Intelligent EV Charging. Connected Energy.
CERO unifies enterprise-grade Charging Station Management, Smart Charging, Managed Charging, and AI-powered energy intelligence in one connected platform — so every charger you operate becomes a grid-aware, revenue-ready energy asset.
The charging business has changed. Most charging software hasn’t.
A Charging Station Management System was designed to answer a simple question: are my chargers online, and who is paying for the energy? For the first generation of EV infrastructure, that was enough. It isn’t anymore. Six forces are converging on every charging operator at once:
EV adoption is compounding
Charging demand that once grew by sites now grows by cities. Software built to supervise dozens of chargers strains at thousands — and the operators winning new tenders are the ones who can prove they scale.
Electricity is your largest variable cost
Demand charges, time-of-use tariffs, and volatile wholesale prices mean when you charge matters as much as how much. Software that treats every kilowatt-hour as equal leaves margin on the table every day.
Renewables changed the shape of supply
Solar and wind make clean energy abundant at some hours and scarce at others. Charging that can’t follow renewable generation can’t capture its economics — or its carbon benefits.
Fleets electrify in waves, not vehicles
A depot adding forty electric trucks doesn’t need forty chargers’ worth of grid capacity — if charging is orchestrated. Without orchestration, electrification stalls on interconnection costs.
The grid has real limits
Distribution networks were never sized for clustered, high-power charging. Utilities and DISCOMs increasingly reward flexible load — and constrain inflexible load.
Drivers expect consumer-grade experiences
Reliable sessions, transparent pricing, instant payments, and live availability are table stakes. Every failed session is churn.
Traditional charger management software observes these forces. It cannot act on them. Acting on them requires a platform that understands energy — tariffs, forecasts, grid signals, renewable availability — and can optimize every charging session against all of them, automatically.
The question is no longer “Can I manage my chargers?” It is “Can my charging infrastructure manage energy?”
Run your entire charging business from one console.
CERO CSMS is an enterprise-grade Charging Station Management System that unifies every operational function of an EV charging network — from the moment a charger ships from the factory to the moment a customer’s invoice is settled. Built cloud-native and OCPP-compliant, it manages public networks, fleet depots, workplace charging, and destination charging from a single, multi-tenant platform.
Where legacy EV charging software stitches together separate tools for monitoring, payments, and customer management, CERO CSMS is one system with one data model. Operations teams see the same truth as finance teams, and every charger, user, and transaction is accounted for — in real time. At ten chargers, a spreadsheet hides process gaps; at a thousand, every gap becomes a daily cost. CERO CSMS closes them structurally — one workflow, one audit trail, one console.
The challenges it solves. Commissioning that takes days per site. Faults discovered by frustrated customers instead of by the platform. Prices that can’t keep up with energy costs. Settlements that don’t reconcile. And no clean way to run multiple brands, franchise partners, or city contracts on shared infrastructure. CERO CSMS was engineered against exactly this list — not as modules bolted together, but as one operating system for the charging business.
Zero-touch commissioning with configuration templates; a new site goes live in hours, not weeks.
Live status of every connector, session, and site with map and list views.
Start, stop, reset, and configure remotely; guided fault workflows cut truck rolls.
Staged, scheduled over-the-air updates across mixed-vendor fleets.
Bookable connectors with grace periods and no-show handling.
Per-kWh, per-minute, session-fee, time-of-use, and site-specific tariffs; reprice network-wide in minutes.
Driver accounts, corporate groups, RFID lifecycle management, and per-site access policies.
Prepaid wallets, UPI and card payments, automatic top-ups.
Automated invoicing, settlements, and reconciliation your finance team can audit.
Recurring plans for commuters, fleets, and workplace programs.
Multiple operators, franchisees, or brands on one deployment with isolated data.
OCPI based Peer to Peer and Hub-Spoke roamimg services
- Faster site commissioning
- Higher charger uptime
- Reduced support tickets
- Clean financial reconciliation
- One platform for every brand
Smart Charging: Every session optimized. Automatically.
Traditional charging delivers maximum power to every vehicle from plug-in to stop. Simple — and wasteful. It creates artificial demand peaks, ignores tariff windows, overloads site capacity, and forces infrastructure upgrades that better software would avoid. Smart Charging replaces “always maximum” with “always optimal”: CERO continuously weighs vehicle needs, departure times, site power limits, electricity tariffs, and renewable availability — then shapes every session accordingly, with no manual intervention.
