Solutions for Renewable Energy Generation

Generating energy from renewable resources poses major challenges to technology. The systems are exposed to environmental conditions and have to withstand wind and weather.

To achieve a high level of operational reliability here, MicroControl solutions ensure perfect systems control and precise transfer of measurement data.

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CANopen Software for Photovoltaic Components

From version 6.16, the modular CANopen /CANopen FD Slave protocol stack from MicroControl supports development of photovoltaic components that are intended to comply with the CANopen application profile CiA 437. The CiA 454 application profile for energy management systems has also been included in the portfolio.

The application profiles are an optional add-on that can be integrated into the protocol stack in the same way as any other available device profile.

In addition to the CANopen services of the CiA 301 specification, the stack also supports LSS (CiA 305). The protocol stack written in C can be ported to any microcontroller by using the CANpie driver. The processor architecture used does not affect the functional scope of the protocol stack.

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Customized Components for Renewable Energy Generation

Custom solutions for use in energy generation can be realized quickly and cost-effectively based on our well-established I/O modules.

For use in fuel cells, for example, the µCAN.8.dio-SNAP module has been expanded to include four analogue inputs, two temperature inputs and a fixed-voltage output.

In solar thermal systems, a customized solution for measuring the process variables based on the µCAN SNAP module family was developed with the customer, which also includes a compact Linux control unit.

The systems mentioned here, communicate efficiently via the standardized CANopen interface.

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