Infrastructure for distributed PV systems monitoring and management using SCADA

Different types and different size photovoltaic (PV) systems are in use. Assuming that these systems are equipped with some of the devices: phasor measurement units (PMUs), internet of things (IoT) devices, intelligent electronic devices (IED) and that they are properly connected to the control center, or that inverters in the PV systems contain network interface cards (NIC-s) which are connected to the control center through network, a solution for infrastructure of the monitoring and management (M&M) system is proposed. The main parts of the system are cloud infrastructure on which supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system is implemented, network that connects all parts of cloud together and enables connections to the distributed devices at PV sites and distributed devices as well as inverters.