Method for the communication of system control units with a plurality of energy generating systems via a gateway, and correspondingly configured and programmed data server

Abstract

A method for the communication of system control units with a plurality of spatially distributed energy generating systems, which jointly feed into a continuous supply network for electrical energy, includes receiving request data from the system control units and system data from the energy generating systems at a gateway that is operating as a common gateway, managing the system data in the gateway and processing the request data in the gateway, and sending control commands to the energy generating systems and/or data responses to the system control units that result from the processing of the request data via the gateway. The method also includes receiving the request data in at least two different data models of the individual system control units and/or receiving the system data in at least two different data models of the individual energy generating systems at the gateway, translating the request data and the system data from their respective data models into a metadata model in the gateway; and managing the translated system data in the gateway and processing the translated request data in the gateway, wherefrom data responses compiled from system data to specific system control units and/or control commands to specific energy generating systems result in the metadata model. Lastly, the method includes translating the data responses and/or control commands from the metadata model into the data models of the specific system control units and/or energy generating systems in the gateway, and transmitting the translated data responses and/or control commands by the gateway to the specific system control units and/or energy generating systems.

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