CASE STUDY

Case Study – Cloud Algorithm Development 

Consider one of millions of electric two-wheelers connected to the cloud. This two-wheeler has a BMS with basic algorithms for its 2x18s10p battery system.
The two battery packs are connected in parallel and each have a thermistor mounted on the pack housing. Pack-level voltage and current measurements are
available, along with cell voltages for each row of parallel-connected cells. The cloud is connected to an intelligent analytics platform which runs a digital twin
of the battery system installed in the electric two-wheeler. This digital twin includes a physics-based cell model that simulates degradation mechanisms. This
platform is meant to provide the user with a prediction of remaining useful life and trigger the appropriate messages should the battery system require
immediate inspection by trained personnel. 

You are tasked with developing a concept for a data dashboard that allows for online visualization of the above-mentioned measurements (pack-level
voltages, currents and temperatures as well as cell-level voltages) and derived quantities, such as SoC and SoH. The following list is meant to be used as
guidance, but it is not an exhaustive list of topics that can be addressed: 

• What are your assumptions about data volume, variety and velocity? 
• In your
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professional opinion, what does the data pipeline look like? 
• Can data-driven approaches be combined with the cell model to improve battery performance and/or enable predictive maintenance capability? 
• How would you attempt data visualization in more than three dimensions?
• How would you go about a V&V strategy for your concept? 

Plan to spend no more than half a day on this case study. Summarize your concept in a presentation (only a few slides) and prepare to present it to the
interview panel. Hand-drawn diagrams inserted into the presentation are acceptable.

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BATTERY LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT
Raw Material/
Vehicle Development In Use 2.Life
Battery Production

Develo
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Raw Material Extraction Validat Vehicle Fleet Usage

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Produc
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& Electric Range
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Cell Battery Production

Data Points across whole value chain

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BATTERY LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT

Challenges

• Various Moving Parts / Different Parties involved

• Data tracking necessary along whole value chain
• No Standards exists

Questions

• How to collect the Data ? Manual process, Asynchronous / Batch (IoT) ?

• What is the current skill set to use ETL Pipelines? Low-code/Experienced professionals
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Who are the Users of the Dashboards? Business Analysts ?
• What is the Impact/Decision making using the Dashboards?
• Physics Based Model, Statistical Model or AI Models
• Success Metrics for various Models and Testing
• Data Privacy , are AI Models Ethical ?

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HIGH LEVEL DATA MANAGEMENT

CLOUD

Cognitive Data
Services Products Real Time Simulation
Digital Based on vehicle Signals
APIs
Twin
Advanced
Analytics Dashboards Analytics

Access and DataLake ETL Data

transformation cataloging

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Data in Data in Cloud-native

Data Ingest batch streams app ecosystem

Battery
Battery SoH,SoC
Lifetime Battery Remaining Value
Secure Data Prediction KPI
Collection

Chemical cell Battery Tests IoT Devices BMS

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DATA PIPELINE
Variety , Velocity and Volume

- Sensor data, Data Logger , Driving Pattern (Fleet Data), Battery Simulation Data, Customer data
- Streaming Data , Batch , Dynamic
- Test vehicle Data – (Bigdata ∼ 10GB/per Day /Per Vehicle)

Web App
Realtime Events
Analytics Engine
Asynchronous Streaming Interactive Data
Messaging Pipeline Exploration

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Parallel Data
Sensors/IoT Processing
Data Lake Datawarehouse

Batch Job Bi Tools

Batch Pipeline
Cloud Storage

Microservice

Collection Ingestion Preparation &

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Computation Advanced
 QUICK WINS WITH CLOUD ARCHITECTURE

Operational efficiency Automation Performance Monitoring

• Managed Services and • CI/CD model training • Can quickly scale to the need • Audit tracking
Serverless pipeline
// • Can Grow and shrink the • Real time performance
• Scheduled ETL jobs • Model versioning & roll compute on Demand metrics
backs
• Global Network
• Automated accuracy checks

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VALIDATE AND VERIFY
Success Metrics

• Clearly Define Goals

• Define the End users
• Product Vision/ Mission
• New Products need Adaptation and Optimization
• Mature Products needs to generate Revenue, Monetization, Engagement

4 Metrics that define success

1. Financial Aspect
• ROI, Reduce Operational costs, Automate
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2. Innovation
• Drives DS, Reusable Artefacts, Ci/CD Pipeline, Dashboard

3. Stakeholder
• Engagement + Satisfaction, Usage

4. Organization
• Long-term plan, Core value, Culture
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FOUR PILLARS DRIVE THE DESIGN OF DATA INFRASTRUCTURE.

Data in excellent quality

Data Design for data

FIRST Cloud-native DataOps

Published by default
Vertically integrated solutions
Consumable and fluent API Digital Strategy AI Self-Learning
Application Interface FIRST FIRST
Intelligent Systems

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Scalability

Flexibility and speed Cloud

FIRST
AWS, Azure, GCP

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BACKUP

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BATTERY LIFE DEPENDS ON VARIOUS FACTORS

Cell Design & Chemistry

Battery Pack Design

Battery
Life
Environment

Vehicle Operation mode

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