Plug, Connected Energy for web-based fuel cell management

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 21 KB
• Volume: 2003
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1464-2859
• DOI: 10.1016/s1464-2859(03)00102-0

✦ Synopsis

Plug, Connected Energy for web-based fuel cell management

In New York, Connected Energy Corporation and Plug Power have signed an agreement to provide Plug customers with a web-based system for centrally managing Plug Power GenSys™ fuel cells.

Connected Energy's COMSYS™ Central Operating Management System means that users can securely monitor operations, access data history, receive alarm notifications, produce reports, and dispatch GenSys fuel cells anywhere at any time. The system can also integrate sitespecific meters and sensors, and other equipment such as chillers and boilers. Data from the disparate sources are transformed into a standardized XML data set and transmitted securely over the Internet encapsulated in a Virtual Private Network (VPN) tunnel.

The system provides an intuitive, web-based interface to unmanned sites, and is a key element in enabling widespread distributed generation and cogeneration implementations. Service personnel can begin diagnosing a situation 24/7 at work, home or on the road, to more effectively leverage Plug's expertise across a wide range of customer sites.