# RIOD — EV Charging & Energy Technology

> RIOD designs, develops, and manufactures EV charging infrastructure and energy management technology. Every layer — hardware, firmware, cloud platforms, and energy systems — is built in-house.

## Company

- **Brand**: RIOD
- **Parent Company**: RIOD Logic Pvt Ltd
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Headquarters**: Kaladi / Mattoor, Kochi, Kerala, India (main office and manufacturing)
- **Software Delivery Center**: Infopark Koratty, Thrissur, Kerala, India
- **Website**: https://riod.energy
- **Store**: https://riod.energy/store
- **Contact**: hello@riod.in (general), support@riod.in (warranty), join@riodlogic.com (careers)
- **Industry**: EV Charging Infrastructure, Energy Management, IoT

## Machine-readable indexes

- **Sitemap**: https://riod.energy/sitemap.xml
- **RSS feed** (latest insights): https://riod.energy/feed.xml
- **Robots**: https://riod.energy/robots.txt

## Products

### AC EV Chargers

RIOD manufactures three families of AC EV chargers, all designed and assembled in India:

#### Powerpod Lite (Home / Light Commercial)
- **3.3 kW** — Single-phase, RFID, plug-and-play wall charger
- **7.4 kW** — Single-phase, RFID, Type 2 connector
- **22 kW / 11 kW** — Three-phase, RFID, fast AC charger
- Features: RFID authentication, plug-and-play operation, built-in protections (overcurrent, overvoltage, earth leakage, surge, short circuit)
- Use case: Homes, small offices, overnight charging

#### Powerpod Go (Commercial / Semi-Public)
- **3.3 kW (RD013)** — OCPP 1.6J, RFID, WiFi (standard), 4G LTE (optional)
- **7.4 kW (RD014)** — OCPP 1.6J, RFID, WiFi (standard), 4G LTE (optional)
- **22 kW (RD015)** — OCPP 1.6J, RFID, WiFi (standard), 4G LTE (optional)
- Features: OCPP 1.6J, remote management, WiFi standard, 4G LTE optional, RFID / plug-and-play authentication
- Use case: Commercial spaces, building associations, restaurants, parking lots

#### Powerpod City (Public / High-Throughput / Dual-Gun)
- **3.3 kW Dual (RD016)**, **7.4 kW Dual (RD017)**, **22 kW Dual (RD018)**
- Features: Dual-gun for simultaneous charging, floor-standing / pedestal mount, OCPP 1.6J, RFID / plug-and-play authentication
- Use case: Commercial and public stations with higher throughput needs

### DC Fast Chargers
- **30 kW, 60 kW, 120 kW** — Available for enquiry
- CCS2 connector, high-power DC charging for commercial and public deployments

### Energy Products

- **Power Master** — centralised energy management and load balancing at the site edge (works alongside RIOD chargers as a separate edge device).
- **Energy Management** — multi-point energy monitoring for buildings, campuses and hotel chains, with equipment-level consumption tracking and anomaly detection.
- **Infrastructure Monitoring** — remote monitoring for charging infrastructure health and uptime optimisation.

## Technology pillars (topic-cluster hubs)

Eleven strategic technology pages that anchor RIOD's writing and product depth:

1. **Custom CMS Development** — https://riod.energy/technology/custom-cms-development
2. **EV Charger CMS Migration** — https://riod.energy/technology/ev-charger-cms-migration
3. **EV Charging Operations Suite** — https://riod.energy/technology/ev-charging-operations-suite
4. **Charger Intelligence** — https://riod.energy/technology/charger-intelligence
5. **Fleet Management Suite** — https://riod.energy/technology/fleet-management-suite
6. **Workplace EV Charging** — https://riod.energy/technology/workplace-charging
7. **EV Charger Firmware Development** — https://riod.energy/technology/ev-charger-firmware-development
8. **EV Charger Hardware Development** — https://riod.energy/technology/ev-charger-hardware-development
9. **Offline EV Charging** — https://riod.energy/technology/offline-ev-charging
10. **UPI Payment Integration** — https://riod.energy/technology/upi-payment-integration
11. **EV Charging Payments** — https://riod.energy/technology/ev-charging-payments

