Cloud Battery Management System Scheduling via Wireless Monitoring
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing battery management systems are costly, limited in analytics, and unable to uniquely identify batteries, leading to inefficiencies in selecting ready batteries and assessing charger and battery faults, especially in large fleets.
Innovation Solution
A cloud-based battery management system that uses wireless battery chargers and monitors to remotely collect and process charging and status data, ranking batteries for use based on their charging history and type, and providing alerts for faults, eliminating the need for additional hardware and enabling more sophisticated decision-making.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If traditional battery management systems with centralized controllers and sensors are deployed, then battery tracking and selection capability is improved, but system cost and hardware complexity increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the battery management functionality from the physical battery rack location and relocates it to a remote cloud server. The centralized controller and sensor data processing are moved online, allowing the physical system to retain only essential components (chargers, basic sensors) while intelligent management occurs remotely via wireless communication, dramatically reducing on-site hardware complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The cloud-based server provides universal management capabilities that can serve multiple battery racks and chargers simultaneously. A single remote system can track, monitor, and manage batteries across an entire fleet, replacing the need for dedicated centralized controllers at each rack location, thereby reducing overall system hardware complexity
2Device complexity
If cloud-based battery management system is implemented, then system cost is reduced, but real-time monitoring capability may be compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces wireless communication modules as intermediaries between the chargers/batteries and the remote cloud server. These modules enable real-time data transmission without requiring complex wired connections or local processing hardware, achieving both cost reduction and maintained monitoring capability through standardized wireless protocols
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary data collection and processing at the charger level using existing charger controllers, then transmits processed data to the cloud. This preliminary action at the source reduces the data transmission burden and ensures monitoring capability is maintained even with remote cloud processing, while keeping local hardware requirements minimal
3Productivity
If batteries are monitored and tracked with unique identification, then battery selection efficiency is improved, but system implementation complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses wireless communication to create a digital copy or representation of battery status and identification data in the cloud server. Instead of physical tags or complex identification hardware on each battery, the system creates and manages digital replicas of battery information, enabling unique identification and tracking through software rather than additional physical components
Solution Approach 2:
The chargers and battery monitors use their existing identification capabilities to automatically provide unique battery identification data to the cloud system. Each charger/battery pair self-identifies through its existing controller and communicates this information wirelessly, eliminating the need for separate identification hardware or manual tracking systems
Data Source
AI summary
A battery management system for batteries at a geographical location may include wireless battery chargers at the geographical location for charging the batteries and wireless battery monitors at the geographical location and carried by associated ones of the batteries. The battery management system may also include a battery management cloud server for communicating with the wireless battery chargers and the wireless battery monitors to remotely collect battery charging status data from the wireless battery chargers based upon charging of the batteries and to remotely collect battery status data for the batteries from the wireless battery monitors. The battery management cloud server may also remotely process the battery and charger status data to schedule the batteries for use based upon the battery and charger status data.