There are too many complaints of lead-acid batteries being dumb but a very simple addition could make them smart, as Herbert Geiss explained at Intelec this year.
They're used from everything from keeping track of livestock to luggage – so why not use them to take care of stationary lead acid batteries? The "they" that Herbert Geiss of Oerlikon batteries decided to talk about at this year's Intelec was RFID (radio frequency identification tags). It's so obvious that everyone should have been kicking themselves and saying: "of course, why didn't we think of . . .
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