Optimizing charging costs through supervision: a strategic challenge for companies

Faced with the boom in electric vehicles, companies are investing massively in recharging infrastructures. But once the charging points have been installed, a major challenge remains: controlling the costs associated with their use, maintenance and management. In this context charging station supervision becomes an essential lever. Much more than a simple monitoring tool, it enables efficient management of operations, optimizing electrical charging and reducing long-term expenditure. For fleet managers, property managers or any company equipped with charging stations, adopting an intelligent approach to supervision means turning recharging into an economic asset.

Why supervision is essential for optimizing charging costs

Installing charging stations isn't enough: without supervision, costs can quickly soar. So it's crucial for companies to rely on an intelligent system to monitor, analyze and control their recharging infrastructure.

Real-time vision, the first lever for savings

One of the great advantages of supervision is its ability to provide a real-time view of the status of charging stations and charging sessions. Thanks to this visibility :

• Malfunctions are detected immediately, avoiding prolonged or costly downtime.
• Terminal availability is maximized, improving the user experience and equipment profitability.
• Maintenance can be planned more effectively, reducing the need for urgent, and often more costly, interventions.

A well-managed supervision platform enables you to move from a corrective maintenance approach to a proactive strategy, with automated alerts, performance monitoring and a significant reduction in operating costs.

Anticipate consumption peaks to reduce energy bills

Electric vehicle recharging is energy-intensive, especially when it is not intelligently controlled. Supervision makes it possible to analyze periods of high demand andadapt the power delivered accordingly. Result:

• Fewer consumption peaks, which are often billed more expensively by electricity suppliers.
• Better load distribution, especially on multi-pin sites, to avoid electrical overloads.
• The ability to integrate Smart Charging scenarios (deferred charging, prioritization of vehicles according to use, etc.).

Thanks to these features, companies can expect to reduce their energy bills by up to 20%, while improving the overall efficiency of their recharging network.

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The hidden costs of charging stations: how supervision reveals and corrects them

Behind a recharging infrastructure, several often invisible sources of cost can weigh heavily on a company's budget. Here, supervision acts as a permanent audit tool, capable of highlighting superfluous expenditure and rapidly remedying it.

Preventive maintenance: fewer breakdowns, greater savings

In the absence of supervision, maintenance is based on a reactive approach: a problem occurs, a team intervenes, often too late. This model generates significant downtime, which reduces infrastructure productivity. But it also results in high travel costs for on-site interventions, and sometimes premature wear and tear on equipment, due to the lack of warning at the first signs of failure.

With supervision, we switch to a preventive approach. The system detects anomalies upstream, enables remote diagnosis and directs technicians with precision. The result: fewer emergency interventions, lower maintenance costs and longer equipment life- up to 30% in some cases.

Performance monitoring: identify under- or over-used terminals

Not all bollards in a park are used in the same way. Some may be saturated at certain times, while others are virtually inactive. Supervision makes it possible to track the number of sessions per terminal, the times of peak use and the average duration of each charge.

Thanks to this data, companies can :

• Rebalance the distribution of vehicles to avoid queuing or congestion.
• Redeploy under-utilized kiosks to sites with higher demand.
• Plan future installations more effectively.

This type of detailed analysis enables better value to be placed on the initial investment, by ensuring optimum utilization of each terminal.

Smart Charging and tariff optimization: taking advantage of energy intelligence

Supervision does more than just monitor terminal operation. It becomes a genuine energy optimization tool, capable of integrating with energy purchasing policies and supporting the transition to more intelligent usage.

Reduce costs with Smart Charging

Smart Charging involves adapting the power and timing of charging according to various parameters: grid availability, cost of electricity, vehicle priority, etc. Thanks to supervision, it is possible to :

• Delay recharging outside peak hours to benefit from lower rates.
• Prioritize loading for certain critical vehicles (utilities, logistics, etc.).
• Reduce power temporarily to avoid exceeding contractual thresholds with the electricity supplier.

These automatic adjustments enable companies to reduce their electricity bills by up to 30% in the most advanced configurations, while ensuring that vehicles are available when they are needed.

Dynamic pricing and multi-user management

For companies operating a network of charging stations accessible to several types of user (employees, customers, service providers, etc.), supervision enables differentiated pricing based on user profile, hours of use and recharge volume consumed.

This model allows :

• Partial or total recovery of energy costs.
• Better regulation of demand (encouraging off-peak charging, for example).
• Enhancing the value of the recharging service as a profit center, not just a cost center.

Integrating supervision into pricing strategies transforms the charging station into an economic management tool, directly aligned with the company's profitability objectives.

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Integration with management systems and productivity gains

To maximize the benefits of supervision, it is essential that it is not a stand-alone tool, but integrated with the company's existing systems. This interconnection facilitates overall business management, strengthens strategic analysis, and enhances operational efficiency.

Connection to fleet and energy management software

Companies with electric fleets benefit fully from supervision interconnected with their business tools:

• Fleet management: track recharged vehicles, plan charging times according to routes, prioritize critical vehicles.
• Energy Management System (EMS): pooling of consumption data (buildings, terminals, equipment) for a unified energy vision.
• Billing system: automated distribution of charging costs by user, vehicle or department.

These connections help to reduce manual tasks, a source of errors and wasted time. It also helps to align energy use with overall performance objectives, and to better justify IRVE investments in carbon footprints and CSR audits.

Automated reporting and key indicators

A good supervision platform also offers customized reporting tools, which automatically generate dashboards and relevant KPIs for :

• Track costs in real time.
• Identify consumption drifts or anomalies.
• Communicate with internal and external stakeholders (finance department, CSR team, local authorities, etc.).

By transforming technical data into usable indicators, supervision enables strategic management of the charging network, far beyond simple operational management.

Focus on interoperability, ergonomics... and a committed partner

An effective supervision solution must meet a number of requirements:

• Multi-vendor capability, thanks to the OCPP protocol, for easy integration of all types of terminal.
• Provide a clear, intuitive interface, with easy-to-read dashboards accessible online.
• Be connected in real time, with secure cloud access secure cloud access.
• Offer advanced advanced functionalities smart charging, customized reporting, user management, automatic alerts...
• Easily integrate with your in-house tools (CMMS, fleet management, invoicing, CSR reporting).

But beyond the software, choosing the right partner is essential. That's where Bump makes the difference.

👉 With our takeover, supervision and maintenance offer, we go far beyond a simple platform:

• Complete audit of your fleet (even multi-vendor)
• Takeover of your existing terminals: reconfigure, update or replace if necessary
• Integration into our supervision portal, used daily by our customers
• Preventive and corrective maintenance, with target availability of > 95%.
• Clear, actionable reporting: usage data, alerts, energy monitoring

Our aim: to make your terminal network more reliable, more intelligent, and more profitable.

You keep your infrastructure, we take over its technical management. Result: fewer incidents, lower costs, higher availability.

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