PowerShield 8 Lithium Battery Monitoring Solutions

Gain full visibility of your lithium battery assets

Battery management teams who are used to Advanced Battery Monitoring and management for Lead Acid batteries and who have recently switched to Lithium batteries may be disappointed with what they see. PowerShield8 can help fill the gaps, ensuring complete visibility of each battery asset’s past and present health and performance down to an individual cell level.

Powerful Battery Management Dashboards, Reports and analytical tools allow you to drill from an enterprise level through facilities, systems, modules, and cells. Consistently monitor VRLA, VLA, NiCad and Lithium battery assets on one platform independent of the UPS system used.

Measure, Analyse, Present.

The PowerShield8 Advanced Battery Monitoring system is best understood in the three layers shown in the systems diagram above.

Measure Layer

All measurement is handled by the Lithium BMS.

Analyse Layer

The Controller collects and stores data from the Lithium BMS, and sends it to the presentation layer. Value is added by comprehensive battery and ancilliary data capture – ensuring root cause of BMS alarms can be clearly seen. Smart logging facilitates improved event based and trend analysis. The Controller retrieves the string state from the BMS, and manufacturer alarm limits are re-presented.

Presentation and User Interface layer

The presentation layer is where battery monitoring switches to battery management. PowerShield provides a range of user interface tools to view, report and analyse your batteries. Whether as a field service tool (Controller UI), on-premise software (Link) or cloud platform (Assure). PowerShield gives you full visibility from battery commissioning to end of life.

Controllers

The brains of the battery monitoring system

Controllers are smart devices that collect, analyse and store the battery measurements retrieved from the Lithium BMS. Continuous, fast data sampling in all string states (float, charge, discharge and idle) allows the Controller to initiate event logging and provide real time battery visibility and status.

Advanced data logging (7 log types) makes fault finding, assessing performance under discharge and life trend analysis easier. Value is added by calculating key battery management metrics. Every Controller has sufficient onboard storage capacity for the life of your batteries. Alarms are output via Link and Assure, and relay contacts when required.

The Controller has a browser based UI for configuring the system and to visualise real time battery measurements. In the battery room, a dedicated service port, USB, SD card and LCD give simple visibility and data transfer options. Designed with two network ports, it allows the customer network to remain secure and uninterrupted during service visits.

Independently security tested. Ships security hardened
Consistently monitor and manage any number of battery assets across multiple locations
CSV log file output
Controllers are battery chemistry agnostic – Lithium, Lead Acid and NiCad

The MX Controller is designed for medium-sized battery installations, up to 2 strings. The LX model can monitor up to 8 strings and the LX+ up to 12 strings. The LX models also provide more input, output and user interface options, including an LCD screen and key pad. All Controller models are designed to fit into standard 19 inch computer racks and cabinets. Both Controllers have the same functionality and browser interface. There is a Controller option to suit any battery installation.

With PowerShield8 Lithium, you can...

See the status of all battery assets on one screen.
Easily see the status of individual cells in a string.
Trend all battery metrics, including state of health and state of charge, Voltage, Current, Ripple Current, Battery Temperature and Ambient Temperature.
View and analyse discharges down to a cell level.
Problem-solve alerts and alarms quickly using real-time data, including MCCB status.
Easily report against Battery Warranty Requirements.

Advanced Battery Monitoring for Lithium Batteries

Gain full visibility of your lithium battery assets

Look into your Lithium batteries’ past, present and future health, with PowerShield8.

HOW POWERSHIELD8 FOR LITHIUM WORKS