Method and system for monitoring the operating status of an energy delivery network

• US 10,461,579 B2
• Filed: 08/14/2014
• Issued: 10/29/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 08/14/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Siemens AG
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Froehner, Wiebke, Werner, Thomas
• Primary Examiner(s): Desta, Elias
• Application Number:
  US15/502,209
• Publication Number:
  US 20170222477A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,902 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 15/02 electric
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/25062 Detect physical location of field device
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 23/027 Alarm generation, e.g. communication protocol; Forms of alarm
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 13/00028 involving the use of Internet protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 13/00034 the elements or equipment being or involving an electric power substation
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/70 Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC]
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 90/20 Smart grids as enabling technology in buildings sector smart grids supporting the management or operation of end-user stationary applications in general, or like technologies with no associated climate change mitigation effect Y04S20/00
• 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 10/52 Outage or fault management, e.g. fault detection or location
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 20/00 Management or operation of end-user stationary applications or the last stages of power distribution; Controlling, monitoring or operating thereof

Abstract

A method monitors an operating state of an energy supply network. Measurement values indicating an operating state are detected using sensors which are provided at measurement points paired with primary components of the energy supply network, and a visualization indicating the operating state of the energy supply network at each measurement point is generated using a monitor. The aim is to minimize the configuration and parameterization complexity for the operator of the energy supply network. The measurement values are transmitted from the sensors to an application server. The measurement values are analyzed, thereby forming system status values, the system status values indicating the operating state of the energy supply network at the measurement points. The system status values are transmitted to the monitoring device and a visualization which indicates the operating state of the energy supply network is generated by the monitoring device using the system status values and displayed.

Claims

1. A method for monitoring an operating status of an energy delivery network, which comprises the steps of:

acquiring measured values indicating the operating status of the energy delivery network from sensors disposed at measurement locations assigned to primary components of the energy delivery network;

transmitting the measured values or values derived from the measured values first to an application server, disposed outside a sphere of influence of an operator of the energy delivery network;

determining with the sensors state values indicating their own operating status and transmitting the state values to the application server;

analyzing and/or processing the measured values or the values derived therefrom via the application server, thereby forming system status values indicating the operating status of the energy delivery network at a measurement location of a respective sensor;

checking via the application server the measured values received with regard to their position in an admissible operating range of a respective primary component to which the respective sensor is assigned;

forming system status values according to a result of the checking step via the application server and transmitting the system status values from the application server to a monitoring device of the operator of the energy delivery network; and

generating, via the monitoring device of the operator of the energy delivery network, a visualization that indicates the operating status of the energy delivery network at the measurement location of the respective sensor, based on at least one of the measured values, the values derived therefrom or the system status values received from the application server;

wherein the application server analyzes and/or processes the state values, thereby forming sensor status values which indicate an operating status of each of the sensors, the sensor status values are transmitted from the application server to the monitoring device of the operator of the energy delivery network; and

wherein the monitoring device uses the sensor status values received from the application server to generate and display the visualization indicating the operating status of the respective sensor.

2. The method according to claim 1, which further comprises:

providing each of the sensors with a long-range communication device; and

transmitting the measured values or the values derived therefrom from the sensors to the application server using a long-range communication link established by the long-range communication device.

3. The method according to claim 1, which further comprises:

providing each of the sensors with a short-range communication device;

establishing a short-range communication link to a transmission component by means of the short-range communication device for transmitting the measured values the sensors have acquired or the values derived therefrom to the transmission component; and

transmitting, via the transmission component, the measured values received or the values derived therefrom to the application server.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the sensors attach to the measured values to be transmitted to the application server or the values derived therefrom a unique sensor identifier and/or position information identifying a geographical position of the measurement location of the respective sensor concerned.

5. The method according to claim 1,

checking, via the sensors, the measured values themselves with regard to a position of the sensors in an admissible operating range of a particular primary component to which a sensor concerned is assigned;

forming via the sensors values derived from the measured values acquired according to a result of the checking;

transmitting derived values to the application server via the sensors; and

forming the system status values via the application server using the derived values received.

6. The method according to claim 1, which further comprises:

providing from the application server topology information describing a layout of the energy delivery network; and

forming via the application server the system status values, the application server using the measured values received or the values derived therefrom and the topology information to form the system status values by assigning a graphical representation of the operating status of the energy delivery network at the measurement location of the respective sensor to a position in the topology information, the position corresponding to the measurement location.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the application server stores in a database, histories of past measured values or values derived therefrom and/or histories of past system status values, and provides same for retrieval by the monitoring device of the operator of the energy delivery network.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein:

when forming the system status values, the application server checks whether the system status values indicate an unwanted operating status of the energy delivery network; and

on the unwanted operating status being indicated, the application server sends a separate alarm message to a data processing device of the operator of the energy delivery network.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein:

the application server interacts with a configuration device, which, when the operator of the energy delivery network procures a new sensor, transmits to the application server a unique sensor identifier together with an operator identifier specifying the operator of the energy delivery network; and

on being put into operation, the sensor uses the unique sensor identifier to register with the application server.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein:

the application server contains a plurality of mutually separate data areas, which are protected from accessing one another;

the sensors belonging to different operators of energy delivery networks transmit the measured values or the values derived therefrom to the application server, wherein the application server assigns the measured values received or the values derived therefrom for each of the different operators solely to a data area associated with a particular operator of a given energy delivery network; and

the application server forms separately for each data area the system status values, and transmits the system status values solely to the monitoring device of the operator of the energy delivery network associated with a relevant data area.

