IEC 61850 Gateways

Solu­tions for advanced and cost-effi­cient sub­sta­tion automa­tion with IEC 61850

IEC61850 Protocol Gateway 

IEC 61850 interoperability to unlock new potential

Con­sid­er­ing the ongo­ing dig­i­ti­za­tion and upcom­ing chal­lenges in the ener­gy sec­tor, a future in which every piece of elec­tric equip­ment will be car­ry­ing some type of set­ting and require remote mon­i­tor­ing and/or con­trol might be a lot clos­er than many expect. Man­ag­ing such a large num­ber of data points and com­mu­ni­cat­ing between dif­fer­ent IEDs from sev­er­al ven­dors, required the def­i­n­i­tion of a new, inter­na­tion­al­ly stan­dard­ized com­mu­ni­ca­tion design – mov­ing away from old ser­i­al port pro­to­cols to abstract, pro­to­col-inde­pen­dent data models.

The answer to this was the IEC 61850 stan­dard. Since its first intro­duc­tion, it has under­gone many updates and exten­sions, matur­ing to a point at which sub­sta­tions all over the world are being auto­mat­ed ven­dor-inde­pen­dent­ly in com­pli­ance with the stan­dard. It is expect­ed that the effect of the IEC 61850 stan­dard as a com­pat­i­bil­i­ty enabler in pow­er sys­tem automa­tion will be com­pa­ra­ble to oth­er ground-brak­ing spec­i­fi­ca­tions, such as the effect of html on web ser­vices in the 90s. Final­ly, we can for­get mul­ti­ple pro­pri­etary pro­to­cols and unlock new poten­tial by turn­ing to ful­ly inter­op­er­a­ble sub­sta­tion automa­tion sys­tems (SAS) based on IEC 61850 technology. 

IEC 61850 Gateway and Protocol Conversion Solutions by iGrid T&D

Our Products for IEC 61850 Substation Automation

One of the major chal­lenges of sub­sta­tion automa­tion lies in inte­grat­ing new sub­sta­tion tech­nol­o­gy such as IEC 61850 in old­er, exis­tent sub­sta­tions, where old and new devices have to coex­ist and com­mu­ni­cate with each oth­er. Exam­ples of this can be new con­trol cen­ters that have to com­mu­ni­cate with old automa­tion sys­tems or new­ly installed intel­li­gent elec­tron­ic devices (IEDs), which must con­nect to old sys­tems at the sub­sta­tion or the con­trol center. 

Solu­tions by iGrid T&D have been designed for exact­ly this kind of chal­lenges. Devel­oped explic­it­ly for sub­sta­tion automa­tion, all devices devices and soft­ware sys­tems, com­pris­ing RTUs, gate­ways, I/O exten­sion units and SCADA sys­tem, pro­vide a unique range of com­mu­ni­ca­tion pro­to­cols and con­nec­tiv­i­ty options.

The devices can use almost all pro­to­cols to both col­lect and trans­fer data from and between devices and enti­ties and can map all of them onto IEC 61850. 

Serial to TCP, Multi-Layer Protocol Converter & Network Gateway

iGW, iGWlite
  • Mul­ti­ple Ser­i­al & Eth­er­net ports, option­al Eth­er­net Switch and GPRS modem 
  • Con­ver­sion between all pro­to­cols, e.g:
    Mod­bus­R­TU to IEC 61850
    Profibus to Mod­bus TCP
    DNP3 to Web Services
  • Con­ver­sion between sev­er­al lay­ers, from ana­log sig­nals to web applications
  • Tiny device com­bin­ing advanced Data Pro­cess­ing and Automa­tion functions

Substation RTU, Bay Controller, Distributed I/O..

iRTU, iRTUcompact
  • Mul­ti­ple Ser­i­al & Eth­er­net ports, option­al Eth­er­net Switch and GPRS modem 
  • Two con­fig­urable I/O cards with up to 48 dig­i­tal inputs & out­puts and ana­log inputs
  • iGrid pro­to­col suite for pow­er­ful mul­ti-lay­er pro­to­col con­ver­sion capa­bil­i­ties to your gear, con­trol sys­tem, device or PLC
    iRTUe
    • Remote I/O units for advanced SAS networks
    • IEC 61850 GOOSE communication

     

    Substation Gateway, HMI, SCADA, Grid Control Center Software..

    iControl SCADA
    • Scal­able and inter­op­er­a­ble in mul­ti­ple architectures
    • For all lev­els, from Sub­sta­tion Gate­way to Con­trol Center
    • With all impor­tant fea­tures and characteristics
    iGW-VM
    • High­ly scal­able and pow­er­ful gate­way soft­ware for any serv­er run­ning on win­dows or linux.
    • com­mu­ni­ca­tion front-end for siwtchgears, trans­form­ers and oth­er equipment

     

    State-of-the-Art R&D and Advanced Engineering & Product Development

    International R&D
    • Inhouse R&D on the fore­front of smart grid tech­nol­o­gy, enriched by numer­ous inter­na­tion­al and aca­d­e­m­ic project
    Engineering & Development Services
    • Advanced and cus­tomized appli­ca­tion engi­neer­ing and prod­uct devel­op­ment for spe­cif­ic client needs. 

    Why use IEC 61850?

