Patent ID: 7576517

Claim:
A battery monitoring system, comprising: at least one first polling agent configured to interface with at least one first battery monitoring unit in at least one first location, said at least one first polling agent being configured to receive data in a first digital format from the at least one first battery monitoring unit and being configured to normalize the data received in said first digital format and output data in a predetermined format; at least one second polling agent configured to interface with at least one second battery monitoring unit in at least one second location, said at least one second polling agent being configured to receive data in a second digital format from the at least one second battery monitoring unit, said first digital format being different than said second digital format and being configured to normalize the data received in said second digital format and output data in the predetermined format; a database configured to store digital data in the predetermined format; and a module configured to access the digital data stored in the database in the predetermined format and output data associated with the status of the at least one first battery unit associated with the at least one first battery monitoring unit and data associated with the status of the at least one second battery unit associated with the at least one second battery monitoring unit, the module being in a remote location from the at least one first and second locations.