Battery lifetime testing using LabVIEW™

Author

Folea, Silviu ; Mois, George ; Miclea, Liviu ; Ursutiu, Doru

Author_Institution

Dept. of Autom., Tech. Univ. of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

fYear

2012

fDate

4-6 July 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

The use of portable electric devices in a wide range of applications leads to the need for thorough battery testing and selection. This paper presents a system for battery lifetime evaluation using a CompactRIO™ programmable automation controller and a Touch Panel Computer. The LabVIEW™ environment is used for creating different scenarios which simulate the functioning of a battery powered Wi-Fi data acquisition device. The main contribution of this paper is the development of an independent system that measures battery lifetime by simulating the operation of an electronic device powered up by the battery under test. The application was built specially for the case of the Tag4M Wi-Fi device, but it can be used in selecting the appropriate supply for other battery powered portable systems.

Keywords

battery testers; secondary cells; virtual instrumentation; LabVIEW; battery lifetime evaluation; battery lifetime testing; battery powered Wi Fi data acquisition device; battery powered portable system; electronic device; portable electric device; programmable automation controller; touch panel computer; Batteries; Battery charge measurement; Current measurement; Discharges (electric); Instruments; Temperature measurement; Testing; Battery testing; LabVIEW™; Touch Panel Computer; Virtual Instrumentation; battery lifetime;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation (REV), 2012 9th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bilbao

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2540-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-2541-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/REV.2012.6293122

Filename

6293122