Measurement of Electrical Conditions of Rechargeable Batteries

Abstract

Batteries are used in a wide area, from mobile phones to electric vehicles. Batteries are used in electric cars, satellites and space systems, communications systems, defense systems, renewable energy sources, and many different application areas. Condition monitoring of batteries and storing measurement data are very important issues. Manufacturers, researchers, maintenance services, and so on use special software and database for viewing and saving measurement data. It is important to measure the data with high accuracy, view with graphs, and save these data systematically. In this study, software is developed and a database is designed to monitor the battery conditions online. This software is developed in C# programming language, and SQL Server is used as database. Current, voltage, resistance, power, temperature of the battery, and ambient temperature are measurement values. Some battery experiments take very long time and someone should wait near the test system to prevent dangers such as explosion and fire. A wide variety of electrical battery experiments can be done without waiting next to the test system with the proposed software and database.