Transmission & HV Substation Automation

Advantages with iGrid T&D

Advantages with iGrid T&D

• iGrid Pro­to­col Suite: Mod­bus, IEC61850, IEC60870-5- 101/102/103/104, DNP3, OPC, DLMS, Profibus and many more
• Ful­ly inter­op­er­a­ble solu­tion for sim­ple retro­fits and open net­work archi­tec­tures – all of our devices and soft­ware appli­ca­tions can com­mu­ni­cate with the iGrid pro­to­col suite, allow­ing you to con­nect to any device on the net­work using mul­ti­ple com­mu­ni­ca­tion media
• High­ly flex­i­ble, secure and scal­able solu­tions, adapt­able to any sys­tem requirements/ net­work topology
• Sim­ple migra­tion to IEC 61850 –  use any of our prod­ucts as client or serv­er and map any pro­to­col onto IEC 61850, rely­ing on the iCon­fICD tool for sim­ple con­fig­u­ra­tions and SCL file imports
• Inter­nal PLC based on IEC 61131–3 for advanced automa­tion func­tions and log­i­cal schemes, pro­gram­ma­ble with our free iConf tool
• Advanced net­work redun­dan­cy based on RSTP, HSR and PRP (IEC 61850)
• High­ly scal­able and cus­tomiz­able SCADA for sin­gle sub­sta­tions or entire grids (con­trol cen­ter edition), 
• High pre­ci­sion time man­age­ment based on PTP or NTP to pre­vent any data losses

Substation Automation, the Key to Smarter Grids

Sub­sta­tion automa­tion is a top­ic that is rarely addressed by pop­u­lar media, yet it is the back­bone of the often dis­cussed “Smart Grids”, which will play a cen­tral role in our ener­gy future. As key points to con­trol the trans­mis­sion and dis­tri­b­u­tion net­works, the world­wide devel­op­ment of sub­sta­tion automa­tion sys­tems will deter­mine our abil­i­ty to con­front future ener­gy chal­lenges and sta­bi­lize the elec­tri­cal grid.

Con­sid­er­ing the ongo­ing dig­i­ti­za­tion and recent trends, a future in which every piece of elec­tric equip­ment will be car­ry­ing some type of set­ting and require remote con­trol might be a lot clos­er than we may expect. In order to man­age such a large num­ber of data points and inter­con­nect sev­er­al actors and intel­li­gent devices from dif­fer­ent ven­dors with­in one elec­tri­cal grid, substa­tions will need to be con­trolled with advanced and inter­op­er­a­ble automa­tion sys­tems that oper­ate reliably. 

It is thus no sur­prise that grid automa­tion has sign­f­i­cant­ly evolved over the last decade, from lega­cy pro­to­cols and old, cen­tral­ized RTUs with high I/O capa­bil­i­ties, all the way to the newest tech­nolo­gies based on dis­trib­uted IEC 61850 and IP technology.

The dif­fi­cul­ties lie in inte­grat­ing this new tech­nol­o­gy in old­er 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 IEDs (intel­li­gent elec­tron­ic devices such as pro­tec­tion relays, meters…), which must con­nect to old sys­tems at the sub­sta­tion or the con­trol center.

Adptable and User-friendly Solutions for Flexible Designs and Simple Retrofits

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.

Amongst oth­ers, the com­mu­ni­ca­tion pro­to­cols include:

Our solu­tions can also com­mu­ni­cate through tech­nolo­gies from oth­er indus­tries like mySQL, web ser­vices and OPC UA.

Fur­ther­more, the devices have com­mu­ni­cat­ed with equip­ment from numer­ous dif­fer­ent ven­dors in a broad vari­ety of appli­ca­tions. We have con­nect­ed it all: new and old sys­tems, Eth­er­net and ser­i­al, IEC 61850 and old lega­cy pro­to­cols (like SPA-bus), SCADA sys­tems and intranets, gen­er­a­tion and ener­gy market. 

It is our pri­or­i­ty at iGrid T&D to sup­port the devel­op­ment of your sub­sta­tion automa­tion sys­tems and pre­pare your staff in a sim­ple yet tech­no­log­i­cal­ly sound way. For this rea­son, we used our know-how to design hard­ware that can be eas­i­ly adjust­ed to your needs with our free iConf tool. iConf now also includes the pow­er­ful iCon­fICD tool, which has been par­tic­u­lary designed to facil­i­tate the con­fig­u­ra­tion of IEC 61850 devices. 

With our state-of-the-art prod­ucts we want to make the tran­si­tion to advanced automa­tion sys­tems as smooth as pos­si­ble. Our solu­tions ensure that you no longer need to wor­ry about inter­op­er­abil­i­ty and net­work inef­fi­cien­cies. Our RTUs and gate­ways can com­mu­ni­cate using numer­ous pro­to­cols via Eth­er­net or ser­i­al con­nec­tions and inte­grate seam­less­ly with our intu­itive soft­ware solu­tions, which come with all func­tion­al­i­ties you need. 

Not only retro­fits are facil­i­tat­ed with our prod­ucts. It also becomes easy to react to any kind of net­work change (big or small) and to set up open and scal­able net­work architectures.

Our devices are already con­fig­urable and ver­sa­tile by design, but we also pro­vide fur­ther prod­uct con­fig­u­ra­tions and tai­lored ser­vices upon request.  

Our gate­ways, SCADA sys­tems and RTUs also pro­vide real­ly pow­er­ful func­tion­al­i­ties like advanced redun­dan­cy schemes, inter­nal PLC automa­tion and high-pre­ci­sion, microsec­ond time management. 

Secure Products for Transmission & HV Distribution Substations

Thanks to our com­mit­ment to advanced sub­sta­tion automa­tion, all devices and soft­ware sys­tems by iGrid T&D pro­vide an exten­sive range of func­tion­al­i­ties and char­ac­ter­is­tics to over­come present and future chal­lenges in the most effi­cient ways.

Although we are hap­py to sup­port our cus­tomers, iGrid T&D is not a ser­vice-based busi­ness. Instead, we strive to pro­vide state-of-the-art tech­nol­o­gy that enables our cus­tomers to set up, oper­ate and main­tain advanced automa­tion sys­tems by themselves. 

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. 

World-wide Compliance and Interoperability

Thanks to our expe­ri­ences with elec­tri­cal sys­tems and sub­sta­tions in a vari­ety of indus­tries all around the plan­et, our prod­ucts have been pre­pared for high-demand­ing require­ments and stan­dards, guar­an­tee­ing a peace­ful approval process for any project in any coun­try. Our cer­ti­fi­ca­tions range from EMC com­pat­i­bil­i­ty and com­mu­ni­ca­tion pro­to­col stan­dards like IEC 61850 to cyber secu­ri­ty means and have been assert­ed by third par­ty cer­ti­fi­ca­tion bod­ies like DNV GL/ KEMA.

HV Substation Automation System Architecture

Exam­ple schema

Why to Opt for Substation Automation Solutions by iGrid T&D? 

Our Data Acqui­si­tion, Con­trol and Super­vi­sion sys­tems can not only han­dle a broad vari­ety of pro­to­cols and archi­tec­tures but also pro­vide numer­ous oth­er tech­no­log­i­cal fea­tures and func­tion­al­i­ties like high pre­ci­sion time stamp­ing and PLC programming. 

As a client you can ben­e­fit from get­ting a scal­able and inter­op­er­a­ble solu­tion that will be easy to use and tai­lored to your needs. Rest assured that you will ben­e­fit from its flex­i­bil­i­ty and cost sav­ings through­out the entire project.

Solution Benefits & Functions