BATTERY INFORMATION COMPRESSION APPARATUS AND METHOD

A battery information compression apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a battery information obtaining unit configured to obtain battery information for each of a plurality of batteries; and a communication code generating unit configured to determine a representative value for a plurality of battery information, calculate a reference value for each of the plurality of battery information based on the plurality of battery information and the representative value, determine a first encoding code corresponding to the representative value and a second encoding code corresponding to the plurality of determined reference values according to a preset encoding rule, and generate a communication code including the first encoding code and the second encoding code.