iControl SCADA — Automation Made Simple

SCADA for Sub­sta­tion Automa­tion, Pow­er Dis­tri­b­u­tion Sys­tems & Auto­mat­ed Gen­er­a­tion Con­trol

Super­vi­so­ry Con­trol and Data Acqui­si­tion (SCADA) sys­tems are fun­da­men­tal for the automa­tion and local/remote con­trol of gen­er­a­tion plants and sub­sta­tions. iCon­trol SCADA soft­ware is adapt­able to any appli­ca­tion require­ments, from small sub­sta­tions and pow­er plants to full medi­um volt­age grids, always work­ing in the same envi­ron­ment.

Our SCADA automa­tion sys­tems pro­vide an intel­li­gent HMI for real-time mon­i­tor­ing and con­trol com­bined with advanced data acqui­si­tion, regard­less of the com­mu­ni­ca­tion pro­to­col, the RTU to con­nect to, or the archi­tec­ture (stand­alone, client/server or redun­dant) in place.

iCon­trol SCADA also guar­an­tees com­plete inter­op­er­abil­i­ty and unites all impor­tant func­tion­al­i­ties for elec­tric­i­ty dis­tri­b­u­tion net­works, such as sin­gle-line dia­grams, play­back event repro­duc­tion, qual­i­ty of ser­vice cal­cu­la­tions (SAIDI & SAIFI ratios), tem­plates or SQL data­base and alarm/event man­age­ment. It was specif­i­cal­ly designed for the ener­gy sec­tor, allow­ing us to cre­ate a sim­ple and intu­itive inter­face for the oper­a­tion and con­fig­u­ra­tion of sub­sta­tion automa­tion sys­tems (SAS) and dis­tri­b­u­tion con­trol cen­ters.

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Product Highlights

  • Secured, high-per­for­mance and easy-to-use SCADA HMI con­trol soft­ware with all rec­om­mend­ed fea­tures for elec­tric­i­ty dis­tri­b­u­tion sys­tems, going beyond indus­try require­ments to ful­fill par­tic­u­lar client needs
  • Adapt our SCADA to your pre­ferred architecture/ topol­o­gy, from sim­ple stand­alone sys­tems to com­plex redun­dant schemas with remote clients and SQL data stor­age
  • Ana­lyze and visu­al­ize your elec­tric­i­ty dis­tri­b­u­tion net­work com­fort­ably in real-time on a sin­gle plat­form or con­nect its data archive to a 3rd par­ty data­base
  • Gen­er­ate cus­tomized reports, trig­gered peri­od­i­cal­ly or by any kind of event/alarm 
  • Man­age mul­ti­ple com­mu­ni­ca­tion pro­to­cols at the same time – from sim­ple Mod­bus to IEC 61850 (MMS & GOOSE), both mas­ter and slave, includ­ing com­mon pro­to­cols for con­trol cen­ter com­mu­ni­ca­tion, such as IEC 60870–5‑104/101, DNP3.0 or OPC UA
  • Dis­play the SCADA in real-time with an inter­net brows­er using the iCon­trol web view­er, block­ing any unwanted/dangerous activ­i­ty with inte­grat­ed safe­ty mea­sures.

Intelligent User Interface

iCon­trol’s smart zoom pro­vides an intel­li­gent overview of the entire grid, show­ing or hid­ing ele­ments accord­ing to the applied the zoom.
Fur­ther­more, the user can eas­i­ly switch between edi­tion and run-time mode, as well as between ener­gy or flow-based bus­bar col­or­ing.

Single-line Diagrams
Single-line Diagrams
Edition Mode
Edition Mode
iControl graphical schemas
iControl graphical schemas
Events Viewer
Events Viewer
Function Block Diagrams (iConf)
Function Block Diagrams (iConf)
Logical Expressions (iConf)
Logical Expressions (iConf)

Technical Features

SQL and Reporting

All the infor­ma­tion col­lect­ed and gen­er­at­ed by iCon­trol can be stored in an SQL data­base for sys­tem analy­ses and report­ing.

iCon­trol can also gen­er­ate cus­tomiz­able reports by itself, which can be sent to main­te­nance teams or engi­neer­ing depart­ments.

