Patent ID: 8502506

Claim:
Apparatus configured to provide electrical power while incorporated in an armored garment, the apparatus comprising: a power plate having a footprint that corresponds to a plate of body armor; a plurality of energy storage cells carried by the power plate; a port carried by the power plate, the port being configured to output power stored in the plurality of energy storage cells from the apparatus; one or more processors configured to execute computer program modules, the computer program modules comprising: a temperature module configured to monitor temperature of the energy storage cells such that temperature is monitored separately for separate thermal sets of one or more of the energy storage cells; a charge level module configured to determine charge level separately for separate charge sets of one or more the energy storage cells; and a status module configured to determine status information associated with individual ones of energy storage cells, wherein the status module is configured such that the status information for a given energy storage cell is determined based on (i) the temperature of the thermal set of energy storage cells corresponding to the given energy storage cell and (ii) the charge level of the charge set of energy storage cells corresponding to the given energy storage cell.