Development of Smart Remote Terminal Unit for Water Treatment SCADA System
Sang-Bok Jang, Ho-Hyun Lee, Sung-Taek Hong, Myung-Geun Chun · Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers · 2014
In this paper, a new remote terminal unit(hereafter RTU) is proposed to manage a wide range of applications and a variety of sensors (eg, , pressure, water quality, temperature and humidity sensors, the amount of pollutants, CO₂ , etc.) to monitor and control the facility such as water treatment plant, intake and effluent pumping station, water tank and distribution network. Fault status of local sensor devices and network are alerted by using the embedded fault handling capabilities of the RTU in the system and also sent to the fault handling server, by which fault can be easily monitored to users. The developed system was applied to one of K-water branch offices in Geoje city and improved its reliability and stability for controlling and monitoring water facility.