Customer Challenge
A major power OEM wanted to
- Introduce a scalable, secure, customizable and cost-effective remote monitoring solution
- Create a platform which can monitor, manage and forecast the power generation to help meeting supply commitments to utilities
Scope
- Develop and deploy a low-cost, light-weight custom-built Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) system to remotely monitor Solar Plant
- Reduce operational and maintenance cost
- Provide efficient and professional maintenance support to end-users
- Reduce and minimize the cost for plant commissioning
Solution
- Customized EAGLE Framework – Solution accelerator for local & remote monitoring
- Build Solar Photovoltaic (PV) specific computation engine
- Integrate 1 PLC and 2 Modbus gateways that collect data from field devices (~2000 IO points)
- Integrate systems specific to PV like weather stations, pyranometer, etc.
- Integrate third party AC and DC side equipment like invertors, and transformers
- Implement automated as well as manual control features for periphery lightings and exhaust fans
- Implement remote monitoring of the plant from customer headquarters
Feature
Feature
- Highly modular, scalable and customizable platform for remote visualization and control
- Built-in capabilities like Geospatial information, remote data acquisition, Reporting and highly customized action user interface
- Uses industry standard technologies like Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) for Process Control (OPC) Universal Adaptor (UA) for secure and reliable data transfer over internet
- Supports wide range of industrial protocols
- Offers powerful and intuitive user interface building capabilities with scripting support
Benefits
- Completed in optimum cost and time
- System commissioned is easily manageable by customer’s team of engineers
Results
- End-user (power generation company) provided
- Successful implementation of solar plant monitoring solution
- Operation and maintenance of the plant at minimal cost
- Meeting supply commitments to utilities
- Increased readiness to scale – commission more PV plants and increase power generation