Parameter logging & remote monitoring for microgrid demonstration project

Abstract

As an element of research initiative to aid the prospective smart grid issues and to integrate green energy facilities lucratively a demonstration project “Design & Development of Smart Micro-Grid” is being executed in Energy Center, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (MANIT), Bhopal. In view of the fact that most renewable sources are intermittent in nature, their integration into the power grid infrastructure is a challenging task which is envisaged to be effectively carried through micro grids. Real time Data Acquisition from renewable energy generators and their monitoring play an extremely important role in overall supervision and the desired coordinated operation control of such diverse energy resources. The main idea of this paper is to present a continuous remote monitoring system for renewable energy sources which is one amongst the significant footsteps taken for accomplishment of the microgrid Research & Development project. It is a PC-based monitoring system able to measure remotely the real-time data of various renewable energy sources and generate reports as tables and graphs. The user may well monitor and display the data remotely by using the local area network through specific software.