NEMO lifts the curtain on zBMS hardware: paving the way for next-generation battery management

Scientific progress relies heavily (if not primarily) on the exchange of knowledge. This was clearly reflected on Friday, 13 June, when over 70 participants joined the NEMO Webinar, ‘zBMS Hardware Unveiled: Enabling Next-Generation Battery Management’. The session provided an overview of the key components of NEMO’s zBMS architecture and its underlying technologies, focusing on a hardware perspective.

Moderated by Dr. Martina Weise (Full Stack Software Engineer) and Philipp Körner (Technical Consultant Data Science), both from IAV, the session featured presentations from experts from different NEMO partners:

Thomas Percz (Hardware Design Engineer, IAV) presented the zBMS hardware and its core functions in ensuring cell safety, monitoring battery state, and storing warranty-relevant data.

Norbert Sailer (Senior Engineer, IFAT) gave an overview of the IFAT EIS Chip and the computational analysis of its Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) response.

Andreas Hutter (Co-director, Battery Innovation Hub, CSEM) shared results from zBMS cycling tests, covering topics such as challenges in exploiting EIS.

A lively Q&A session wrapped up the event, sparking reflections and exchanges among participants. Like pieces of a puzzle coming together, each presentation and question helped attendees enrich their understanding of next-generation battery management systems.

To delve deeper into NEMO’s hardware, take a look at our factsheets and the webinar presentation:

Factsheet: Hardware innovations. advanced embedded systems, sensor technologies, and cell-level control in NEMO’s zBMS.

Factsheet: NEMO’s zBMS EIS-capable cell management system with wireless communication and computation power.

Presentation: NEMO Webinar, ‘zBMS Hardware Unveiled: Enabling Next-Generation Battery Management’.

The recording of the event is available upon request. If you are interested, please contact info@nemoproject.eu. To stay informed about upcoming NEMO webinars, we also encourage you to subscribe to the NEMO newsletter.

NEMO Newsletter – Join the upcoming events!

The second edition of the NEMO newsletter is now available—featuring the latest updates from the project and invitations to key events you won’t want to miss!

What’s inside?

Upcoming Events

June 3–5 : join us at the Battery Show Europe 2025, where our partner CSEM will represent the NEMO project and showcase our live demonstrator.
June 13, 11:30–13:00 CET : tune in to our zBMS hardware webinar with insights from CSEM, IFAT, and IAV. We’ll explore the NEMO BMS architecture and the hardware-software interplay driving its innovation.

New Factsheet Available

A demonstrator will be on display at the Battery Show—and to support this, we’ve released a technical factsheet detailing our EIS-capable Cell Management System. The sheet highlights key features such as wireless communication and onboard computing power, offering a concise technical snapshot of NEMO’s cutting-edge capabilities.

Stay informed and follow us on LinkedIn and BlueSky for real-time updates.

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The BMS Alliance Webinar: building bridges through data harmonization

The recent “BMS Alliance Webinar: Data Access and Harmonization” brought together the four sister projects of HORIZON-CL5-2022-D2-01-09, focusing on physics and data-based battery management for optimized battery utilization.

The goal of the BMS Alliance’s webinar series is to build bridges between the projects, exchange information, tackle common challenges and join forces to find solutions. On the topic of this second webinar – the usage of data in the four sister projects – the bridges discussed during the meeting were, first and foremost, “linguistic”: the more partners and related projects speak the same language when it comes to data, the more fluid, smooth, and mutually understandable the circle of ideas, codes, and projects becomes.

Throughout the webinar, Stefan Waldhor (BATMAX), Aurelien Hascoat (ENERGETIC), Vira Vadaviya (NEXTBMS), and Bernard Lutzer (NEMO), discussed good practices for data accessibility and harmonization.

The partners shared their intra-consortium data standardization practices but also raised broader issues. In particular, Bernhard Lutzer from NEMO pointed out the lack of a standardized Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) ontology, and the need to develop a common language: “A key point in data harmonization is to have people in your organisation who understand both the world of the data providers and those who manage and analyze data, as this bridge between the two worlds is essential for seamless communication and effective collaboration.”

This way, an immediate understanding of the “ontological lexicon” within the EIS projects (such as the four discussed in this webinar) could be achieved.

If you are interested in knowing more about NEMO, related projects, and future developments in Battery Management Systems, follow us on LinkedIn and Bluesky. Scientific updates, events, and news will soon be published there.

NEMO and 8 EU-funded projects join forces for the International Day of Zero Waste 2025

Various EU-funded projects will roll out a social media campaign as part of this year’s International Day of Zero Waste. The campaign, launched by ICONS (the dissemination and communication lead of NEMO) and marked by the hastag #ZeroWasteEU, aims to show the developments of these projects in the broader shift towards more sustainable solutions in various fields, including energy, plastics and batteries.

Among them, NEMO stands out for its significant contribution to the battery sector. By advancing the state of the art in battery management systems (BMS), NEMO ensures that users can rely on longer-lasting, safer, and more efficient—in one word, optimized—batteries.

