7 CONCLUSION & OUTLOOK
This paper proposes a method for remote early
detection of battery short circuits in ESS for logistics.
It outlines the research background, motivation, and
related work. While current ISC detection using BMS
data works in controlled settings, it lacks support
during transport and storage. Key requirements
include low-frequency data collection to save battery
life, cloud-based computation, and adaptive
monitoring based on factors like temperature or
movement.
The proposed solution involves a battery-powered
external device for remote monitoring, collecting
battery and environmental data, and a two-layer
architecture: an edge layer for IoT-based data
collection and a cloud layer for scalable analysis and
real-time ISC alerts. The approach presented extends
the state of the art by demonstrating a way of
recognizing ISCs of ESS at an early stage in situations
that were not previously considered in scientific
literature.
In order to evaluate the approach, experiments
with a 6-cell battery setup and artificially induced
short circuits (10Ω, 1kΩ, 10kΩ resistors) to simulate
early ISC phases were carried out. Voltage data was
analyzed using KPCA for anomaly detection, which
proved effective across different frequencies and
outperformed both standard PCA and simpler voltage
tracking methods.
Future research needs to investigate how
analyzing data across the entire lifecycle of a battery
could refine detection logic and improve accuracy.
Moreover, the experiments should be carried out in
more realistic environments and with different battery
types so that the transferability of the approach can be
evaluated. Finally, the computational costs of
different detection approaches should be compared
with each other.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The work presented in this paper is partly funded by
the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs
and Climate Action (BMWK 16TNW0016D) as well
as by the German Federal Ministry of Education and
Research (BMBF 02J21E022).
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