Client Overview:
We have global clients in the Renewable Energy sector - Power industry such as Wind, Solar & Hydro plants.
Problem Statement:
The power plant's infrastructure and data storage was entirely on-premises.
The following challenges were observed at the ends of the client.
- Need for high availability, scalability, security, and storage capacity.
- Need real-time data access and store it in the database (10 Secs)
- Need Web/mobile-based Visualization software.
- Need for Advanced data analytical tool for performance optimization.
Resolution:
It's a challenging project for us, requiring domain knowledge to understand the technology. All are Renewable plants, and wind + Solar + Hydro differ from one to another.
We have Domain expertise in the Power Industry and Internet of Things (IOT) as well. Our team tailored a comprehensive and structured solution to each client w.r.to their infrastructure.
Here are the following steps taken for cloud integration
- Understand the existing SCADA architecture: Collect the existing architecture of SCADA and view the list of components & fields available in the plant.
- Complete Overview of network access and limitations: To check the local LAN connectivity, Network devices, firewall blockings, and internet access.
- Deployment: Placed an Edge computing device to collect the data (OPC UA/OPC DA/Modbus/Modbus TCP IP) from filed components and push the data to cloud platforms Azure and AWS.
- Internet Connectivity: Based on the client & site level infrastructure, provided the internet solution to the edge device.
- Data ingestion: Data ingestion happens in AWS IOT Core / Azure IOT HUB cloud platforms.
- Data process in the cloud: Based on the type of the plant, we have defined dedicated architecture for the Data process.
- 509 Certificates management: AWS & Azure issues a unique set of X.509 certificates, which are used to authenticate the connectivity with the Edge devices mutually.
- Data visualization: Inhouse developers and using BI tools developed the screen to visualize real-time data(near)
Client Benefits
- After Cloud integration, the client has high availability, scalability, security, and storage capacity.
- All plant data is integrated and configured in a cloud environment, and data is available in cloud storage. Anyone can easily access the data using the services available in the cloud.
- Developed Web-based + mobile-based dashboards.
- Prepared a set of dashboards using the BI tool where we can see performance loss + improvement areas
