While the EV space is expanding at a phenomenal rate and the industry is moving fast towards the promised future, we at The Energy Company have come to the realisation that there are a few basic and rudimentary things that need to evolve to bring about revolutionary changes to the functionality and longevity of EVs. Whether you’re an EV user, financier, or stakeholder, you have surely felt at least a little bit blind when it comes to the question of ‘Is the battery performing at its best? Is the battery being used right? How much longer can the battery function before it needs to be retired?’ etc.

Fig. 1. Similarities in Identity Management

While some answers to these questions exist, they have mostly been an approximation of what a battery in ideal and controlled conditions will act and perform like. However, that is rarely the case in real-time use. We at The Energy Company realized that to properly be able to answer these questions, any battery has to be accounted for at every step of its process. From the birth of the battery to its entire first life and beyond. Hence we created the Battery Aadhaar.

Akin to Aadhaar cards issued to individuals, each individual battery needs its own Aadhaar. Like how Aadhaar for humans is a comprehensive digital identity that contains pertinent information about them, Battery Aadhaar too will not just be for identification, but will also contain crucial information about its components, health, capacity and usage. This kind of data transparency will already cause a huge difference since there is no realistic comprehensive information for most batteries that are in the market. Having such information seems of utmost importance when we talk about not just how to optimise performance but what a battery’s capacities are and what it has been through.

Fig.2. Battery Aadhaar-Creation, Monitoring, Optimization, Repurposing

However, at The Energy Company, we wanted to bring more to the table. A Battery’s Aadhaar provides you information at a cellular level. It is a foundational identity of a battery, allowing for tracking, monitoring, and the development of custom applications across the entire value chain.

 But that’s not all, this information and data recorded throughout the battery’s first life also helps drastically improve the chances of getting a worthy second life, helping reduce unnecessary wastage.

 

The Battery Aadhaar is already an integral part of The Energy Company’s cloud service and has helped tremendously with our accuracy rates. However, we pride ourselves in being ecosystem enablers, and as such the reason for creating the Battery Aadhaar was to make information and data accessible to all other members of the ecosystem. The information on any Battery Aadhaar is transparent and incorruptible. We believe this kind of transparency of cellular-level information will help everyone from cell manufacturers to financiers to stakeholders to end users; all components of the ecosystem.

 

Just as Aadhaar has been a game changer, from serving as a proof of identity to enabling the development of OCEN, UHI, and beyond, Battery Aadhaar holds the same potential. The intrinsic quality of data recorded opens up the floodgates for future innovation.

 

In conclusion, at The Energy Company, we work towards bettering the future. We have built the Battery Aadhaar to be the best marketplace asset management tool anyone can ask for. Our goal is to see that all batteries are provided with a Battery Aadhaar that accounts for the battery’s entire lifecycle, at a cellular level. We envision that with Battery Aadhaar as the core stack and have faith that Battery Aadhaar will be the foundation of a more sustainable, efficient, and innovative energy ecosystem.

 

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