Additional technology pages under https://riod.energy/technology:

- **RIOD Charger360** — https://riod.energy/technology/charger360 — independent multi-CMS control layer between chargers and any CSMS platform.
- **Station Vision Monitoring** — https://riod.energy/technology/charging-station-vision-monitoring — AI camera monitoring for cable-cut, ICE-ing and overstay detection.
- **Self-Resettable RCD** — automatic fault recovery for unmanned charging sites.
- **Decentralised Load Balancer** — dynamic power distribution across multiple chargers.

## Engineering & reference

- **Insights & Blogs (index)** — https://riod.energy/insights
- **RSS feed** — https://riod.energy/feed.xml
- **Engineering Library (hub)** — https://riod.energy/engineering
- **OCPP Protocol Reference** — https://riod.energy/engineering/protocols/ocpp
- **EV Charging Glossary** — https://riod.energy/glossary
- **Predictive Maintenance Research** — https://riod.energy/research/ev-charger-predictive-maintenance

The engineering site also publishes cluster articles under `/insights/<slug>` supporting each pillar (OCPP firmware stack, custom-CMS vs off-the-shelf, offline-charging authorisation and billing, UPI-Autopay for EV charging, depot charging load management, EV charger uptime analytics, and so on). The full list is enumerated in the sitemap and RSS feed above.

## Applications

- Hotels & Resorts
- Offices & Workplaces
- Malls & Theatres
- Hospitals & Healthcare
- Parking Complexes
- Residential Apartments & Gated Communities
- Educational Institutions
- Highway Charging Stations

## Differentiators

- **Full-stack OEM**: hardware, firmware, cloud software and energy systems built in-house, not assembled from third-party modules.
- **Made in India**: designed and manufactured in Kerala.
- **Protocol-native**: OCPP 1.6J implemented from the specification rather than adapted from a wrapper library.
- **Decentralised load balancing**: per-charger peer-to-peer coordination without a central controller.
- **Self-resettable protection**: RCDs auto-recover from transient faults, which matters for unmanned sites.
- **CMS-agnostic hardware**: chargers integrate with any OCPP-compliant CMS.

## Key pages

- Homepage: https://riod.energy
- EV Chargers: https://riod.energy/products/ev-chargers
- Powerpod Lite: https://riod.energy/products/ev-chargers/powerpod
- Powerpod Go: https://riod.energy/products/ev-chargers/powerpod-go
- Powerpod City: https://riod.energy/products/ev-chargers/powerpod-city
- Energy Products: https://riod.energy/products/energy
- Technology: https://riod.energy/technology
- Store: https://riod.energy/store
- Insights / Blog: https://riod.energy/insights
- Case Studies: https://riod.energy/case-studies
- About: https://riod.energy/about
- Contact: https://riod.energy/contact
- EV Charger Selection Guide: https://riod.energy/ev-charger-selection-guide
- EV Charger Price (India): https://riod.energy/ev-charger-price-india
- Chargers by Vehicle: https://riod.energy/ev-chargers-for
- Future of EV Energy (Strategic Briefing): https://riod.energy/future-of-ev-energy

## Compliance & standards

- OCPP 1.6J supported; OCPP 2.0.1 on the software roadmap
- IEC 61851 aligned
- IS 17017 (Indian Standard for EV charging)
- IP54 / IP65 enclosures (model dependent)
- Type 2 (IEC 62196) connectors for AC
- CCS2 connectors for DC
- Regional deployments align with NEVI port-level uptime reporting (23 CFR sec 680) for US and AFIR Article 5 price-transparency for EU where scoped per engagement.

## Social & press

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rilotenergy
- GitHub: https://github.com/RiodTeam