Iec 61850 substation gateway
AssigneeABB Technology AG
InventorWolfgang WIMMER
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Abstract
An IEC 61850 Network Control Center (NCC) server is provided at a gateway intelligent electronic device (IED) of a Substation Automation (SA) system. The NCC server serves, via the MMS/TCP/IP part of IEC 61850, process data from substation Intelligent Electronic Devices IEDs to a NCC. The NCC server uses functional names for gateway Logical Nodes (LN) corresponding to substation LNs. The functional names are devoid of any reference to a substation IED related name of the substation LNs, but can be automatically translated to substation IED related names in case of changing SA communication and substation IED architecture. Thereby, functional names as defined by the substation section within a SCD file of the SA system are used for the communication link between the gateway IED and the NCC.
Claims8
A gateway intelligent electronic device (IED) for a Substation Automation (SA) system automating an electric power substation, the gateway IED comprising:
- a communication interface configured to communicate according to IEC 61850, via a substation communication network, (i) with a substation Intelligent Electronic Device IED hosting a substation Logical Node (LN) instance with a substation IED related name, and, via an Network Control Center (NCC) server of the gateway IED, (ii) with a NCC,
- wherein the NCC server is configured to host a gateway LN instance corresponding to the substation LN instance and having an NCC related name independent of the substation IED related name.
A method of configuring a gateway intelligent electronic device (IED) for communication according to IEC 61850, the method comprising:
- configuring the gateway IED to communicate according to IEC 61850, via a substation communication network of a Substation Automation (SA) system, with a substation Intelligent Electronic Device IED hosting a substation Logical Node LN instance with a substation IED related name;
- configuring the gateway IED to communicate according to IEC 61850, via an Network Control Center (NCC) server of the gateway IED, with a NCC;
- determining a functional name of the substation LN instance that is independent of the substation IED related name;
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- configuring the NCC server by instantiating a gateway LN instance corresponding to the substation LN instance and having an NCC related name based on the functional name.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.