FACILITY DATA COLLECTION SYSTEM DESIGN. After finalizing the design and layout of the facility, the design for the data collection system was required. A need exists for the electrical use data collected from the site to be transmitted from the facility to a remote database via the internet. This design will also need to incorporate the size constraints of the two- gang enclosure. Due to the fact that the XXXXXX facility’s plug-in connections were to be located far from the building and IT infrastructure, it was determined that a wireless data transmission system would be the preferred design. This would eliminate the need to run additional control wiring from the warehouse to the pedestals. The dock mounted electrical connection design incorporated hard wire infrastructure since the dock connections were very close to the XXXXXX IT interface. A wireless data collection system was designed by using wireless data transmitters, as well as a wireless range extender. The data collection system also included a pulse counter, which reads the electricity being provided to the units, as well as a data logger, which records these pulses. The data that are logged are transferred to the wireless transmitter and on to a router, which transmits the data set through the internet to enable real time data viewing.
FACILITY DATA COLLECTION SYSTEM DESIGN. The data collection system design is very similar to the one used in Phase 2 of the project. As before, a sensor that outputs pulses based on the amount of energy used by an eTRU connection was attached to a data logger, which records the pulses. The data loggers interface with the existing Willow Run Foods Information Technology (IT) infrastructure and report data across the Internet where it is stored for real-time or historical viewing. This data collection system design takes advantage of the proximity of the warehouse-mounted connections to the IT control hardware. This design change permitted the reduction of data collection devices. The design used all hard-wired line transmission to collect and report data, which significantly improved the system’s reliability in non-ideal operating environments.
