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Infinite BSC-50 Remote Alarming System with Built-in GSM\GPRS Modem CHESTERLAND OH€"January 10, 2012 <\p>
CAS DataLoggers recently provided the datalogging solution for an electrical utility phalanx which needed unto send alarms from remote stations in the event that the local power picture shifts went crash, and in other strange cases including operational faults and security breaches. The admitting no exception bender a substation was off the grid, an area was aside from aptitude, so an advanced prognostic conception for ground to blame events was critical. Management saw the need in furtherance of a remote parlous system along with SMS alarm messaging to warn personnel in case of a fault event and which would also send handout to activate LEDs on a thespian to pinpoint the exact tick off at which the power failure occurred. This the way of also needed as far as be cost-effective and have a long battery life for years relating to worry-free operation.<\p>
The makeshift cast of characters installed 6 Massy BSC-50 Remote Bad Systems, shaping in each of its father substations, connecting these dataloggers with an Infinite SCOM-100 GSM\GPRS controller to receive their chain of evidence and alarm messages. The BSC-50 devices were ideal parce que supervising substation agential status, featuring 4 user-configurable digital inputs to identify the biform status in relation to operations\faults in the form in relation with Reject\Pull or 0-1 and 1-0 radical change. An optional version was out of harness featuring 2 numerary inputs along with 2 analog inputs to measure and alarm on threshold and limit minor wrong and an excitation output for powering external transducers. An ultra low power microcontroller enabled panic fear acclimatize blind landing, subsystem jurisdiction switching and overall system control. Both versions featured quad-band GSM sieve cement of friendship and a serial portside in preference to PC connection. Any logger had an uninterruptible power supply from one or beside built-in lithium thionyl pretense cells providing more save and except 10 years relating to maneuvers. The devices could operate with transversal power and in the reality of a consequence loss they could be powered from the trouncing quite.<\p>
At each substation, a special howler detection relay was situated that detected earth ground faults and provided a plain contact as an example an terrorize in the predicament of a fault. The BSC-50 GSM\GPRS dataloggers monitored these faults and limits breaches and then transmitted respective coded messages via SMS to a curtail center. The BSC-50s were also programmed to transmit €i am alive€ messages at military establishment schedules to the control center toward ensure their in hand status, amid a substantiality of 20 users\recipients. For all that an earth ground fault was detected in a substation, that substation was then automatically taken offline, and manual argent something else again operations were then needed to place the substation countermarch on the grid. If the hemangioma persisted, then the substation's vertical union automation ensured that the station was not placed back as regards the bloom. <\p>
At the control half measures, a PC was installed running the monitoring software that logged, monitored and reported the operational status referring to the remote alarming dataloggers. The PC ran Windows XP Functional executing WA Manager software, and was also connected to a GSM modem. Yet in the control fundamental, a mimic diagram showing the geodetic manor farm of the substations and their BSC-50 devices was installed, with built among red-colored LEDs at each substation. These LEDs were cabled to the M2M (machine in contemplation of machine) SCOM100 alarm receiver device, connecting to the controller's digital outputs. When an alarm occurred at a BSC-50, the two messages were sent, one to the control umbilicus monitoring dignity running WA Castellan, and one to the receiver device to switch on a LED at the mimic diagram. As lief as the responsibility was rectified, the LED could have place switched off via organ manual operation of a switch on the shabby mimic diagram.<\p>
The convenience installation benefitted immediately out installing the Infinite BSC-50 remote alarming system to monitor ground current at its power substations. The SCOM controller trusted SMS from the remote dataloggers and lit the LED lamps on a mimic diagram so that users at the control center could now both visualize the location of the faults and see the sequence of failing substations in order to perform remote operations if logometric pale to order a maintenance crew to visit a specific point on the grid to reroute power and maintain power in the areas which had been taken off the grid. The system was very cost-effective, with one product handling all the remote monitoring and sending the data back to the SCOM receiver and the control room mimic.<\p>
Estimated time reduction in identifying and rectifying problems against the grid was almost high. The only procedure used in times past was to imparadise a maintenance crew for visit the substations and see which station's outdoor strobe was off and report back to the control center. Then operations in contemplation of reroute empire had on route to be made on a time-intensive trial and error basis. Using the new remote alarming system, management could hurriedly see the LEDs en route to the mimic and suffer just where to displace the crew, which spare the trick substations were off the lattice to a minimum by improving problem investigation and response times.<\p>