Edition & Runtime Mode

iCon­trol does not require a spe­cial license to build or mod­i­fy a project, but it does require the cor­re­spond­ing user lev­el.

This fea­ture is a big advan­tage dur­ing deploy­ments, as the sys­tem can be mod­i­fied direct­ly on the serv­er, with­out the need of any extra engi­neer­ing ter­mi­nal, and with­out los­ing com­mu­ni­ca­tion with field devices.

Web Viewer & Smart Zoom

iCon­trol Web View­er

iCon­trol can be mon­i­tored remote­ly via its web appli­ca­tion, allow­ing to review all sin­gle line dia­grams, schemas, list­ings and his­tor­i­cal data com­fort­ably.

Smart Zoom

The iCon­trol smart or declut­ter­ing zoom pro­vides an intel­li­gent, clear overview of the entire grid, show­ing or hid­ing ele­ments accord­ing to the applied the zoom. 

IEC61131‑3 PLC Automation

The iCon­trol appli­ca­tion includes PLC automa­tion sequences which can be pro­grammed using the iConf PLC soft­ware, based on the IEC 61131–3 stan­dard.

Client/Server Architecture

iCon­trol can be deployed as a stand­alone sys­tem or in a client/server archi­tec­ture, in which all the infor­ma­tion is gath­ered and stored on the serv­er sta­tion, with one or sev­er­al sys­tem oper­a­tors con­nect­ed to the local­ly or remote­ly acces­si­ble client ter­mi­nals.

Redundancy

Crit­i­cal sys­tems depend on redun­dan­cy capa­bil­i­ties to ensure the nec­es­sary reli­a­bil­i­ty. With iCon­trol you can add hot-stand­by servers to client/server archi­tec­tures.

The switchover can either be trig­gered auto­mat­i­cal­ly by the active device or man­u­al­ly by the oper­a­tor. IEDs and iCon­trol clients are always con­nect­ed to both servers, and switched auto­mat­i­cal­ly dur­ing switchover.

Busbar Coloring

Bus­bar col­or­ing or topo­log­ic col­or­ing is a fea­ture that offers auto­mat­ic pow­er line col­or­ing (ALC) based on grid topol­o­gy and volt­age lev­el. The user can assign col­ors to the dif­fer­ent ener­giza­tion sta­tus­es: ener­gized (under pow­er), not ener­gized (not fed), and ground­ed. The lines (bus­bars and con­nec­tions) and graph­i­cal com­po­nents (cir­cuit break­ers, trans­form­ers, iso­la­tors etc.) are then col­ored accord­ing­ly.

In the ener­gized case, the lines and ele­ments may be dis­played in two dif­fer­ent modes:

Ener­gy-based – col­or­ing accord­ing to volt­age lev­el.

Flow-based – col­or­ing accord­ing to pow­er flow.

The lat­ter allows dis­tin­guish­ing dif­fer­ent pow­er flows by col­or (one col­or per flow), i.e. dis­play parts of the grid sup­plied by the same incom­ing feed­er with the same col­or.

Specifications

Signals and Data Presentation

Mul­ti­ple list options to dis­play col­lect­ed infor­ma­tion:

  • Sequence of events
  • Active alarms
  • Alarm acknowl­edg­ment
  • His­tor­i­cal events
  • His­to­ry of mea­sure­ments
Trend charts can be user-defined, sim­ply attached to schemas and viewed by the oper­a­tor at any time dur­ing oper­a­tion
Sig­nal types sup­port­ed by the SCADA include: dig­i­tal inputs, dig­i­tal com­mands, coun­ters, ana­log inputs and set points

Data Storage and Reporting

CSV file to auto­mat­i­cal­ly store the sequence of events (SOE) of dig­i­tal and ana­log points

SQL all col­lect­ed data can be stored in SQL data bases to facil­i­tate pos­te­ri­or analy­ses

