What challenges did KURZ DIGITAL face before AI implementation?

Manufacturers need scalable infrastructure to collect, manage, and securely store battery lifecycle data for regulatory compliance. SMEs often lack the digital infrastructure to build battery passport systems from scratch.

What was the impact of the AI solution?

The battery passport turns compliance into strategic value by enabling direct customer interaction, new service offers, and future analytics use cases. The article says the approach can create new revenue opportunities such as predictive maintenance alerts and performance optimization recommendations.

Source

GCPEvidence: Low40/100

KURZ DIGITAL: Vertex AI + BigQuery for battery passport analytics on Google Cloud

Use case typeSupply chain trackingUpdated 1 day ago

KURZ DIGITAL developed a modular battery passport solution for manufacturers under the EU Battery Regulation. The solution uses Google Cloud services and the TRUSTCODE technology to link each battery to a digital record, integrate with manufacturing systems through APIs, and support tiered access for stakeholders. The company is planning to use Vertex AI and BigQuery to extract additional value from battery lifecycle data.

Organization: KURZ DIGITAL
Industry: Manufacturing
Location: Germany
Published: July 2026

Reported outcomes

Strategic outcomes

Risk & complianceStreamlined battery passport complianceCustomer experience & trustCreated a direct customer engagement channelNew business modelEnabled new service revenue opportunitiesSustainability & ESGImproved recycling efficiency

Why do we believe this deployment?Customer identity, provider attribution, maturity, and source checks

Customer: KURZ DIGITAL
Provider: GCP
Maturity: Unknown
Linked source: Google Cloud Customer Stories

No explicit deployment-stage evidence found.

Customer identity supportedSource describes one deploymentMaturity evidence evaluated

Primary read

Use case focus

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1Supply chain tracking
2Customer communication automation

Manufacturers need scalable infrastructure to collect, manage, and securely store battery lifecycle data for regulatory compliance.
SMEs often lack the digital infrastructure to build battery passport systems from scratch.

KURZ DIGITAL built a flexible, modular architecture for the battery passport solution using TRUSTCODE technology.
The implementation uses Google Cloud components including BigQuery and Vertex AI, with supporting services such as GKE, Cloud SQL, and Cloud Storage.
The solution supports APIs, unique identifiers such as QR codes, and tiered access for different stakeholders.

Technologies

BigQuery Vertex AI Google Kubernetes Engine Cloud SQL Cloud Storage

The battery passport turns compliance into strategic value by enabling direct customer interaction, new service offers, and future analytics use cases.
The article says the approach can create new revenue opportunities such as predictive maintenance alerts and performance optimization recommendations.

Architecture

KURZ DIGITAL built a modular battery passport solution on Google Cloud using TRUSTCODE technology to connect QR code identifiers to digital battery records, integrate with manufacturing systems via APIs, and provide tiered stakeholder access. The implementation is designed to support public cloud, hybrid, or on-premises deployment models and can add analytics incrementally with BigQuery and Vertex AI.

Sources & evidence1

Evidence: Low40/100Evidence strength