Information Integration Issues for Monitoring Performance Metrics of a Microgrid

The new issues that are coming from the changes in the traditional power system by the insertion of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) demand new methodologies to achieve real solutions. One helper and driver for this new paradigm is the telecommunication technology, that is responsible for providing a bidirectional communication between the devices and the power system operator. This paper aims to show the issues in the integration of some devices in a SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) platform with different data protocols, store the data in a database and provide an interface to monitor and manage the devices. With these informations, was developed an energy quality monitoring and management platform in a Smart MicroGrid that allowed to see each part as one system for a better evaluation of the power quality.