Designing A Remote Monitoring and Operating System for Base Transceiver Station Gensets

Abstract

Electricity plays a critical role in telecommunication business. Information transmission service infrastructure such as base transceiver stations (BTSes), base station controllers, and mobile switching centers must not lose electricity supply. Therefore, telecommunication enterprises have gensets as backup power supplies. However, these gensets are usually located at a point remote from the BTS, making it difficult for operators to monitor and operate them. This study designs an Arduino and Ethernet Shield remote monitoring and operating system for BTS gensets by utilizing a TCP/IP technology as communication protocols. Gensets are monitored using the likes of voltage sensor, current sensor and fuel sensor.