Utilizing concurrency to gain performance in an industrial automation system
Leif Enblom · 2003
This work presents and discusses the results from a study, focused on achieving more performance for an industrial real-time control system. The real-time control system is used to protect electrical power stations from being destroyed by strokes of lightning. Sensors in the system continuously collect information on currents and voltages from the electrical power station which the control system protects. The sensors deliver the collected data to a computer system that bases its decisions on the arriving data. When a dangerous situation is detected circuit breakers decouple the hazardous power line.