MPEI: PIOT-1 software and hardware platform for remote control of electric power facilities

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2023: Development of a software and hardware platform for remote management of electric power facilities

Scientists of the National Research University "MPEI" have developed a universal software and hardware platform for remote control of electric power facilities (PIOT-1), operating on domestic software. The university announced this on September 26, 2023.

The implementation of this development at electric power facilities will improve the mechanisms for monitoring the technical health of equipment, managing energy consumption, losses and indicators of the quality of electricity in networks at relatively low costs.

PIOT-1 provides remote data exchange with autonomous and localized energy facilities, microgrids, as well as renewable energy sources. The inclusion of such objects in a single digital model of electric networks in Russia is hampered by a large number of complex organizational and technical procedures. It is the simplicity of setting up the Russian platform, which can be performed by employees of electric grid companies without special programming skills, that is one of the main advantages of PIOT-1 compared to solutions already on the market that implement such functionality on single-board computers.

An important area of ​ ​ Russia's power is the achievement of technological sovereignty and security of the information structure. The development of scientists by NRU MPEI is implemented on a domestic microprocessor element base and uses proprietary software. As of September 2023, the PIOT-1 platform is a unique trusted digital data exchange system for electric power facilities, "said Nikolai Rogalev, rector of MPEI.

The PIOT-1 process system is a combination of a communication controller with a large set of wired and wireless data interfaces, as well as a software part that supports the collection, processing and display of information about the control object. The platform is built on a Russian microprocessor component base using Industrial Internet of Things technology. This technology is a system of combined computer networks and industrial (production) facilities connected to them with built-in sensors and software for data collection and exchange, with the ability to remotely monitor and control in an automated mode, without human participation.

The platform was developed by scientists of the Department of Industrial Electronics of the National Research University "MPEI" under the leadership of Candidate of Technical Sciences, Deputy Director of the Engineering Center "Power of Large Capacities" Roman Krasnoperov.