The seminar will provide an overview of the current work in partnership with CaribouLabs to develop wireless architecture specifically for heliostat fields.
The project objective is development of a wireless control hardware and architecture that is built from the ground up to meet the heliostat industry’s wireless needs around (1) Reliability, (2) Performance, 3) Versatility, (4) Security, (5) Cost. Making the hardware open-source and establishing a testbed will accelerate the heliostat industry’s development of low-cost fields. CaribouLabs has designed a wireless communication architecture utilizing software-defined radios for communication distances between 10 and 1500m. The system is versatile in that target metrics are applicable to the wider heliostat industry while being compatibility with dedicated security protocols. NREL is in the process of installing 100 wireless controller nodes at the Flatirons campus over a range of ~1000 m. This testbed will be operated in various communication environments and compared against simulations run by CaribouLabs. Furthermore, the testbed will be available to work with other outside researchers with focus on heliostat wireless communications.
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Speaker(s): Dr. Matthew Muller,
Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/441516
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