This document discusses a new hardware and software system developed for remote monitoring of lead-acid batteries using WLAN technology. The proposed solution aims to enable real-time battery monitoring, reduce maintenance costs, and ensure secure data transfer via IP networks. The research was supported by the South Korean government under a talent support program.

1. Remote Monitoring of Lead-Acid Battery
Based on WLAN
Oka Danil Saputra, Seog Chae, Young Hyung Kim and Soo Young Shin
Kumoh National Institute of Technology,
Gumi, South Korea.
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The 3rd International Conference on Industrial Application Engineering
March 29th, 2015, Kitakyushu, Japan.

2. Introduction
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 http://www.countrysidemag.com/articles/battery-banks-the-heart-of-the-system/

3. Related Work
Paper Lead Acid System Technology
[2][3] Stationary (Fixed)
GPRS
[4] Electric Vehicle (Mobile)

4. Contributions
Technical
 Real-time battery monitoring.
 Based on IP networks.
 Mobile system.
Economics
 Reduce maintenance costs.

5. Proposed Scheme
• i2c: Inter-Integrated Circuit.
• adc: Analog to Digital Converter.
• uart: Universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter.

6. Proposed Scheme
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7. Test Bed
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8. C code and Serial test

9. Database
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10. GUI
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11. Conclusion
Conclusion
 A new dedicated hardware and software is
developed for lead acid battery monitoring.
 The binary data is purposed to unsure the secure
data transfer in networks.
This research was supported by the MSIP (Ministry of Science, ICT and
Future Planning), Korea, under the Global IT Talent support program
(NIPA-2014-H0904-14-1005)