Wind Farm Data Normalization for Unified Monitoring Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current wind farm monitoring and control systems face challenges in managing and comparing data from multiple wind farms due to differences in data types and namespaces, leading to difficulties in integrating and presenting data uniformly, and in providing secure and user-specific access controls.
Innovation Solution
A method utilizing an intelligent management server connected via a data communication network, which includes a wind farm configuration tool for establishing connections and defining namespaces, allowing for homogeneous monitoring and control of multiple wind farms, data scaling, and user-specific authorization, enabling uniform data presentation and secure access.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple wind farms with different data types and namespaces are integrated into a single monitoring system, then the system can monitor and control more wind farms simultaneously, but the complexity of data integration and uniform presentation increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intelligent management server as an intermediary component between the client and multiple wind farms. This server acts as a mediator that receives data from different wind farms with varying data types and namespaces, processes and standardizes the data, and presents it uniformly to the client. The intelligent management server thus resolves the complexity of direct multi-wind farm integration by providing a centralized data normalization layer.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transforms data from different wind farms by changing its parameters - specifically, it converts data from various data types and namespaces into a standardized format. The intelligent management server modifies data parameters (data type, namespace structure) to ensure uniform presentation, thereby enabling consistent monitoring across multiple wind farms without requiring changes to the wind farms themselves.
2Productivity
If uniform data presentation is implemented across multiple wind farms, then data comparison becomes efficient, but the requirement for data standardization and processing increases system complexity
Solution Approach 1:
The intelligent management server performs preliminary data standardization and processing before data is presented to the client. By pre-processing the data from multiple wind farms to ensure uniform format and namespace, the system enables efficient data comparison without requiring complex processing at the client side or during data retrieval operations.
3Reliability
If secure and user-specific access controls are implemented, then system security is improved, but the complexity of managing authorization permissions increases
Solution Approach 1:
The intelligent management server serves as an intermediary that handles authorization and access control. It manages user-specific permissions and authorization levels, determining which users can access which wind farms and what operations they can perform. This centralizes security management and prevents the need for complex distributed authentication mechanisms across multiple wind farms.
4Ease of manufacture
If different namespaces are used for different wind farms, then data organization is improved, but the difficulty of integrating and presenting data uniformly increases
Solution Approach 1:
The intelligent management server acts as an intermediary that accepts data organized in different namespaces from various wind farms, processes this data, and presents it in a unified namespace to the client. This allows each wind farm to maintain its own data organization structure while the client receives uniformly organized data, resolving the conflict between data organization and data integration.
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AI summary
The invention related to a wind farm monitoring and control system, said system comprising - at least one wind farm, - at least one intelligent management server connectable to said at least one wind farm via a data communication network, - at least one wind farm configuration tool related to said intelligent management server for establishment of connection(s) to said at least one wind farm. The present invention presents a system for monitoring and control of wind farms. The monitoring and control is performed so that it is possible to monitor and control several wind farms homogeneously. Hereby it is possible to monitor and control different wind farms simultaneously with a uniform output and it is moreover possible to compare data from the wind farms.