GSM Based Power Plant Temperature Remote Monitoring and Control System with Real Time Data Acquisition

Abstract

This paper presents a GSM based Power Plant Temperature Remote Monitoring and Control System with Real Time Data Acquisition. Power Plants used in the Industries are powered ON steady to carry various loads twenty-four hours each day. This requires real time remote monitoring of the system’s parameters to avoid system breakdown or malfunctions. Research pointed out that one of the main challenges of a power generating plant is accurate failure prediction. This has been a serious challenge and to tackle this challenge, a system that will monitor, acquires data and control power generating plant remotely in case of any serious change in the plant’s parameters to avoid failure or malfunctioning via GSM is proposed. The system is divided into hardware and software. The hardware part includes a temperature transducer (LM35) which takes raw measurement and generates analog signals to an Analog to Digital Converter (ADC), the digitized output of an ADC goes into a programmable micro-controller, and the micro-controller is programmed to communicate the data to a GSM module through RS-232 serial communication protocol. The software part used agile method of Software development life cycle and the program written using C-language with (PHP/HTML) for web page development. The system is tested and the results shows that the GSM module transmits measured parameters to the web-based platform and also sends processed values as an SMS to the power plant operator’s GSM accordingly. The system also backs up the parameters to the SD card integrated in the system for future use and further predictions. A real time graph of temperature against time is plotted to showcase the system performance and guide to the power plant operator on the power plant health.

Keywords: Remote Monitoring System, Real-time Data Acquisition, GSM, HTTP, HTML, PHP, SQL, Database.