Control and Monitoring of a Heat Distribution Network The Challenge Prazska Teplarenska a.s. (Prague District Heating Company) supplies heat to more than 265,000 homes and businesses in Prague, the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. The distribution network includes some 664 kilometers of pipeline and 49 heating plants. Operators must monitor and control key system points like boiler rooms and heat transfer stations, and the remote heat meters at customer locations must be able to report their data to the invoice processing software in the central office. But some parts of the pipeline and its associated customers are located in areas where wired connections are impractical, due to issues ranging from physical barriers to complications involving estate ownership an

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