TY - GEN
T1 - Real-time monitoring and control of a microgrid - Pilot project
T2 - 29th Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference, AUPEC 2019
AU - Hosseinzadeh, Nasser
AU - Mousavi, Ali
AU - Teirab, Abbas
AU - Varzandeh, Shahriar
AU - Al-Hinai, Amer
N1 - Funding Information:
ACKNOWLEDGMENT This project was carried out as a part of research activities of the Sustainable Energy Research Centre (SERC) of Sultan Qaboos University (SQU), and was done in the Smart Grid Laboratory of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) of SQU. The authors would like to thank both SERC and ECE Department. The research funding was granted by the British Petroleum (BP) Company in Oman, and the Research Council (TRC) of Oman. We would like to than BP and TRC for supporting this project.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 IEEE.
PY - 2019/11
Y1 - 2019/11
N2 - This paper explains the development of a small-scale microgrid, which is equipped with a dedicated wireless communication network and a real-time monitoring and control system. The microgrid was formed by combining four renewable energy systems (RESs) located in different parts of the university campus. The aim of the project was to collect data from embedded sensors in each of these RESs, and design and implement an on-line near real-time monitoring system to enable observation of their performances simultaneously. Challenges that have been addressed are 1) security of information going through a dedicated communication channel; 2) time synchronisation of the data packets, which were transmitted at the same time, but received at the access point at slightly different times; 3) capability of the system for the interoperabilty of different types of inverters.
AB - This paper explains the development of a small-scale microgrid, which is equipped with a dedicated wireless communication network and a real-time monitoring and control system. The microgrid was formed by combining four renewable energy systems (RESs) located in different parts of the university campus. The aim of the project was to collect data from embedded sensors in each of these RESs, and design and implement an on-line near real-time monitoring system to enable observation of their performances simultaneously. Challenges that have been addressed are 1) security of information going through a dedicated communication channel; 2) time synchronisation of the data packets, which were transmitted at the same time, but received at the access point at slightly different times; 3) capability of the system for the interoperabilty of different types of inverters.
KW - Interoperability
KW - Microgrid
KW - Real-time monitoring and control
KW - Renewable Energy
KW - Smart grid
KW - Time synchronization
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U2 - 10.1109/AUPEC48547.2019.243754
DO - 10.1109/AUPEC48547.2019.243754
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85086299623
T3 - 2019 29th Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference, AUPEC 2019
BT - 2019 29th Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference, AUPEC 2019
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 26 November 2019 through 29 November 2019
ER -
