An open ICT solution to integrate multi-modular battery systems on buildings

Abstract

The electrification of transport, has placed a great deal of attention into electrical energy storage. Several battery technologies exist, but all of them are based on banks of modules that connected together add up the voltage of the current needed for each application. The chemical processes that occur within the modules may condition the life of the battery. This points to the direction of management systems that can control how the batteries are used. In this work we suggest an IoT platform that can manage the control of multi-modular battery banks and that can be accessible for the many (MIT license). The platform has been proven to be sound, and it gives multiple possibilities to users and developers. A use case has been shown on this paper in which the platform allows the management of a real battery bank providing real data and applying an intelligent algorithm that forecasts the charging process and controls that the variables are within acceptable ranges.

Keywords

• Buildings
• Energy
• Off-grid
• Energy storage
• IoT
• Battery bank