APC by Schneider Electric has launched a smart charging and remote battery management for stationary batteries in datacenters and facilities. The APC Battery Management System is a comprehensive approach that will not only perform the usual monitoring tasks but will also mitigate the potential for problems caused by under and overcharging of batteries. It will improve availability by ensuring batteries are optimally charged and ready for use.
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The APC Battery Management System monitors 2-, 4-, 8-, or 12v VRLA or Wet cell or 1.2 or 2.4v Nickel-Cadmium batteries in use in Data Center, Facility, and Industrial applications.Â
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The Battery Management System consists of a processor running custom firmware controlling selector circuits, a voltage monitor, a current monitor and an isolated current source. During the Response test, the Battery Manager uses the Battery Selectors to connect the Isolated Charger to each battery in the string. After the Response test is finished, the individual current characteristics of each battery are compared to an automatically stored baseline and batteries that show excessive deviation from the baseline are flagged as needing attention.
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“APC’s intelligent Battery Management System adds life to your batteries, lowers cost of ownership by identifying and helping replace only the faulty battery instead of the whole string. All of APC by Schneider Electric solutions are based on such intelligent technology innovations which help reduce wastage of energy, money and real estate space. This sort of customer-centric approach aligns us to our client’s main criteria of significant cost savings while maintaining business resiliency, security, uptime and 24 x7 high availability,” said G. B. Ravichandra, Director – Enterprise Business, APC, Schneider Electric
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