Everyone is familiar with smartphones and other smart devices.
We need to create a vision, or industry standard, for high-performance
battery technologies, like Lithium Polymer, that includes a thin-film chip-set
that fully and automatically manages the health and use of LiPo's.
On the opposite side of this thin-film chip-set would be a 2-bit display that can
be seen through the shrink-wrap package that provides full information about the
battery's health and use. It might have a low-power Bluetooth capability to
communicate its status to the parent device. The chip-set and screen would be
powered by the battery itself, and it would “beep” very loudly at us when it needs
our attention; like when it need to be "fed."
Peter Hasek
UAV Air & Trade Show
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Hi Hamilton,
Apple laptop internal batteries and chargers communicate with the macbook pro about their state and in fact are equipped with processors that allow this, the chargers have a serial number and comms with(about this mac when queried..)
and the batterys are smart enough to have passwords as detailed here http://arstechnica.com/apple/2011/07/how-charlie-miller-discovered-...
hzl
Wot like this
But embedded