Desenvolvimento de um protótipo para monitoramento remoto de baterias de chumbo-ácido

Abstract

Global warming and social and government pressures are inducing an energetic transition on industry sector, powered by a need to reduce environment impacts, where the implementation of cleanest energy sources, as the renewable sources, is one of the main transformation axis. However, choice of this sources directly impacts on Electrical System, that wasn’t built considering their intermittence. Thus, storage systems can be used to assure the Electrical System stability and continuous operation. Therefore, electrical storage by batteries presents great demand prospects. Though, the use of these batteries under unfavorable conditions, such as strong charging pattern, high ambience temperatures and stealing possibilities, can cause great financial losses, then, these conditions monitoring become essential to the economic viability of Battery Electrical Storage Systems (BESS). Hence, this paper aimed the building of a monitoring prototype to measure battery’s basic electrical parameters and its geographic location in real time, sending this information to an online platform, Ubidots, by Wi-Fi connection, enabling a digital interface development for displaying these data. The developed prototype can measure and send battery’s data of voltage, current, temperature and geographical coordinates with the system in work and without human intervention, making available these information online, in real time, in a customizable and easy to understand digital interface, and can be used as basis to develop a sturdier Battery Management System (BMS) in future researches.