    • High­er speeds using IEC 61850 GOOSE, MMS and SMV pro­to­cols on an Eth­er­net network
    • Flex­i­ble and sophis­ti­cat­ed log­ic schemes (e.g. inter­lock­ing or load shed­ding) for sub­sta­tion pro­tec­tion and automation
    • Sign­f­i­cant cost sav­ings from reduced inter-wiring and no need for exter­nal pro­to­col converters
    • High­er adapt­abil­i­ty from rely­ing on soft­ware con­fig­u­ra­tion rather than hard­wired sig­nal paths
    • High­er net­work effi­cien­cy with advanced IEC 61850 GOOSE sup­port­ed VLAN and pri­or­i­ty tag­ging func­tion­al­i­ties via IEEE 802.1Q
    • High­er reli­a­bil­i­ty with GOOSE’s con­tin­u­ous and inher­ent com­mu­ni­ca­tion and data integri­ty checkups.
    • Improved redun­dan­cy with PRP and HSR, pro­vid­ing zero reac­tion time

    iGrid T&D Advantages

    • Migrate smooth­ly and step by step, from con­ven­tion­al or lega­cy sub­sta­tion automa­tion sys­tems to IEC 61850 based SAS with any iGrid T&D prod­uct you need.
    • Ben­e­fit from the easy-to-use iCon­fICD tool to cre­ate SCL files.
    • Use devices simul­ta­ne­ous­ly as data servers and data clients (all iRTU & iGW).
    • Map inter­nal I/Os or exist­ing IEDs (e.g. using Mod­bus RTU or IEC 60870–103 ) onto IEC 61850 log­i­cal devices using the iRTU as data server.
    • Col­lect all data in real-time and from mul­ti­ple servers simul­ta­ne­ous­ly using IEC 61850 or any oth­er stan­dard pro­to­col with iCon­trol SCADA or map it to IEC60870‑5–104 or DNP3 with the iGW to report to 3rd par­ty con­trol centers.
    • Col­lect data com­fort­ably and fast (under 3ms) with IEC 61850 GOOSE com­pli­ant iRTUe expan­sion units.

    IEC 61850 in Our Protocol Stack

    Solar PV Plants Remote Monitoring and Control Center

    Solar PV Plants Remote Monitoring and Control Center

    HV SAS, PROCOME to IEC 61850 Server Gateway

    HV SAS, PROCOME to IEC 61850 Server Gateway

    IEC 61850 HV Pilot Substation with IEC 104 Mapping (India)

    IEC 61850 HV Pilot Substation with IEC 104 Mapping (India)

    IEC 61850 SCADA and RTU in Pilot HV Substation (Italy)

    IEC 61850 SCADA and RTU in Pilot HV Substation (Italy)

    MV Grid Automation with IEC 61850 and IEC 104 (Turkey)

    MV Grid Automation with IEC 61850 and IEC 104 (Turkey)

    HV Substation Automation System (Thailand)

    HV Substation Automation System (Thailand)

    HV Substation Automation SCADA with Redundancy (Thailand)

    HV Substation Automation SCADA with Redundancy (Thailand)

    MV Grid Distribution Control Center with IEC 61850 (Spain)

    MV Grid Distribution Control Center with IEC 61850 (Spain)

    iConfICD Tool

    iCon­fICD is a state-of-the-art ICD design tool for the cre­ation of ICD and CID files and the con­fig­u­ra­tion and mod­el­ling of IEC 61850 servers.

    The tool can be used to set up any device sup­port­ing IEC 61850 com­mu­ni­ca­tion. It allows to cre­ate all of the stan­dard­’s Log­i­cal Devices and Log­i­cal Nodes, as well as to select the cor­re­spond­ing Data Objects, while strict­ly fol­low­ing the guide­lines of the IEC 61850 edi­tion 2 stan­dard. With the inte­grat­ed iEd­it tool, expert pro­fes­sion­als can also man­u­al­ly access and mod­i­fy SCL files with­out restrictions.

    iGW‑S Substation Gateway

    Pow­er­ful and reli­able sub­sta­tion gate­way, able to run either in stand­alone or redun­dant modes, with an embed­ded Eth­er­net switch (4 ports) and IEC 61850 client and serv­er capabilities.

    The Slimmest Gateway

    The iGWlite comes with 1 Eth­er­net, 1 RS485/RS422 and an option­al RS-232 port (cop­per or fiber) or a 2G/3G/4G mode – tak­ing lit­tle space on a DIN-Rail, but still employ­ing the full iGrid pro­to­col stack.

    iRTU – With I/Os for Direct Data Acquisition 

    Com­pact and scal­able bay con­troller which can act as IEC 61850 client or serv­er, fea­tur­ing con­fig­urable I/O boards for direct data acqui­si­tion, high-pre­ci­sion time­stamp­ing and an option­al Eth­er­net switch for addi­tion­al Eth­er­net ports.

    iControl SCADA

    High-per­for­mance SCADA for the visu­al­iza­tion and con­trol of sub­sta­tion data. It is able to run either in client/server or stand­alone modes, pro­vid­ing advanced func­tion­al­i­ties such as hot-stand­by redun­dan­cy, auto­mat­ic line col­or­ing, events noti­fi­ca­tion (via e‑mail and sms), SQL log­ging, and reports generation.

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