Battery Management systems (BMS) for increasing battery life time

Reliability and costs of an energy storage system are two very important parameters for uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) and other battery applications. The increasing of battery life and the prediction of battery failure are therefore two important features of a battery management system (BMS). A couple of other helpful features can be implemented in a BMS. In the case of advanced batteries, special features like thermal management (i.e. high temperature batteries) or safety management (i.e. lithium batteries) is necessary. Therefore the BMS must be optimized to the battery type and the application. In smaller systems the BMS is connected very closely to the battery or inside the battery and an operation without the BMS is not possible.