Systems and methods for remotely determining a battery characteristic

• Main Authors: McGinnis Karen Coltharp, Amann Mathias, Bourilkov Jordan Todorov, Joyce Jonathan Livingston, Sherman Faiz Feisal, Dempsey Nancy Taylor, Coronado Hortal Sergio, Wenzel Elizabeth Jane, Specht Steven Jeffrey
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 08.08.2017
• Subjects: ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES; BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; ELECTRICITY; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION ORRERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; MEASURING; MEASURING ELECTRIC VARIABLES; MEASURING MAGNETIC VARIABLES; PHYSICS; PROCESSES OR MEANS, e.g. BATTERIES, FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSIONOF CHEMICAL INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY; RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; TESTING

Included are embodiments for remotely determining a battery characteristic. Some embodiments include searching for a first wireless signal that identifies the energy storage device and, in response to receiving the first wireless signal, determining a current charge level of the energy storage device. Some embodiments include receiving a second wireless signal from the energy storage device, determining from the second wireless signal, whether the current charge level of the energy storage device reaches a predetermined threshold, and in response to determining that the current charge level of the energy storage device reaches the predetermined threshold, sending, by the computing device, an alert indicating the current charge level.