Internet based monitoring and control of a wind turbine via PLC

Abstract

The policy challenges associated with global warming, the prospect of increasingly expensive fossil fuels, and serious concerns about the safety of nuclear power are encouraging many country of world economies to develop smart grids (SGs) as a component of their energy policy portfolios. In the smart grids is an important part of renewable energy sources especially for wind turbines. Due to structure of a wind turbine, they must be established on a wide area. In order to monitor and control wind turbines, which are under different terrains and harsh conditions. All information and data, which is belong to wind turbine, must be gathered in one central unit. As a result of this situation, an economic system need arises. The wireless communication between control station and away stations, where they were located on different areas on the earth is provided by GPRS. We can do following applications from central station; Monitoring, controlling and updating PLC program. Also. If you enter central station IP address and port number of SCADA program into address line of web browser, you can monitor the system via any web browser of an internet connected computer.