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  • Tata Technologies WATTSync Supports Battery Aadhaar Traceability and Digital Identity Requirements

    Battery Aadhaar

    Pune: Tata Technologies, a global product engineering and digital services company, announced that its battery intelligence platform WATTSync is fully equipped to support India’s upcoming Battery Aadhaar digital identity and traceability requirements, while maintaining alignment with the EU Battery Regulation (EU BR 2023/1542).

    As India moves toward implementing a unified QR-code-enabled Battery Aadhaar framework to improve visibility, compliance, and sustainability across the battery lifecycle, WATTSync’s architecture, data model, and integration capabilities position it as a future-ready industry solution.

    WATTSync enables seamless generation and management of India’s mandated 21-character Battery Pack Aadhaar Number (BPAN), allowing manufacturers and ecosystem partners to generate, manage, and integrate unique battery identifiers across production, operations, and end-of-life workflows.

    The platform mirrors global digital battery passport requirements, ensuring interoperability across markets.

    The platform’s QR-code-enabled digital identity engine facilitates secure access to both static and dynamic battery data, supporting India’s authentication and verification standards while aligning with similar mechanisms under the EU digital passport ecosystem.

    Its comprehensive static data model supports the full range of prescribed Battery Aadhaar fields, including manufacturer identifiers, battery descriptors, material composition, chemistry, and carbon footprint (BCF).

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    With its EU-compliant design, the system also manages extended sustainability, due-diligence, and environmental data.

    To support dynamic data mandates such as State of Health (SoH), charge-discharge cycles, thermal events, and operational parameters, WATTSync integrates seamlessly with Battery Management Systems (BMS).

    The platform’s microservices-driven, cloud-ready architecture enables high-volume ingestion and real-time analytics, ensuring readiness for both Indian and European reporting requirements.

    In alignment with India’s requirement to store dynamic battery data on authorized central servers, WATTSync enables secure API-based data exchange with government-mandated digital infrastructure, ensuring traceability, auditability, and supply-chain oversight.

    WATTSync aligned with India’s Battery Aadhaar Requirements

    WATTSync’s Battery LifeCycle Manager tracks lifecycle transitions from manufacturing and active use to repair, repurposing, and recycling, helping manufacturers comply with India’s and the EU’s circularity and sustainability mandates.

    Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) capabilities provide structured and secure data access for manufacturers, suppliers, operators, recyclers, regulators, and auditors, aligning with Indian guidelines and global regulatory frameworks.

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    The platform also integrates AI-driven analytics to support predictive maintenance and safety intelligence, including thermal anomaly detection, Remaining Useful Life (RUL) estimation, and performance-risk profiling – addressing Battery Aadhaar’s emphasis on safety and reliability.

    Additionally, WATTSync supports India’s circular-economy objectives by enabling end-of-life information exchange, recovered-material documentation, and carbon-footprint tracking across the recycling chain, aligned with EU BR material-recovery and sustainability requirements.

    For domestic manufacturing under the ACC-PLI scheme, WATTSync provides secure provenance documentation and traceability needed to verify cell origin, strengthening transparent and fraud-resistant supply chains.

    With its global compliance foundation and India-ready digital identity capabilities, WATTSync positions Tata Technologies as a strategic partner in enabling trusted, sustainable, and future-ready battery ecosystems.

    Author

    • Salil Urunkar

      Salil Urunkar is a senior journalist and the editorial mind behind Sahyadri Startups. With years of experience covering Pune’s entrepreneurial rise, he’s passionate about telling the real stories of founders, disruptors, and game-changers.

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