The Data Acquisition and Control Unit Design for Demand Side Low-Cost Customized SCADA

Supervisory control and data acquisition system (SCADA) holds significant value in power and energy system. But, in case of demand side load management, SCADA seems so expensive. To make the customized SCADA system more efficient and less costly the RTU concept has been proposed. This paper represents a standard data acquisition and control unit (DACU) design for low-cost customized SCADA, which can be usable for demand side load management. C-SCADA will then be divided into two major parts. One will be DACU and the other one will be the processing unit. This DACU promises to be portable and cost efficient with accuracy. With this DACU, electrical mapping and control of mid-level power consumption can be done in a hassle-free way. DACU can be named as DACUX in case of multiple deployment. After multiple test sequences, the data acquisition error rate and switching time has also been calibrated.