Consider a commercial site with a 200 kW connection and eight fast chargers. Uncontrolled, four simultaneous sessions pin the site at its limit and trigger demand charges. With Smart Charging, the same site serves all eight connectors — the vehicle leaving in twenty minutes gets priority; the one parked overnight charges through the cheap tariff window. Nothing about the hardware changed. Everything about the economics did.
The site never exceeds its supply limit; power is redistributed among active sessions in real time.
Connectors on shared circuits negotiate power intelligently instead of tripping breakers.
Shave the demand peaks that drive capacity charges.
Per-session power curves aligned to vehicle needs and departure times.
Charge when energy is cheapest and cleanest; finish by the time the driver needs.
Depot-level orchestration that guarantees every route-critical vehicle is ready.
Sessions automatically follow tariff windows.
Charging follows solar and wind availability to cut both cost and carbon.
The business result: lower energy bills without touching the customer experience, more vehicles served per kilowatt of installed capacity, and deferred or eliminated grid-connection upgrades — often the single largest avoided cost in a network’s business plan. For fleets, orchestrated depot charging can cut the required grid connection by half or more compared to uncontrolled charging, while still guaranteeing every vehicle leaves ready.
| Traditional Charging | CERO Smart Charging | |
|---|---|---|
| Power delivery | Maximum, always | ✓Optimized per session |
| Site capacity | Hard limit, breakers trip | ✓Actively balanced in real time |
| Energy cost | Whatever the tariff says | ✓Shifted to cheapest, cleanest windows |
| Demand peaks | Uncontrolled | ✓Shaped and shaved |
| Fleet readiness | First-come, first-served | ✓Guaranteed by departure time |
| Infrastructure | Upgrade to grow | ✓Optimize to grow |
— Mobile App
Mobile apps: consumer-grade for drivers.
Everything a driver needs in three taps: live availability on a map, transparent pricing before plugging in, session start/stop by QR, RFID, or app, real-time status with notifications, wallet and UPI payments, history, and GST invoices on demand. Reservations and favorites make daily charging routine.
APIs & developer platform.
CERO is API-first: every capability in the console — starting sessions, setting tariffs, reading telemetry, managing users — is available as a documented REST API, because our own applications are built on the same interfaces we publish. The result is an ecosystem, not a silo: OEMs embed charging into vehicle apps, system integrators deliver turnkey deployments, energy companies weave charging data into trading and forecasting systems.
POST /v1/sessions/start
{
"charger_id": "CH-0142",
"connector": 1,
"user": "usr_8f3a",
"max_cost": 500
}
// 201 Created — webhook "session.started" fired
Predictable resources, filtering, and pagination across the entire platform.
Session, charger, payment, and alert events pushed in real time — no polling.
Interactive references, sandbox environments, versioned changelogs.
OAuth 2.0, scoped API keys, per-integration rate limits, full audit visibility.
Built like the cloud platforms you already trust.
CERO is cloud-native, composed of microservices that scale independently — session management scales with charging demand, analytics scales with data, and neither can destabilize the other. High availability is architectural: redundant services, self-healing infrastructure, zero-downtime deployments. Multi-tenancy isolates every operator, brand, and partner on shared infrastructure with dedicated data boundaries. Scalability is proven from ten chargers to national networks. Security wraps every layer, from charger handshake to API call. For technology leaders, the takeaway is simple: CERO behaves like the enterprise cloud platforms you already run your business on — because it is built the same way.
Twelve reasons operators standardize on CERO.
Optimization is the core, not an add-on.
The only path from cost center to energy asset.
Thousands of chargers, millions of sessions, one platform.
OCPP, OCPI, OpenADR — zero lock-in.
Elastic, resilient, continuously delivered.
V2G, VPP, and market participation on the roadmap.
Encryption, RBAC, SSO, audit trails throughout.
Brands, franchisees, and partners on one deployment.
Real-time control loops measured in seconds.
Everything the platform does, your systems can do.
Charging operations and energy intelligence, natively integrated.
Tariffs, renewables, storage, and grid signals in every decision.
One platform. Every charging business.
Reliability, roaming, and unit economics that survive scale.
Depot orchestration, guaranteed readiness, lowest cost per electric kilometer.
Tenant charging that fits the building’s energy strategy.
Charging that increases dwell time and repeat visits, managed hands-free.
White-label and API-level foundations for your own offerings.