Monitoring and Control System for Distributed Energy Generation Plants

The present article refers to a monitoring system applied to hybrid plants for energy distributed generation in Brazil, which contains software and hardware solutions that allow for remote data collection and storage, the monitoring of production unit performance and delivery of command to devices. This solution was developed for research purposes and the analysis of performance in microgeneration plants in two locations: i) mixed (biogas, biomethane and photovoltaic) microgeneration plant in Foz do Iguacu/Parami, Brazil; ii) photovoltaic microgeneration plant in Porto Velho/Rondonia, Brazil. This type of system has proved to be adequate to the growing market of distributed generation, as it enables the user, the owner of the undertaking, to assess and quantify production through the web or via data records, in relation to a specific time period, thus contributing to resource management and decision making in behalf of profit maximization.