Communication Protocol Converters & Gateways

Advantages of Protocol Gateways by iGrid T&D

• High-end at low cost - thanks to our pow­er­ful soft­ware core, even our small­est devices, i.e. the iGWlite, will pro­vide all pro­to­col capa­bil­i­ties your device or net­work needs
• High-stan­dard mul­ti-lay­er secu­ri­ty mea­sures from access con­trol to data encryption
• All devices and soft­ware solu­tions pro­vide secured mul­ti-lay­er pro­to­col con­ver­sion between all pro­to­cols of the iGrid pro­to­col suite and between mul­ti­ple com­mu­ni­ca­tion media, such as Eth­er­net, Ser­i­al or GPRS
• Secure­ly col­lect and aggre­gate data from mul­ti-ven­dor IEDs with a sin­gle gate­way or SCADA sys­tem and con­vert it to any pro­to­col you want.
• Strong­ly flex­i­ble, mod­u­lar and scal­able solu­tions, adapt­able to any sys­tem requirements/ net­work topology
• Sim­ple migra­tion to IEC 61850 –  use any iGrid prod­uct as client or serv­er and map any pro­to­col onto IEC 61850 MMS or IEC 61850 GOOSE (publisher/ sub­scriber), thus con­vert­ing any old IED into an IEC 61850 device
• Diverse expe­ri­ence with IoT net­works and web ser­vices com­bined with a strong IP suite support
• Col­lect and con­cen­trate mul­ti-ven­dor meter­ing data and load curves through mul­ti­ple pro­to­cols through IEC60870‑5–102, IEC 62056–21, Mod­bus or DLMS and trans­fer it to con­trol centers
• Inter­nal PLC based on IEC 61131–3 for sig­nal pro­cess­ing, advanced automa­tion func­tions and log­i­cal schemes
• Inter­nal mem­o­ry and advanced net­work redun­dan­cy based on RSTP, HSR and PRP (IEC 61850) for high­er data reli­a­bil­i­ty and main­te­nance work.
• High-pre­ci­sion time man­age­ment based on PTP or NTP to pre­vent any data losses

Protocol Conversion and Network Gateways

One of the major chal­lenges with com­mu­ni­ca­tion net­works in elec­tric and indus­tri­al facil­i­ties is the inte­gra­tion of new sub­sta­tion tech­nol­o­gy in old­er net­works, 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 in the net­work or the con­trol center.

Anoth­er com­mon chal­lenge is com­mu­ni­ca­tion accross mul­ti­ple lay­ers (e.g. from Mod­bus RTU to Mod­bus TCP), spe­cial­ly when it involves sev­er­al com­mu­ni­ca­tion media, such as ser­i­al and Eth­er­net.

Solu­tions by iGrid T&D have been designed for exact­ly this kind of chal­lenges. Thanks to our com­mit­ment to stan­dard pro­to­cols, 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.

Our solu­tions can use almost all pro­to­cols to both col­lect and trans­fer data from and between devices and entities.

Amongst oth­ers, the sup­port­ed com­mu­ni­ca­tion pro­to­cols include:

Our solu­tions can also com­mu­ni­cate through tech­nolo­gies from oth­er indus­tries like mySQL, web ser­vices and IoT pro­to­cols (e.g. MQTT).

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), IoT net­works and old relays, SCADA sys­tems and intranets, gen­er­a­tion and ener­gy market. 

Our Gateways and Protocol Conversion Solutions

Since we believe in advanced automa­tion tech­nol­o­gy, all devices and soft­ware sys­tems by iGrid T&D can not only con­vert between sev­er­al pro­to­cols but also pro­vide an exten­sive range of func­tion­al­i­ties and char­ac­ter­is­tics to over­come present and future com­mu­ni­ca­tion chal­lenges in the most effi­cient ways.

With our state-of-the-art prod­ucts, you no longer need to wor­ry about inter­op­er­abil­i­ty and net­work inef­fi­cien­cies. 

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

Smart Meter Gateway, Data Concentrator & Load Curve Collector

iGWlite, iGW 

• Pro­to­col con­ver­sion from IEC60870‑5–102, IEC 62056–21, Mod­bus or DLMS into any desired pro­to­col and com­mu­ni­ca­tion layer
• Data col­lec­tion and con­cen­tra­tion from more than 24 meters at once
• Load Curve col­lec­tion and transfer
• Data pro­cess­ing & automa­tion with inter­nal PLC based on IEC 61131–3
• Com­pact all-in-one devices

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

International R&D

• Inhouse R&D on the fore­front of com­mu­ni­ca­tion pro­to­col tech­nol­o­gy, enriched by numer­ous inter­na­tion­al and aca­d­e­m­ic project

Engineering & Development Services

• Advanced and cus­tomized appli­ca­tion engi­neer­ing and prod­uct devel­op­ment for spe­cif­ic client needs. 

Oth­er com­mon fea­tures of iGrid T&Ds soft­ware core, iGComms, run­ning on all iGrid products:

Compliance and Interoperability Across the Globe

Thanks to our expe­ri­ences with elec­tri­cal net­works and sub­sta­tions in a vari­ety of indus­tries all around the plan­et, our prod­ucts have been pre­pared for an imm­mense range of 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.

Why to Opt for a Protocol Gateway by iGrid T&D? 

Our advanced Pro­to­col Gate­ways can han­dle a unique range of pro­to­cols and net­work archi­tec­tures, allow­ing them to match net­work require­ments and col­lect, process and trans­fer data from mul­ti-ven­dor IEDs and meters using sev­er­al pro­to­cols at once. These capa­bil­i­ties can be pro­vid­ed by all iGrid T&D solu­tions, in addi­tion to other­ad­vanced tech­no­log­i­cal fea­tures and func­tion­al­i­ties for all kind of ener­gy appli­ca­tions and requirements.

As a client you can ben­e­fit from a unique­ly flex­i­ble and scal­able all-in-one solu­tion that is easy to use and will min­i­mize your costs through­out the entire project.

Solution Benefits & Functions