SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

MECHATRONICS ETHICS AND LAWS MECHATRONICS IN PUBLIC UTILITIES

DELOS REYES, CHARISSA D. BSMECE-5

JOSEPH REUBEN D. CRUZ, BME, ECE, MEng-ECE

MECHATRONICS IN PUBLIC UTILITIES

PUBLIC UTILITY
UTILITY is a function that maps a state onto a real number, which describes the associated degree of happiness or simply the quality of being useful essential public service a government-regulated set of services provided by organizations consumed by the public: electricity, natural gas, water, transportation, and sewage. Telephony may occasionally be included within the definition

WATER
Automation and remote control of services of: distribution and pumping, sewage raising, purification (civil and industrial) and potable water purification.

leak location system in water distribution networks. Remote reading of meters.

GAS
Automation and remote control of final reduction groups and primary stations. Remote reading of cathodic protection. Remote reading of meters.

ENERGY
Automation and remote control of plants: of co-generation, of remote heating, solar energy,

public lighting.

ENVIRONMENT
Environment monitoring Layer levels

REQUIREMENTS of a PUBLIC UTILITY

System monitoring Efficiency Quality Certification for the services provided

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Reliability of service Efficiency Safety Environmental

Modern management of network services requires the latest technologies in the field of:
Electronics Information technology Measurement tools Remote control tools

Automation and monitoring system is directly linked to how reliable the tools are.

Plant View Overland SCADA

Centralized engineering station Centralized alarms management Historic Trends Redundancy management

 Web client function System software

HUMAN-MACHINE-INTERFACE (HMI)
The human-machine-interface is the point of exchange for power system information and control. HMIs must be designed to provide operators with timely, ordered, and actionable information to promote the safe and reliable operation of critical power assets.

REMOTE CONTROL TECHNOLOGY

fundamental to favor solutions that could adapt features and performance in order to develop the requested functions and equipment to be integrated.

ENERGY SAVING for Pumps and Fans

Energy savings is one of the main strategies to work on in order to satisfy these agreements: public utilities have also become involved in this. One of the most common areas deals with the control and activation of fans and pumps. The energy-saving function automatically sets the output voltage for the engine based on all minimum instant load conditions with equivalent performance the power absorbed by the engine.

Power Line Communication (PLC) Technologies

PLC is such an emerging technology that uses no new wires and provides for internetworking services using the electrical wiring already deployed extensively throughout the world.