Decentralized Load Balancer
Firmware-embedded load balancing that distributes available power across chargers in real time, with no central controller or separate hardware required.
Embedded Power Sharing Across Chargers
The Decentralized Load Balancer runs as firmware inside each RIOD charger. Chargers monitor the site's available capacity and redistribute power among themselves in real time as vehicles connect and disconnect, without any central controller, gateway, or server. It is the per-charger intelligence layer that sits beneath Power Master in a full energy management deployment.
- Fully distributed: each charger participates in load decisions
- Real-time power rebalancing as sessions start and end
- Supports mixed AC and DC charger deployments on the same site
- Operates independently; optionally receives limits from Power Master
Grid-Aware Dynamic Allocation
The DLB firmware responds to the site's contracted grid capacity and keeps total charger draw within safe limits. When a new vehicle connects, power is redistributed from existing sessions proportionally. When a session ends, the freed capacity is reallocated immediately. The algorithm runs continuously on the charger's own processor with no cloud dependency.
- Enforces site-level maximum load threshold across all chargers
- Proportional power redistribution when sessions start or stop
- Priority levels can be configured per charger or per RFID group
- Functions without internet, fully local, on-device logic
Priority Tiers and Failsafe Operation
The DLB firmware supports configurable priority tiers per charger and per RFID group, so fleet vehicles or reserved bays always receive charge first under capacity constraints. Because all logic runs on the charger's own processor, the DLB continues to operate and balance load even when the internet is unavailable or the cloud platform is unreachable. Configuration is pushed remotely via the EVSE Operations Suite and stored locally on each charger.
- Per-charger and per-RFID-group priority levels
- Remote configuration via EVSE Operations Suite, stored locally
- Continues balancing offline: no cloud dependency for load decisions
- Graceful degradation: each charger falls back to its own local limit if peers are unreachable
Want to know more?
Talk to our engineers about how this technology fits your deployment.