Telecom Challenges and Electric Vehicles

UTC Canada, Electric Vehicles – A Series of Case Studies

Point of View of the Netherlands

Wim D’Hondt (wim.dhondt@accenture.com)

Agenda

• Accenture Network Practice Summary

• Dutch EV overview

• Generating more review out of Charging assets

• Next Steps

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Introduction to Accenture’s Network Practice

Vendor Alliances and
Industry Participation

• Providing full lifecycle of project services:
–Plan & Design: strategy, requirements, architecture, vendor selection,
deployment planning
Broad Scope of
–Build: systems / telecom integration, deployment, testing, PMO
Services
–Run: infrastructure managed services, NOC
• Addressing Wired (MPLS, SONET, Ethernet, etc.), Wireless (3G/4G,
WiMAX, WiFi, LMR, etc.) and Operations (NOC, OSS/BSS) solutions

• Global Organization with 500+
Dedicated Professionals
Experienced Team & • Alignment with Industry Groups
Extensive Credentials • Continual Training Curriculum
• In-Depth Industry Expertise
• Cisco Certified Reseller (Gold Status)

Select Accenture Projects with Utilities Communications Networks
and Security
PROJECT TYPE PROJECT SCOPE EXAMPLE CLIENTS*

Is the communications
Network Strategy infrastructure within the Utility
and Assessment ready to support smart grid and
other next generation services?

How should the infrastructure
Network Design, be designed, built, trialed and
Build, Trials and tested to meet and exceed
Proof of Concepts business requirements?

Network and How should the infrastructure
be managed and operated for
Infrastructure
enterprise-wide situational
Operations Support awareness and IT/OT
Systems integration?

What type of security solutions
are needed for smart grid and
Security Strategy
other next generation Utility
and Solutions offerings and services?

*List not exhaustive


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• Next Steps


Dutch EV Market Overview

Electric Vehicles are now part of Most OEMs

Source: New Motion


Electric Vehicles - The Good

Fast developing charging infrastructure
• 26 fast chargers (now)
• 80 (year end 2012))
• 2,500 regular charging poles

EV City Casebook


Electric Vehicles - The Exploratory

"To avoid injury or death please turn off the
vehicle"

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Accenture EV Pilot (13 Nissan LEAF, started 31 May 2011)

Employee proposition
Which vehicle?
The proposed vehicle is the Nissan Leaf which
stands for Leading, Environmentally friendly,
Affordable, Family car. The Nissan Leaf is a
five-door hatchback fully electric vehicle.

Features
This vehicle is equipped with all the features
and space which you can expect from a regular
internal combustion engine car.
On our mobility portal you will find our proposal,
specifications, pictures and useful links
on the Nissan Leaf. F.e. Apps for iPhone

Press
A lot of attention, press because of our pilot
by Accenture
Prince Maurits will attend at our opening Event

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• Next Steps


Equipping EV charging poles to generate additional value

SITUATION COMPLICATION QUESTION

• Installing charging • Providing charging • How to deploy
infrastructure is expensive infrastructure is not complementary services
and requires subsidies. profitable enough (outside energy supply)
• Supply Chain is new and • Charging objects are are necessary to make the
supply, maintenance and located inside city centres business profitable.
service requires further and could be used for
development. facilitating wireless • What is the potential
communication networks value of equipping
• Most charging poles have charging poles with
minimal capability telecommunications
 Business Models
 Benefits
 Costs


Coverage - feasibility

Complete coverage Remarks
• Backhaul: considering a partnership with a service
provider for traffic backhaul
• Meshed configuration could benefit from
integration with light poles to allow for additional
Access Points. This would need collaboration with
the City of Amsterdam. This could be combined by
offering them the usage of WiFi service throughout
the city.
• The charging pole does not have the ideal height
for an extensive reach. An antenna should be
preferably 5 meters above the ground. This
improves with integration with light poles
Charging poles City Centre Amsterdam • The power of the antenna can be boosted by
combining multiple antenna’s. Challenge is to reach
600 meters.
Assumptions The city center of Amsterdam covers an
• 100-500 charging objects (?) area of 8,04 km2
• Geometrically perfect placement (?)
• Ideal placement for range (?)
• 500m range (?)
approximately 2 poles are needed
for 1 km2 coverage

• 100 objects: 50 km2
• 500 objects: 392 km2
EV City Casebook
How many charging objects are located in
the city center of Amsterdam?


Development of Business Models, varying from a minimum Rental to
a fully Managed Service
Minimum Service Maximum Service

I II III IV
INDICATIVE

I – Space rental II – Hosting services III – Wholesaler IV – Retailer
• Service Provider rents • Utility provides • Utility installs back • Utility provides full
space in charging telecommunication haul communications services (e2e)
object equipment in the link to charging point • Requires direct
Business Model • Service Provider charging point and provides relationship with
remains owner of the • Service Provider wholesale services. customers
equipment in the owns communication
charging point service and customer
relationship

Costs

• € 100 – 1,500 per • 20 – 30% of revenues
Benefits pole per year generated by Telco

• WIFI • WIFI • WIFI • WIFI
Technology • 3G/4G
options
Focus


Business Model Structure

Off Load telephone • The opportunity to offer
companies telephone companies that are
SAMPLE dealing with over capacity, a WIFI-
network as an “off-load” for this
data.

B2B • Providing city services, such as
City services
police, parking patrol etc., a WIFI-
network that covers the entire
inner city of the larger cities in the
Netherlands.
• Back-up network
Benefits • Main network

Tourism • Offer an interesting WIFI-package
to municipalities for their tourism.
They can buy scratch cards to use
the WIFI internet for a certain
amount of days.

B2C
Internet providers • The possibility to offer internet
providers a complementary
service for their customers; WIFI
access in city centres.

Exclude GPRS ( < costs)


The choice of business model determines the potential benefits that
can be gained
Minimum amount of services Maximum amount of services
under Utility management under Utility management
I II III IV

Benefits I II III IV What How
• Analyze whether telcos are interested in the • Interviews
Off-load for service
providers
    concept of a WIFI service

• Analyze possible partnerships for the placement of • Interviews
Focus
WIFI systems in street furniture
• Analyze whether municipalities are interested in • Interviews at
City Services
  WIFI for the support of their city services. These municipality
can be governmental (police, parking control,
ambulance, etc.) or commercial (local shops, etc.).
• Analyze whether municipalities are interested in • Interviews at
Tourism
  offering a WIFI service for tourism. municipality

• Analyze the potential for a partnership with a party
like BOINGO, who can provide the service for these • Interviews with parties
tourists like BOINGO for
potential partnerships
• Analyze if it would be interesting to offer clients of • Interviews with internet
Internet - provider
 a certain internet provider a complementary WIFI providers
package in the centers of larger Dutch cities. • Interviews with potential
customers


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• Next Steps


Next steps

Next Step Hosted Model:
1. Work with Service Providers on more detailed Business Case and
investigate their interest on collaboration.

Next Step Rental Model:
1. Possibly better suited in Utility Business Model due to simple service
model and limited upfront costs.
2. Contact Service Providers to develop more detailed business Case and
investigate their interest around WiFi and 3G/4G solutions.


Contacts

Wim D’Hondt
Accenture
Senior Manager
NES Group – Smart Grid Services
Wim.dhondt@accenture.com
+31 6 22 14 81 09

Vaibhav Parmar
Accenture
NES Group – Wireless Lead
vaibhav.j.parmar@accenture.com
+1 919 225 7899


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