Outdoor Base Station Battery Circuit Analysis

How does a battery group work in a base station?

The equipment in base stations is usually supported by the utility grid, where the battery group is installed as the backup power. In case that the utility grid interrupts, the battery discharges to support the communication switching equipment during the period of the power outage.

Can a base station predict a power outage?

Though each single power outage of one given base station is truly hard to predict precisely, the statistical long-term power outage trends (e.g., in every year) can have a very similar pattern (e.g., a base station built in cold area may suffer from several power outages due to the heavy snow every year).

How long do base station batteries last?

After using BatAlloc to allocate suitable numbers of battery groups for base stations, the average battery lifetime has achieved to 4.3 years, roughly 1.8 times longer than that of the original allocation. The results indicate that our framework can also better protect base station batteries and significantly pro-long their average lifetimes.

How many battery groups does a base station have?

The original battery allocation result is largely skewed that over 65 percent base stations are equipped with only one battery group. Our framework considers both the base station situations and battery fea-tures, allocating 2 battery groups to most base stations and 3 or 4 battery groups to those with long-time power outages.