Managed charging is the practice of shaping when and how fast electric vehicles charge, rather than letting every vehicle draw power the moment it plugs in. Shifting charging into off-peak hours flattens local demand peaks, which is what lets a utility defer network reinforcement. It requires software on both sides: something the driver controls, and something the utility can see and influence.

At minimum, four surfaces. An installer flow for registering and configuring hardware on site. A homeowner app for account setup, schedules and session history. A charging engine that executes schedules and reacts to events in real time. And an administrative layer where operations and utility teams manage charging, track faults and review sessions. Banyon Power’s platform covers all four.

Because the expensive mistakes in platform work are architectural, and they are cheapest to fix before any code exists. A workshop converts a product vision into a solution architecture and a prioritised backlog, so the delivery team starts from decisions rather than open questions. On this project it is what allowed the build to move quickly afterwards.

A cluster of unmanaged home chargers on one distribution transformer is a load problem the utility pays for. Software that can move that charging in time turns the same cluster into a manageable, and eventually dispatchable, resource. That is why visibility into charging behaviour is a platform requirement rather than a reporting nicety.

Not always. Where a project centres on a standard protocol, Codibly starts from a pre-built accelerator. Where the product itself is the differentiator — as here — the work is custom development, with the accelerators available for the protocol layers if and when they are needed.