Open software architecture for distributed hydro-meteorological and hydropower data acquisition, simulation and design support
 
V. Milivojević, D. Divac, N. Grujović, Z. Dubajić, Z. Simić
 
Abstract
 
In order to provide support to management of complex hydropower systems and their digital
simulations it is necessary to establish communication between measurement systems and
computational models, although they were not primarily designed on the concepts of mutual
integration and possible reusability. This paper presents one of the possible solutions for
distributed hydro-meteorological and hydropower data acquisition, simulation and design
support that is based on service-oriented architecture (SOA) principles. The complex and
heterogeneous information flow used by these systems is portioned into separate data and
computational functions that use common open protocols for mutual communication. Based on
the Web Services techniques, the paper presents the principals that can help design many
business-independent services and deploy them depending on computational power and data
distribution. The Web Services technology can not only reduce the complexity of applied
software and improve its reusability, but it can also implement dynamic application integration
in order to decrease the costs of system development and maintenance.