Battery Container

The Battery Container is a core asset type in the Bazefield platform representing a single battery enclosure or array within an energy storage facility. It serves as a foundational asset for collecting, organizing, analyzing, and visualizing operational and performance data related to electrically connected groups of batteries. Each Battery Container is uniquely identified and associated with a parent Energy Storage Site and PCS, forming part of the broader asset hierarchy of a battery energy storage system (BESS).

Functional Description

A Battery Container is typically a modular enclosure housing multiple battery racks, thermal management systems, fire suppression equipment, and monitoring sensors. These containers are designed to store electrical energy in chemical form and support bidirectional power flow when paired with Power Conversion Systems (PCS). Battery Containers are typically deployed in scalable configurations and connected to PCS units via DC Bus systems.

Battery Containers are modeled as sub-assets within a logical Energy Storage Site. They inherit site-level attributes and contribute to aggregated metrics such as total stored energy, discharge rate, and availability. Each container may be linked to specific PCS units, battery racks, and environmental sensors.

In Bazefield, the Battery Container object type enables monitoring, control, and reporting at the container level. It supports asset-level diagnostics, lifecycle tracking, and performance analytics, and contributes to site-level KPIs and compliance reporting.

Bazefield allows flexibility in modeling Battery Containers to accommodate various OEM configurations and naming conventions. The Battery Container asset type provides a consistent framework for any electrically connected group of battery racks that feed into a PCS and provide aggregated State of Charge, cell temperature and voltage metrics, etc.

Core Data Model

While the configuration of Battery Containers may vary by vendor and chemistry (e.g., lithium-ion, flow batteries), Bazefield offers a pre-installed CORE data model to account for the most common points and attributes relevant to all container types. Model-specific variations are handled through smart Model Inheritance.

Core Attributes

Attributes are fixed key-value pairs used to represent non-time series data associated with each asset (read more about Attributes). While attribute values can differ from asset to asset, critical shared (i.e., CORE) attributes defining a Battery Container asset type, pre-installed in Bazefield, are described below.

Required for basic Bazefield Core functionality

Optional attributes for common additional modelling

Depending on your version of Bazefield, there may be additional advanced attributes not listed here to support data integrations or migrations with other systems.

Name	Key	Description	Default Value
Latitude	latitude	GPS coordinates for the battery container using WGS 84 system in decimal	-
Longitude	longitude	GPS coordinates for the battery container using WGS 84 system in decimal	-
Time Zone	timeZone	Local time zone where the battery container is located	-
Rated Power	ratedPower	Maximum AC power output of the battery container in kW	-
Maximum Energy Capacity (kWh)	energyCapacity	Nameplate maximum Energy Capacity (kWh)	-
Fully Charged Threshold (%)	fullyChargedThreshold	SOC threshold for the battery container to be considered fully charged (e.g., 95% or greater is fully charged)	95
Fully Discharged Threshold (%)	fullyDischargedThreshold	SOC threshold for the battery container to be considered fully discharged (e.g., 5% or less is fully discharged)	5
Charging Threshold (kW)	chargingThreshold	Power threshold for the battery container to be considered Charging and not idle, e.g., -50 = PCS considered charging when output is less than -50kW. (The default value of -50 is generally a good starting point, but must be tuned per inverter model.)	-50
Discharging Threshold (kW)	dischargingThreshold	Power threshold for the battery container to be considered Discharging and not idle, e.g., 50 = PCS considered discharging when output is greater than 50kW. (The default value of 50 is generally a good starting point, but must be tuned per inverter model.)	50

Certified Product Templates

This section lists the common, shared point, event, and other data templates applicable to the Battery Container asset type pre-installed by the Bazefield product team. For Bazefield customers, more details for each template are available per object type in the Certified Product Templates section.

Contains points/events required for Bazefield Core Dashboard functionality

Optional templates for common additional data streams/sources

Template Type	Name	Description
Point Template	Core Real-Time Data	Common raw (or transformed) real time SCADA data model for all containers. Raw data with minor scale equations for validation or transformation.
Point Template	Core Real-Time Calculations	Real-Time calculations for container modes and statuses.
Point Template	Core Interval Calculations	Periodic aggregated calculations for container events and statuses
Point Template	Core Monitoring KPIs	Analytics to monitor container production and performance