Technical Catalogue of

Gas Suppervision System - GSS

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INTRODUCTION

OVERVIEW.........

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OPC SERVER and OPC CLIENT

OPC server.....
OPC client............................

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GSS OVERVIEW

GSS software.........

OPC SERVER and GSS SOFTWER

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OVERVIEW
Producers of hardware use different - internal communication protocols for communication
between Hardware. MEDICOP use CAN-BUS protocol called MEDICAN. Users want to
connect all hardware to one Software Building management system. That is the reason
that producers of hardware use different options to transfer internal protocol to standard
protocol. One of them is OPC server.
Also Medicop choose this option. Reasons for that are:
REASONS
Easy to use.
Flexible and compatible according to the manufacturer.
Offers high level of functionality.
The development of drivers is no longer a problem for software programmers; this is
now a care just for hardware manufacturers.
There is no need for software developers to develop new drivers right away when there
is a new version of hardware equipment on the market.
Customers have more available hardware and software manufacturers which is
compatible, so they can form their own automated system.

GSS OPC

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OVERVIEW
OPC or OLE for process control (OLE- Object linking and embedding) is a international
industrial standard, developed by the leading Hardware and Software manufactures in
cooperation with Microsoft. OPC is based on Microsoft`s OLE/COM/DCOM technology
and represents an mutual communication interface between different devices for
controlling and custody of tehnological processes. It is a registered mark from a voluntarily
international organisation OPC Foundation, which combines more than 250 leading
companies. Some of the biggest: Honeywell, Fischer- Rosemount, Siemens, Wonderware,
Intellution, also Microsoft...
OPC drow the line between Hardware and Software equipment and developed a standard,
equal for all devices. Costumers can now form systems with equipment from different
manufacturers and automate them to the highest integration level. The only requirement is
that they are OPC compatible.
The main objective is to prevent software being depended on the hardware from different
manufacturers.
Because of fast industrial development it was necessary to standardize OPC, which is a a
time consuming and continuante work, especially Continuous improvement procedure. Till
now, the organisation has released more specifications about OPC like OPC standard 1.0,
1.0 with time stamp, 2.0 and OPC XML.

GSS OPC

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OPC server
An OPC Server is a software application that acts as an API (Application Programming
Interface) or protocol converter. An OPC Server will connect to a device such as a PLC,
DCS, RTU, or a data source such as a database or User interface, and translate the data
into a standard-based OPC format. OPC compliant applications such as an HMI (Human
Machine Interface), historian, spreadsheet, trending application, etc can connect to the
OPC Server and use it to read and write device data. An OPC Server is analogous to the
role a printer driver plays to enable a computer to communicate with an ink jet printer.

Versions of OPC server from Medican protocol:

DESCRIPTION

GSS OPC

VERSION

DATA ACCESS

DA1.0, DA2.05, 3.0

ALARM/EVENTS

AE1.10

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OPC client
OPC client is provided by the software manufacturer of SCADA control system. The OPC
client must be configured to access to data on OPC platform that is provided by the OPC
server and send it back.

GSS OPC

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Gss (Gas suppervision system) is a software, developed to display data from Medicop
Hardware, which are connected with CAN/BUS protokol called Medican. Software GSS is
designed as OPC client and is comunicate directly with OPC server. GSS provide realtime
data access and alarm/events from all Harware (Manifolds, Plants, Control closing
boxes,)
The application is designed as a standard browser see picture below:

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DESCRIPTION

First window show us the list of installed gas manifolds with eventual alarm copies and plants for air and
vacuum.

Second window show us list of buildings with floors in which control closing boxes with eventual alarm
copies and stabilizers are installed.

The middle window shows detailed view for plant, stabilizer or control closing box that we choose in left
window (pressure statistics, valve statistics, log statistics).

In the fourth window we can see logbook for all installed gas manifolds, plants and control closing boxes.
This give us quick review over all activities, changes or errors for each individual installed unit of supply
system. Window also contain tab for gas flow review, if we have flow sensor on individual unit of supply
system installed.

GSS OPC

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GSS OVERVIEW

GSS SOFTWARE

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