EV Charging Management System (CSMS)

A CSMS — charging station management system — is the software that connects to your EV chargers over OCPP and lets you monitor them, authorise drivers, set tariffs, bill sessions, balance load across a site, and push firmware. It's the control layer that turns a set of chargers into a managed network. The Tech OVN CSMS is one such platform, built for OCPP 1.6J and 2.0.1 chargers and available white-label. 'CPMS' (charge point management system) means the same thing.

OCPP (Open Charge Point Protocol) is the language between a charger and its CSMS — it's how the platform monitors and controls the hardware. OCPI (Open Charge Point Interface) connects one network to another for roaming, so a driver signed up with one operator can charge on another's network. Tech OVN chargers speak OCPP 1.6J and 2.0.1; OCPI roaming is on the CSMS roadmap.

The CSMS is in active development, with early-access onboarding for selected partners and sites. The charger hardware and the analytics layer of the Energy Intelligence Platform are available now; the full management, authorisation, smart-charging, and billing modules are rolling out through early access. Talk to us about joining the programme.

Yes. Every Tech OVN charger is OCPP 1.6J and OCPP 2.0.1 compliant, so you can run it on the Tech OVN CSMS or connect it to any CPO platform or backend you already use. You are never locked in — the hardware stays open either way.

Yes. The platform is designed to run under your own brand — your logo, your driver app, your customer experience — so CPOs, resellers, and property operators can offer a fully branded charging service without building software from scratch.

OCPP 1.6J and OCPP 2.0.1 — the same open protocols our chargers ship with. This keeps the platform interoperable with a wide range of charge-point hardware, not only Tech OVN's.

Because it speaks standard OCPP, the CSMS is built to manage any OCPP-compliant charger, not just Tech OVN hardware — useful for mixed estates and for operators migrating existing sites onto one platform.

You can deploy Tech OVN OCPP chargers today and connect them to your existing backend, and use the Energy Intelligence Platform for per-charger energy analytics, utilisation, and cost allocation. As CSMS modules ship, your existing chargers move onto them with no hardware change.