Design and implementation of the data acquisition system of a large scale network based on four-in-one meters

For households, water supply, power supply, pipeline gas and centralized heating are necessaries to maintain the normal life of a family. For Chinese urban families, water, electricity, gas, warm services are often provided by different government utility companies. Aimed at the shortage of the manual measurement of the above mentioned services‘ consumptions, a new mechanism using network metering devices is proposed in this paper. Based on the general network measurement mechanism and through analysis, this paper proposes using meter communication network as the public communication network of various metering devices, forming wireless mesh network by metering devices, constituting a virtual private network by the power company’s network, and accessing to metering network based on SCEP protocol and certificates of devices. Under this new network measurement mechanism, a network routing optimization strategy, a data acquisition protocol based on IPv6 and a mesh network management system are designed, and preliminary experiments have been carried on. Experimental results show that the proposed mechanism can realize functions through the network, including the control of multi-measuring devices, topology discovery, data acquisition, fulfilling the multi-meter data acquisition system via network.

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LOW COST SEISMIC DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEM BASED ON OPEN SOURCE HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE TOOLS

Proceedings of the International Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering & Technology (IConETech-2020) ◽

10.47412/vycb8830 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Arvid Ramdeane ◽

Lloyd Lynch

Keyword(s):

Data Acquisition ◽

Open Source ◽

Seismic Data ◽

Low Cost ◽

Data Acquisition System ◽

Software Tools ◽

Acquisition System ◽

Seismic Data Acquisition ◽

Private Network ◽

Open Source Hardware

The University of the West Indies Seismic Research Centre, Trinidad and Tobago, operates a network of over 50 stations for earthquake and volcanic monitoring in the Eastern Caribbean islands. These stations form a seismic network consisting of various types of instrumentation, and communication systems. Over a period of 11 years, the Centre has embarked on an initiative of upgrading and expanding the current network with combinations of broadband and/or strong motion sensors, high dynamic range digitizers and networking equipment to link each station to centralized observatories via high speed digital data transmission medium. To realize such an upgrade and expansion, the Centre has developed a seismic data acquisition system prototype built using open-source hardware and software tools. The prototype is intended to be low-cost using off the shelf hardware components and open-source seismic related software handling data acquisition and data processing in two separate modules. The prototype uses a three-channel accelerometer sensor and can process data into standard MiniSEED format for easy data archiving and seismic data analysis. A global position module provides network time protocol time synchronization within 1 millisecond for accurate timestamping of data. Data can be stored locally on the prototype in twenty-minute data files or securely transferred to a central location via internet with the use of virtual private network capabilities. The prototype is modular in design allowing for components to be replaced easily and the system software can be updated remotely thus reducing maintenance cost.

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