Title :
A low cost remote alarm for industrial power systems
Author :
Chan, T.W. ; Rahman, M.A.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore
Abstract :
The design and development of a remote alarm system suitable for use on industrial power systems are discussed. A prototype was tested in the laboratory with satisfactory performance. The proposed system consists of a remote monitoring unit and a control interface module directly plugged onto an IBM-compatible PC which acts as the control center. By adopting the touch-tone dialing technique, alarm data can be encoded, transmitted, and decoded without the need to use modems. The communication time for a fault reporting session, though slower than the SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) system, is adequate for small industrial distribution networks
Keywords :
alarm systems; computerised monitoring; distribution networks; electrical faults; industries; microcomputer applications; power system measurement; telemetering; IBM-compatible PC; communication time; control interface; distribution networks; fault reporting; industrial power systems; laboratory; monitoring; performance; remote alarm system; telemetering; touch-tone dialing; Alarm systems; Communication system control; Control systems; Costs; Industrial power systems; Laboratories; Prototypes; Remote monitoring; SCADA systems; Testing;
Conference_Titel :
Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting, 1993., Conference Record of the 1993 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Toronto, Ont.
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-1462-X
DOI :
10.1109/IAS.1993.299214
