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

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GE WattStation TM Connect v2.0 Release Notes
Release Information
• Product: GE WattStation TM 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.