Campuses serve students in residence halls, faculty and staff who park all day, and visitors who stay a few hours. Shared Level 2 chargers fit all three, from overnight charging at campus housing to daytime charging in commuter and visitor lots.
Campuses mix residence halls, commuter lots, visitor parking and fleet vehicles under one facilities team. Charging has to serve each group on its own terms and get through a capital budget process that moves slowly.
Students, faculty and staff, and visitors use different lots and expect different rules.
MatchaOS sets access and rates per site, so a lot can be open to everyone or limited to authorized drivers.
Commuters park for a full day while visitors stay a few hours, and one price doesn't fit both.
Rates are set per site in MatchaOS, so commuter and visitor charging can be priced to keep spaces turning over.
Morning arrivals line up with the campus peak, and unmanaged charging can raise demand charges.
MatchaOS staggers and throttles charging around the peak to keep demand charges down.
Capital projects compete for limited funds and can take a full fiscal year to approve.
Matcha can own the equipment, so the campus puts in no or low capital, and rebates are applied before anything else.
Campus housing, workplace and public charging can each qualify for different utility and state programs.
Matcha finds the programs each lot qualifies for, applies for them and builds the incentive into the project.
Facilities and parking teams already run a lot of infrastructure, and charger support shouldn't be added to it.
Matcha monitors every charger remotely and handles maintenance, repairs and driver support for the full term.
Matcha funds, installs, owns and operates the chargers, and the university can share in the charging profits. MatchaOS handles sign-up and payment for students, staff and visitors and balances power across chargers. To own the chargers instead, buy them through Matcha and run them on MatchaOS.
Site assessment and planning
Incentive application support
Installation project management
Operations and maintenance included
Driver support
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