Battery Rack
The Battery Rack is a core asset type in the Bazefield platform representing a single battery string (i.e., a connected group of battery modules/packs) within a battery container. It serves as a foundational asset for collecting, organizing, analyzing, and visualizing operational and performance data at the string level. Each Battery Rack is uniquely identified and associated with a parent Energy Storage Site and optionally a Battery Container and PCS, forming part of the broader asset hierarchy of a BESS.
Functional Description
A Battery Rack consists of multiple battery modules/packs electrically connected in series or parallel to form a string. These racks are the fundamental building blocks of energy storage capacity and are typically housed within Battery Containers. Each rack usually includes sensors for voltage, temperature, and state of charge (SoC), and may be equipped with rack-level battery management systems (BMS).
Battery Racks are modeled as sub-assets within a Battery Container. They inherit container-level attributes and contribute to aggregated metrics such as total stored energy, thermal performance, and lifecycle analytics. In Bazefield, the Battery Rack object type enables monitoring, control, and reporting at the rack level. It supports fault detection and contributes to container- and site-level KPIs.
Bazefield allows flexibility in modeling Battery Racks to accommodate various OEM configurations and naming conventions. Whether referred to as strings, racks, etc., the Battery Rack object type provides a consistent framework for managing granular battery data.
Core Data Model
While the configuration of Battery Racks may vary by vendor, chemistry, and system architecture, Bazefield offers a pre-installed CORE data model to account for the most common points and attributes relevant to all rack 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 Rack 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) | - |
Certified Product Templates
This section lists the common, shared point, event, and other data templates applicable to the Battery Rack 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.
Bazefield Core Product Certified
Template Type | Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|
Point Template | Core Real-Time Data | Common raw (or transformed) real time SCADA data model for all racks. Raw data with minor scale equations for validation or transformation. |