Collaboration extended to AI-powered battery management solutions

Infineon Technologies AG and Eatron have extended their partnership for BMS in automotive to a comprehensive BMS portfolio that includes various industrial and consumer applications. Enabled by Infineon's PSOC MCUs, this collaboration brings together the benefits of AI-powered battery optimisation software and advanced power semiconductor components to produce a cutting-edge solution that minimises degradation, detects safety issues, and enhances the performance and reliability of battery-powered systems.

The technology integrates Eatron's AI-powered BMS software, based on pre-trained models, featuring SOX, RUL and Safety Diagnostic, with Infineon's components, including MOSFETs for battery protection and PSOC 6 AI-based battery management system for state-of-the-art ML capabilities. This allows customers to unlock various benefits, including accurate predictions of the State of Charge (SOC) of batteries, lower system cost and a faster time-to-market. The partnership addresses the growing demand for advanced battery management systems in industrial and consumer markets, such as light electric vehicles, portable electronics, energy storage systems, robotics, and power tools.

The battery management and optimisation market is rapidly expanding, driven by the increasing demand for energy usage, longer battery life, and predictive maintenance. AI is key in improving battery performance, making the Eatron-Infineon technology a leading solution for applications including robotics, wearables, portable medical devices, smart home devices and appliances, battery-powered IoT products, and low-power energy storage solutions.

Eatron's software has been pre-validated and deployed on Infineon's PSoC. It has been benchmarked on an application comprising up to 24 cells against traditional techniques that require extensive cell characterisation. The evaluation was conducted using a commercially available LG Chem INR21700 M50 cell across a wide temperature range (0–45C), demonstrating comparable results. These findings underscore the strong value proposition of both company's technology.

"We're excited to collaborate with Eatron to bring AI-powered battery optimisation software to a wide range of industrial applications. Our PSOC microcontrollers, with their advanced machine learning capabilities, are the perfect fit for Eatron's AI-powered software suite, enabling customers to unlock new levels of performance, reliability, and safety in their battery-powered systems," said Cuauhtemoc Medina, industrial application manager at Infineon.

"We are excited to expand our partnership with Infineon, combining our Advanced SoX and predictive diagnostics software, integrated on the PSOC family to provide market-leading battery management and diagnostics in various industrial applications," said Dr Umut Genc, CEO of Eatron.

AI is among Infineon's most important growth drivers. The company's strong position is solidified by innovations like Si ultra-thin wafer, 300mm GaN, and the most competitive 200mm SiC manufacturing technology.