KR20180137622A - Apparatus for remote managing new renewable energy plant - Google Patents

Abstract

Disclosed is a remote management apparatus of a renewable energy facility. According to the present invention, the remote management apparatus of a renewable energy facility includes: a plurality of lower node devices which include at least one actuator operating the renewable energy facility and at least one sensor sensing the state of the renewable energy facility; an IoT cloud server which provides a service for monitoring by collecting data based on Internet of things (IoT) from the lower node devices sensing and operating the state of the renewable energy facility, and provides commands for the lower node devices after generating and receiving the commands corresponding to event occurrence conditions for controlling the renewable energy facility; and an internal network broker server which is installed in an internal network of the renewable energy facility to deliver data sensed from the lower node devices to the IoT cloud server, deliver an operation command provided from the IoT cloud server to the lower node devices, and provide for the lower node devices a control command according to event conditions regarding the sensed data inputted through an event manager copied from an event manager of the IoT cloud server. The remote management apparatus is able to remotely manage a renewable energy facility by using an event management function in a cloud server.

Description

[0001] APPARATUS FOR REMOTE MANAGING NEW RENEWABLE ENERGY PLANT [0002]

The present invention relates to a remote management apparatus for a new and renewable energy facility, and more particularly, to a remote management apparatus for a new and renewable energy facility, in which various state information of a new and renewable energy facility is collected in real time on the basis of a thing Internet and stored in a cloud server, And a remote management apparatus for a renewable energy facility that remotely manages renewable energy facilities.

Generally, renewable energy is divided into solar energy, biomass, wind power, small hydro power, fuel cell, coal liquefaction, gasification, marine energy, waste energy and others, not coal, oil, nuclear and natural gas. , Hydrogen, and coal.

In order to operate BMS (Battery Management System), solar power generation facility, and small wind power generation facility of ESS (Energy Storage System), which is a new and renewable energy producing new and renewable energy, inverter, PV (Photovoltaic) It is necessary to monitor and manage the power generation amount of each base produced through the facilities such as the grid connection device and the like and to check whether there is an abnormal condition in real time. However, the new and renewable energy facilities are installed not only in all parts of the country, This is a difficult situation.

Although the object intelligence communication is defined somewhat differently internationally, the terms are generally defined as M2M (Machine to Machine, ETSI), Internet of Things (ITU-T), MTC (Machine Type Communications, 3GPP) . About such intelligent communications The Korea Communications Standards Commission (KCC) is a service that intelligently collects, processes, processes and transmits information through telecommunication, broadcasting, and Internet infrastructures by expanding and linking the infrastructure between human vs. object and object to object Respectively.

The meaning of the negotiation means the communication between the machine and the device and the machine in which the person operates. In broad terms, however, the infrastructure, the system, the terminal, and the like which can confirm the information of the remote place by combining the communication and the ICT technology It means all the solutions.

These services include plant automation, plant automation, facility control, and other services that have become a major application area for intelligent communications. They can create new business models through convergence with other industries, ), Smart Factory, etc., are being adopted as major policies for fostering new growth engines in each country.

In other words, major governments and global corporations are rushing to build aggressive investment and service development infrastructure. In particular, they are applying the intelligent communication technology and services to green IT, telematics, location-based services, remote meter reading and logistics management.

In addition, according to the technological development of the computer network, the existing computing environment which relies on the independent hardware performance of each terminal can be classified into Cloud Computing (Cloud Computing), which provides the service according to the request of the terminal by utilizing all the computing resources on the network, It is evolving into a form.

Cloud services can be defined as "on demand outsourcing services of computing resources" through information networks such as the Internet. In a cloud environment, service providers integrate data centers (cloud centers) distributed across multiple locations into virtualization technologies to provide the services users need.

BACKGROUND ART [0002] The background art of the present invention is disclosed in Korean Patent Registration No. 1608859 (published on Apr. 26, 2014, cloud-based intelligent power control system).

According to one aspect of the present invention, an object of the present invention is to provide a system and method for real-time collection of state information of a new and renewable energy facility on the basis of objects Internet and storing the same on a cloud server, And to provide a remote management apparatus for a renewable energy facility.

A remote management apparatus for a renewable energy facility according to an aspect of the present invention includes at least one sensor for sensing a state of a renewable energy facility and a plurality of lower node apparatuses including at least one actuator for operating a renewable energy facility. ; Provides services to collect and monitor data on the Internet from a number of lower node devices that detect and operate the state of the new and renewable energy facilities and provides commands corresponding to event occurrence conditions for controlling the renewable energy facilities An IoT cloud server for generating and / or receiving and providing to the plurality of lower node devices; And the new and renewable energy facility, and transmits sensing data from a plurality of lower node devices to the IoT cloud server, transmits an operation command provided from the IoT cloud server to the lower node device, And an internal network broker server for providing a control command according to an event condition to the lower node device with respect to the sensed data inputted through the event manager which duplicates the event manager.

