On the design of wireless sensor networks for autonomous heliostats in Solar Tower Power Plants

Author

Cabezas, J. ; Aguilar, E. ; Pastor, A. ; Méndez, A. ; Torralba, A. ; Carvajal, R.G. ; Aranda, E. ; Viguera, J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Univ. of Seville, Seville, Spain

fYear

2012

fDate

25-28 Oct. 2012

Firstpage

6019

Lastpage

6023

Abstract

This paper discusses the deployment of a wireless network to monitor and control a Solar Tower Power Plant, taking into account its unique characteristics like clustering or antenna orientation. An software tool is presented, with inputs based on real or estimated plant layouts and tunable network parameters. A set of solutions for cluster head location and node power output is proposed and results are exported to WSN simulators. In addition, experimental results obtained from the deployment of a wireless network based on IEEE 802.15.4 in a real power plant are presented.

Keywords

Zigbee; power engineering computing; power plants; solar power stations; wireless sensor networks; IEEE 802.15.4; WSN simulator; antenna orientation; autonomous heliostat; cluster head location; node power output; plant layout estimation; software tool; solar tower power plant control; solar tower power plant monitoring; tunable network parameter; wireless sensor network; Antennas; Argon; Receivers; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

IECON 2012 - 38th Annual Conference on IEEE Industrial Electronics Society

Conference_Location

Montreal, QC

ISSN

1553-572X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2419-9

Electronic_ISBN

1553-572X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IECON.2012.6389098

Filename

6389098