Smart Battery Selector

Saft launches the Smart Battery Selector, a handy tool that helps you choose the right battery for your IoT project.

Saft launches the Smart Battery Selector, a handy tool that helps you choose the right battery for your IoT project.

When working on an IoT application, the choice of the right battery is often not made until the last minute. However, it is wiser to think about the possibilities at the beginning of the project.

This brings a number of interesting benefits. This allows you to optimize your device’s power requirements to find the best possible solutions to extend the life of your device while ensuring that it gets the power it needs to operate.

Knowing the size of the battery is also an important consideration when designing your device. But most importantly, the battery is an important part of the total cost of ownership of your projects and should not be overlooked if you want your project to succeed.

That’s why Saft has created the Smart Battery Selector, a tool that, in just 7 steps, can help you discover which batteries fit your use case, how much space you should leave in your product design for batteries, what the price is, and what average life you can expect from your battery once integrated into your IoT device. After completing the 7 steps, you can choose to receive the PSF report. To try the Smart Battery Selector, click on the link below.

Smart Battery Selector

New rates Stibat

Stibat has announced new rates for the disposal fee (or management fee) that will go into effect on 01-01-2021.

For all products that contain a battery (or are loose), a disposal fee must be paid to Stibat. This is in line with international laws and regulations (environment). This also applies to devices that are supplied with batteries (e.g. torches).

Stibat has announced new rates for the disposal fee (or management fee) that will go into effect on 01-01-2021. On average, the amounts will increase by about 5%. View the list of the new rates here.

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Elfa contributes to soldier of the future

On January 13 and 14, the soldier of the future was the topic of discussion at the Defense Department's Fight Light Symposium. Together with Battery Safety Solutions, Elfa was invited to talk about the latest developments in battery and battery technology and the associated safety.

Overloaded soldier

Soldiers nowadays are carrying more and more technical gadgets, which increases the weight that must be carried by the soldier. The result is an overloaded soldier, which has a negative effect on his maneuverability and survival, among other things.

Because Elfa is not only a wholesaler but also a knowledge center with over 100 years of experience, we were invited to talk about the developments of ‘smart batteries’. Elfa has a lighter ‘smart’ backpack battery that can power (almost) any device on a soldier’s body. This battery is not only lighter, but also a lot safer. This is because it is a battery that does not go into thermal runaway after penetration. Would you like more information about Elfa’s smart batteries? Please contact us.