CitrineOS

This video was originally posted at https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5019-citrineos-one-year-of-progress-of-a-charge-station-management-system/ and is provided by FOSDEM under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Belgium Licence. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/be/deed.en

Abstract:
A little over a year ago, CitrineOS was launched to address a critical need in the EV charging landscape: a reliable, open-source Charge Station Management System (CSMS) built on the OCPP 2.0.1 protocol. Last year, I had given a talk here about CitrineOS as a fresh project. Since then, CitrineOS has made significant strides, achieving key milestones while navigating the challenges of scaling an open-source project in the rapidly evolving EV industry.

In this talk, I'll provide a comprehensive update on CitrineOS, highlighting key milestones such as the project’s first major release, compliance with Core and Advanced Security certification profiles. I also want to share how the project has evolved, what challenges we faced and the lessons we have learned. Then we will take a look at it's future and what is planned next.

Speakers:
Christian Weissmann, S44 Energy

LF Energy's first CitrineOS webinar, presented in partnership with S44 Energy, is designed for developers and product owners who want to revolutionize charging management for electric vehicles.

In this session, we take a deep dive into the latest advancements that come with the current 1.3 release by showing and telling the developer experience it provides:

- OCPI 2.2.1, focusing on seamless roaming features that improve the user experience across different charging networks.
- Payments: We will explore the integration of payment systems
- Smart Charging: Critical for optimizing energy consumption and cost efficiency.

Discover how LF Energy CitrineOS provides tools to simplify the development of your own Charge Station Management System (CSMS) by providing open source innovations to streamline your projects and pipelines.

Speakers:
-Alex Thornton, LF Energy
-Thana Paris, S44 Energy
-Christian Weissmann, S44 Energy

Learn more about LF Energy CitrineOS at https://lfenergy.org/projects/citrineos/.

This video was taken May 16, 2024 at the Open EV Charging Summit hosted by Texas Instruments in Dallas, TX.

The video captures a series of presentations and Q&A with organizations innovating in open source EV charging technologies at the event. Presenters included:
-Kelvin Le, Texas Instruments: This EVSE Demo demonstrates an AC Level 2 Charging Station (ISO-15118, IEC-61851, OCPP) featuring TIDA-010239, AM625 SoM + Carrier Board, CC3301 M.2 Card + LP-CC1352P7, and 8devices RedBeet HPGP expansion board , 10.1” LVDS panel from Lincoln Technology Solutions. This EVSE demo can demonstrate one of the following wireless communications protocol: Wi Fi, Sub-1 GHz, Matter.

-Justin Acker & Mason Seaman, S44: CitrineOS

-Martin Kranzfelder, chargebyte: chargebyte Charge Control C

-Julian Raedel & Janek Metzner, PIONIX: The MicroMegaWatt Charger - a handheld EV protocol tester based on EVerest

-Brian Reeves & David Reeves, Enteligent: Direct DC EV Charging station

This video was recorded at the Open EV Charging Summit, May 15, 2024 in Dallas, Texas.

The Linux Foundation Energy project CitrineOS is an open source Charging Station Management System authored by S44. It has a modular, API-based architecture for easy integration into existing backends and future-proofed extensibility. It can be setup on your laptop from Github and ready to test with and operate OCPP 2.0.1 charging stations in 5 minutes. We will be going over its design and usage, current roadmap, and how to be part of our community and get involved with this project!

Speakers:
-Mason Seaman, Software QA Engineer, S44
-Justin Acker, Product Manager, S44

Learn more about LF Energy CitrineOS at https://lfenergy.org/projects/citrineos/.

This video was originally posted to https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-2483-citrineos/. Thank you to FOSDEM for sharing under CC-BY-2.0-BE-DEED (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/be/deed.en).

CitrineOS was presented by Christian Weissmann of S44 in the Energy Devroom at FOSDEM 2024.

The open source OCPP 2.0.1 CSMS project CitrineOS was initiated by S44. By leveraging over a decade of experience in EV charging software, at S44 we are actively working towards making EV charging more attainable and equitable. In our quest for a greener future, we face a pivotal challenge: by 2030 50% of new U.S. cars will be EVs, but today 28% of chargers in leading cities don't work. Developers must build innovative software to improve and grow the charging network so EV owners can travel with confidence. By creating an open source charge station management system, CitrineOS's goal is to provide the fuel for this change. The project is NEVI compliant, globally available and open to all. CitrineOS is meant to offer a community driven, reliable CSMS that builds a foundation for market participants to innovate on top of a protocol implementation instead of re-inventing the same wheel. The project drives forward the adoption of the OCPP 2.0.1 protocol resulting in more reliable charging networks worldwide. Our hope is that anyone looking to bootstrap a modern charging network, or upgrade an existing one from OCPP 1.6 to OCPP 2.0.1, will consider CitrineOS as their starting point, and that increased community involvement will continue to improve the charging experience delivered by this open source project. Our main code repository can be found here on GitHub: https://github.com/citrineos/citrineos-core take a look at our GitHub pages site that you can find here: https://citrineos.github.io/