A PROPOSED NEW SCADA SYSTEM FOR REMOTE PV APPLICATIONS | ||||
| ERJ. Engineering Research Journal | ||||
| Article 2, Volume 38, Issue 2, April 2015, Page 81-91 PDF (1005.73 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/erjm.2015.66786 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Yousry Atia1; Mohamed Zahran1; Ahmed Abulmagd2 | ||||
| 1Electronics Research Institute, PV Dept. | ||||
| 2Minya University | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| The remote photovoltaic systems needs a simple, cheap, remote monitoring and remotely controlling devices. Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems based on PLCs are very complex, lower reliability, and require developed electronic industry in order to produce sophisticated PLC's. Information Technology (IT) industry requires simpler, cheap, no restrictions on software or hardware SCADA systems. This paper presents a new generation of Remote Terminal Unit (RTU) for SCADA system based on microcontroller for customer side distribution automation system. We have a common trend of attempting to lower SCADA costs on RTU side. Our paper goals are to go to deep in lowering the cost of RTU unit, freeing the software so lowering system cost, and to expand the open source technology culture away from the restricted one of the large companies. A proposed microcontroller-based SCADA system with an open source software and graphical user interface is introduced in this paper. Our proposed system cost lowering efforts depending on the simple remote terminal unit (RTU), and an open source software. The system is modular where the main terminal unit (MTU) with a human machine interface (HMI) can access many RTUs that can plug and play. The proposed system is designed, implemented and gave excellent results in collecting data, transmitting, monitoring, and applying system control as well. One of the most appropriate applications for SCADA is the remote area photovoltaic standalone systems. The SCADA is used as monitoring, control and management system | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| SCADA; Microcontroller; Ethernet; MODBUS; Remote Monitoring; MTU; RTU; HMI; GUI | ||||
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