Monitoring system of thermo-solar plant based on touch-screen interface manageable locally by PC and remotely by Android-based mobile devices

Author

Visconti, P. ; Costantini, P. ; Cavalera, G.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Innovation Eng., Univ. of Salento-Lecce, Lecce, Italy

fYear

2015

fDate

9-10 July 2015

Firstpage

204

Lastpage

209

Abstract

This paper describes a programmable electronic unit for controlling the environmental parameters and managing the electrical functions of a civil/industrial thermo-solar plant. The control unit acquires data from analog sensors, processes these information and commands external actuation devices with dedicated relay outputs, allowing the optimization of plant performances in order to maximize efficiency and energy saving. The designed electronic system has a touch-screen display for graphical interface with users, which makes device programming and managing operations easier. In addition to, the system is accessible via PC terminal on site by means of serial cable with RS232 standard and from Android-based mobile devices connected to internet network for remote monitoring, since the designed control unit is connected to a modem/router device with an RS485/Ethernet adapter.

Keywords

Internet; energy conservation; graphical user interfaces; local area networks; power engineering computing; smart phones; solar power stations; thermal power stations; Android mobile device; PC; RS232 standard; RS485 Ethernet adapter; actuation device; analog sensor; civil thermo-solar plant monitoring system; control unit design; device programming; energy efficiency; energy saving; environmental parameter control; graphical user interface; industrial thermo-solar plant monitoring system; internet network; modem-router device; programmable electronic unit; relay outputs; remote monitoring; serial cable; touch screen interface management; Boards; Relays; Solar heating; Temperature sensors; Water heating; PIC; mobile device; monitoring; sensor; thermosolar;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Environmental, Energy and Structural Monitoring Systems (EESMS), 2015 IEEE Workshop on

Conference_Location

Trento

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-8214-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EESMS.2015.7175878

Filename

7175878