Smart hydrogen storage tanks for fuel cell applications

A hydrogen fueled vehicle comprising:

• a plurality of hydrogen storage tanks, each storage tank including one or more sensors and a solenoid valve;
• a smart tank controller associated with each hydrogen storage tank of the plurality of hydrogen storage tanks, each smart tank controller communicatively coupled to each sensor of the associated hydrogen storage tank and the solenoid valve;
• and
• a hydrogen storage controller communicatively coupled to each of the plurality of smart tank controllers and configured to send a handshake request thereto, wherein the hydrogen storage controller determines a total available hydrogen capacity value of the vehicle based on a number of the hydrogen storage tanks connected to an on-board communication network and capacity of each of the connected hydrogen storage tanks, and wherein the number of the connected hydrogen storage tanks corresponds to a number of handshake signals received in response to the request.