MMS Protocol (IEC 61850)

IEC 61850 MMS What is IEC 61850 MMS? IEC 61850 MMS IEC 61850 MMS (Man­u­fac­tur­ing Mes­sage Spec­i­fi­ca­tion) is a client/server based pro­to­col for com­mu­ni­ca­tions between IEDs (IED – Intel­li­gent Elec­tron­ic Device) and high­er...

IED — Intelligent Electronic Device

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...

RTU — Remote Terminal Unit

RTU — Remote Ter­mi­nal Units What is RTU? RTU — Remote Terminal Unit 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...

SER — Sequence of Events (SOE) Recording

SER — Sequence of Events (SOE) Recording What is SER? SER — SEQUENCE OF EVENTS (SOE) RECORDING Sequence of events record­ing (SER) is per­formed by micro­proces­sor based sys­tems, which mon­i­tor col­lect­ed data inputs and record the time and sequences of the...

SCADA

SCADA — Super­vi­so­ry Con­trol and Data Acquisition What is SCADA? SCADA — Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition Super­vi­so­ry con­trol and data acqui­si­tion (SCADA) sys­tems col­lect, mon­i­tor and process real-time data to: Auto­mate and...