Data acquisition, monitoring and control system

Details

Acronym: NEXO
Partners: Instituto Tecnológico y de Energías Renovables
Duration: Ongoing – estructural
Budget: Internal
Financing: Internal

Overview of the project

ITER’s energy resources are geographically distributed, and access to the associated data is done remotely and automatically through queries to the measurement equipment of each of the energy facilities.

The main objective of this ongoing project is to modernize the digital infrastructure responsible for acquiring and storing data from ITER’s energy generation facilities: wind farms and photovoltaic plants. For this reason, work is being carried out in the Robotics Unit on the development and deployment of a versatile, scalable, and easy-to-maintain system that acts as an interface for the data from the entire energy infrastructure and the data related to its generation and consumption.

For its implementation, queries to field equipment (meters, network analyzers, stations, etc.) are centralized on an IoT server using different communication protocols: Modbus, IEC870-5, SNMP, etc. Once the data from the remote equipment is queried, the server saves a copy of it in a database and manages and responds to requests from other agents or services that use the data.

The equipment integrated into Nexo is classified by criteria such as location, type of energy and meter, management responsibility, operator, etc., greatly facilitating the management of the information associated with the equipment. In addition, the data recorded in the IoT server will be accessible through one or more interfaces (APIs). Secure and coordinated data access, provided by the system, allows the operator to configure access based on the needs of the services or users of the data.

Furthermore, the implemented system will allow more efficient monitoring of the data and events generated by the integrated equipment. Through meticulous real-time control of incidents and events that may occur in both communications and measurement equipment, there is a noticeable improvement in decision-making in unforeseen circumstances or in preventive maintenance of the equipment.

The resulting system from the Nexo project will have the versatility to capture and process different types of data, making it possible to integrate any type of remote equipment, not only those related to the generation and consumption of electrical energy.