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CellSage Battery Health Modeling Webinar: August 16, 2023

Ridgetop’s CellSage Battery Health Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis (MS&A) software platform is an advanced battery and cell aging simulation tool that represents over a decade of research in electrochemistry, physics, and thermodynamics. CellSage utilizes advanced diagnostics and predictive modeling techniques to achieve a better understanding of path-dependance aging, as well as providing critical simulation results that help our customers validate warranty periods, improve time to market for new battery powered systems, and optimize battery cycle life for both primary and second-use applications.

Join Ridgetop Group and special guest, Dr. Kevin L. Gering from Idaho National Laboratory (INL) to find out how the results and analysis provided by CellSage will benefit your battery R&D applications, and why the New Chemistry Import Feature has been identified as a revolutionary innovation that can accurately model arbitrary lithium-ion battery chemistries with limited upfront cycle life testing data.

Webinar is scheduled for Wednesday, August 16, 2023, at 10 AM PT (5:00 PM UTC).

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Advanced Electrolyte Model Webinar: May 18, 2023

The Advanced Electrolyte Model (AEM) developed at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) is a proven software capability designed to explore molecular-to-macroscale level aspects of electrolyte behavior and can be used to drastically reduce the time required to characterize and optimize electrolytes. Although it is applied most frequently to Li-ion and Na-ion battery systems, it is general in its theory and can be used toward numerous other targets.

Join Ridgetop Group and special guest, Dr. Kevin L. Gering from INL to find out how the results and analysis provided by AEM will help identify new electrolyte combinations for your unique applications.

Webinar is scheduled for Thursday, May 18, 2023, at 11 AM PT (6:00 PM UTC).

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New Sentinel Motion Pilot Study Announcement with Reading Blue Mountain and Northern Railroad and Innovative Operations Technology

Ridgetop Group Announces New Sentinel Motion Pilot Study with Reading Blue Mountain and Northern (RBMN) Railroad and Innovative Operations Technology (IOT)

Tucson, Arizona, April 10, 2023

Ridgetop Group, Inc. (Ridgetop) and Innovative Operations Technology (IOT) are excited to announce a joint pilot study program with Reading Blue Mountain and Northern (RBMN) Railroad in Port Clinton, PA. Together, Ridgetop and IOT are testing and evaluating the latest design upgrades for Ridgetop’s Sentinel Motion for Rail technology. This innovative on-board monitoring technology utilizes the Internet-of-Things to connect wireless smart sensors to a complete data acquisition and diagnostics software platform that monitors bearings, wheels, and track conditions in the railroad industry. Sentinel Motion offers substantial benefits when compared to traditional wayside hot-box detection systems that only detect failure modes after they have already occurred. Ridgetop’s approach to use onboard monitoring, cloud connectivity, and advance vibration analysis methods has been proven to detect wheel and bearing failures well in advance and can help prevent catastrophic derailments.

Through this pilot study program, Ridgetop and IOT are planning to demonstrate how Sentinel Motion can be used to support the transition from reactive or preventative maintenance to Condition-Based Maintenance (CBM) based on physical evidence of degradation. Such information, diagnostics, and alerts can be easily integrated into other software platforms, and complements both companies’ commitment to providing railroad operators with new technologies that improve safety, maintenance, and operational readiness of their rail assets.

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Ridgetop Announces Exclusive Product Distribution Agreement for the Advanced Electrolyte Model

Ridgetop Group Announces Exclusive Product Distribution Agreement for the Advanced Electrolyte Model Developed at Idaho National Laboratory

Tucson, Arizona, February 1, 2023

Ridgetop Group, Inc. (Ridgetop) and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory (INL) are excited to announce an Exclusive Product Distribution Agreement for the Advanced Electrolyte Model (AEM) developed by Dr. Kevin Gering at INL. AEM is one of the first scientifically proven modeling tools to explore molecular-level interactions to simulate, diagnose, and predict electrolyte attributes through an exhaustive list of properties. This innovative technology has been successfully applied to significantly reduce the time required to characterize and optimize electrolytes for Li-Ion and Na-Ion battery applications. The data rich outputs from AEM are used to screen, characterize and optimize electrolyte systems, and to support transport modeling of batteries. Non-battery applications can also be served.

Through this new agreement, Ridgetop and INL will work together to enhance the commercial utility and drivability of AEM by developing a modern Graphical User Interface (GUI) and related output features. This supports our joint initiative of making AEM available to the global battery research community where we know the tool can play a key role in the design and development of next generation batteries. AEM complements Ridgetop’s existing CellSage product line and builds upon Ridgetop and INL’s joint business and technology collaboration exercises that started in 2015. Together our goal is to develop and commercialize new and proven technologies that support battery health modeling, diagnostics, and optimization for target applications and missions.

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ARULE Webinar

Ridgetop’s Adaptive Remaining Useful Life Estimator (ARULE) is a powerful prognostic reasoner to determine the Remaining Useful Life (RUL), State-of-Health (SoH), and Prognostic Horizon (PH) of complex systems. Working from acquired sensor data, ARULE employs an advanced prediction method related to extended Kalman filtering (EKF) to produce new RUL, SoH, and PH estimates for each new sensor data point.

Join Ridgetop Group and Distinguished Engineer James Hofmeister, to find out more about this predictive analytics software package and how it can benefit your own unique CBM, PHM, and IVHM applications.

Webinar is scheduled for Thursday May 5, 2022 at 10:00 AM PT (5:00 PM UTC).

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CellSage Webinar – August 2020

CellSage is an advanced battery and cell aging software simulation tool, and it represents over a decade of research in electro-chemistry, physics, and thermodynamics. This leading edge simulation platform allows battery end users to create “what if” scenarios to weigh the impact of operational and environmental stress factors on battery performance and battery health.

Join Ridgetop Group and special guest, Dr. Kevin L. Gering from Idaho National Laboratory (INL), to find out how the results and analysis provided by CellSage will help select the most appropriate battery for a given mission.

Webinar is scheduled for Thursday August 13, 2020 at 10:00 AM PT (5:00 PM UTC).

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