foxBMS 2

foxBMS is a free, open and flexible development environment to design battery management systems. It is the first modular open source BMS development platform.

Overview

foxBMS is an universal hardware and software platform providing a fully open source BMS development platform. foxBMS aims to control modern and complex electrical energy storage systems of any size. foxBMS is successfully used for electrical energy storage consisting of

• Lithium-Ion and Solid State Batteries
• Lithium-Sulfur Batteries
• Sodium-Ion Batteries
• Lithium-Ion Capacitors (LIC)
• Electric Double-Layer Capacitors (EDLC, supercapacitors or ultracaps)
• Redox-Flow Batteries (RFB) (e.g., Vanadium Redox-Flow), and
• Fuel Cells (FC)

or in an hybrid combination of these and in various domains.

Documentation

A current build of the documentation of this project can be found here:

• latest documentation build (of the most recent release)
• list of all available documentation builds

Changelog

The project changelog is found in docs/general/changelog.rst.

Installation Instructions

See INSTALL.md for installation instructions.

Graphical User Interface

The GUI requires a successful installation as described in INSTALL.md.

foxBMS 2 contains a basic GUI to support BMS development tasks (e.g., building binaries, updating the BMS through the bootloader).

The GUI can either be opened by running ./fox.ps1 gui or if PowerShell is installed available at C:\Program Files\PowerShell\7\pwsh.exe it can also be run by double-clicking gui.lnk in the root of the repository.

Repository Structure

The repository is structured as follows:

These directories each have a README.md that explain the content of the directory.

License

The license information of the project is found in LICENSE.md.

Basically, the software is covered by the BSD 3-Clause License (SPDX short identifier: BSD-3-Clause) and the hardware and documentation by the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (SPDX short identifier: CC-BY-4.0).

Open Source Hardware Certification

foxBMS 2 has been certified as open source hardware by the Open Source Hardware Association under the OSHWA UID DE000128.

Acknowledgment

For funding acknowledgements and instructions on how to acknowledge foxBMS 2 please see foxbms.org/acknowledgements.