BMS design guidelines (taken from the suggested rules for FreeBMS)

[PerBear]

1. Safety – priority #1
The BMS must be safe – design and function must conform to relevant
safety standard.

2. Reliability
High reliability as good as commercial systems must be designed in.

3. Low cost
BMS must be cost efficient and possible to build at a much lower cost
than buying comparable commercial systems.

4. Ease of building, maintenance, service and use
BMS should not be difficult to build and parts must be easy to get
hold of. It must be easy to service and use.

5. Design lifetime
BMS should avoid implementing parts soon to become obsolete.

6. If beneficial, take advantage of existing working solutions readily
available
Some of the SW and HW required in BMS may already be developed and
available. Already developed solutions should be preffered above new
development if available.

7. Adaptable to new battery technology
It should have a design that can be easily adapted to improvement in
battery technology for some years.