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Companies partner to market wireless battery management system

Jan 9, 2007 2:21 PM

I.D. Systems and electrical power storage and conversion systems marketer C&D Technologies have entered into an agreement to market a wireless technology for managing batteries that power industrial trucks. In partnership with C&D, I.D. Systems recently introduced a wireless battery-swap and asset-management system for industrial vehicles that includes the OptiKan, a wireless, electronic “kanban” system—a method of signaling for parts replenishment on an assembly line. The system—based on I.D. Systems’ Wireless Asset Net platform that uses RFID to control, track, monitor and analyze material-handling vehicles and other industrial assets—will integrate automated battery-management tools for remote-system monitoring and analysis, according to I.D. Systems.