Due to the limited resources of the earth, all of us learned that nowadays the demand of monitoring and management of electricity is rapidly rising under the trend of carbon reduction. For it always takes time, effort and requires substantial amount of investment in developing a power monitoring and management system, ICP DAS developed a new generation product that is easy-to-use and no programming required - PMC-5151 Intelligent Web-Based Power Meter Concentrator. PMC-5151 features various functions such as: power data collection, power data logger, power demand management, remote alarm message notification and logic control. It enables a full-featured and easy-to-setup power monitoring and management solution that will significantly reduce the time and labor required in building a power monitoring and management system.

PMC-5151 offers built-in Web Server, it allows set up parameters of the smart power meters via browsers, and view the power data of the devices in real time. When there is unusual power usage, it can be identified and investigated right away. And with microSD card, it provides Data Logger function that will record power data of the devices in real time. PMC-5151 also provides data logger file auto send-back function to send back the file in scheduled time for further statistics and analysis. In addition, the PMC-5151 features IF-THEN-ELSE logic execution, I/O module control and Email/SMS alarm message notification functions to build a thought-out power demand management mechanism. The user could freely set up user-defined trigger events for unusual power usage detection, and is able to perform I/O function control or load shedding of the devices based on the real-time power demand. Furthermore, make it feasible to achieve real-time alarm notification (via SMS message or Email) and immediate response to emergency situations.

By using PMC-5151, it is easy to build a power monitoring system and the flexible architecture allows to implement the system stage by stage. During the early stage, if the scale is small, the user could simply use smart power meter and PMC-5151 to set up a simple power data acquisition monitoring system; once the scale is expanded; the user could get the back-end software tool (such as Indusoft) involved to connect with more PMC-5151 concentrators to build a easy-to-expand power monitoring system via blocks stacked structure. By this way, the system will be highly flexible and could be implemented in phases to meet various requirements.
 

Features:

• Leading-edge technology:
  • Combining web-based interface, power data collection/display/logging, logic control operation, power demand management and real-time remote alarm notification function in an innovative PAC controller.
• Web-based operations
  • No programming and no extra software tool is required, using browsers to perform settings to build a power monitoring system in an easy way.
• Power data collection/display
  • Support connections to Modbus TCP/RTU smart power meters; display real-time or historical power data in table or trend format.
  • Offer power data statistic report generator function (daily report and monthly report)
  • Offer Flash HMI Tools for user-defined HMI interface design
• Power data logging
  • Provide real-time power data logger function for front-end power meters, and features auto send-back function that will automatically send back the power data logger files at scheduled time.
  • Allow to recover power data files when the network is resumed after temporary network disconnection to ensure no data loss.
  • With PMC Data Server software, it allows to import the content of the power data logger file into the database system (MS SQL, My SQL or MS Access) at PC side for further statistics and analysis of the power data.
• Power demand management, logic control and remote alarm notification function
  • Built-in IF-THEN-ELSE logic engine for thought-out power demand management and is able to monitor electricity usage of the devices in real-time.
  • Provide Email & SMS notification functions that will notify electricity usage information of the devices in real-time
  • Support Modbus I/O modules for real-time monitoring of AI/AO/DI/DO channels, and is able to immediately adjust the operations of the devices if required.
  • Provide Schedule function for easy set up the operations of the devices in scheduled time.

 

Function Comparison Table of the PMC series products

Please note: the SMS function of PMC-5141/PMC-5151 has to work with ICP DAS GTM-201-USB

The PMC series product features easy-to-use, reliable and multi-functional advantages. With PMC series product, the user could freely choose most suitable product to meet their specific requirements. PMC provides more efficient power management and monitoring function that will significantly reduce time and labor spent in developing power monitoring and management system. Please refer to PMC webpage  for more detailed information about PMC products.