CEGASA Energía and IKERLAN develop a new model of more efficient, cyber-secure batteries connected to the cloud

A commitment from the Basque Country to production in Europe to transform industrial batteries into smart systems through advanced electronics and cloud computing

The collaboration between the two companies highlights CEGASA Energía’s industrial experience and IKERLAN’s technological capacity to anticipate the demands of the energy market

CEGASA Energía, a leading European company in energy storage solutions with more than 90 years of experience, is taking another step forward in its strategy as a European benchmark in the development and manufacture of advanced batteries thanks to its collaboration with the IKERLAN technology centre, which will enable it to promote new capabilities in efficiency, cybersecurity and cloud connectivity for its energy systems.

This alliance has seen CEGASA Energía draw on the multi-technological capabilities of MONDRAGON’s technological arm, bringing together teams from Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Embedded Electronic Systems. In total, a team of more than 10 professionals is participating in the development of these advances. All this with the aim of transforming industrial batteries into intelligent systems capable of managing their consumption, integrating into industrial environments and adapting to future key regulatory requirements, such as those relating to sustainability and cybersecurity.

‘Not all solutions on the market incorporate cybersecurity from the design phase. This preventive approach, in line with European regulations for 2027, is clearly a distinguishing and advanced feature,’ says Miguel Encabo from the R&D team at CEGASA Energía. ‘The project, with a high degree of innovation, has been carried out in a timeframe that would have been unthinkable a few years ago, achieving a robust and reliable solution in just over a year. In this regard, CEGASA Energía products incorporating this technology are expected to be operational in the field by early 2026.’

For his part, Rubén del Cura, a researcher on IKERLAN’s Internet of Things team, states that “today, there is no commercial product on the market that integrates artificial intelligence (AI) models for battery energy management with this level of depth. CEGASA Energía, together with IKERLAN, is anticipating trends by developing a solution that combines advanced electronics, AI, cybersecurity and cloud computing. It is an innovative proposal, aligned with what the sector will demand in the coming years.”

In this regard, the collaboration between the two companies involves evolving towards an ecosystem of connected and remotely updatable batteries, with the capacity to integrate new software modules according to the user’s needs.