FUNCTIONAL SAFETY IN A BATTERY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

In a particular embodiment, functional safety in a battery management system includes a network controller of a battery management system (BMS) receiving from a module monitoring system (MMS) of the BMS, a message that includes a first set of data type blocks. In this embodiment, the network controller determines for the first set of data type blocks, a block sequence order that indicates a position of each data type block within the message. The network controller determines whether the message conforms with a predetermined block sequence protocol. In response to determining that the message does not conform with a predetermined block sequence protocol, the network controller determines that data within the message is stale.