Arduino nano microcontroller is employed to generate gating pulses for the converters, monitor system performance, and manage operational modes. Through IoT technology, the user can remotely switch between G2V and V2G modes, ensuring flexible control and monitoring over the internet using ESP8266 WI-FI module. The proposed system ensures efficient energy utilization, enhances grid stability, and enables EVs to act as distributed energy storage units, thereby supporting the development of smart grids and sustainable energy systems.

Modes of Operation There are two basic modes of operation: Grid-to Vehicle(G2V) mode and Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) mode.

Grid-to Vehicle(G2V) mode:

In this mode of operation, the vehicle battery is charged from grid. Grid’s AC voltage is rectified to DC by an AC to DC converter operating in the rectifier mode. The output of this converter is fed to the DC link. The DC-to-DC converter operates in buck mode by stepping down the DC link voltage to the required battery charging voltage.

Vehicle-to-Grid Mode of Operation:

In this operating mode, energy stored in the battery is fed back to the grid. The DC voltage from the battery is stepped up using the DC-DC converter operating in boost mode and is then converted to AC using the AC-DC converter operating in the inverter mode and is fed to grid. To feed the power back to grid, output of inverter should be synchronized with that of the grid. Here the proposed grid synchronization technique is using a hysteresis current control.

The major features of this project are:

• Achieve flow of power between power grid and the electric vehicle in both the directions
• Use of Bi directional AC-DC Converter that acts as rectifier and inverter alternatively in two modes respectively
• Use of Bi Directional DC-DC Converter that acts as step down converter and step up converter alternatively in two modes respectively.
• Wireless mode selection using IOT technology.

The major building blocks of this project:

• Utility Grid
• AC-DC Bidirectional Converter.
• DC-DC Bidirectional Converter.
• Vehicle Battery.
• NodeMCU Microcontroller.
• Power Supply.
• LED indicator.
• ESP8266 WI-FI Module.

Software’s used:

1. Arduino IDE programmers for dumping code into Microcontroller.
2. Embedded C programming.
3. Express SCH for Circuit design.

Block Diagram:

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In this project, an implementation of solar photovoltaic (PV) array powered grid connected, residential electric vehicle (EV) charger is presented, which caters the need of an EV, household loads and the grid. The charger is enabled to operate autonomously using a PV array for providing an uninterruptible charging and power to household loads. However, in the absence of the PV array or insufficient PV array generation, the grid connected mode of operation is presented.

In This project we are using multiple methods to charge the EV battery and to give the power supply to the house loads; one is bi-directional ac-dc conversion using grid and second one is dc-dc conversion using solar.

Main features of this project:

1. Use of Renewable energy solar.
2. By using this project, we can give the uninterrupted power supply to the loads.
3. Automatic switching of modes.
4. Low power consumption.
5. Controls high and low voltage devices.

The major building blocks of this project are:

• Solar panels.
• Capacitor bank
• DC-DC bidirectional Circuit
• DC-AC bidirectional circuit.
• EV battery.
• Home appliances
• GRID.
• LED indicators.

Block diagram:

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