Battery management system capable of supporting plurality of secondary battery modules

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a battery management system (BMS) for managing a secondary battery, and to a method capable of supporting various types of applications and cell types with one BMS. To this end, the present disclosure provides a BMS that may include general-purpose input/output (GPIO) ports connected to a secondary battery module, a plurality of module support programs configured to support a plurality of secondary battery module types and various cell types, a configuration information designation port configured to designate configuration information of the module support program and included in the GPIO ports, and a module support unit configured to detect a state of the configuration information designation port to recognize a type of the secondary battery module and a cell type and retrieve the module support program corresponding to the type and the cell type to manage the secondary battery module.

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