Micro-service management platform relating to battery management

A service platform that is implemented by one or more computers, for managing a battery and its auxiliary equipment units, the service platform comprising:

• one or more micro-services, each micro-service having a standardized generic structure comprising:
• a sub-service implementing a business function;
• and
• a messaging sub-service;
• and
• a unified communication system for enabling exchange of data and messages,
• wherein:
• each micro-service further includes at least one micro-service management function, wherein the at least one micro-service management function includes a configuration management function configured to manage a configuration of the one or more micro-services;
• (ii) the unified communication system comprises:
• sockets configured to enable inter-micro-service communication, either local or via a TCP/IP network, the sockets being configured by the configuration management function for managing the configuration of the one or more micro-services and to enable inter-micro-service communication using a stateless proxy which connects a micro-service that is publishing one or more messages concerning one or more topics of a messaging system with one or more micro-services that have subscribed to the one or more topics of the messaging system;
• and
• (iii) the messaging sub-service includes:
• a subscription function for subscribing to one or more messaging system topics, wherein the subscription function includes subscribing to one or more topics of the messaging sub-service, formatting and writing the data contained in the messages associated with the one or more topics subscribed to a local database that is suitable for the storing of time-stamped data.