Licensing cellular connected smart electric vehicle (EV) chargers.
Avanci EV Charger brings together licensors and licensees to create a one-stop licensing program for connected chargers using 4G, 3G and 2G cellular communications.
Smart EV chargers play a crucial role in making electric vehicle charging more efficient, convenient, and sustainable while supporting the integration of EVs into the larger energy ecosystem.
To do this, smart EV chargers require connection to the internet through technologies including cellular, which have been developed through open standardization with contributions from thousands of inventors at dozens of companies and research institutions.
Avanci EV Charger offers manufacturers of smart EV chargers, and charge point operators who brand their own chargers, an efficient option of a single license for their connected chargers, covering the essential cellular technologies of the licensors currently participating in the program, plus those who join in future.
Licensees participating in Avanci EV Charger
Licensors participating in Avanci EV Charger
Market-driven pricing
Avanci has extensive individual discussions with both patent owners and providers of standards-based products and services to discover terms that can be broadly accepted by a wide array of market participants, reflecting the value that the licensed technologies bring to the products and services in question. The acceptance of the optional Avanci license terms by both licensors and licensees ensures that the terms reflect a fair compromise, and since the same terms are offered to all potential licensees, they are non-discriminatory. This approach ensures that those using the technology in their licensable IoT products have access on simple and transparent terms, and those creating the licensed technologies receive a fair return on their investment.
Easy, uncomplicated possibilities
Avanci is committed to streamlining the technology-sharing process. Our transparent, fixed price royalty model accommodates the wide range of uses in connected EV chargers.
Simple, fixed prices for smart EV chargers
The royalty rate in an Avanci IoT license for EV chargers will never increase during the term of the license, regardless of:
- The number of 2G, 3G and 4G essential patents added to the license
- How many new licensors join the Avanci EV Charger program
Market-driven pricing
| License rates, paid once for the charger’s lifetime | |
|---|---|
| Category 1 (< 25kW output power, without Infotainment Functions and without a user interface to receive and present information received over a cellular network to the EV Charger user) | $5/charger |
| Category 2 (< 150kW output power, without Infotainment Functions and not a Category 1 charger) | $9/charger |
| Category 3 (150kW or more output power, without Infotainment Functions) | $11/charger |
| Category 4 (Any EV charger capable of performing Infotainment Functions, such as playing downloaded video, audio and/or other entertainment content, and/or access internet-enabled content such as commercials or advertisements, and/or provide network connectivity for a wireless LAN) | $13/charger |
Early licensee reductions – for Avanci EV Charger licenses signed before the later of December 5, 2024 or within six months of first sale or commercial use of a cellular smart EV charger – rates are reduced by $1 per charger in all categories
The above Avanci IoT pricing may change in the future.
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Devices that are capable of charging electric vehicles and that also have a cellular (4G, 3G or 2G) connection.
The program covers the 4G, 3G and 2G essential patents of participating licensors, when used in a smart EV charger.
Infotainment functions include the ability to play downloaded video and audio content or other entertainment, to access internet-enabled content such as commercials or advertisements, and to provide network connectivity for a wireless local area network such as a Wi-Fi Hotspot. They cover more than video instructions or directions on how to use the charger or other pre-installed content, for example.
Category 1 covers any EV charger that (i) does not include a user interface to receive and present any information received over a cellular network to a user of the EV Charger, (ii) is not capable of performing any Infotainment Functions, and (iii) has a power output capacity of less than 25kW
Category 2 covers any charger that (i) is not capable of performing any Infotainment Functions, (ii) has a power output capacity of less than 150 kW, and (iii) is not a Category 1 EV Charger.
Category 3 covers any charger (i) that is not capable of performing any Infotainment Functions and (ii) has a power output capacity of at least 150 kW.
Category 4 covers any charger that is capable of performing Infotainment Functions.
Not today, but we are exploring the potential for a 5G program. Contact us if this is of interest to you either as a licensor or an EV charger manufacturer or charge point operator.