Smart Battery Dashboards and Pools Overview

The Smart Battery dashboard allows you view and analyze your battery data, regardless of device type. You can decide which batteries are performing well and which need replacement. You can group batteries into pools to efficiently manage your fleet and filter results to see specific charging and life cycle details. Smart battery analysis provides you with extensive data. The Smart Battery Dashboards help you analyze the performance of swappable batteries or smart batteries embedded in devices, track their usage, and estimate the appropriate time to replace them.

Note: See Supported Batteries for a list of supported smart batteries.
Note: Batteries are tracked by serial number.

Accessing and Customizing a Smart Battery Dashboard

  1. From the main menu, select Operational Intelligence.

    Operational Intelligence dashboard menu

  2. In the Profile dropdown, ensure Smart Batteries is selected. Choose the All Batteries Pool which contains the batteries in all devices, or select a user defined battery pool.

  3. Smart Batteries - Select Pool

    Note: Use pools to group batteries into logical categories according to your needs. By selecting a specific pool, you can view and analyze the performance of all batteries in that pool. You can also add new pools (see Creating a Battery Pool).
    Note: Use the Devices and Smart Batteries buttons to switch between viewing device details and the smart battery dashboard. You can also filter your batteries based on their status, such as In Use and other search criteria.
    Note: After selecting a battery pool, the title of the dropdown changes from Profile to Battery Pool (see blue box above).
  4. Select a dashboard from the Dashboard dropdown.

    Smart Battery - Select a dashboard

    Select one of the following dashboard types.

    • In Use
    • All
    • New
    • Decommissioned
Note: To analyze battery usage from the perspective of a device, after selecting a dashboard, scroll to the bottom of the dashboard to the Smart Batteries section. Select the device to analyze from the Battery ID column to open the device's Battery Spotlight.

Data Included in the Charts

A battery pool contains all of the batteries that are a part of a SOTI MobiControl device group selected at the time of battery pool creation. You can select multiple device groups when creating or editing a battery pool.

The All Battery Pools selection displays all batteries irrespective of the device group selected

Note: The smart battery supports Zebra, Panasonic and Bluebird manufactured batteries along with dual batteries.

Cascade Filtering

When selecting a specific metric on the chart, all other charts are filtered based on the batteries of the devices that correspond to the specified metric.