IED — Intelligent Electronic Device

What is IED?

IED — Intelligent Electronic Device

In the pow­er sec­tor, intel­li­gent elec­tron­ic devices (IED) are micro­proces­sor based pow­er sys­tem equip­ment, such as cir­cuit break­ers, trans­form­ers and capac­i­tor banks, pro­vid­ing con­trol and automa­tion functions.

IEDs receive and process data from sen­sors and oth­er equip­ment to issue con­trol com­mands or adjust tap poi­si­tions in order to pre­vent fail­ures and main­tain the desired volt­age level.

  • Com­mon types of IEDs include pro­tec­tive relays, cir­cuit break­er, capac­i­tor bank switch­es, reclos­er con­trollers and volt­age regulators. 
  • Most IEDs car­ry com­mu­ni­ca­tion ports and stan­dard com­mu­ni­ca­tion pro­to­col tech­nol­o­gy (e.g. DNP3, IEC 104 or IEC 61850) to com­mu­ni­cate direct­ly with SCADA sys­tems or RTUs.
  • The term is often also used as a syn­onym for mod­ern pro­tec­tion relays, which use a micro­proces­sor to per­form sev­er­al pro­tec­tive, con­trol and relat­ed functions.
  • Mod­ern IEDs are also designed to sup­port the IEC 61850 stan­dard for sub­sta­tion automa­tion, which pro­vides full inter­op­er­abil­i­ty and enables advanced pro­tec­tion and com­mu­ni­ca­tion functions.
  • With increas­ing intel­li­gence, IEDs are used as a new alter­na­tive to, or a com­ple­ment to tra­di­tion­al­ly used remote ter­mi­nal units (RTUs). 

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    Grid & Substation Automation

    RTU most com­mon­ly stands for Remote Ter­mi­nal Unit, but is some­times also used as an abbre­vi­a­tion for Remote Teleme­try Unit or Remote Tele­con­trol Unit.

    RTUs are devices that rely on micro­proces­sors and com­mu­ni­ca­tion inter­faces to auto­mat­i­cal­ly mon­i­tor and con­trol field devices and estab­lish a bridge to the plant con­trol or SCADA (super­vi­so­ry con­trol and data acqui­si­tion) systems.

    Super­vi­so­ry con­trol and data acqui­si­tion (SCADA) sys­tems col­lect, mon­i­tor and process real-time data to:

    • Auto­mate and con­trol indus­tri­al process­es remote­ly or locally
    • Pro­vide a human-machine inter­face (HMI) to direct­ly inter­act with devices such as relays, sen­sors, gen­er­a­tors, pumps, valves and others
    • Record events and auto­mate reporting

    An Intel­li­gent Elec­tron­ic Device (IED) is a term used in the elec­tric pow­er indus­try to describe micro­proces­sor-based con­trollers of pow­er sys­tem equip­ment, such as cir­cuit break­ers, trans­form­ers and capac­i­tor banks.

    Sequence of events record­ing (SER) is per­formed by micro­proces­sor based sys­tems, which mon­i­tor col­lect­ed data inputs and record the time and sequences of the changes.

    Sequence of events recorders rely on exter­nal time sources such as GPS or radio clocks to record the exact time of state of each change.

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