EV Charging Infrastructure ICT Whitepapers

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Cybersecurity Regulations and Standards

• EU Cyber Resilience Act (EU CRA)
• EN 18031
• EN 40000

Specifications

• Metrological CBOR (CBOR Tag 44252)
• Time-Based One-Time Passwords (TOTP) for M2M Authentication (EU RED/CRA)

Open Charge Point Protocol (OCPP) related:

• HTTP Basic Authentication with Time-Based One-Time Passwords (EU RED/CRA)
• Alternative HTTP Authentication Methods for OCPP (EU RED/CRA)
• Secure Time Synchronization for OCPP v1.6 and v2.x (EU RED/CRA, EU MID)
• Resilient, high-available and pooled parallel Connections
• TLS Client/Server Configuration for OCPP v2.x (EU RED/CRA)
• Advanced Diagnostics with Self and Integration Tests for OCPP (EU RED/CRA, EU NIS2)
• Ad hoc Payments via Secure Dynamic QR-Codes for OCPP and OCPI (EU AFIR, EU RED/CRA)
• OCPP 2.x Firmware Updates with Software Separation (EU RED/CRA, EU MID)

Upcoming:

• DNS-over-OCPP
• NTS-over-OCPP
• Open Charge Context Protocol (OCCP)
• TCP/IP Networking Configuration
• Safe & Secure OCPP v2.x Device Model Updates
• Ad hoc payments via Bluetooth LE (BLE)
• Ad hoc payments via Near Field Communication (NFC)
• Secure SSH Configuration

Open Charge Point Interface (OCPI) related:

Upcoming:

• Time-Based One-Time Passwords as 2nd Factor Authentication (EU RED/CRA)

Open InterCharge Protocol (OICP) related:

Upcoming:

• OICP v2.3 Peer-to-Peer Mode

EV Roaming Related

Upcoming:

• POI Data Model
• POI Transport Protocols
• Roaming Protocol

OpenADR Related

Upcoming:

• OpenADR and OCPP v2.1 Interoperability

EV Communication Related

Upcoming:

• ISO 15118-Computer Science Edition

WWCP Related

Upcoming:

• EV Infrastructure Unified Transport

Acknowledgements

This work is partially funded by the CyberStand.eu project under the European Commission’s Horizon Europe programme. The support of CyberStand.eu in advancing cybersecurity standardization across critical digital infrastructures, including the e-mobility sector, is gratefully acknowledged.

This repository is part of an Open Access effort to document and structure ongoing work related to the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Cybersecurity aspects of Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Infrastructure. Its contents may change at any time as new knowledge, regulatory requirements, or technical insights emerge. It reflects the author's and contributors' technical and editorial input and do not necessarily represent the official position of the CyberStand.eu consortium or the European Commission.

Open Source implementations are partially funded by the NGI Zero Commons Fund and is published within the Open Charging Cloud and Open Charging Community GitHub repositories.