TY - JOUR
T1 - A real-time monitoring platform for distributed energy resources in a microgrid—pilot study in oman
AU - Hosseinzadeh, Nasser
AU - Al Maashri, Ahmed
AU - Tarhuni, Naser
AU - Elhaffar, Abdelsalam
AU - Al-Hinai, Amer
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding: This research was funded by BP Oman, grant number BP/DVC/SERC/17/01. The APC was funded by the same grant.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
PY - 2021/7/28
Y1 - 2021/7/28
N2 - This article presents the development of a platform for real-time monitoring of multi-microgrids. A small-scale platform has been developed and implemented as a prototype, which takes data from various types of devices located at a distance from each other. The monitoring platform is interoperable, as it allows several protocols to coexist. While the developed prototype is tested on small-scale distributed energy resources (DERs), it is done in a way to extend the concept for monitoring several microgrids in real scales. Monitoring strategies were developed for DERs by making a customized two-way communication channel between the microgrids and the monitoring center using a long-range bridged wireless local area network (WLAN). In addition, an informative and easy-to-use software dashboard was developed. The dashboard shows real-time information and measurements from the DERs—providing the user with a holistic view of the status of the DERs. The proposed system is scalable, modular, facilitates the interoperability of various types of inverters, and communicates data over a secure communication channel. All these features along with its relatively low cost make the developed real-time monitoring platform very useful for online monitoring of smart microgrids.
AB - This article presents the development of a platform for real-time monitoring of multi-microgrids. A small-scale platform has been developed and implemented as a prototype, which takes data from various types of devices located at a distance from each other. The monitoring platform is interoperable, as it allows several protocols to coexist. While the developed prototype is tested on small-scale distributed energy resources (DERs), it is done in a way to extend the concept for monitoring several microgrids in real scales. Monitoring strategies were developed for DERs by making a customized two-way communication channel between the microgrids and the monitoring center using a long-range bridged wireless local area network (WLAN). In addition, an informative and easy-to-use software dashboard was developed. The dashboard shows real-time information and measurements from the DERs—providing the user with a holistic view of the status of the DERs. The proposed system is scalable, modular, facilitates the interoperability of various types of inverters, and communicates data over a secure communication channel. All these features along with its relatively low cost make the developed real-time monitoring platform very useful for online monitoring of smart microgrids.
KW - Distributed energy resources
KW - Renewable energy systems
KW - Smart grids
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U2 - 10.3390/electronics10151803
DO - 10.3390/electronics10151803
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85111303285
SN - 2079-9292
VL - 10
JO - Electronics (Switzerland)
JF - Electronics (Switzerland)
IS - 15
M1 - 1803
ER -
