Digital Substation

Relay protection, SCADA, Metering, and Cybersecurity for electrical infrastructure.

IEC 61850 (Standard)

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Extensions for IEC 61850 System Configuration Language to describe HMIs have been proposed

IEC TC 57 has published (57/1767/NP) a proposal for extending the System Configuration Language (SCL) to provide high-level direction in terms of how best to bind the HMI graphical objects with the IEC 61850 data objects/attributes using the configuration description language defined in IEC 61850-6. The concept willl be based upon the existing System Configuration Language (SCL) defined in IEC 61850-6, in addition to possibly incorporating other non-IEC namespaces such as the W3C's Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) namespace.

Guidelines to redundancy systems are to be developed within IEC 61850

IEC TC 57 has proposed a new part for IEC 61850 (57/1766/DC): IEC TR 61850-90-20 - Communication networks and systems for power utility automation – Part 90-20: Guideline to redundancy systems. As more application domains are added to the IEC 61850, additional modelling, description and functional capabilities needs to be added to the “core” of IEC 61850. And one of such capabilities is redundancy.

Machine-processable Format of IEC 61850 Data Models

IEC TC 57 proposes a new work item (57/1768/NP) IEC 61850-7-7: Communication networks and systems for power utility automation – Part 7-7: Basic communication structure – Machine-processable format of IEC 61850-related data models for tools (proposed 61850-7-7). Closing date for voting: 2016-11-25.

Network infrastructure in digital substations

A local area network is critical infrastructure in a digital substation. Experts in the area of relay protection and automatic as well as automated process control systems run into it with increasing frequency, while the number of questions such as, ‘How to design it?’, ‘How to maintain it?’, ‘How to evaluate its security and effectiveness?’ only increases.

IEC 61580 training in Rome, Italy

IEC 61850 standard is becoming more and more widespread in electric power industry today. А great number of installations and R&D activities involve application of IEC 61850 and many vendors offer IEC 61850 compliant products with less alternatives every other day. These circumstances call for the improvement of engineers’ competence. We are glad to invite engineers of your company to participate in the unique 5-day training course – Development, design, commissioning and maintenance of IEC 61850 compliant systems, which will take place in Rome (Italy) on November 7-11, 2016.

Fault recording in digital substations

Using which IEC 61850 services fault recorders in digital substations must acquire data? How the architecture of fault recording systems must change in digital substation? Experts talk.

Transmission of data structures in a GOOSE message

GOOSE-messaging has been covered a lot in many technical papers and to add anything valuable to the subject is rather difficult. But we will try. And functional constrained data will help us with that.

How to monitor IEC 61850 traffic?

There are several applications that can be used for monitoring IEC 61850 traffic in the Ethernet network. But there is one free-of-charge option everyone should know about.

ABB introduced MMS support for AFS series Ethernet switches

The number of Ethernet switches with integrated IEC 61850-8-1 server increases. Manufacturers do not only implement standard logical node classes according to IEC 61850-7-4 but also those ones introduced by IEC 61850-90-4 technical report. These switches do also support buffered and unbuffered reporting mechanisms. Seems like the closest future is the one where IEC 61850-8-1 (MMS) communications will replace communications over SNMP (being widely used at the moment). This will allow for integration of Ethernet switches in process control systems the same way as it is done with IEC 61850-8-1 pr

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