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Xtreme Power Deploys a Grid-Tied Energy Storage System Controlled Using NI RIO Hardware

Figure 1: The inverter cabinet has an embedded NI Single-Board RIO that performs local control and communicates to a central PXI system via a custom fiber-optic network.

"The openness of the FPGA interface helped us create this custom high-performance real-time communications link, enabling distributed real-time closed loop control."

- Richard Jennings, Xtreme Power

The Challenge:
Creating a scalable control system to manage megawatt-sized energy storage and provide digital power management systems.

The Solution:
Using a centralized NI PXI system with R Series reconfigurable I/O (RIO) hardware and distributed NI Single-Board RIO devices to continuously measure the power and power quality of the energy grid and control a network of power inverters and battery cells to manage the energy flow.

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