ENERGY APPLICATION

FENWAY SYSTEMS UTILIZES DEVICEMASTER FROM COMTROL TO

FACILITATE DATA COMMUNICATIONS, SCADA MANAGEMENT

Fenway Systems, a leading provider of integrated solutions to the wind and solar energy industries, provides

advanced onsite turbine and wind farm controls that deliver robust real-time monitoring and control capabilities.

With more than 20 years of industry experience, Fenway’s advanced automation and reporting systems are currently used to

operate 7,000 wind turbines, totaling more the 2 gigawatts of generating capacity globally.

Fenway’s advanced solutions can be customized for turbine and equipment

manufacturers’ specic operating needs, which for a recent installation of more

To ensure ecient data acquisition and storage for these wind turbines, Fenway

utilizes the DeviceMaster RTS VDC from Comtrol.

“Through rst testing a few dierent products, I determined that the throughput eciency of most Ethernet/serial devices is

much lower than in Comtrol RTS products—particularly for short messages,” Pasquariello explains.

Each wind turbine contains two DeviceMasters—the rst of which gathers the data o of the controller. The second

DeviceMaster works in conjunction with an electric meter that measures the amount of electricity the tower is generating. With

this system, the wind turbines can communicate at high speeds, allowing sucient responsiveness throughout the network.

“The wind turbine itself has a small computer in it that functions as a controller, gathering several data points, such as wind

speed,” said Chuck Griggs, senior sales representative at Comtrol. “ The data comes out of that controller as serial data, but

the Fenway software requires it to be in the form of Ethernet network data. The DeviceMaster provides the bridge for this

DeviceMaster.

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