Communication and Intelligent Control in a Power Grid Using Open Source IoT Technology

Industrial Internet of Things is one of the opportunities for online state monitoring, effective control and economical profitability of selected systems. The majority of electricity generated in the Czech Republic comes from conventional fossil power plants - 54% in 2018. Same fact applies to heating where approximately 82% of heat in 2018 was generated from fossil fuels. Despite the fact that energy is being saved and the efficiency on the final customer side is improving, our demand of energy is rising. Over the last few years the online measurement of operation parameters plays a big role in performance optimization and energy management. Following article describes an Open source / Matlab IIoT platform used for monitoring and possible optimization of a district heating network in a typical Czech residential district and electrical island operation of a electrical power system.