The current COVID-19 pandemic situation exposed the limitations of Local SCADA systems deployed at plant locations and the importance of monitoring plants from “Anywhere and Anytime”.
The next generation IIOT SCADA ETi-SOL 5.0 released in June 2020 by EnerMAN technologies goes beyond just monitoring of Solar PV plants. The ETi-SOL 5.0 platform is purpose-built to do “Not only Monitoring (NoMon)” but also transforming PV plant data into Knowledge so that all the stakeholders of PV plant (plant owner, O&M Manager, technician) benefit from it.
The Portfolio Page This is the dashboard that can provide plant and portfolio level KPIs like Generation, PR, Plant Status, etc. This data is very useful for the plant owner as well as O&M Manager to know how their plants are performing on a day. The SCADA transforms generation data into carbon footprint knowledge that the owner can take pride in how he is contributing to a healthier planet.
The Plant Overview Page
This dashboard (refer to figure 1) is designed after taking inputs from many customers with a combined portfolio of 900+ MW. The technician can get complete knowledge about how his plant is operating. Some of the performance metrics are generation, insolation, peak power, total power, PR, CUF, yield etc. Many of the components on this page are customizable to the specific needs of a customer. If a key performance indicator is outside the expected range, there is a provision for the technician to share the incident knowledge to the managers at HQ by adding Bulletin messages.
SLD diagrams The SLD diagrams are very important for an electrical engineer or technician to do live monitoring and take quick action if a device turns red due to a fault. This page is custom-built for each plant based on how the plant is designed by referring to its schematic diagrams.
The Device Dashboards All major devices like Inverter, SCB, Weather Station of a plant have their own dashboards and can be accessed from this page.
The Analytics Page The user can download pre-defined daily, monthly, and yearly reports by a click of a button.
The Alarm Page No SCADA is complete without an Alert module. The ETi-SOL 5.0 works closely with datalogger ETi-Log to provide real-time, robust, and accurate alarms and events. It has two levels of Alarm detection logics, the primary logic deployed in the edge device (ETi-Log) and the secondary logic deployed in the SCADA (ETi-SOL 5.0). This extra layer of alert logic ensures that the user will not miss an Alarm.
Author: Ravisha D N, Sr. VP - Solar Analytics, EnerMAN Technologies
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