Battery-Monitoring System Boosts Measurement Accuracy
Battery packs are an integral element in every electric-vehicle and robotic system, and their optimum performance can be the difference between safe operation and catastrophic thermal runaway. Battery-management systems from Optimized Battery Systems perform complete control at the cell and pack level of critical parameters, enabling higher measurement accuracy as well as faster and more reliable internal communication between components.
The systems come with embedded software that has an application layer with a large variety of histograms. The histograms are configurable via an interface that doesn't affect functional-safety features. The software updates are encrypted to ensure safe configuration.
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Alix 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.
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