Infrastructure

Highly engineered: our roads

A dense and extensive road network is now taken for granted by us all. This is thanks to the responsible motorway maintenance authorities and regional road-building organisations. In addition to the maintenance of roads, their tasks include the operation and maintenance of a large amount of technical equipment.

Many potential weak spots

For trouble-free operation, the following entities must be monitored, among others: Pump stations, car park toilets, tunnels, motorway maintenance authorities, signal and traffic management systems, transformer stations, motorway lighting, cable houses and cable monitoring systems.

SAE helps to minimise down times

In North Rhine-Westphalia alone, around 200 installations are monitored with our systems. SAE solutions help to increase the availability of the installations and minimise down times. For data transmission to the control centres, FO links, dedicated lines, public services such as GPRS and DSL and classical dial-up links are used. For particularly important installations, the link is provided with redundancy using different media. Messages can be allocated in a prioritised manner to the different transmission routes. Thanks to the modular hardware and software concept, very specific tasks such as the integration of an access control system can also be implemented without problems.

Appropriate products

net-line FW-5-GATE

The net-line FW-5-GATE telecontrol system is designed especially for communication-intensive applications in telecontrol, station control and automation technology. It is based on the enormously successful net-line FW-5.

net-line FW-5

The compact model of the series5 product family. A combination of small dimensions and cost efficiency with a capacity for many different types of application.

net-line BCU-50

The modular bay station controller in the robust rack is designed for longlasting reliability, the greatest ease of use and fast integration with high IT security according to the BDEW whitepaper.

net-line FW-50

Modular, universally usable telecontrol station, which can simultaneously be used as a router for demanding communication and automation tasks.

setIT

A powerful configuration application, designed for ease of use. It allows easy adaptation of SAE telecontrol units to the requirements of the application and the mapping of extensive structures.

codeIT

Flexible programming application according to IEC 61131-3 for integrating local control functions into telecontrol and automation solutions.

connectIT

A good connection: connectIT makes it possible to exchange information between telecontrol networks and OPC servers inexpensively and efficiently.

Monitoring and actuating distributed generation plants as part of a large scale virtual power plant

NEXT Kraftwerke GmbH

Next Kraftwerke GmbH is tackling the most common criticism made of renewable energy sources, the risk of fluctuations in the electricity grid owing to changeable weather effects. The electricity grid is stabilised with the renewables with the aid of a large scale virtual power plant. This is done by making controllable plants (biogas, CHP plants etc.) produce more or less electricity when an imbalance in the electricity grids is likely.

Monitoring Haunsberg well with telecontrol systems

Salzburg AG - Project Haunsberg well

SAE IT telecontrol technology is used to monitor the Haunsberg well installation, which acts to geologically stabilise the land. Within the catchment area of this installation, there are a local rail line, the B156 road and a natural gas pipeline. The wells are used to achieve a controlled reduction in groundwater to below 400 m above sea level, which is critical in this region.

Controlling points heating systems with telecontrol systems

Salzburg AG - Project points heating systems

In the Salzburg local rail network approximately 52 sets of points are equipped with points heating systems. For each set of points, two heating rods are used, which are up to 5 m long and emit heat at a temperature of 65 – 75 °C. Power is supplied via the public 50 Hz network. The heat output of the electric points heating systems is 3.6 kW (2 x 1.8 kW). The points heating system is controlled with net-line FW-50 telecontrol systems, which have a codeIT soft PLC (IEC 61131-3).