iBattMan aims to design an innovative, modular, and scalable BMS for a wide range of vehicles, from small passenger cars to e-buses and electric trucks, with improved performance, connectivity, security, and reliability to enhance battery performance and reduce total cost of ownership in EV applications and smart battery use for grid support and in 2nd life applications, based on a holistic design of an interoperable architecture, and supported by a suite of advanced sensors and edge- and cloud-computational resources.
The project is:
i) developing new technologies in the field of advanced sensors, communication, edge- and cloud computing, and bi-directional charging, which combined allow to create a new concept of standardized, modular and scalable BMS for electromobility and smart cities applications, enabling improved performance, autonomy, safety, levelized cost of storage (LCoS) of EVs, and grid services to support a higher penetration of renewable energy on the grid and the development of Smart Cities and Net Zero Building concepts;
ii) creating new technologies and processes, to facilitate EV battery packs reuse in second life applications and further recycling at its end-of-life (EoL), contributing to a circular and integrated supply chain in the EU for the fabrication of battery packs, as well as effective and sustainable models for urban electromobility;
iii) demonstrating the effectiveness of the solution in relevant use cases for electromobility and 2nd life storage, and providing a blueprint for stakeholders to customize the technologies developed in iBattMan for each case.
To achieve these ambitious targets, iBattMan combines innovative technologies in electrochemistry, advanced modeling, sensors, electronics, communications, edge and cloud computing, the Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning (AI/ML).
