Software & providers
Compare capabilities, portability, integrations, and operating responsibilities before choosing software.
Evaluate the process behind the interface
Compare how a provider imports information, manages evidence, records changes, and supports migration. Ask for a demonstration using a representative non-sensitive record.
Useful starting points
- Test missing values and conflicting units.
- Inspect access controls and change history.
- Clarify responsibilities, exports, and service exit.
Guides in this topic
How Is Access Controlled in Passport Software?
Access control enforces Annex XIII tiers field by field, separating read rights from update rights and preserving passport availability after an operator ceases activity.
How to evaluate battery passport software
A practical evaluation framework for battery passport software, including evidence, access, interoperability and exit.
What Data Exchange Formats Support Battery Passports?
Battery passport data exchange must be fully interoperable in technical, semantic and organisational aspects, using harmonised standards and a shared vocabulary.
How Should Passport Software Be Evaluated Without Endorsing a Vendor?
Passport software is evaluated against Regulation, standard and workflow criteria using operator data and tests, with evidence filed per criterion and no vendor ranking.
How Do Interoperability and Open Data Differ for Passports?
Interoperability governs controlled exchange between systems under access rights, while open data governs publication of the public tier without authentication.
What Is the Passport Registry?
The passport registry is a central index of unique identifiers and metadata, while full passport data remain held in decentralised operator systems.
What Are the Outline Steps to Register a Passport?
Registry registration follows a gated outline from operator verification and identifier creation to upload, confirmation and placing on the market.
What Must a Passport Software Audit Trail Record?
A passport audit trail records every field change and restricted access decision with actor, authority, reason and time, in append only, integrity checked storage.
How Does Software Handle Carbon Footprint Data?
Carbon software implements the JRC supported methodology for a specific model and site, with versioned calculation, recalculation triggers and verifier ready evidence.
How Does Software Handle State of Health Data?
State of health software carries versioned, method stated passport fields resulting from use, updated at defined life stage events under tier control.
How Are Passport Data Migrated and Kept Portable?
Passport migration preserves records, field meanings, identifier history and access tiers through a mapped, tested and reversible process.
How Does Software Handle Supplier Data for Passports?
Supplier data software collects field by field data from suppliers, verifies each field against the passport requirement, and tracks missing fields to escalation.
How Do Unique Identifiers Work in Passport Software?
A unique identifier is a persistent, once allocated key linking the physical battery, its carrier, its passport and its registry entry.