Telemetry and Telemanagement

Recommended Prerequisites

Electronics, Signals and Systems, Interfaces and Data Acquisition Systems.

Teaching Methods

Presentation of the different supported academic content with visits to businesses that use remote management systems allowing  contact with real cases. Development of a laboratory work focusing primarily on the communications component and of a  synthesis study that will force students to do literature search and an oral presentation. Students will be encouraged to work together.

Learning Outcomes

Understand the overall architecture of the telemetry system or remote management, its components, functions and features; Understanding SCADA Systems and Their Applications; Understand the aspects related to communications, protocols and physical means including networks of wireless sensors; Ability to use and specify telemetry systems and remote management.
Skills to Develop:
Competence in analysis and synthesis.
Competence in organizing and planning.
Competence in group work.
Competence in understanding the language of other specialists.
Competence in independent learning.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. SCADA - Systems Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition.
2. Sensors, Actuators and Remote Control.
3. Remote Real-Time Systems.
4. Data Communications Components of a communications system.
5. Wireless Communications, Wireless Sensor Networks.
6. Units of Management / Supervision.
7. SCADA and Remote management: economic aspects and future prospects.

Head Lecturer(s)

Jorge Afonso Cardoso Landeck

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Laboratory work or Field work: 20.0%
Synthesis work: 30.0%
Frequency: 50.0%

Bibliography

SCADA: Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition, 3/e, Stuart A. Boyer, ISA -Instrumentation, System & Automation, USA, 2004. Understanding Data Communications, 7th Edition, Gilbert Held, Addison Wesley, 2002 Wireless Sensor Networks, A Systems Perspective – Bulusu, Nirupama e Jha, Sanjay –Artech House, 2005 Measurement Systems and Sensors, Nawrocki, Waldemar, Artech House, 2005 Real-Time Design and Analysis. An Engineer’s Handbook, Laplante, Philip A., 2ndEdition, Wiley Interscience, 1997.