Smartville, a start-up in the energy sector, announced Periscope, the first useful battery assessment tool, for evaluating the state of health (SoH) and safety of an electric vehicle traction battery. The tool offers a new way for EV owners and EV battery stakeholders to evaluate the battery packs whether in a vehicle or extracted from the vehicle.
The Smartville Periscope is a portable electric vehicle battery testing kit, providing easy and quick insight into battery condition, performance, and value, inside the vehicle or extracted from it.
Smartville’s Periscope is more than a testing device; it’s a strategic investment in the success and growth of the businesses that make up the EV battery circularity ecosystem.
Benefits include:
- Periscope is a self-powered, WiFi-equipped device that can connect to, communicate with, and control the battery management system to assess the battery down to the individual cell level. This granularity of assessment allows the user to identify risks and failures, including high-voltage and fire hazards, for safe battery handling.
- In less than five minutes, the user can test a battery, collect pertinent data, generate a report, and wirelessly upload the data for viewing. Smartville’s proprietary data portal, Whole Battery Catalog provides easy access for viewing, storing, and sharing battery health reports.
- Assessment of a battery provides an opportunity to identify its current safety and second-life best use, which ranges from re-use in another EV, repurposing for battery energy storage, or recycling of the components and “black mass.” The difference in value in those use cases can amount to thousands of dollars in unlocked value — both from a monetary value and for environmental sustainability.
Periscope offers a user-friendly interface to quickly test and pull comprehensive reports from complete battery packs. Its portability means it can go where needed, making it ideal for on-the-go diagnostics.
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