Video: The Future of Battery Monitoring for Energy Storage
In this Video QuickChat, sponsored by Texas Instruments, Alix Paultre, Editor at Large for Electronic Design, sits down with Brian Burk, Senior Product Manager for Texas Instruments, to discuss the growing importance of energy storage.
The conversation ranges from grid-scale batteries and renewable-power balancing to electric vehicles and backup systems. Brian Burk explains that intermittent solar and wind generation creates demand gaps that storage can address, while EV batteries may eventually provide supplemental grid or facility power.
Alix and Brian center their conversation around battery-management systems, which improve performance, extend battery life, and help maintain safety under demanding charging and operating conditions.
Brian describes Texas Instruments’ new 26-series-cell battery monitor, designed to reduce system cost and component count as battery packs move toward higher voltages and more cells. He highlights electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), comparing it to an EKG because it provides insight into a cell’s internal condition beyond external voltage and temperature measurements. He also points out that EIS can support core-temperature sensing, charging decisions, and early safety interventions.
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To learn more about Texas Instruments' solutions, please visit the links below:
TI’s Battery Management Solutions
TI's Energy Storage Systems Solutions
[Technical Article] Enabling the Next Phase of Battery Intelligence
About the Author
Alix PaultreAlix Paultre
Editor-at-Large, Electronic Design
An Army veteran, Alix Paultre was a signals intelligence soldier on the East/West German border in the early ‘80s, and eventually wound up helping launch and run a publication on consumer electronics for the US military stationed in Europe. Alix first began in this industry in 1998 at Electronic Products magazine, and since then has worked for a variety of publications in the embedded electronic engineering space. Alix currently lives in Wiesbaden, Germany.
Also check out his YouTube watch-collecting channel, Talking Timepieces.