Report­ing cus­tomized report­ing can be auto­mat­i­cal­ly trig­gered by an event/alarm, or peri­od­i­cal­ly gen­er­at­ed. Reports are stored on the serv­er and can be sent by email

Protocol Stack

Master/Slave IEC 60870–5‑101
Mas­ter IEC 60870–5‑102
Mas­ter IEC 60870–5‑103
Master/Slave IEC 60870–5‑104
Master/Slave DNP3.0 (ser­i­al, UDP, TCP)
Master/Slave Mod­bus­R­TU
Mas­ter Profibus DP Master/Slave
Mod­bus TCP/UDP and JBUS (mas­ter)
Mas­ter IEC 62056–21
Mas­ter DLMS
Mas­ter Spabus, Mlink, Pro­come
SNMP Agent/Manager
IEC 61850 MMS Client/Server
IEC 61850 GOOSE Publisher/Subscriber

Simple Configuration with iConf

iConf has been specif­i­cal­ly devel­oped for elec­tri­cal appli­ca­tions, sav­ing you lots of time and mon­ey through­out the con­trol sys­tem set-up and main­te­nance tasks, whilst also min­i­miz­ing your project risks. Upload and down­load your con­fig­u­ra­tions, import or scan SCL files (61850) and cre­ate your own tem­plates.

iGComms Software Application

Secu­ri­ty IEC 62351–3 and IEC 62351–5 sup­port, includ­ing TLS/SSL, SSH and VPN con­nec­tions

IEC61131‑3 automa­tion log­ic and PLC pro­gram­ming, with LD, FBD, ST and SFC edi­tor

LUA lan­guage can be used to cre­ate sim­ple and com­plex log­ic and math­e­mat­i­cal expres­sions

Architecture

Redun­dan­cy deploy­able on a hot-stand­by con­fig­u­ra­tion, with redun­dant servers and data bases to improve sys­tem reli­a­bil­i­ty

Client/Server the iCon­trol serv­er col­lects & stores all field data with all sup­port­ed pro­to­cols.
The iCon­trol Client is used to oper­ate the sys­tem and pro­vides the lists and graphs.

RTUs & IEDs only com­mu­ni­cate with the serv­er, while the oper­a­tion con­sole can be dis­trib­uted on sev­er­al clients, using native appli­ca­tions or web browsers.

Stand­alone iCon­trol runs on win­dows com­put­ers and has all the func­tion­al­i­ties to man­age an entire project: com­mu­ni­ca­tion, oper­a­tion, edi­tion & stor­age.

General Characteristics

Sim­ple con­fig­u­ra­tion and main­te­nance with our free iConf tool.
Com­mand con­sole with full pack­et exchange infor­ma­tion, with all avail­able pro­to­cols

Quick switch­ing between the edi­tion and run­time modes with­out inter­rupt­ing the oper­a­tion

Web view­er with iCon­trol you can dis­play all the SCADA infor­ma­tion (includ­ing schemas, list­ings and trends) on a web brows­er

Mul­ti­lin­gual eas­i­ly trans­lat­able to any lan­guage and alpha­bet

Low resource con­sumer, exe­cutable on any com­put­er using Win­dows or Win­dows Serv­er

iControl as Substation HMI, local SCADA and Gateway

Exam­plary schema of a sub­sta­tion with two redun­dant Eth­er­net LANs using iCon­trol as sub­sta­tion SCADA and gate­way

