A smart IoT based system for monitoring and controlling the sub-station equipment

Remote monitoring and controlling of the sub-station equipment is an important issue for the power/energy management department which is normally done manually, or using an expensive PLC and SCADA system. With the emergence of the internet and computational era, a smart monitoring and reliable controlling system over the entire sub-station equipment is highly desirable that can be achieved by introducing the Internet of Things (IoT) technology. IoT is the network of physical devices embedded with electronics, software, sensors, actuators and network connectivity which have the ability to identify, collect and exchange the data. Each thing is uniquely identifiable through its embedded computing system and able to interoperate within the existing internet infrastructure. This paper proposed an IoT based network strategy for monitoring and controlling the sub-station equipment so that managing time and resources can take place as efficiently as possible. The IoT based system allows objects to be sensed or controlled remotely across existing network infrastructure, creating opportunities for more direct integration of the physical world into computer-based systems and resulting in improved efficiency, accuracy and economic benefit with the added merits of minimum human intervention. Moreover, a prototype system has been implemented and tested for measuring the effectiveness of the proposed model. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.