In a car park, the charger is not the biggest cost. Getting power and data to every space is: trenching, cable trays, communications cabling, a network cabinet, installer hours. In large-scale charging projects, the site work often weighs as much as the equipment, or more.
Wallare was designed to tackle that problem at product level. These are the four engineering decisions behind its numbers.
1. One board instead of a box of modules
A conventional charger combines modules from several suppliers: meter, communications module, protection, contactor. They are wired by hand inside the enclosure, with a connector at every joint.
In Wallare, metering, relay, control pilot and ISO 15118 functions, and control logic sit on a single board, fixed to the enclosure and designed for automated assembly. Even the socket contacts are soldered to the board. The whole product is four sub-assemblies.
Fewer parts mean fewer internal cables, fewer failure points and a cost that falls with volume.
2. A wireless mesh instead of data cabling
Every Wallare point is both a charger and a repeater in a wireless mesh. Points relay data to each other up to a single gateway per car park, which combines Ethernet and 4G/5G into one connection to the management system.
The mesh is built for dense underground car parks where mobile coverage does not reach. No data cabling, no communications cabinet. To expand, you add a point and configure it: from 10 to 200 spaces without repeating site work or commissioning.
That is the main reason for the 50% reduction in installation material and time.
3. Power sharing, in the hardware
The gateway reads consumption and shares the available power across all points in real time, based on each vehicle’s departure time and the contracted capacity. Charging shifts to off-peak hours without compromising departures.
Because this logic runs in the equipment itself, it does not depend on the cloud or on an internet connection: if the link to the server drops, the car park keeps charging within its limits.
4. Service designed to keep the space in use
In AC charging nobody is paid for availability: a faulty point still “meets” the contract and the driver goes without a charge. So we designed maintenance in from day one:
- The cover comes off in one piece with the electronics; the base, with the supply and protections, stays on the wall.
- We ship a configured unit within 24 hours. The customer’s own staff fit it: 4 screws, 1 board, 0 cables.
- The faulty unit comes back to our workshop in the same packaging for diagnosis and repair.
- Each point is configured in under 5 minutes from a browser, with OTA updates, signed firmware and TLS 1.2+.
What it adds up to
Together, these decisions deliver 35% lower cost per electrified space than a conventional installation, with the same protection components and the same standards: CE, IEC 61851, IEC 62196, IEC 62955 and ISO 15118-2.
The range
- Wallare Park: wall-mounted, 7.4 kW or 22 kW, socket or tethered cable. Underground and covered car parks.
- Wallare Pole: two points on one post, for surface car parks.
- Wallare Schuko: 3.7 kW for motorbikes and light vehicles.
- Wallare Gateway: one per site.
How do they fit together in a real project? See Wallare architectures.
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