Reliability, resilience and sustainability requirements drive the transformation in the power and energy infrastructure towards battery energy storage. This in turn poses a greater need for battery management systems (BMS). BMS is the first line of defense to monitor, balance and optimize the battery health & performance in real-time, allowing improved power system efficiency, lifetime and safety of battery applications.

NXP ESS is a production-grade battery management system reference development platform. It is an IEC 61508 and IEC 60730 compliant architecture of up to 1500V intended for a variety of high-voltage battery management solutions for utility, commercial & industrial and residential energy storage. NXP ESS is a complete hardware, software and safety package encompassing product safety life-cycle libraries and documentation considering IEC 61508 and UL 9540.