Standby Power Management Network Architecture; An Industrial Experience

Adnan Anbuky

CSSE/ECE University of Canterbury

Wed Aug 18 15:10:00 NZST 2004 in Room 031, MSCS

Abstract

While the technological advancement have brought some industries like the machine tool industry to the level of unmanned operations, the standby power industry still enjoying the relaxation of dealing with manual operations. Manual data collection at a rate of once every six month is not unfamiliar even on today’s standard. This might be due to the misconception relevant to the importance of the standby power to the users, such as the IT or the telecommunication industries. Looking into the cost of power equipment rather than the cost of interruption has substantial delayed the penetration of technology and hence the progress of automation.

The talk will introduce a few years of research and development into the area of standby power systems management network. The knowledge components relevant to the monitoring, control, and management will be presented first. This will lead to the knowledge organization and facilitate the mechanism for distribution of intelligence. Network architecture based on generic nodes and a general purpose solution is then presented. The solution has substantially contributed to the progress of this industry as it helps increasing the degree of automation and improving the system reliability and cost. This would also assist in resolve a lot of the human operator confusions caused by overexposure to the technology. Furthermore, this would benefit the emerging distributed generation technology.

Biography

Adnan Anbuky has worked on establishing the research facility at Swichtec since 1996. The unit has completely benefited from the postgraduate students. It has generated substantial wealth of knowledge to the industry. While they were not sure, before we started, what would be the solution and which third party will provide that, the outcome of the research has resulted in a fully protected solution for new product line and sufficient knowledge to cover future product generations. It has also opened the door for a number of inter-discipline/inter-technology issues that lend themselves to further research and development.

Prior to Swichtec I was enjoying the relaxed world of academia. 1975-91 I was with the systems and control engineering department/ the University of Technology/ Baghdad. I got my professorship promotion in 1987. 1991-1995 I was with the applied engineering faculty/ the University of Yarmouk/ Jordan as a professor and head of computer engineering group first and then dean of faculty. My research prior to Swichtec was a continuity of my PhD work at UMIST / England with an emphasis on local requirement. This was within the area of digital systems and high performance incremental motion control as applied to CNC and Robotics. Currently I enjoy dealing with networked control systems with emphasis on technology drivers for system analysis, embedded electronics & communication, and distributed intelligence.