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The OCPP Management System is primarily designed for Charge Point Operators (CPOs).

Supports both OCPP versions: 1.6 and 2.0.1.

The system's main feature lies in its high scalability. It could become quite inconvenient to maintain websocket connections from all your stations on a single server. Constantly connecting new stations poses a challenge, and in the event of server failure, all stations will be disconnected, potentially causing your business operations to come to a halt.

The system enables the distribution of WebSocket connections among various servers and providers. In this setup, the server housing the API service is designated as the master server, while the server hosting the worker is regarded as a slave server. Slave servers directly engage with the charge points and communicate with the master server to exchange messages. The number of slave servers can be adjusted as needed to meet business requirements.

How it works.

API - The only service that accepts requests from the front-end and has a monopoly access to the database. It implements the entire business logic.

Worker - Accepts and maintains WebSocket connections from the charging stations. It receives messages from both the stations and API service. If a station sends a message, the service forwards it to the API service through the queue. If the API service sends a message, the service redirects it to the station through an existing connection. Each new worker creates a new queue in rabbitmq and listens for messages from it.

RabbitMQ - Works independently from the other services. Fanout exchange applied.

DB - Postgresql database.

Deployment

Raise app on the single server:

• $ cp .env.backend .env
• Setup environment variables
• $ sh run.sh -s api -s worker

Raise one more worker on the different server:

• $ cp .env.backend .env
• Make sure that the RABBITMQ_HOST refers to the host with running api.
• $ sh run.sh -s worker

Create user:

• docker exec -it EVapi python api/cli/create_user.py -m {email} -p {password} -f {first name} -l {last_name}

Currenlty implemented scenarios.

Action	Description
Station connected	Every time the station connects to the worker, the API service can reject the connection if the station is not authorized. Conversely, if the station is recognized, the connection will be successfully established.
Authenticate station	Authentication is based on the stations's existence in the charge_points table in the database.
Station disconnected	Every time the worker loses connection with a specific station, the API service will be notified. Upon receiving this notification, the statuses of the station and connectors will be updated to Unavailable.
BootNotification	The station provides additional information about itself in the message, including model, vendor, serial number etc. This information is used to update the charging station's details in the database. The API service responds with a Heartbeat interval, specified in the env variable HEARTBEAT_INTERVAL.
StatusNotification	In progress ...