Affiliations: [a]
Tianjin University of Technology and Education, Tianjin, China
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Tianjin Sino-German University of Applied Sciences, Tianjin, China
Correspondence:
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Corresponding author. Zhiqiang Du, E-mail: [email protected].
Abstract: In wind farms with high integrated automation systems, different communicated structures, such as different communication protocols and communication mediums, exist among various intelligent equipment. Different communication protocols or media will lead to incompatibility of communication between various intelligent devices. Developing communication protocol converters is an effective way to solve such problems. In this way, the communication efficiency between intelligent devices will be affected to some extent, and then the operation of the whole wind farm will be affected. This study introduces a communication protocol converter integrated with a multiserial, multiprotocol, and multinetwork system. The protocol converter treats the microcontroller STM32F407 as the microcontroller unit of the converter to integrate multiple communication interfaces. Meanwhile, the compatibility problems of communication between the intelligent equipments in the wind field monitoring system can be solved using software to realize the conversion between the various communication protocols.
Keywords: Wind farm, monitoring system, communication protocol converter, protocol
conversion
