Columbus-based Juice Technologies is helping the University of Toledo with an extensive energy audit and in managing the evolution of the institution as one that will, in the future, leave no "carbon footprint." But the company sees a future in which it is also leader in management of plug-in vehicle charging and energy management technologies. Developed under the Plug Smart brand, products will include cordset devices that can be carried in a car's trunk to allow charging anywhere. Meanwhile, the company is advancing charging station technology that can communicate directly with a utility company to authenticate the vehicle and owner and prototypes of a networkable energy management system to let homes and businesses tie into a utility company's advanced meter infrastructure.