What do we expect from a Battery Management System?

Let’s discuss first, what we expect from a battery monitoring system(BMS). Yes, it’s for ensuring the battery backup system's health. Thanks to being a permanent system every BMS provides reduced cost & time of maintenance and detects the defective battery due to the manufacturing fault.

The obvious reason for using a BMS is because of the necessity to be protected the major costs of the investment. However, another important reason is getting the maximum efficiency from the system. Due to the environmental crisis, this reason may be more important than the other. Therefore, the system owner needs to be getting maximum efficiency from the battery by using the batteries to their last limits.

So, one can say regard to the environmental crisis, the batteries have to use for just mandatory needs on the system, and to ensure this the BMS has to be energy-efficient.

Another thing needs to be said, to ensure the health of the battery backup system constantly, the BMS has to be providing reliable data and getting this in real-time.

In conclusion, the first important point of a BMS is getting reliable data, and the second is to be energy-efficient.

Here are some key differences between wireless and wired solutions for battery monitoring systems:

Wireless solutions:

• More susceptible to interference or signal degradation, which can affect the accuracy and reliability of the monitoring data
• Require more frequent battery replacement for the sensors, as they rely on battery power
• Can be more convenient to install and maintain, as there are no wires to run or connect
• May offer more flexibility in terms of sensor placement, as sensors can be placed anywhere within range of the wireless network

Wired solutions:

• More reliable, as the wired connection is less susceptible to interference or signal degradation
• More accurate, as the data is transmitted directly from the sensor to the control unit with no intermediate steps
• Can be more difficult to install and maintain, as wires must be run and connected between the sensors and the control unit
• May offer less flexibility in terms of sensor placement, as the sensors must be located near the control unit or a wired connection

Conclusion

Overall, the choice between a wireless or wired solution for a battery monitoring system will depend on the specific needs and requirements of the application. Factors to consider may include the distance between the sensors and the control unit, the accuracy and reliability of the monitoring data, and the ease of installation and maintenance.

Still, other considerations are the more frequent battery replacement due to the wireless solutions needing more power from the batteries. And, more possible unreliable data getting from the BMS can be allowed to take the wrong/not on-time decisions about the system.

In the end, wired solutions are more reliable and energy-efficient than wireless solutions. The concerns about the wired solutions that they are may be more complex installation and configuration processes.

How Alpais BMS resolves the concerns about the wired solutions?

The main pain about the installation of a wired BMS is the configuration and the installation. Because most of the BMSes in the market require manual addressing for modules/sensors. It needs to be done by pushing a button on them for a few seconds for each module to obtain its ID addresses. Furthermore, most of the time the systems include hundreds or even thousands of batteries. Which is need a lot of time and man-work, and obviously it costs a lot.

Alpais BMS presents its “AUTOMATIC ADDRESSING” feature just there. There is no need to touch the modules after connecting the cables. As you can see below figures; with the Installation Mode, the modules obtain their ID addresses automatically.

Final conclusion is with an automatic addressing feature a wired solution can be a cure for a reliable, energy-efficient, and easy-to-maintain for battery system.

About ALPAIS

ALPAIS's mission is to deliver the right product to the right customer, in the right way. It is the pioneer of the sector considering the quality and innovation criteria in Battery Management Systems. ALPAIS offers comprehensive battery management systems to its valuable solution partners in a wide variety of industries and applications around the world such as power stations, wind turbines, data centers, defense industry, marine and many more. In addition to the existing battery management systems, ALPAIS continues to develop and innovate its products in its own R&D center in line with customer demands.