Developing Open Standards and Tools to Accelerate Battery Innovation

Connecting industry, academia, and open source to unlock the full potential of battery technology.

Who We Are

Building sustainable open source software, best practices, and delivery standards for the battery industry

The LF Energy Battery Data Alliance (BDA) was created to bring battery companies together to work jointly to unify how batteries are handled in terms of software. Battery data is core to creating a decarbonized economy and power systems, yet companies waste tremendous amounts of time implementing battery data schemas, integrations/conversions, typical calculations, etc. BDA believes that an open source tool should exist to enable researchers and engineers to focus on bringing more innovative solutions to market rather than each organization duplicating the same work.

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Design

The absence of open source battery datasets and standardized access methods creates a major hurdle. Companies are forced to repeat the same work—collecting, cleaning, and converting data—rather than building on shared foundations.

Testing

Test equipment is often configured manually, with limited alignment between industry testing standards and how tests are actually run. This disconnect slows progress and adds friction to quality assurance.


Manufacturing

Inconsistent data structures across manufacturers introduce unnecessary complexity in schema design and integration. These differences hinder efficiency and make collaboration harder than it needs to be.

Telemetry

Battery telemetry remains a wide-open frontier for open source development. Standardization and toolkits in this space are still lacking, presenting a major opportunity for innovation and impact.

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PyMacNet

PymacNet is a Python module that provides cycler and channel level interfaces for communication and control of Maccor cyclers ia MacNet.

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PyCTIArbin

PyCTIArbin is a Python module that provides cycler and channel level interfaces for communication and control of Arbin cyclers via their Console TCP/IP Interface (CTI).

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Battery Data Format

The BDF Ontology is an application ontology designed to help machines work with BDF-compliant data.
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