License Overview

● Includ­ed fea­ture

○ Option­al fea­ture

Con­tact iGrid T&D for
oth­er con­fig­u­ra­tions

 HMI SA
Lite		 SA
Plus		 CC
Lite		 CC
Smart		 CC
Plus
Data Stor­age
CSV Data Stor­age ● ● ● ● ● ●
SQL event log­ging + advanced report­ing ○ ● ● ● ●
iCon­trol Web serv­er ○ ○ ● ● ●
Main­te­nance
E‑mail alarms ● ● ● ● ● ●
SMS alarms (needs an exter­nal SMS sys­tem) ● ● ●
Num­ber of IEDs/ Mas­ter Sta­tions
and IO Points
Up to 6 IEDs/ 750 IO  (for HMI iCon­trol Edi­tion) ●
Up to 32 IEDs / 6.000 IO ●  
Up to 150 IEDs / 3 mas­ter stations/ 15.000 IO   ●
Up to 150 IEDs/ 3 mas­ter stations/ 6.000 IO     ●
Up to 500 IEDs/ 8 mas­ter stations/ 15.000 IO     ●
>500 IEDs / >150.000 IO     ○
Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Pro­to­cols
Master/Slave IEC60870‑5–101
Master/Slave IEC60870‑5–102
Master/Slave IEC60870‑5–103
Master/Slave IEC60870‑5–104
Master/Slave Mod­bus­R­TU
Master/Slave ModbusTCP/UDP
Master/Slave DNP3.0 Mas­ter JBUS
Mas­ter DLMS
Mas­ter Profibus­DP
Mas­ter Pro­come
Mas­ter IEC62056-21
Master/Slave SNMP		 ● ● ● ●
Client/Server IEC61850 MMS ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
Publisher/Subscriber IEC61850 GOOSE ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
File trans­fer ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
TASE2.0 / ICCP / IEC 60870–6 ○ ○ ○
OPC UA client ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
PLC Automa­tion and
Bus­bar Col­or­ing
PLC Automa­tion   ● ● ● ● ●
Auto­mat­ic Line Col­or­ing ● ● ● ● ● ●
Exten­sion Options
Up to 2500 IO points ○
Up to 15.000 I/O points ○ ○ ○
Addi­tion­al float­ing client ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
Sys­tem Archi­tec­ture
Stand­alone ● ● ●
Client/server archi­tec­ture:
Serv­er + 1 client		 ○ ● ●
Redun­dan­cy: main and
hot-stand­by servers + 1 client		   ● ●
Redun­dan­cy: main and
hot-stand­by servers + 5 clients		     ●
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iControl SCADA References

Solar PV Plants Remote Monitoring and Control Center

Solar PV Plants Remote Monitoring and Control Center

Substation Automation System with Modbus RTU, IEC 104 and DNP3 (Thailand)

Substation Automation System with Modbus RTU, IEC 104 and DNP3 (Thailand)

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)

Communications Control Center (Spain)

Communications Control Center (Spain)

Public Lighting Control Center with Modbus and IEC 104 (Spain)

Public Lighting Control Center with Modbus and IEC 104 (Spain)

SAS Interconnecting Multivendor Control Centers — DNP3, Modbus RTU & IEC 104 (Thailand)

SAS Interconnecting Multivendor Control Centers — DNP3, Modbus RTU & IEC 104 (Thailand)

HV Substation Automation System (Thailand)

HV Substation Automation System (Thailand)

HV Substation Automation SCADA with Redundancy (Thailand)

HV Substation Automation SCADA with Redundancy (Thailand)

HV Substation with Interoperable DNP3.0 SCADA (Argentina)

HV Substation with Interoperable DNP3.0 SCADA (Argentina)

MV Grid Distribution Control Center with IEC 61850 (Spain)

MV Grid Distribution Control Center with IEC 61850 (Spain)

Medium Voltage Grid Distribution Control Center (Argentina)

Medium Voltage Grid Distribution Control Center (Argentina)

High Voltage Substation RTU & SCADA (Middle East)

High Voltage Substation RTU & SCADA (Middle East)

3 in 1 SCADA

  • Secure HMI for utilities/ dis­tri­b­u­tion grids
  • Local data acqui­si­tion & con­trol soft­ware for ener­gy sys­tems
  • Data acqui­si­tion hard­ware func­tion­al­i­ties for seam­less oper­a­tion

