We developed a bespoke solution for a unique customer, on a revolutionary battery system that promises to change the way batteries are developed in the future.

Due to the lack of lithium resources available and the need for a new solution our customer developed a new battery solution that utilizes specially designed capacitive cells which drastically increase the power density for a given size unit.

The challenge he faced was using a standard BMS system that would work with conventional lithium batteries. These units do not work with Capacitive Cells.

We were tasked with developing a CMS (Capacitor management system) that will communicate with an SMA inverter (Sunny Island 6.0) that is widely used in industry via CANBUS.

Our system was able to successfully communicate with the required protocols from the inverter and is now the 1st of many capacitive battery systems developed fully in South Africa. The system is online and supplying power to his factory which is built to create more of these special batteries. The Automation Republic team used a combination of communication platforms, web server integration, microcontrollers, GPS tracking and IoT platforms to achieve all the requirements.