Embeddable, smart, DC operated UPS for small and mid sized battery backup applications
Géza Csernáth, Turos Laszlo · 2012
Today's desired power managing devices are smart, embeddable, highly energy efficient and with small form factor. The main goal of each design is to find the optimal combination between performance and costs. The performance can be raised with optimized control algorithms implemented on a powerful MCU platform capable of performing even multiple tasks in parallel. A good shaped charging and balancing algorithm could increase overall battery lifetime and performance when backing up critical systems that needs to be up all the time, and doing all these at a relative reduced cost. Fast reaction time of the system is critical so that the devices connected to the UPS output remain always powered. Several reconfigurable electrical and environmental parameters and different communication channels with this smart UPS ensures that it can be embedded in a wide range of electrical systems.