Automating and Improving the Data Acquisition System of Water Meters based on Distributed PLCs Networks


Abstract in English

In order to keep up with the latest international technologies which have been achieved recently. We have to search continuously for the technological methods in order to improve the present situation of the institutions in the Syrian Arab Republic. This research aims to build a network of Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) with Human Machine Interface (HMI) and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system, as well as, studying the most suitable protocols to build the network beside identifying the causes of choosing the protocol. After studying and identifying it, we had better to use the automated industrial network to improve the present situation of water company concerning with getting meters data accurately as fast as possible. We build the mentioned network by means of a group of PLCs, so that, each one could be used to get the data for an avenue in Hama city. These distributed controllers would be connected by a central router in order to pass all the data to the water company center. We will use a HMI and SCADA system for showing collected data, controlling, and saving the collected data. This HMI and SCADA system will be connected to the same PLCs, and thus, we will get a distributed industrial network.

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