Edinburgh-based battery technology company Dukosi has promoted Joseph Notaro to President. Until now he has been the company’s Chief Revenue Officer, and he has led the commercial adoption of its Dukosi Cell Monitoring System (DKCMS).
As CRO, Notaro looked after sales and business development, applications, and marketing communications. In his new role he also takes on all of the product-specific functions: product definition, product marketing, and product development. The company says he has been central to getting DKCMS into electric vehicles (xEV), industrial transport, marine applications, and battery energy storage systems (BESS).
“Joseph has gone beyond just improving the company’s sales operations, applications support, and building market awareness. He has consistently demonstrated the level of vision and leadership expected in a company president,” said Mark Pinto, CEO of Dukosi. “During the past three years, he has increased our global customer base, achieved greater market adoption, identified new market opportunities, and ensured our product roadmaps align with customers’ roadmaps.”
Pinto added that he looked forward to working with Notaro “as we enter this new stage of the company’s growth and scale the company to sustainable profitable growth.”
Notaro has more than 30 years of international leadership experience in the automotive, semiconductor, and advanced technology industries. He has held roles at STMicroelectronics, Fairchild Semiconductor and onsemi, and at the LiDAR scaleup Baraja. His sector experience covers automotive semiconductors, ADAS and autonomous driving, electrification, LiDAR, and battery monitoring.
From production to automotive-grade processes
The appointment follows two years of commercial progress for DKCMS. In September 2024, Dukosi announced that the chipset was ready for volume production after completing AEC-Q100 qualification testing.
DKCMS Core is built around two chips. The DK8102-AQ-25 Cell Monitor is mounted directly onto each battery cell, where it measures voltage and temperature and also handles cell balancing and diagnostics. The DK8202-AR-25 System Hub manages two-way data transfer between every Cell Monitor and the BMS host. It does this over a single bus antenna using C-SynQ, Dukosi’s own contactless communication protocol.
According to the company, this approach avoids the limitations of both wired harnesses and far-field wireless systems. It also synchronises measurements across the whole pack, with predictable latency. Because each Cell Monitor includes non-volatile memory, every cell carries a record of its own history. Dukosi says this lifetime traceability helps customers prepare for regulations such as the EU Battery Passport.
In September 2025, Dukosi achieved Automotive SPICE (ASPICE) Capability Level 2 for the development processes behind its next-generation cell monitoring system. UL Solutions carried out the assessment against ASPICE PAM 4.0, in line with ISO/IEC 33002. It covered system development, software development, support, and project management, which goes beyond the scope the VDA recommends. Dukosi says its processes are also fully aligned with ISO 26262.
“Vehicle OEMs around the world use ASPICE to assess the quality of their suppliers’ software development processes throughout the supply chain,” said Pinto at the time. “Achieving ASPICE Level 2 assures customers in the automotive market of Dukosi’s next generation cell monitoring system’s safety and reliability for embedded automotive applications.”
In April 2026, the technology helped Norwegian battery specialist Nordic Marine Power (NMP) achieve DNV type approval for its PowerStack battery system. The approval means PowerStack can be installed on any vessel classed by DNV. PowerStack is a modular battery system built around Dukosi’s chip-on-cell monitoring.
The key safety advantage is temperature sensing on every cell. Many alternative architectures fit only a few temperature sensors per module. Because DKCMS monitors each cell continuously, the company says overtemperature events can be caught much earlier, and the BMS processor can be alerted even when it is in deep sleep mode.
“One of the key concerns in marine applications is safety,” said Jonas Roald Nordstrand, CEO of NMP. “Having a Dukosi Cell Monitor chip on each cell gives us greater real-time insights into every cell’s behaviour, which has allowed us to accelerate achieving DNV certification.”
Speaking at the time of the approval, Notaro said NMP had “quickly recognised the advantages of Dukosi’s chip-on-cell technology” and had confirmed through its own internal testing that per-cell temperature measurement provides “the higher level of safety required for onboard energy storage systems.”
