GSG Kelvin Collaborative Control Software¶

On this page you will go through a fast-track introduction to understand the Kelvin Collaborative Control Software and where to find practical information on each part to start your journey with Kelvin.

Overview¶

Kelvin Core is an AI integrated software platform for building and managing control applications. On this platform you can;

• Manage all your assets globally
• Collect, analyze, transform and store all your data centrally from all assets
• Write data to any of your assets for control or settings
• Perform analytics and artificial intelligence on your data
• Create and deploy programs to run at the edge or on your cloud/server

In its most simplistic form, Kelvin Core can be split into three main locations, (1) your installation where your assets are located, (2) a server either in the cloud or at your head quarters and (3) on your computer. This diagram gives you a simple overview of this;

Quick Tour¶

At the Edge¶

At the edge where your assets are located you will find your PLC's, DCS Systens, SCADA systems, HMI systems, micro-controllers, etc. You can also install Kelvin Control Change Apps (Python or Docker or through Kelvin Maps) at the edge to support your current control system architecture.

At or near the Edge you will install a Kelvin Cluster. The Kelvin Node is the edge server that will manage all your Kelvin Apps and Kelvin Bridges you will deploy to that location.

Kelvin Apps¶

Kelvin Apps are programs that you can write in any programming language and environment. These programs are containerized and stored on the Cloud Server in the App Registry.

You can then deploy these apps to any Kelvin Cluster with the unique variables in the yaml configuration file.

You can deploy an App multiple times to the same Kelvin Cluster to run separate common tasks. In this case make sure that there are no conflicts such as trying to register the same port number.

There are two types of Kelvin Apps - Python or Docker.

Kelvin Bridges¶

Kelvin Bridges are specialized Kelvin Apps developed by the Kelvin Development Team to transparently communicate to your assets or third party data sources, collect the metrics and store them in the Cloud Server databases.

There are currently five types of Kelvin Bridges;

1. OPC UA
2. MQTT
3. Modbus TCP/Serial
4. Emerson ROC
5. ABB TotalFlow®

At the Cloud Server¶

The Cloud Server can be setup on AWS, Azure or possibly your favorite cloud provider.

The Cloud Server is the heart of the Kelvin Core managing and monitoring all your infrastructure and is the central repository for all your data, applications and dashboards.

Here you will define all your assets and metrics, manage all your Kelvin Clusters and Kelvin Apps and generate alarms and AI failure detection.

At the User / Developer¶

You can access the Cloud Server through five channels;

1. Kelvin Maps (Operational graphical user interface accessed with any modern browser)
2. Kelvin Manager UI (Admin graphical user interface accessed with any modern browser)
3. Kelvin SDK (used in any terminal, iPython or Python environment)
4. Kelvin API

Kelvin Maps¶

Kelvin Maps is the interface for operations and management alike.

All information and data management is done by the Kelvin Core and the administration for Kelvin Metrics, Kelvin Assets and Kelvin Apps is handled by the Kelvin Manager UI.

Kelvin Maps focuses in three areas;

1. Monitoring and Controlling Assets
2. Analysis and Simulations
3. Process creation and management

Monitoring and Controlling Assets focus on the practical side of the operations where you can monitor all the data coming from the Edge, collating data, analyzing alarms, communications between teams & colleagues and create asset control logic.

Analysis and simulations will focus on identifying inefficient assets, calculating failure rate of assets, calculating OEE across assets, processes & the organization and calculating carbon emission savings/costs on real or simulated scenarios.

Process creation and management will focus on the actual process flow between your assets, allowing operations to maintain as-built Process Maps and monitoring/collaborating on the processes and assets.

Kelvin Manager UI¶

This is a graphical user interface accessed from any modern browser. Even though it will work on all modern browsers such as Firefox, Edge, etc. it is only fully tested and guaranteed on Google Chrome.

The Kelvin Manager UI focuses on the administration of your Kelvin Metrics, Kelvin Assets, Kelvin Clusters and Kelvin Bridges,

Kelvin SDK¶

The Kelvin SDK is the original interface for managing your Kelvin Core. You can run the commands either directly through a terminal or through a Python library or as API commands through an iPython terminal.

Kelvin API¶

The Kelvin API allows you to control your Kelvin Core through API calls.

We publish a full Swagger JSON file which you can use in your favorite API program such as Swagger UI or Postman. You can also use the API calls to send commands or collect JSON formatted information. It uses OAUTH2 tokens for security.

Other Related Links ¶

Interesting links related to this tutorial

• Kelvin Overview -> Overview
• Kelvin Overview -> Kelvin Clusters
• Kelvin Overview -> Kelvin Apps
• Kelvin Overview -> Kelvin Bridges
• Kelvin Overview -> Kelvin Alarms
• Kelvin Overview -> Kelvin AI Failure Detection
• Kelvin Overview -> Kelvin Maps -> Kelvin Maps Overview
• Kelvin Tutorials -> Table of Contents -> Tutorials List by Description

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