The invention relates to a battery
management system (20) for monitoring the operation of a battery (10) formed by electrically interconnected battery cells (12), comprising a plurality of
cell monitoring units (30), each designed to generate a data packet relating to an operating state of an assigned
battery cell (12), and a control device unit (40), the control device unit (40) is designed to evaluate the data packets generated by the
cell monitoring unit (30), and wherein the
cell monitoring unit (30) and the control device unit (40) are each provided with a radio (36, 46) and are designed to carry out a
data transmission by means of the radio (36, 46), data packets generated by the cell monitoring unit (30) are transmitted from the cell monitoring unit (30) to the control device unit (40) by means of the
data transmission. In order to achieve a particularly reliable and rapid transmission of data packets, the invention proposes that, for at least one of the cell monitoring units (30), a data packet generated by the cell monitoring unit (30) is transmitted to another of the cell monitoring units (30) in a first step, and in a subsequent second step, transmitting the data packet from the cell monitoring unit (30) in question to the control device unit (40). The invention also relates to a corresponding method for monitoring the operation of a battery (10).