Patent ID: 8120364

Claim:
A stand alone battery monitoring system coupled to a battery product having a positive pole and a negative pole comprising: a housing; a battery monitoring electronics package contained within the housing, the electronics package, having a controller with at least one of an at least one CPU, EEPROM(s), ADC(s), PWM(s), Digital Input(s), and Digital Output(s) and including a portion of memory for storage of data and software; at least one sensor coupled to and communicating with the battery product and the controller, measuring at least a battery product voltage and a battery product temperature and a battery product resistivity and a battery product current; multiple code segments forming software on the controller, the battery monitor software including: an at least one code segment acquiring battery product data for at least the battery product voltage and the battery product temperature from the at least one sensor; an at least one code segment filtering the acquired battery product data into modified battery product data including a code segment that utilizes the modified battery product data and passes it through a filter code segment and a predictive code segment acting on a parametric database of values resulting in an output that represents the state of the battery or the relative health of the battery with respect to its operating life and processing the modified battery product data against stored parameters; an at least one code segment storing the acquired, filtered, modified and compared battery product data in the portion of memory and retaining whole or in part the acquired, filtered, modified and compared battery product data to provide historical battery product data over the course of the life of the battery; an at least one code segment comparing the stored battery product data against threshold levels; and an at least one indicator on a wireless device, wherein if the at least one code segment comparing the stored battery product data against threshold levels determines that data is beyond those levels, it sends an alert wirelessly to a user via the wireless device and the at least one indicator element thereon.