SCADA Energy Management for Plants, Campuses & Utilities
Real-time power flow, power quality, alarms, and control — built on ThingsBoard. GCC-hosted (EN/AR).
KPIs you can track
PF (portfolio)
≥ 0.95
Demand spike alerts → MTTA
< 5 min
Breaker trip RCA
Tracked
Inverter/ESS uptime
98%+
Why it matters
Unseen electrical issues (low PF, harmonics, imbalance) and demand spikes drive penalties, downtime, and asset stress. Operators need unified visibility across PLCs/RTUs, fast alarms, and simple executive reporting.
Platform fit
- Gateway integrations: Modbus TCP/RTU, OPC-UA, BACnet, REST — with local buffering for outage resilience
- Rule engine & workflows: demand spike, low power factor, transformer overheating, inverter faults, breaker trips
- Dashboards & control: mimic/SLC single-line views, KPI tiles, alarm journal, remote setpoints/RPC
- Security & scale: multi-tenant, RBAC, audit logs, GCC data residency
Solution structure
- PLCs/RTUs & analyzers → ThingsBoard Gateway (protocols + store-and-forward) → secure ingestion → rule chains (events/alarms) → dashboards (mimic, assets, KPIs) → notifications & CMMS tickets → exec reports & APIs
Main mimic (single-line)
- Sources (grid/solar/wind/gen), transformers, busbars, feeders, battery/ESS, breakers status
- Live kW/kVAR/kVA, PF, voltages/currents, frequency, THD; alarm badges and controls (where permitted)
Inverters / PV plant
- Phase V/I/P per inverter, efficiency, MPPT status
- Alarms: over-temp, DC arc, grid faults
Wind / Gen set
- Wind speed/rotor speed/kW; generator voltage/current, fuel, oil temp
- Maintenance hours
Battery/ESS
- SoC/SoH, charge/discharge kW, temperature, cycle count
- Alarms: over-temp, low SoC, imbalance
Transformers
- HV/LV V/I, load %, winding temps, DGA (if fed)
- Fan/pump states
Consumption & PQ analytics
- Daily/Monthly demand, PF trend, penalty exposure
- Imbalance index, THD chart; drill into feeders
Alarms & tickets
- Acknowledge/clear/comment, escalation timers
- Exports to CMMS/ServiceNow/Jira
Gateway/Connectivity
- Device health, last telemetry, protocol mapping
- Retry/backlog visibility (store-and-forward)
Typical telemetry
- voltage_l1_v
- voltage_l2_v
- voltage_l3_v
- current_l1_a
- current_l2_a
- current_l3_a
- active_power_kw
- reactive_power_kvar
- apparent_power_kva
- pf_total
- frequency_hz
- energy_import_kwh
- thd_v
- thd_i
- tx_oil_temp_c
- ess_soc_pct
Default alarms
- over_demand
- low_pf
- phase_imbalance
- over_temp_inverter
- over_temp_transformer
- breaker_trip
- no_data
- thd_high
- low_soc
- reverse_power
Applications
Industrial facilities & data centers: PQ + demand control, breaker trip analysis, maintenance triggers
Utilities & microgrids: source orchestration, feeder health, outage response
Campuses & smart buildings: PF correction, load shifting, solar + ESS optimization
Renewables (PV/Wind): inverter performance, curtailment/alarms, grid compliance
Summary
End-to-end SCADA energy management: gateways collect from PLCs/RTUs and analyzers, store-and-forward protects during outages, rule chains detect PQ and demand issues, and mimic dashboards unify control, alarms, and reporting.