Energy and Heat Industries

The energy and heat industries use wireless communication systems because they are economical, and because they are quick and easy to install. The wireless systems are often used for the monitoring/supervising and control of remote devices, and for wireless backup if there is a failure of the fixed/permanent communication lines. A high level of reliability is required.  One example would be heat distribution industries, who use wireless data transfer for their heat distribution/SCADA systems.  Wireless communications provides data collection and remote management of transfer stations, as well as data collection (readouts) from heat measuring instruments (heat meters).

The most important uses and applications:

• Remote control of high-voltage sectional switches
• Measurement and control of devices in transformer stations
• Remote readouts of electric meters, smart metering
• Monitoring of small power plants – water, wind, photovoltaic power plants
• Monitoring of co-generation units, biogas stations
• Monitoring and supervision of boiler rooms and heat distribution systems
• Heat transfer station management and control
• Heat transfer station management and control
• Data collection from heat measuring instruments

Selected references

Západoslovenská energetika, a.s. (Slovakia) – GSM-GPRS networks for remote control of sectional switch-off elements, transformer station monitoring ČEZ Distribuce, a. s. – GSM-GPRS network for remote control of sectional switch-off elements, transformer stations and FVE (PPP – Photovoltaic Power Plants) Watson Telecom (Ukrajina) – radio networks for measurement and control of transformer stations in Ukraine IT-Tronic (Denmark) – GSM-GPRS connections for wind power plants Pražská teplárenská a.s. – GSM-GPRS and EDGE network for data collections from transfer stations and heat measuring instruments (heat meters) Elektrárny Opatovice, a.s. – radio and GPRS networks for collections of data from heat transfer stations