GE Industrial Solutions WattStation Connect v2.0 Release Notes User Manual

GE WattStationTM Connect v2.0 Release Notes

Release Information

• Product: GE WattStationTM Connect

• Release Number: v2.0

• Release Date: January 31, 2013

New Features

•Pay By Time

A new pricing model, ‘Pay by Time’ is introduced with this release. It allows you to offer a new pricing option to your drivers - where you enter a fixed price and a maximum charge duration for each charging transaction. This not only offers the benefits of the ‘Pay as you Charge’ feature, but also establishes an upper limit on how long a vehicle will charge at your WattStation.

• New pricing calculator

The new pricing calculator in WattStation Connect now bills customers for the length of time a vehicle draws charge at a WattStation, or charging time, instead of billing customers for the length of time a vehicle was connected to the WattStation.

Additionally, charging time is not rounded up to the next hour as before — it now increments every 5 minutes. The 1 hour minimum charging time is also eliminated with this release. A $1.00 minimum billing amount replaces the 1 hour minimum charging time. This affects the ‘Pay As You Charge’ and ‘Pay By Time’ pricing models. This does not affect the ‘Flat Rate’ pricing model.

• Language Support

WattStation Connect is now available Canadian French.

• Support for iPhone 5.

WattStation Connect now offers support for iPhone 5.

Improved features

• Better station availability.

Stations no longer drop off the network after deploying SP1.

• Simplified driver payments in pricing models

Drivers are only billed for the time they are physically charging their vehicle at a WattStation. Eliminated the hold of Driver funds during a charging session.

• Improved location processing.

WattStation Connect automatically corrects addresses for Business Headquarter locations entered in the Settings module.

•Station Names displayed

The Dashboard and Reports modules now display Station Names as set by the Owner instead of Station Serial Numbers.

• Improved Daily Fleet Summary Notifications

You now get a summary of daily activity at all your WattStations, including types of transactions and total revenues, in an easy-to-read report via email.

• Access Cards Driver link provided

The Access Cards module now offers a direct link to a GE approved software device driver which you must install in order to use the Enrollment Reader to scan Access Cards. Click the ‘Access Card Driver’ link provided on the Access Cards page.

Fixed Issues

• Eliminated user management issues

There is greater security and stability in the features that owners use to maintain their WattStation Connect accounts.

Known Issues

• When you click ‘Help’ on WattStation Connect using IE 8 (or earlier versions), you get a message ‘A page number is out of range’ before the PDF is launched. This is a known Adobe bug. Click Ok to bypass this message and open the WattStation Connect Owner’s Guide.

• When you launch WattStation Connect using Internet Explorer 8 (or earlier versions), you get a message about a slow running script. Select No on the error message to proceed. To work around this problem, you need to fix the time-out value. To do so, visit Microsoft Support and select ‘Fix it for me’ or ‘Let me fix it myself’.

Documentation

•The WattStation Connect User’s Guide for the Owner is available at the GE

Industrial Solutions Library.

Customer Support

• Email: wattstation.support@ge.com

• Phone: 1-855-4GE-EVSE or 1-855-443-3873