From 30 to 31 July, EDI representative Vladislav Medvedev visited the Arcelik plant in Çerkezköy. The R-PODID Application 1 (UC-1) demonstrator was to be deployed here. During the 2 days, meetings were held with partners with discussions on both current progress and potential challenges, as well as on the future work plan for the preparation and demonstration of the demonstrator. Vladislav installed the sensor nodes developed by EDI as part of the R-PODID UC1 development infrastructure to perform wireless communication experiments in an industrial environment and record data from temperature and vibration sensors (accelerometer and gyroscope). The data will also be shared with partners in the future. At the end of the event, the partners agreed on the next steps to prepare the demonstrator.
R-PODID (Reliable Powerdown for Industrial Drives) is a Horizon Europe Chips-JU project. It is aimed to develop automated, cloudless, short-term fault detection for electrical drive systems, power modules and equipment that can be integrated into power converters. The solution provides the ability to predict both electromechanical faults in the equipment and faults in the power converters that drive it within a specified time range (12-24 hours). In other words, the number of industrial plants that can be shut down energy-efficiently during an outage will increase, as it will be possible to reliably predict potential faults for the next start-up cycle. In addition, dangerous faults in applications using advanced power equipment can be safely eliminated. For example, silicon carbide (SiC) and III/V-semiconductor equipment (gallium nitride (GaN)).
More about the project: https://www.edi.lv/en/projects/reliable-powerdown-for-industrial-drives-r-podid/