In the present invention, the IoT cloud server updates the replicated event manager of the internal network broker server when the event condition is changed.

The present invention is further characterized by a cloud broker for receiving detection data from an internal network broker server and delivering the received detection data to the IoT cloud server and transmitting an operation command output from the IoT cloud server to the internal network broker server.

The present invention is characterized by further comprising a gateway connected between the at least one lower node device and the internal network broker server to transmit sensing data sensed by the sensor and an operation command for operating the actuator.

In the present invention, the gateway communicates with an internal network broker server through an MQTT (Message Queuing Telemetry Transport) protocol.

A remote management apparatus for a new and renewable energy facility according to an aspect of the present invention collects various state information of a new and renewable energy facility on the basis of objects Internet in real time and stores it in a cloud server, , A broker server including an event manager function can be installed in the internal network to monitor and remotely manage various states of the renewable energy facility through the gateway device and real-time high-speed data communication.

1 is a block diagram showing a remote management apparatus for a renewable energy facility according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating an event manager constituting an apparatus for remotely managing a renewable energy facility according to an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG.
3 is a flowchart of data transmission and reception for explaining the operation of the remote management apparatus for a renewable energy facility according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, a remote management apparatus for a renewable energy facility according to the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings. In this process, the thicknesses of the lines and the sizes of the components shown in the drawings may be exaggerated for clarity and convenience of explanation. In addition, the terms described below are defined in consideration of the functions of the present invention, which may vary depending on the intention or custom of the user, the operator. Therefore, definitions of these terms should be made based on the contents throughout this specification.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a remote management apparatus for a new and renewable energy facility according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating an apparatus for remotely managing a renewable energy facility according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention. Fig.

1 and 2, an apparatus for remotely managing a renewable energy facility according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a plurality of lower node devices 110, an IOT cloud server 300, and an internal network broker server 200 And a gateway 120 and a cloud broker 305. [

The plurality of lower node devices 110 include at least one sensor 111 for sensing the state of the renewable energy facility and at least one actuator 112 for operating the renewable energy facility.

The lower node device 110 includes a BMS (Battery Management System) and a solar power generation facility of an ESS (Energy Storage System), an inverter constituting a small wind power generation facility, a photovoltaic (PV) At least one sensor 111 for sensing the state of the components such as a system connection device, and at least one actuator 112 for operating them remotely.

The IoT cloud server 300 provides a service for collecting and monitoring data from a plurality of lower node devices 110 that detect and operate the state of a renewable energy facility based on the object Internet, And generates a command corresponding to an event generation condition for the plurality of lower node devices 110. [

The IoT cloud server 300 may also be connected to the user 370 to register control rules for event rules and actuator operations and output the status of the collected new and renewable energy equipment to the output unit 380 So that it can be monitored.

Here, the IoT cloud server 300 includes an event manager 310 for managing control commands for responding to conditions of events generated in the renewable energy facility, a device manager 320 for managing various devices of the renewable energy facility, A user manager 330 for managing a user 370 managing a renewable energy facility, a security manager 340 for managing the security of a user 370 accessing the IoT cloud server 300, an IoT cloud server 300, A service manager 350 that provides services to monitor and remotely control the renewable energy facility through the IoT cloud server 300, and a client manager 360 that manages clients connected to the IoT cloud server 300.

The internal network broker server 200 is installed in an internal network in which a new and renewable energy facility is installed and transmits sensed data from a plurality of lower node devices 110 to the IoT cloud server 300, And transmits a control command according to an event condition to the sensed data input through the event manager 210 which replicates the event manager 310 of the IoT cloud server 300, To the node device (110).

In this way, various states of the new and renewable energy facility are monitored through real-time high-speed data communication through the internal network broker server 200 that duplicates the event manager 310 of the IOT cloud server 300 and performs the event function in the internal network Remote management is possible.

Here, the event manager 310 includes a trigger analyzer 311 for analyzing a trigger from input sensed data, a control scheduler 312 for executing a control command corresponding to an event, a signal collector 313 for receiving and collecting sensed data, A control condition engine 314 for generating a control command by judging whether it is an event and generating a control command and a data storage 315 for storing control commands of an actuator corresponding to an event such as a rule for judging sensed data as an event .

At this time, when the event condition is changed, the IoT cloud server 300 updates the event manager 210 replicated to the internal network broker server 200 and can be maintained as the event manager 310 of the IoT cloud server 300 .

