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Senior Design Team 1905

REMOTE MONITORING OF EMERGENCY POWER SYSTEMS

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Collaborators Summary and Background Technical Purpose Project Phases and Budget

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COLLABORATORS

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OUR TEAM LAYOUT

Collaborators

• CSE team will be working on

designing the website

• ECE is designing the webserver

module

• The team advisors are Helena Silva

and Song Han

• Sponsor is Bill Schneeloch
• Meetings between teamshappen

jointly and separately

ECE TEAM CSE TEAM

Allysa Garcia Andrew Philippi William Reid Rania Chowdhury Evan Langlais Emil Abraham

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Dinelson Rosario

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SUMMARY & BACKGROUND

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• Kinsley Group is a leading energy solution supplier
• They are a Kohler product distributer
• Provide generator instillation, maintenance, and generator

rental services

• UConn uses Kinsley generators
• The generators use Decision-Maker Controllers
• They currently use direct connections to monitor generators

status

BACKGROUND

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• Kinsley wants a way to for their

technicians to remotely check the status of their generators.

• We are developing a module which provides

an embedded Webserver

• A website will be designed to present

information from the generator

• Our project uses the DM-550
• This controller contains a Modbus output
• Webserver will accept HTTP request

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SUMMARY

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TECHNICAL PURPOSE

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PROJECT OVERVIEW WEBSITE MODULE

Two ways we can conduct our project 1. Virtual Cable 2. Data Ingest Website must be a proper representation of all the controllers information

• Analytics
• Security
• History

Converts Modbus data into meaningful HTTP requests and sends to an online webserver

• Microprocessor
• Modbus adapter

TECHNICAL PURPOSE

Solutions

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VIRTUAL CABLE

Key Concepts

• Generator hardware listens and

responds to requests of its data

• API communicates with generator

hardware for data

• Website retrieves data from API and

displays it when it becomes available

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DATA INGEST MODEL

• Generator hardware is simple and

pushes data periodically

• Intake server processes and saves data

from all generators

• Website and other analytics products

interface with data

Key Concepts

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PROJECT OVERVIEW Pros

Virtual Cable Data Ingest

• Little overhead and maintenance
• Inexpensive to implement
• Enables all basic time-scale analytics
• Extremely scalable
• Resilient and highly redundant
• Enables both real time and big data analytics

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PROJECT OVERVIEW

Virtual Cable

• Difficulty scaling above a certain point
• Reliant on generator hardware being
• perational
• Responsiveness limited by slowest

connection

Data Ingest

• Requires cloud provider (AWS, Azure, etc)
• Under threshold far more costly
• More maintenance and overhead

Cons

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SEARCH

WEBSITE

Experimental Work

• Log in system is implemented
• If multiple generators are in use,

information for the specific one is pulled by using the serial search bar

• Will display data based on the event

codes listed in the DM-550 manual

• Analytics can be implemented to show

data trends from the generator LOGIN

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WEBSITE

• Big data analytics can give predictive

figures of the generator

• Real time analytics provides immediate

information on the generator

• Red = Bad
• Yellow = Warning
• Green = Functioning
• Wireframe and mock inputs used for

simulation

Simulation

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BIG DATA ANALYTICS REAL TIME ANALYTICS

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HARDWARE

Experimental Work

• Using a Raspberry Pi microprocessor to

convert the Modbus RS-485 signals to HTTP requests

• Power is supplied through the USB

connection on the Raspberry Pi for the proof of concept

• Ethernet connection provides access to

upload converted HTTP to API webserver Modbus RS-485 Port Raspberry Pi to Arduino Shield Ethernet Port

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Raspberry Pi Microprocessor

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HARDWARE

• Connecting device to the DM-550
• Using the given debug software

provided by Kinsley to see how information uploads to website

• Planning on using C++ for the
• microcontroller. By using this our

simulation will be based on the outputs

Simulation

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HARDWARE

Quantitative Information

• The information contained in these

registers is the data being sent to the API server

• Our device (master) needs to be able to

communicate with the controller (slave) to gather information from these registers

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PROJECT PHASES & BUDGET

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Gather the following resources:

• DM-550 manual
• Modbus to Ethernet converter

manual

• Microprocessor webservers
• Modbus communication

protocol

Test Build Design Research

• Designed block diagrams
• Create flow charts
• Design website wireframe
• Building webserver proof of

concept

• Program microcontroller
• 3D print module case
• Adding website features
• User access
• User support
• History
• Analytics
• Use the controller to run

commands through our webserver

• Stress testing
• Documentation
• Debugging code

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PROJECT PHASES

Project Management

A basic overview of our phase

• riented process:
• 1. Research
• 2. Design
• 3. Build
• 4. Test

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2018

TIMELINE

Project Management

Phase 1: September – October Phase 2: October – November Phase 3: December – January

PHASE 01 01

Research

PHASE 02 02

Design

PHASE 03 03

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End

2019

DEMO DAY

Phase 4: January – April Demo Day marks the end of senior design Deliverables include:

• Demonstrating knowledge on

project management and development

• Implementation of prototype

PHASE 04

Test

TIMELINE

Project Management

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BUDGET

Project Management

Items Provided Unit Price Raspberry Pi No $37.30 RP to Arduino Shield No $16.99 Arduino Modbus Kit No $15.95 DM-550 Yes $0.00 Modbus to Ethernet Converter Yes $0.00 Controller Debug Software Yes $0.00 Ethernet Cable No $5.99 Modbus RS-485 connection cable Unsure $184.08

TOTAL: $250.31

26% 74%

Used Un-used Total Allocated: $1000

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THANK YOU

CONTACT

Allysa Garcia allysa.garcia@uconn.edu Andrew Philippi andrew.philippi@uconn.edu Dinelson Rosario dinelson.rosario@uconn.edu Senior Design Website http://ecesd.engr.uconn.edu/ecesd1905/