The Solution
An EV Charging Solution for The Modern Urban Landscape
Nobuyuki Ura, the founder of Your Stand, knows the challenges firsthand. Despite being an early adopter of EVs, he too lived in an apartment building that was not set up to support a charging station. Rather than face the inconvenience of frequent and lengthy trips to the car dealership, he decided to build one himself.
The result was Your Stand, a company created to help address these problems and help unlock EV adoption. Founded in 2018, the company developed a proprietary IoT system that allows users to reserve and pay for EV chargers, while also introducing and operating their own charging stations in locations (such as condos or office buildings) that have often been overlooked by other EV solution providers.
They accomplished this by developing the Your Stand App, a system that allows users to reserve and operate a charging station from their smartphone, and track their usage for billing purposes. Alongside the app, the company has also installed chargers in many condominium and office buildings in an effort to promote the spread of EVs by making them more accessible to the masses.
In addition to installing EV chargers and the app, Your Stand provides one-stop services, including on-site surveys for installation, support for subsidy applications, and proposals to condominium management associations or management companies when residents make inquiries.
“The development took three to four months,” said Ura. “After creating several prototypes, we landed on a design that uses a single board computer (Raspberry Pi) and introduced Soracom connectivity during the migration.”