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iControl Applications

Sub­sta­tion Automa­tion

Auto­mat­ic Gen­er­a­tion Con­trol

PV Plant Mon­i­tor­ing and Con­trol

Wind Park Mon­i­tor­ing and Con­trol

Hydro­elec­tric Pow­er Plant Con­trol

Sub­sta­tion Data Acqui­si­tion and Con­trol

Elec­tric­i­ty Dis­tri­b­u­tion Net­works

Sub­sta­tion Gate­way

MV Grid Con­trol Cen­ter

Gen­er­a­tion Dis­patch

Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Con­trol Cen­ter

Intel­li­gent Load Shed­ding

Rail­way Con­trol

MV Grid Distribution Control Center

In this project, iCon­trol is based on a client/server archi­tec­ture with 4 oper­a­tors con­trol­ling 4,000 mul­ti­ven­dor RTUs via IEC60870‑5–104, IEC60870‑5–101 and DNP3.0, through the pub­lic GPRS net­work, in the 25kV dis­tri­b­u­tion grid of Buenos Aires. 

PV Plants Monitoring & Control Center

In this project, iCon­trol is used to remote­ly con­trol and super­vise over 100 pho­to­volta­ic gen­er­a­tion plants around Turkey. Each plant is owned by a dif­fer­ent investor who can access all the infor­ma­tion via web brows­er.

HV Substation Automation SCADA

In this project, iCon­trol com­mu­ni­cates with meters and pro­tec­tion relays from dif­fer­ent man­u­fac­tur­ers using a vari­ety of pro­to­cols such as Mod­bus, IEC60870‑5–103 or IEC61850. iCon­trol reports to the exist­ing con­trol cen­ters via IEC 104 and DNP3.  

Communications Control Center

In this project iCon­trol was imple­ment­ed as SCADA sys­tem (serv­er with float­ing clients) to super­vise and con­trol all com­mu­ni­ca­tion facil­i­ties (includ­ing radio base sta­tions, com­mu­ni­ca­tion links, UPS sys­tems, and CERs) of a major Span­ish elec­tri­cal util­i­ty  via Mod­bus TCP, IEC 104 and SNMP. 

iControl Web Viewer

  • Dis­plays iCon­trol SCADA in real time via web brows­er
  • Full­fills all safe­ty require­ments against poten­tial threats
  • Pre­pares and ren­ders the infor­ma­tion for inter­net brows­er con­nec­tion
  • Spe­cial­ly designed for mon­i­tor­ing the elec­tri­cal grid with­out act­ing on it
  • Based on the open source Node web serv­er
  • iControl’s list­ings, charts, schemas, reports and oper­a­tion zones are also avail­able in iCon­trol Web View­er.

How about hardware?

iGrid T&D prod­ucts are adapt­able devices for an open and flex­i­ble archi­tec­ture

The All-in-One Gateway

The iGW‑S pro­vides up to 4 Eth­er­net and 4 ser­i­al ports with an embed­ded Eth­er­net switch, as well as hot stand-by redun­dan­cy fea­tures and the full range of pro­to­cols.

The GW with Internal I/Os

The iRTU is an intel­li­gent and scal­able bay con­troller with I/O capa­bil­i­ties for direct data acqui­si­tion, embed­ded Eth­er­net switch, and IEC61850 Client and Serv­er capa­bil­i­ties.

The Compact Master Unit

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.

iRTUe – Remote I/O Expansions

iGWs and iRTUs can be freely extend­ed by con­nect­ing sev­er­al iRTUe.
They are IEC 61850 (GOOSE) com­pli­ant and come in many con­fig­u­ra­tions such as 48 DI, 16 relays, 16 AI, 24 DI + 8 relays, 24 DI + 8 AI or 8 relays + 8 AI.

iRTU — Remote Teleme­try Unit

iCon­trol SCADA Sys­tem

iGW — Sub­sta­tion Gate­way

iRTUe — Remote Exten­sion Units

iGW-VM — Sub­sta­tion Soft­ware

iGWlite — Com­pact Gate­way

Sub­sta­tion Automa­tion with IEC61850

HV Sub­sta­tions

MV Dis­tri­b­u­tion Grids

Rail­way Automa­tion

Pro­to­col Con­ver­sion

Smart Meter­ing

Wind Farm Gen­er­a­tion

Hydro­elec­tric Gen­er­a­tion

Pho­to­voltaics Gen­er­a­tion

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