New release of the Teris Control system shipped

Teris Control is a monitoring and control system for industrial plants, vertically tailored to the photovoltaic production sector.

The IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) application is one of the first Italian projects to implement the innovative Edge Computing paradigm in the photovoltaic sector, leveraging the low-energy-impact LoRaWan communication protocol.

The main components of the photovoltaic plant are monitored by specialised devices that query the equipment through the industrial ModBus protocol, locally perform data processing and analysis through specific applications implemented on SOM Arduino PRO MKR systems, and transmit the results at a scheduled cadence to a central network system via the LoRaWan protocol.

The LoRaWan Network Server has been implemented using the open-source suite The Things Stack Community Edition.

The data transmitted from peripheral nodes is collected, historicised and processed to evaluate the main KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) on an application server running in cloud computing mode, implemented through the DataCake platform.

The first release of the system had been shipped to the customer last spring for installation on the first pilot plants.

After the testing phase ended successfully, in recent days Chirale has shipped a new version of the system, intended to be gradually rolled out across all the photovoltaic plants managed by the Roman company Teris Servizi Energetici.

The devices are designed to operate outdoors and in adverse weather conditions.