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Connectors: Battery connection makers are broadly adopting plug-and-play formats for energy storage solutions, borrowing much from the telecommunications industry, long dependent on power backups. At the same time, new demand is rising for communications ports on batteries, both for internal diagnostics and for system controllers, ushering the Internet of Things into energy storage.

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Charles W. Thurston

13 Apr 2017

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While very sophisticated sensor, communication and control solutions are emerging in the energy storage market, standardization is still a distant rumble. “Battery interconnections for energy storage are not perfectly standardized yet; we are headed there, but you could say that we are at the stage now where PV connectors were about eight years ago,” says …

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