IEC 61850 Vendor Independent Systems Engineering

FAST recently re-engineered a multivendor IEC 61850 Station Bus Substation Automation System using a top down engineering approach for system specification and integration. The project was a proof of concept put forward to a utility to replicate an already in service design to highlight engineering design efficiencies. The following is an outline of the process of engineering the system and resulting CID files through HELINKS System Tool Set. The results were then compared to the utility’s commissioned CID files which were created using multiple Vendor Tools.

SCADAIEC 61850HELINKS STSEngineering11-09-2015
Automation Design, Communications and SCADA Resources

FAST Engineering partnered with Titan ICT (Titan) to deploy a team of highly experienced SCADA personnel for the communications design, modem configuration, SCADA design and SCADA testing support for intelligent devices in Ergon Energy's distribution network. The distribution devices were to include Automatic Circuit Reclosers, Remote Sectionalisers, Remote Load Break Switches and Line Fault Indicators.

SCADAEngineering31-07-2015
What is IEC 61850

IEC 61850 is a standard for the design of electrical substation automation and is a part of the International Electrotechnical Commissions (IEC) Technical Committee 57 (TC57) architecture for electric power systems.The IEC 61850 standard is an innovative approach to substation automation that will result in improvements in both performance and costs in protection systems and data acquisition.The standard defines the communications interfaces, provides object models for common substation plant and functions and standards within a substation.

SCADAIEC 61850Engineering01-05-2015