Method for displaying the operating conditions of an installation

• US 20040021687A1
• Filed: 08/04/2003
• Published: 02/05/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 10/14/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Aloys Wobben
• Original Assignee: Aloys Wobben
• Inventors: Wobben, Aloys
• Application Number:
  US10/398,431
• Publication Number:
  US 20040021687A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/740
• CPC Class Codes: F03D 17/00 Monitoring or testing of wind motors, e.g. diagnostics testing during commissioning of wind motors F03D13/30
• CPC Class Codes: F03D 80/50 Maintenance or repair
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/2619 Wind turbines
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 23/0267 Fault communication, e.g. human machine interface [HMI]
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 13/00001 characterised by the display of information or by user interaction, e.g. supervisory control and data acquisition systems [SCADA] or graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 13/00034 the elements or equipment being or involving an electric power substation
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 10/72 Wind turbines with rotation axis in wind direction
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/00 Enabling technologies; Technologies with a potential or indirect contribution to GHG emissions mitigation
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 10/30 State monitoring, e.g. fault, temperature monitoring, insulator monitoring, corona discharge
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 10/40 Display of information, e.g. of data or controls
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 10/52 Outage or fault management, e.g. fault detection or location

Abstract

A method of processing and representing the function of a plurality of installations, characterised by the following steps:

predetermined operating data, in particular those revealing the serviceability of an installation, are acquired in a data processing installation;

the acquired operating data are evaluated and classified;

the classification step includes ascertaining the information as to whether the installation is or is not serviceable and if not, what possible reason there is for the non-serviceability, for example a technical failure, maintenance operations or other reasons;

a symbol is associated with each installation or a group of installations;

the symbol classifies the type of the installation and/or the serviceability of the respective installation;

all symbols are combined to afford an overview (FIG. 2, FIG. 3) and are stored as an electronic file and outputted; and

the electronic file is outputted to a network server with which a given address is associated, by way of which it can be dialled to call up the file.

Claims

1. A method of processing and representing the function of a plurality if installations, characterised by the following steps:

predetermined operating data, in particular those revealing the serviceability of an installation, are acquired in a data processing installation;

the acquired operating data are evaluated and classified;

the classification step includes ascertaining the information as to whether the installation is or is not serviceable and if not, what possible reason there is for the non-serviceability, for example a technical failure, maintenance operations or other reasons;

a symbol is associated with each installation or a group of installations;

the symbol classifies the e of the installation and/or the serviceability of the respective installation;

all symbols are combined to afford an overview (FIG. 2, FIG.

     3) and are stored as an electronic file and outputted; and

the electronic file is outputted to a network server with which a given address is associated, by way of which it can be dialed to call up the file.

2. A method according to claim 1 characterised in that a geographical map is also utilised to produce the overview and the symbols are displayed at the location of the installation within the geographical maps, wherein the geographical map can be stored in its own file.

3. A method according to one of the preceding claims characterised in that the power data of the respective installations whose data are acquired are added up and displayed together with the overview, in relation to a given period of time, for example per day, per week, per month etc.

4. A method according to claim 3 characterised in that the sum (B) of the power data is related to the sum of the available power (A) of all similar installations whose operating data are acquired and evaluated and that said value is outputted together with the items of overview information or separately therefrom.

5. A method according to claim 4 characterised in that at least one selectable kind of installation can be cut out of the respectively selected overview.

6. A method according to one of the preceding claims characterised in that there is provided an access control which calls up at least authentication information, after the correct input of which further items of information are represented.

7. A method according to one of the preceding claims characterised in that a deviation from predeterminable limit values and/or comparative values influences the display.

8. A method according to one of the preceding claims characterised by contemporaneous representation of a plurality of similar and/or different kinds of overviews and/or the possibility of a change between a plurality of overviews, wherein the size of representation of at least one overview and preferably all overviews are variable.