In addition to NEMO, several other EU-funded projects are participating in the campaign: WOODCIRCLES, ANIPH, CCRI Knowledge Hub, WalNUT, Rebelion, PLASTICE, CARMA-H2, and TIMBERHAUS. The campaign aims to engage stakeholders in discussions about a circular economy and encourage collective action towards waste reduction.

The campaign will run from March 24th to March 30th, featuring short videos and quotes from participating projects using the hashtags #ZeroWasteEU.

Follow NEMO and the participating projects on Bluesky and LinkedIn to stay informed and be part of the change.

#EUSustainableBatteries campaign showcases EU-funded innovations in sustainable battery development

Project NEMO is participating in the #EUSustainableBatteries social media campaign, launched by ICONS on the occasion of Battery Innovation Days 2024.

Battery Innovation Days, scheduled for November 26-27 in Barcelona and online, is Europe’s premier event for battery research, bringing together researchers, policymakers, and industry leaders to discuss innovations in battery technology, manufacturing, and recycling.

The #EUSustainableBatteries campaign aims to highlight that investment in research is essential for developing batteries that are more efficient, longer-lasting, and ultimately more sustainable, thereby reducing the demand for raw materials and supporting Europe’s climate goals.

Through this social media campaign, we aim to spotlight the essential role of EU-funded projects like NEMO in driving this change. In this context, NEMO is enhancing battery lifespan—crucial for achieving the EU’s Green Deal targets.

For this occasion, Project Coordinator Md Sazzad Hosen (VUB-MOBI) has shared a video statement, which will be featured on our social media channels, highlighting NEMO’s commitment to advancing sustainability in battery technology.

Follow the hashtag #EUSustainableBatteries to stay updated on how Horizon Europe projects are driving a greener future for energy.

For more details about the campaign, visit ICONS’ official website. Join us in supporting sustainable battery advancements!

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NEMO project joins the BRIDGE initiative

The NEMO (NExt-generation MOdels for advanced battery electronics) project has recently become a part of the BRIDGE initiative.

BRIDGE is the EU Commission initiative that brings together Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe projects focusing on Smart Grid, Energy Storage, Islands, and Digitalization. Its main aim is to address common challenges and facilitate knowledge sharing among selected projects committed to achieving a resilient, decarbonised, and integrated energy system.

NEMO’s entry into the initiative aligns with its focus on digitalization. With more than 100 ongoing projects involved in BRIDGE, NEMO joins the collaborative effort, leveraging collective expertise, allowing them to deliver conclusions and recommendations about the future exploitation of the project results with a single voice.

The consortium behind NEMO, including its coordinator and experts, will actively participate in BRIDGE’s working groups, particularly the Data management and Business models working groups.

The current areas of focus of the Data Management group are:

Communication infrastructure – this entails enhancing technical means for effective exchange of data
Cybersecurity and data privacy – this encompasses data integrity, customer privacy and protection
Data handling – this entails establishing the framework for data exchange and related roles and responsibilities

The key areas of the Business Models group are:

Design of tools for Evaluating Benefits and Values of services and solutions emerging from project activities
Business Model Design for Data Value Chain Integration

This represents a new step towards NEMO’s commitment to collaborating with relevant initiatives and projects, aiming to accelerate advancements in battery electronics.

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Tracking materials for sustainability: the battery passport

Batteries are unanimously seen as key drivers of the energy transition. However, for them to unleash their potential and play a major role in meeting the targets of the Paris Agreement, most experts agree: the entire value chain must be tracked to measure their environmental and social footprint and allow their evaluation for a second-life use. “The keyword is transparency,” says Inga Petersen, Executive Director of the Global Batteries Alliance (GBA), a public-private partnership, with members spanning from the mining companies, all the way down to recyclers. “Original equipment and car manufacturers can have up to 40 000 suppliers, so there’s no chance that they have a full overview of their products across the value chain. The most crucial issues to monitor for more ethical products are, of course, carbon footprint, child labour, and human rights.” This is also why a manifesto, agreed in June by young battery scientists from four European universities, suggested that “a good option could be the introduction of a European digital battery passport”.

Presented just a few days ago by the Global Battery Alliance at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the first world battery passport has engaged a number of its members from mining companies to car manufacturers. The result is a digital twin of the physical battery that records information according to three key dimensions. The first consists of technical data, like manufacturing history and capacity, but in the long term it will also include recycled content and disassembly instructions for recyclers. The second records the origin and tracks the flows of cobalt, lithium, graphite, and other materials. “We have focused our efforts on sustainability performance and this is why we also integrated a ‘greenhouse gas rulebook’ to establish the battery carbon footprint”, says Petersen. “Further indicators will be developed, but we started by monitoring environmental footprint, child labour, and human rights because we consider them as the pillars of a sustainable and circular battery value chain.” First conceptualized in 2019, the battery passport is seen by its designers as a “key transparency tool to help enhance the sustainability of battery value chains.”

Read the full article by Diego Giuliani in the EU project Astrabat’s website at this link.

20 January 2023

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