Development of a real time monitoring and control system for PLC based elevator

Author

Irmak, Erdal ; Colak, Ilhami ; Kaplan, Orhan ; Kose, Ali

Author_Institution

Electr. & Electron. Eng. Dept., Gazi Univ., Ankara, Turkey

fYear

2011

fDate

Aug. 30 2011-Sept. 1 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

Abstract

In this study, real time monitoring and controlling of an elevator prototype based on PLC is developed. The software of PLC has been improved in Simatic Version 4.0 and the main control interface is also developed in Visual Basic as more visual. The system has been applied on a laboratory sized elevator prototype which includes a dc motor, sensors for every floor, gas-smoke detectors and temperature sensor. OPC Server protocol is used to transfer data between the PLC and the control interface. The system developed can be used for not only controlling and monitoring an industrial elevator system but also learning the basic principles of a PLC based system and control strategies of elevator systems as an educational material.

Keywords

Visual BASIC; control engineering computing; lifts; programmable controllers; temperature sensors; OPC server protocol; PLC based elevator; Simatic Version 4.0; Visual Basic; dc motor; gas-smoke detectors; industrial elevator system; main control interface; programmable logic controllers; realtime monitoring; temperature sensor; Elevators; Floors; Prototypes; Sensor systems; Servers; Software; Automation; Elevator; OPC server; PLC;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Electronics and Applications (EPE 2011), Proceedings of the 2011-14th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Birmingham

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-167-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-90-75815-15-3

Type

conf

Filename

6020181