| heal.abstract |
The act of utilizing batteries beyond their first life will have an increasingly important
impact on our lives, as stated by the European Union. Meanwhile, the demand for battery
systems is skyrocketing and several battery systems are close or have reached the end of
their first lives while still maintaining the capacity to be reconfigured for other use cases. At
the same time, there is no robust framework that makes the task of reusing these batteries
easy, safe and efficient.
This leads to problems including high risk factors for the disassembly of batteries and
difficulty in designing, predicting/monitoring the performance of 2nd life battery systems.
Consequentially, this poses significant obstacles for the participation of outside stakeholders
in the recycling value chain. As a result, during a time marked by a rapid rise in battery
waste production, the potential for reusing batteries is reduced, affecting both the reuse
aspect of batteries and environmental sustainability.
This thesis takes up the matter of building a cloud platform for the correct management
and communication of information of second life battery systems within the scope of the
European Horizon project Battery2Life. It will implement data structures according to the
Digital Battery Passport, efficient data storing mechanisms and provide secure and flexible
ways of communicating this wide set of data to all the benefactors of the second battery life
value chain.
In Chapter 1, we will explore the issue of battery life beyond initial use and introduce our
segment of the Horizon Battery2Life project. In Chapter 2, we will cover the platform’s
specific requirements, provide detailed examples of the API endpoints, and outline the
solution’s architecture, including the solution components and their interactions. In Chapter
3, we will discuss how we implemented the cloud platform according to the specifications and
architecture outlined in the previous chapter, and explain why we selected the technologies
we did, as well as how we configured them. In Chapter 4, we will establish the testing
methodology for our platform, carry out the tests, present the results, and discuss key focus
areas. In Chapter 5, we will conclude this thesis by highlighting key takeaways and offering
suggestions for future work on the Battery2Life cloud platform. |
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