bms engineering services
Battery management, engineered in Australia. Proven at defence grade.
For over a decade, Energy Renaissance has designed and built cybersecure battery management systems in Australia. Our award-winning superBMS™ platform is trusted in defence applications, and the same engineering team is available to solve your battery management challenge.
We do this work under one roof. Embedded software, electronics, power electronics, electrical design, PCB layout and mechanical engineering all sit in the same team, so the algorithms, the boards, the wiring and the enclosure are designed together rather than negotiated between suppliers.
superBMS is a platform, not a fixed product. It adapts to any cells, any format and any application, which means you begin with proven architecture and firmware rather than a blank page.
BMS platform adaptation
Start from proven. Finish sooner.
Most BMS projects begin with a blank page and an open-ended risk profile. Ours begin with superBMS™, a mature, fielded platform comprising a modular family of boards and a hardened firmware stack, which we adapt to your cells, your format and your application.
Adaptation is real engineering, not configuration. Different cell chemistries and counts change the sensing electronics, the balancing design, the power stage and the physical packaging, and our team covers every one of those disciplines in-house. Because the platform architecture, algorithms and safety logic are already proven, the work concentrates on what is genuinely different about your application, and the risk profile shrinks accordingly.
Engagements run to fixed milestones, from design review through integrated prototype to validated system, so you know what you're getting and when.
- what you get
- A mature, fielded platform as the starting point, not a blank page
- Sensing, balancing, power stage and packaging adapted to your cells and format
- Fixed milestones from design review through integrated prototype to validated system
BMS hardware design
Boards built for hard environments.
We design the full electronics of a battery management system: cell sensing and measurement, active and passive balancing, high-current power and contactor control, pre-charge circuits, current sensing, communications and dedicated security hardware.
That work draws on the full depth of our team. Power electronics engineers handle the high-current switching and protection stages. Electrical engineers design the sensing chains, wire harnesses and interconnects. PCB designers lay out boards that hold their integrity under sustained shock, vibration and temperature extremes. Mechanical engineers make sure everything fits, mounts, cools and survives inside a real enclosure, not just on a bench.
The result is hardware engineered to operate where failure is not an option, in heat, cold, shock and vibration that would retire most electronics.
- what you get
- Cell sensing and measurement, active and passive balancing
- High-current power, contactor control, pre-charge and current sensing
- Communications and dedicated security hardware
- Layout, harnessing and mechanical design for shock, vibration and temperature extremes
Embedded firmware and software
A decade of cybersecure code, working for you.
Our firmware handles the hard problems of battery management: cell modelling, state-of-charge and state-of-health estimation, active balancing, thermal management, and fault detection and protection with deterministic response times.
The software team works hand in hand with our hardware engineers, so algorithms are designed around the real behaviour of the sensing electronics and power stages rather than idealised models. The stack spans low-level embedded control through to communications, data logging and telemetry, and it is built to be extended, with a clean architecture that lets us add application-specific capability without disturbing the proven core.
It is 100% Australian code, developed onshore over ten years, and it carries our cybersecurity architecture in its foundations rather than bolted on.
- what you get
- Cell modelling with state-of-charge and state-of-health estimation
- Active balancing, thermal management and fault protection with deterministic response times
- Embedded control through to communications, data logging and telemetry
- 100% Australian code, developed onshore over ten years
Battery cybersecurity
Batteries are connected assets. Secure them like it.
A modern battery is a computer with terminals, and it deserves the same protection as any other connected system. Our security architecture spans both hardware and software: hardware root of trust and secure element design, cryptographically signed and verified boot, firmware integrity protection, encrypted communications, mutual authentication, intrusion and anomaly detection, and tamper response.
Because we design the electronics and write the code ourselves, security is engineered through the whole system rather than wrapped around it. We can also bring that capability to systems we didn't build, auditing and hardening existing or third-party battery fleets.
All of it with sovereign Australian code, so you always know where your firmware comes from and who can touch it. For operators of critical infrastructure, that answer matters more every year.
- what you get
- Hardware root of trust and secure element design
- Cryptographically signed and verified boot with firmware integrity protection
- Encrypted communications, mutual authentication and tamper response
- Intrusion and anomaly detection, plus audit and hardening of third-party fleets
Systems integration
We make the pieces work as one.
A BMS only earns its keep when it works seamlessly with your cells, your mechanical design and your host platform. We integrate across the full chain: electrical integration with your cells and modules, mechanical integration within your enclosure and space envelope, thermal integration with your cooling approach, and communications integration with your vehicle or plant, including CAN and J1939 interfaces.
Having software, electronics, electrical and mechanical engineers on one team means integration issues get solved at the source, whichever discipline they fall in, rather than passed between contractors. We verify the combined system does what it should before it reaches you.
- what you get
- Electrical integration with your cells and modules
- Mechanical integration within your enclosure and space envelope
- Thermal integration with your cooling approach
- Communications integration with your vehicle or plant, including CAN and J1939
Qualification and test support
Help navigating the standards that matter.
Batteries and their management systems face demanding standards, from defence specifications to functional safety and transport requirements. The path through them is easier with a partner who has designed for them before.
We can assist you in understanding which requirements apply to your application, making design decisions with those requirements in mind, and planning the test and evaluation programme that goes with them, from test plans and procedures through to supporting bench and environmental testing and interpreting the results. Our engineers work across the electrical, mechanical and software dimensions of qualification, so support covers the whole system rather than one slice of it.
- what you get
- Help understanding which requirements apply to your application
- Design decisions made with those requirements in mind
- Test and evaluation planning, procedures and supporting bench and environmental testing
- Support across the electrical, mechanical and software dimensions of qualification
Through-life support
We stay with the system for its working life.
Delivery is the start, not the end. We provide firmware sustainment and secure updates, state-of-health analytics that turn operating data into maintenance decisions, fleet telemetry, and obsolescence management for electronic components across the operating life of your battery systems.
Because we hold the full design, hardware and software, we can respond to whatever the years bring: a component going end-of-life, a new interface requirement, an emerging security threat, or simply the desire to get more from the fleet you already own.
- what you get
- Firmware sustainment and secure updates
- State-of-health analytics that turn operating data into maintenance decisions
- Fleet telemetry across the operating life of your systems
- Obsolescence management for electronic components
the engineering team
An Australian DefenceTech business with more than a decade of engineering history.
Based in Sydney, Australia, with engagements across the US, Asia and Europe. Standards work is delivered as compliance engineering and test support, not as certification on your behalf.
- 10+
- Years engineering in Australia
- Sydney
- Engineering base, NSW
- 100%
- Australian code and design
- 3
- Continents: US, Asia and Europe
Next step
One conversation is the right place to start.
Whether you have a defined requirement or an early idea, the fastest way forward is a conversation with our engineers.
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