Web based remote operations on inverters

Abstract

During the late 1990's, a lot of research focused on the area of remote operations for far reaching applications in commercial appliances such as routers, mobile telecommunication devices, and web servers. The field of power generation is still in its initial phases, including hard wiring the control system directly to a machine, allowing the installation of the machine's control firmware from a far-off location. Existing internet based controller modules and remote installation methodologies like updating router firmware for routers and remotely updating web server firmware were investigated. The performance of each method was compared with the others, and based on this, a novel cost effective system was designed which is capable of controlling, monitoring and installing inverter firmware from a remote location with the use of internet.