Digital Substation is an engineering publication focused on IEC 61850 automation, protection systems, and digital grid intelligence.
Alstom Grid announced update of MiCOM S1 Agile software package (revision 1.1). Update provides users with capability of creating projects with products of recently acquired company Reason Tecnologia (Brazil). Reason Tecnologia product range concentrates on solutions for digital substations.
Cloud-based solutions can not only be used in one's everyday life. Now relay protection engineers can use them while on duty. PowerGrid App allows to perform fault recordings analysis using a web-browser.
CIGRE announced the establishment of new working group as a part of B5 technical committee (Relay protection and automation). New working group will be established in 2014.
Since the UpGrid forum started, many experts were quick to "bury" the exhibition "Electrical Grids of Russia" - the event participation in which is a longterm tradition for electric power engineers all over Russia. We had the feeling that UPGrid - it's more for "white collars", while LEP (as is often simply referred to) - is the place where you meet designers, maitenance engineeres, including specialists from different parts of Russia - those who work directly with the equipment on the ground. And, you know, our assumption looks true. "Digital Substation" prepared a special report from the eve
Open-source world is rich with interesting projects. Today we present a project which offers a possibility of PTP implementation for further studies. Project is called PTPd (PTP daemon) and it offers implementation of the Precision Time protocol (PTP) as defined by the relevant IEEE 1588 standard. PTP Version 2 implements IEEE-1588-2008.
Recently we have received binary signals input/output module by Siemens - SICAM IO UNIT 7XV5673. This device is absolutely new: as binary inputs/outputs expansion module it was presented last fall and, regarding to Siemens office, we were one of the first to try it out.
Real time simulation of power systems and related secondary equipment is a well recognised and required method in development of power systems, optimisation of their operation, performance studies, education, etc. The technology of simulators has been...
TEKVEL company presented a free beta version of JAVA-based IEC 61850-9-2LE software simulator. Digital Substation immediately downloaded the application and offers an express overview of the proposed software.
In any packet transmitted over Ethernet there are two MAC-addresses present: one is a source MAC-address and another is a destination MAC-address. When forwarding data, Ethernet-switches use this important data. So what is a MAC-address? What are the differences between unicast, multicast and broadcast destination MAC-addresses? What destination MAC-addresses are common for IEC 61850 standard protocols? Let's have a more detailed look on this.