestrate device actions, conditional logic, and integrations. A workflow consists of a trigger (what starts it), a series of ordered steps (the operations to perform), and an error strategy (how to handle step failures). When a trigger fires, Voltra creates a 'workflow run' to track execution.

  10. Overview of Voltra Vantage AI Operations Platform

    Vantage is an AI-powered operations platform by Voltra designed for charging infrastructure. It integrates across the Voltra stack to provide AI assistance for operations, analysis, development, and reporting. It leverages data from Device Management, charging session analytics, load management metrics, and payment/revenue data.

  11. Overview of Voltra Tunnels

    Voltra Tunnels provide secure VPN access to devices located behind firewalls, NAT, or private networks using WireGuard. This allows developers to remotely diagnose devices, access local web interfaces, or perform firmware updates via an encrypted point-to-point connection. Once a tunnel is active, the user can use SSH, web browsers, or other IP-based tools as if they were on the device's local network.

  12. Overview of Volta Grid energy and load optimization

    Volta Grid is a product used to manage power consumption across charging infrastructure to maintain driver satisfaction while optimizing energy use. It integrates Load Management and Device Management services to provide site-level power limits, dynamic load balancing, and priority-based charging allocation.