VIDIHIP - A Web Service based Integration Platform for Power Plant Control Systems

Author

Strembeck, Mark ; Plhal, Otto U.

Author_Institution

Vienna Univ. of Econ. & BA, Vienna

fYear

2007

fDate

19-20 June 2007

Firstpage

207

Lastpage

214

Abstract

European energy supply companies typically run a conglomerate of different, geographically distributed power plants. Unfortunately, the corresponding power plant control systems are based on proprietary technology and an integration of these control systems is a very complex task. We thus conducted a project to build an integration platform for power plant control systems that is based on open standards and technologies. In this paper, we describe the Vienna District Heating Integration Platform (VIDIHIP). VIDIHIP is based on Web service technology and allows for the integration of arbitrary (heterogeneous) power plant control systems. It provides a consistent interface to access different decentralized control systems and each standard Web browser can be used as a control front-end for VIDIHIP.

Keywords

Web services; control engineering computing; decentralised control; power engineering computing; power plants; power system control; European energy supply companies; VIDIHIP platform; Vienna District Heating Integration Platform; Web browser; Web service based integration platform; Web service technology; control front-end; decentralized control system; geographically distributed power plants; heterogeneous power plant control systems; Automatic control; Automatic generation control; Automation; Cogeneration; Control systems; Heating; Nuclear power generation; Power generation; Temperature control; Web services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Service-Oriented Computing and Applications, 2007. SOCA '07. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Newport Beach, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2861-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SOCA.2007.47

Filename

4273428