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Web access to real time and numeric data (Web-SCADA)
(David Leal, CAESAR Systems Limited)
The project will develop a flexible Internet based solution to the sharing and exchange of system monitoring and control data. The project will bring together two technologies:
- XML for the definition of the semantics of the data (based upon the EPISTLE core model developed by the European process industry, and the MathML DTD);
- the portable binary format HDF5 for tables of numeric values.
The project will support access to:
- real time information about current system status; and
- historic information over any time scale - minutes, hours, days.
The demonstrators will cover the following applications:
- a flood warning system based upon measurements of rainfall and river flows;
- the planning, control and metering of a distributed electrical generation system with many small hydro and wind generation producers
- the operation of a generator-consumer 'balance-group' within an electric power market;
- a condition based maintenance system, based upon on-line condition monitoring of components in electrical networks and production sites;
- a system for domestic market access and energy control, allowing on-line household metering.