HNSI

Hardened Network Solutions, Inc. (HNSI â) a U.S. company, announces the delivery of its mid-range, scalable energy storage system (“ESS”).

HNSI uses upcycled electric vehicle batteries (“EVBs”) as its core energy storage platform. The product outperforms the standard offering in the market, the diesel generator in terms of duration of operation and emissions. Diesel generators require refueling every 6-8 hours, while HNSI extends the supply of back up energy to a minimum of 24 hours with no tailpipe emissions. The system is scalable to 3-5 days

depending upon the customer requirements.

The HNSI product is self-contained and requires no fuel replacement or refueling, reducing the cost of onsite visits and related costs to nearly zero. It can be used on or off the grid and is operated, monitored and maintained remotely. We intend to deliver energy storage as a service (“ESaaS”) to commercial locations across the country with a focus on areas seeing increased outages due to weather and extreme heat.

When EVBs are approximately 20%-30% depleted, they are no longer considered viable enough to power a vehicle, yet they still retain 70-80% of their original storage capacity. Upcycling used EVBs into a revenue generating second life optimizes the metrics of the battery including its carbon footprint. It is an iterative step before recycling. We provide OEMs with a solution to manage battery retirement including handling, logistics and tracking, ensuring they maintain control of their assets (the recoverable minerals in the batteries) and an audit trail for compliance with the various local, state, and federal regulatory requirements.

We are building the many tools needed to integrate EVBs in second life applications, including modeling the many battery form factors, connectors, and the ability to monitor state of health and environmentals in near real time. The charging, discharging and maintenance of dissimilar batteries is complex and is perhaps the biggest challenge to second life applications. We have overcome these hurdles with a variety of hardware and software solutions developed by our engineering team.

HNSI believes energy storage is a key element to ensuring the nation is able to take advantage of the 4th Industrial Revolution which includes self-driving cars, mobile computing and augmented reality. These capabilities are in part driven by 5G connectivity and are completely reliant on the national telecommunication networks to be up 100% of the time.

HNSI’s CEO and founder, Matt Gove recently commented on this topic:

“The national infrastructure can’t handle the electrified future that is being rolled out. Power generation and distribution fails to meet demand in many parts of the country on a daily basis, but even if the current national power generation framework could produce unlimited amounts of electricity, the grid infrastructure couldn’t handle it. Therefore, the way for us to evolve into the ‘electrified future’ is by moving storage to the edge.” Upgrading the grid will take massive investment of time and money. Positioning storage where you know you’ll need uninterrupted power is the solution. HNSI is here to meet that challenge.”

About Hardened Network Solutions, Inc.: www.hnsi.info is an upcycle energy storage company based in Connecticut. Founded in 2018, it has expanded with manufacture and distribution assets across the U.S. Using upcycled EV batteries from the Automotive industry, HNSI is bringing energy storage solutions to the Edge, offering scalable long-run diesel generator alternatives. HNSI is currently in testing trials and MOU in place for its first large scale rollout.

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