Ohmic battery testing in Indian telecommunication networks

Phenomenal growth of the telecom network in India has resulted in an increased usage of Lead Acid Batteries. The telecom network in India is vast and spread all over the country with different geographical conditions and having extreme operating environments. Monitoring of batteries, which is one of the critical elements in the network, has become a challenge for the operators. To ensure system reliability, operators are depending on conventional methods for battery health checking which are time consuming and expensive. In today's cutthroat competition era operators are forced to reduce their CAPEX and OPEX and hence they are working on all possible options to achieve the same. As a result, usage patterns have changed and battery has become primary source in the events of power failure. Battery life is affected significantly under these operating conditions and in some cases batteries are even suffering from premature failure modes.