Design of the VRLA Battery Real-Time Monitoring System Based on Wireless Communication

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

This paper proposed a battery monitoring system. This system is useful for increasing situational awareness of batteries and improving energy storage management. Comments are as follows.

1. It is suggested to summarize the key innovations of the developed monitoring system, as well as the reasons why it has better performance compared with some existing products.
2. Is there any cyber security concerns or considerations on this system? It is suggested to discuss it for the system.

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Reviewer 2 Report

• The paper presents the design of a VRLA Battery Real-time Monitoring System based on ZigBee wireless communication module. The experimental results demonstrate that the system has a high measurement accuracy.
• The paper clearly identifies the scope and the contribution. It highlights the results and experiments. The authors give enough information for further implementation of their proposed Real-time Monitoring System.

• If you care to explain figure 10.
• In the abstract you specify that you provide a software algorithm for realizing real-time monitoring of the battery's health status and fault-warning, but you don’t give details about it later on in the paper.

• There are minor misspelling/rephrasing errors like:

39-40 rephrase

74 it can/they can

88 would reduces

125 which affects the residual capacity of VRLA battery greatly.

133-132 The sensor in our system chooses two-wire system mode to instead of three-wire mode.

195-196 Once the communication is built, the network structure is fixed with different collectors have unique PAN ID.

282 Battery health, also known as battery aging.

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