11. A system for monitoring an operating status of an energy delivery network, the system comprising:

sensors disposed at measurement locations assigned to primary components of the energy delivery network and configured to acquire measured values indicating the operating status of the energy delivery network;

a monitoring device of an operator of the energy delivery network, said monitoring device being configured to generate on a basis of the measured values or values derived therefrom a visualization that indicates the operating status of the energy delivery network at a measurement location of a particular sensor of said sensors;

an application server disposed outside a sphere of influence of the operator of the energy delivery network;

said sensors being configured to determine state values indicating their own operating status and to transmit the state values or the values derived therefrom first to said application server;

said application server being configured to analyze and/or process the measured values or the values derived therefrom, thereby forming system status values which indicate the operating status of the energy delivery network at the measurement location of the particular sensor;

said application server further being configured to transmit the system status values to said monitoring device of the operator of the energy delivery network; and

said monitoring device being configured to use the system status values received from said application server to generate and display the visualization indicating the operating status of the energy delivery network at the measurement location of said particular sensor;

wherein said application server is configured to check the measured values received with regard to their position in an admissible operating range of a respective primary component to which the respective sensor is assigned, and to form the system status values according to a result of the checking step;

wherein said application server is configured to analyze and/or process the state values, thereby forming sensor status values which indicate an operating status of each of the sensors, and to transmit the sensor status values to the monitoring device of the operator of the energy delivery network; and

the monitoring device is configured to use the sensor status values received from the application server to generate and display the visualization indicating the operating status of the respective sensor.

12. The system according to claim 11, wherein at least some of said sensors are fault indicators, which are mounted on lines of the energy delivery network and are configured to acquire measured values that indicate a current flow through a line.

13. The system according to claim 11, wherein:

said application server contains a plurality of mutually separate data areas, which are protected from accessing one another;

said application server is configured to receive further measured values or further values derived therefrom from further sensors belonging to different operators of energy delivery networks, and to assign the further measured values or the further values derived therefrom for each operator solely to a data area associated with that particular operator of one of the different energy delivery networks; and

said application server is configured to form separately for each of the mutually separate data areas the system status values, and to transmit the system status values solely to said monitoring device of the operator of the energy delivery network associated with a relevant data area.

14. A method for monitoring an operating status of an energy delivery network, the method comprising the steps of:

acquiring measured values indicating the operating status of the energy delivery network from sensors disposed at measurement locations assigned to primary components of the energy delivery network;

transmitting the measured values or values derived from the measured values first to an application server, disposed outside a sphere of influence of an operator of the energy delivery network;

analyzing and/or processing the measured values or the values derived therefrom via the application server, thereby forming system status values indicating the operating status of the energy delivery network at a measurement location of a respective sensor;

transmitting the system status values from the application server to a monitoring device of the operator of the energy delivery network; and

generating, via the monitoring device of the operator of the energy delivery network, a visualization that indicates the operating status of the energy delivery network at the measurement location of the respective sensor, based on at least one of the measured values, the values derived therefrom or the system status values received from the application server;

wherein the application server interacts with a configuration device, which, when the operator of the energy delivery network procures a new sensor, transmits to the application server a unique sensor identifier together with an operator identifier specifying the operator of the energy delivery network; and

on being put into operation, the sensor uses the unique sensor identifier to register with the application server.

15. The method according to claim 14, which further comprises:

transmitting, via the sensors, the measured values to the application server;

checking via the application server the measured values received with regard to their position in an admissible operating range of a respective primary component to which the respective sensor concerned is assigned; and

forming the system status values according to a result of the checking step via the application server.

16. The method according to claim 14, wherein:

the sensors determine state values indicating their own operating status;

the state values are transmitted to the application server;

the application server analyses and/or processes the state values, thereby forming sensor status values which indicate an operating status of each of the sensors;

the sensor status values are transmitted from the application server to the monitoring device of the operator of the energy delivery network; and

the monitoring device uses the sensor status values received from the application server to generate and display the visualization indicating the operating status of the respective sensor.

17. A system for monitoring an operating status of an energy delivery network, the system comprising:

sensors disposed at measurement locations assigned to primary components of the energy delivery network and configured to acquire measured values indicating the operating status of the energy delivery network;

a monitoring device of an operator of the energy delivery network, said monitoring device configured to generate on a basis of the measured values or values derived therefrom a visualization that indicates the operating status of the energy delivery network at a measurement location of a particular sensor of said sensors;

an application server disposed outside a sphere of influence of the operator of the energy delivery network;

said sensors configured to transmit the measured values or the values derived therefrom first to said application server;

said application server configured to analyze and/or process the measured values or the values derived therefrom, thereby forming system status values which indicate the operating status of the energy delivery network at the measurement location of the particular sensor;

said application server further configured to transmit the system status values to said monitoring device of the operator of the energy delivery network; and

said monitoring device configured to use the system status values received from said application server to generate and display the visualization indicating the operating status of the energy delivery network at the measurement location of said particular sensor;

wherein said application server is configured to interact with a configuration device, which, when the operator of the energy delivery network procures a new sensor, transmits to the application server a unique sensor identifier together with an operator identifier specifying the operator of the energy delivery network, and wherein, on being put into operation, the sensor uses the unique sensor identifier to register with the application server.