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Support for networks charging apps

Open iboboc opened this issue 1 year ago • 4 comments

This is a feature request that I consider unique and game changing. It is a simple implementation in app and one change in system.

The issue:

  • There are hundreds of apps for charging, browsing, etc
  • Every network has his own application to monitor and control charging.
  • Usual user if looking for a charger, should first check in an app like OCM the nearby chargers then identify the network, search for his website/smartphone app, open/install it and use it.

The proposed implementation is:

  1. enable in OCM operator/network database a new field to store the name/link/id of his application for Android, iOS, web
  2. implement in app, when touch on a location the operator name to automatically detect os and open operator installed application (if not installed to open the store link).

This way, OCM will become the main EV owner app as a starting/first point to control access to any charger form any network.

Or, if not the purpose of OCM app, it will be nice to implement in the database and include that in the API to allow other apps to be able to do that.

iboboc avatar Apr 22 '23 13:04 iboboc