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Customer Success Story: E.ON Trend s.r.o.

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Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Middleware, SDKs & Libraries Functional Applications - Remote Monitoring & Control Systems
Applicable Industries	Utilities
Applicable Functions	Logistics & Transportation Maintenance
Use Cases	Energy Management System Predictive Maintenance Remote Asset Management
Services	System Integration
Challenge	E.ON Trend s.r.o., a subsidiary of the global power and gas company E.ON, is responsible for electricity generation and heat production and distribution mainly for households in the Czech Republic. The company operates six hydro-powered electrical plants with a total output of 30 MW. These plants are monitored and controlled by a central control station located up to 100km away. E.ON was looking for a solution to replace the Promotic Microsys system, with requirements for data redundancy, real-time alarm notification, and superior graphics. They needed to centrally monitor and control their remote hydro power plants and bring all power generation together. Read More
About Customer	E.ON Trend s.r.o. is a subsidiary of E.ON, a worldwide power and gas company based in Germany with subsidiaries throughout Europe, Russia, and North America. E.ON Trend s.r.o. is responsible for electricity generation and heat production and distribution mainly for households within E.ON’s energy group in the Czech Republic. The company operates six hydro-powered electrical plants with a total output of 30 MW. These plants are monitored and controlled by a central control station located up to 100km away. Read More
Solution	ICONICS provided a visualization and automation solution to E.ON’s hydro-powered electrical plants. The GENESIS32™ V9 software was used in a redundant fashion with multiple operator stations. AlarmWorX™32, GraphWorX™32, TrendWorX™32, ScriptWorX™32, and DataWorX™32 were all used to bring this application together. E.ON management takes advantage of native remote access via WebHMI™. The SOAP/XML communication protocol was used to meet E.ON’s strict IT security policies. Bohemia Instruments a.s., later Invelt - elektro s.r.o., in Plzen, Czech Republic, were the system integrators at the helm in getting the E.ON project up and running. Invelt integrated the remote plants and brought all data to one central command center in only six months time. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Middleware, SDKs & Libraries

Functional Applications - Remote Monitoring & Control Systems

Applicable Industries

Utilities

Applicable Functions

Logistics & Transportation

Maintenance

Use Cases

Energy Management System

Predictive Maintenance

Remote Asset Management

Services

System Integration

Challenge

E.ON Trend s.r.o., a subsidiary of the global power and gas company E.ON, is responsible for electricity generation and heat production and distribution mainly for households in the Czech Republic. The company operates six hydro-powered electrical plants with a total output of 30 MW. These plants are monitored and controlled by a central control station located up to 100km away. E.ON was looking for a solution to replace the Promotic Microsys system, with requirements for data redundancy, real-time alarm notification, and superior graphics. They needed to centrally monitor and control their remote hydro power plants and bring all power generation together.

About Customer

E.ON Trend s.r.o. is a subsidiary of E.ON, a worldwide power and gas company based in Germany with subsidiaries throughout Europe, Russia, and North America. E.ON Trend s.r.o. is responsible for electricity generation and heat production and distribution mainly for households within E.ON’s energy group in the Czech Republic. The company operates six hydro-powered electrical plants with a total output of 30 MW. These plants are monitored and controlled by a central control station located up to 100km away.

Solution

ICONICS provided a visualization and automation solution to E.ON’s hydro-powered electrical plants. The GENESIS32™ V9 software was used in a redundant fashion with multiple operator stations. AlarmWorX™32, GraphWorX™32, TrendWorX™32, ScriptWorX™32, and DataWorX™32 were all used to bring this application together. E.ON management takes advantage of native remote access via WebHMI™. The SOAP/XML communication protocol was used to meet E.ON’s strict IT security policies. Bohemia Instruments a.s., later Invelt - elektro s.r.o., in Plzen, Czech Republic, were the system integrators at the helm in getting the E.ON project up and running. Invelt integrated the remote plants and brought all data to one central command center in only six months time.

Impact #1	Data is communicated to the central command center via E.ON’s optical network. GENESIS32 works as a data acquisition and logger for all turbines. At the core of the system, two GENESIS32 servers work redundantly with DataWorX32. OPC servers are used for gathering the data from SAIA PLCs. GENESIS32 is responsible for the monitoring, alarming, and supervisory control for over 5,000 analog and digital points.
Impact #2	The custom graphic screens allow operators to monitor all locations and drill into problems requiring attention quickly and easily. Alarms can be acknowledged and logged, and set-point changes can be made in a secure and accurate manner. The command center was designed with four GENESIS32 operator stations connected to the pair of redundant GENESIS32 application servers.
Impact #3	DataWorX32 plays a critical role in this application by providing real-time OPC redundancy to keep E.ON power plants up and running. ICONICS was selected for this project due to its ability to provide this needed level of redundancy.

Impact #1

Data is communicated to the central command center via E.ON’s optical network. GENESIS32 works as a data acquisition and logger for all turbines. At the core of the system, two GENESIS32 servers work redundantly with DataWorX32. OPC servers are used for gathering the data from SAIA PLCs. GENESIS32 is responsible for the monitoring, alarming, and supervisory control for over 5,000 analog and digital points.

Impact #2

The custom graphic screens allow operators to monitor all locations and drill into problems requiring attention quickly and easily. Alarms can be acknowledged and logged, and set-point changes can be made in a secure and accurate manner. The command center was designed with four GENESIS32 operator stations connected to the pair of redundant GENESIS32 application servers.

Impact #3

DataWorX32 plays a critical role in this application by providing real-time OPC redundancy to keep E.ON power plants up and running. ICONICS was selected for this project due to its ability to provide this needed level of redundancy.

Benefit #1	Over 5,000 I/O points monitored and logged from multiple locations
Benefit #2	30 MW output spread over the remote hydro plants through the Czech Republic

Benefit #1

Over 5,000 I/O points monitored and logged from multiple locations

Benefit #2

30 MW output spread over the remote hydro plants through the Czech Republic

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Customer Success Story: E.ON Trend s.r.o.

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