Ixxat battery storage communication gateways

Battery energy storage systems (BESS) are made up of battery cells that can be combined to make up battery parks the size of several football fields. Such large battery parks need a lot of communication capabilities in order to work. HMS has communication solutions that cater for this application area.

In networking, the protection of components is crucial, both from external sources like lightning strikes and from system-related issues, such as AC/DC noise. BESS often combine a variety of different equipment from different industries within a single application: batteries, BMS, PLCs, fire detection units or air conditioning. To combine different equipment, it is necessary to interconnect various protocols and network standards. CAN, Modbus, BACnet, KNX and other protocols can be linked via gateways from HMS, which handle the all-important data exchange while also enabling centralised control. In addition, these gateways can selectively filter, map and, if necessary, compute the data.

Smart grid gateways enable centralised control as well as remote access for predictive maintenance, logging or data visualisation. The SG gateways also provide cybersecurity features.