Vehicular Energy Network
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Vehicular Energy Network (VEN) is a vehicular network which can transfer energy over a large geographical area by means of electric vehicles (EVs). It is built upon the existing road networks, where EVs traverse the network along certain routes completely based on the drivers’ wills. Wireless (dis)charging facilities and small energy storage are installed at certain road junctions. With the advanced IoT technologies, we can acquire the travel plans of the participating EVs. When a particular EV comes across a road junction, it can be wirelessly charged with some energy as energy packets. When it reaches an appropriate road junction, we discharge the energy from the EV and the energy is then stored in a storage facility for subsequently charging another EV. In this way, we utilize EVs as carriers to convey energy from one place to another without deviating their original driving routes. With proper selection of EVs to carry energy, energy paths, linked by fragments of vehicular routes, can be constructed to systemically transmit energy from an energy source to a destination.
References
Albert Y.S. Lam, Ka-Cheong Leung, and Victor O.K. Li, “Vehicular Energy Network,” IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification: Special Issue on Wireless charging Systems, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 392-404, Jun. 2017.
Albert Y.S. Lam and Victor O.K. Li, “Opportunistic Routing for Vehicular Energy Network,” to appear in IEEE Internet of Things Journal: Special Issue on Internet of Things for Smart Cities, 2017.
Albert Y.S. Lam, Ka-Cheong Leung, and Victor O.K. Li, “An Electric-Vehicle-based Supplementary Power Delivery System,” in Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (IEEE SmartGridComm 2015), Miami, FL, Nov. 2015.
Albert Y.S. Lam and Victor O.K. Li, “Energy Loss Minimization for Vehicular Energy Network Routing,” in Proceedings of ACM Workshop on Electric Vehicle Systems, Data and Applications (in conjunction with ACM e-Energy), Waterloo, Canada, Jun. 2016.
Albert Y.S. Lam and James J.Q. Yu, “Robust Routing for Vehicular Energy Network,” in Proceedings of the ACM Eighth International Conference on Future Energy Systems (ACM e-Energy), Hong Kong, May 2017.
James, J.Q. Yu, Albert Y.S. Lam, and Siew-Chong Tan, “Energy Exchange Coordination of Off-Grid Charging Stations with Vehicular Energy Network,” in Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (IEEE SmartGridComm 2017), Dresden, Germany, Oct. 2017.
Calvin C.T. Chow, K.T. Chau, Wei Liu, Albert Y.S. Lam, “Multi-Source Multi-Destination Energy Routing in Vehicular Energy Network,” in Proceedings of 34th International Electric Vehicle Symposium and Exhibition (EVS34), Nanjing, China, Jun. 2021.
Calvin C.T. Chow, Albert Y.S. Lam, Wei Liu, and K.T. Chau, “Multi-Source Multi-Destination Optimal Energy Routing in Static and Time-Varying Vehicular Energy Network,” to appear in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2022.