SIPLUS RIC

Success stories: Water & Wastewater

Hydro-electric power plant coupled to control station of EnBW

Project:	Schluchseewerk
Location:	Freiburg, Baden-Württemberg
Industries:	Energy
Customer:	EnBW
Project goal:	Providing Data and Control for local utility

Up to now:

	Costly engineering of a non-SIMATIC RTU to interface the SIMATIC S5
	No integrated solution, based on SIMATIC I/O-signals

Solution:

	SIPLUS RIC APPLICATION, S7-400 based slave station
	Standard interface to control unit via IEC 870-5-104
	Standard TIA-based communication to SIMATIC S5 controllers

Benefits / Achievements:

Savings in the project:

	Standard configuration of TIA components
	Standard interface according to IEC

Savings during operation:

	Operational reliability for remote control
	Easily expandable

Level control for small hydro-electric power plants

Project:	Level Control for Kaplan turbines
Location:	River Mosel; run-of-river power stations
Industries:	Water & Wastewater
Customer:	Voith-Siemens-Hydro
Project goal:	Migration to modern communications technology

Up to now:

	Non-Siemens components for telecontrol
	SIMATIC for automation purposes
	Complex, various, unstable communications networks

Solution:

	SIMATIC based RTU
	Automation as before based also on SIMATIC S7
	Standard protocol IEC 870-5-104, suitable for existing fiber-optic network

Benefits / Achievements:

Savings in the project:

	Attractive network provider
	Usage of standard-components

Very high availability 99,9%

Groundwater, level supervision

Project:	Railway track groundwater SCADA
Location:	Berlin
Industries:	Water & Wastewater
Customer:	Deutsche Bahn
Project goal:	Level Supervision with simple RTU outstations and small network

Up to now:

	Railway track had to be visually checked by traveling around
	No automatic measurement and indication or alarm to control center

Solution:

	Installation of instrumentation and sensors for level measurement
	SIPLUS RIC broadcasts messages to control center

Benefits / Achievements:

Savings in the project:

	Communications via GPS
	Simple, robust outstations, -40°C up to +70°C

Savings during operation:

	Automatic alarming in case of emergency
	Low power consumption