The cloud broker 305 receives sensing data from the internal network broker server 200 and transmits the sensing data to the IOT cloud server 300 and transmits the operation command output from the IoT cloud server 300 to the internal network broker server 200 do.

The gateway 120 is connected between at least one of the lower node devices 110 and the internal network broker server 200 and transmits sensing data sensed by the sensor 111 and an operation command for operating the actuator 112.

Here, the gateway 120 can communicate with the internal network broker server 200 through a Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) protocol. Also, it can communicate between the internal network broker server 200, the cloud broker 305, and the IOT cloud server 300 through the MQTT protocol.

Therefore, according to the embodiment of the present invention, in order to control a new and renewable energy facility, in order to execute a control command according to a condition, the detection data must reach the event manager 310 defined in the IOT cloud server 300 When the event manager 310 of the IOT cloud server 300 is replicated to the internal network broker server 200, the internal network broker server 200 transmits the event to the IoT cloud server 300 through the event manager 210 replicated in the internal network broker server 200. [ It is possible to substitute the event function of the controller 300 for real-time control when an event occurs in the renewable energy facility.

3 is a flowchart of data transmission and reception for explaining the operation of the remote management apparatus for a renewable energy facility according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 3, the cloud broker 305 subscribes messages while communicating between the internal network broker server 200 and the IoT cloud server 300 through the MQTT protocol.

At this time, when the user 370 accesses the IoT cloud server 300 and registers an event rule, the IoT cloud server 300 sends a rule update message to the cloud broker 305 to send the rule update message to the internal network broker server 200, To update the update message to the event manager 210 of the mobile terminal.

In addition, the internal network broker server 200 subscribes to a message issued from the gateway 120, and a message for transmitting the sensing data from the gateway 120 to which the sensing data is input is issued from the sensor 111 And transmits it to the cloud broker 305. The cloud broker 305 transfers the detected data to the IoT cloud server 300 to store the sensed data.

The internal network broker server 200 issues a control command to operate the actuator 112 and transmits the control command to the gateway 120 when the sensed data issued from the gateway 120 meets the event condition so that the actuator 112 operates . Then, the internal network broker server 200 issues a message for delivering the detection data to the cloud broker 305, and the cloud broker 305 delivers the detection data to the IoT cloud server 300 so that the IoT cloud server 305 So that the detection result can be stored.

As described above, according to the remote management apparatus for a renewable energy facility according to an embodiment of the present invention, various status information of a renewable energy facility can be collected in real time on the basis of a thing Internet and stored in a cloud server, Function can be used to remotely manage new and renewable energy facilities by installing a broker server that includes an event manager function in the internal network to monitor and remotely manage various statuses of renewable energy facilities through a gateway device and real time high speed data communication .

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that various changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims. I will understand.

Accordingly, the true scope of the present invention should be determined by the following claims.

110: lower node device 111: sensor
112: actuator 120: gateway
200: Internal network broker server 210: Event manager
300: IoT cloud server 305: Cloud broker
310: Event Manager 311: Trigger Analyzer
312: control scheduler 313: signal collector
314: Control condition engine 315: Data store
320: Device Manager 330: User Manager
340; Security Manager 350: Service Manager
360: Client Manager 370: User
380: Output section

Claims (5)

A plurality of lower node devices including at least one sensor for sensing the state of a renewable energy facility and at least one actuator for operating the renewable energy facility;
A service for collecting and monitoring data from a plurality of lower node devices that detect and operate the state of the new and renewable energy equipment based on the object Internet and provides a service to respond to event occurrence conditions for controlling the new and renewable energy equipment An IoT cloud server for generating or receiving an instruction to provide a plurality of lower node devices; And
Wherein the IoT cloud server is connected to the IoT cloud server, and the IoT cloud server receives the operation command from the IoT cloud server, And an internal network broker server for providing a control command according to an event condition to the lower node device with respect to the sensed data inputted through the event manager replicating the event manager of the IoT cloud server. Lt; / RTI >
The remote management apparatus of claim 1, wherein the IoT cloud server updates a duplicated event manager of the internal network broker server when an event condition is changed.
The network broker according to claim 1, further comprising: a cloud broker for receiving the sensing data from the internal network broker server and delivering the sensed data to the IoT cloud server and transmitting an operation command output from the IoT cloud server to the internal network broker server And the remote control device of the renewable energy facility.
The wireless communication system according to claim 1, further comprising a gateway connected between at least one of the lower node devices and the internal network broker server to transmit the sensing data sensed by the sensor and the operation command for operating the actuator. Remote management of renewable energy facilities.
The remote management apparatus of claim 1, wherein the gateway communicates with the internal network broker server through a Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) protocol.

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