Project Description
- We started this project at the end of 2020 and created a company around it in Feb 2021. We went public with the idea in summer of 2021, but the source code is only accessible by partners under NDA for the time being.
- Our parent company had a consultant project in 2020 with an ICE supplier company which tried to switch to build wall boxes. There was a strong need to not only buy HW building blocks, but to get all necessary technology in house. Instead of creating a new technology stack for just one company, we decided to think this idea bigger and follow other successful “commercial open source software” projects such as “PX4 in drone space”
- The core goal is to have an extremely customizable / configurable SW stack which (typically) runs on an electric vehicle charging point (AC or DC) and covers all possible current applications. We quickly realized that we could slightly extend the goal to a general edge energy management software. Coordinating different local energy production and consumption entities is a very straightforward generalization of what a future proof charging stack is doing anyway.
- Pionix is VC funded and on a good track to raise enough funding to continue this development even without revenue for some years.