IoT energy monitoring of a refrigeration installation

Abstract

[EN] This paper presents an application for the energy monitoring of commercial refrigeration facility, based on the concept and technology of the Internet of Things. The purpose of this application is to offer support to the activities of energy audits ant to the implementation of energy management systems, where the energy consumption of a facility must be characterized, or the saving measures applied must be supervised. Among the main features offered by this application are the possibility of remotely monitoring the operating conditions of a refrigeration cycle, as well as its energy consumption. Likewise, its Internet connectivity allows the monitoring system to be scaled up and to group the measurements of several refrigeration installations, which transforms this application into a powerful tool for benchmarking. Internet access also allows notifications via e mail under particular conditions of the operation of any of the facilities. On the other hand, the application has the capacity to collect and to store in a database the measurements taken by the field devices, allowing the generation of historical reports showing the evolution of the operation of the installation. The main component of this application is the industrial gateway, SIMATIC IOT2040, which is used to read industrial communication buses and to connect to the Internet. Likewise, the open source software Node RED has been the programming platform used for data reading and processing.