Protective relay system and protective relay device

A protective relay system comprising a plurality of protective relay devices that protect a power system based on electrical quantity data from the power system, a communication between the protective relay devices being performed via a network,

• the protective relay device comprising:
• a clock unit periodically clocking a timing at which sampling is performed on an electrical quantity of the power system;
• a relay computing unit performing a relay computation based on the electrical quantity data having undergone the sampling in accordance with the timing clocked by the clock unit and electrical quantity data contained in an electrical quantity frame received from another protective relay device via the network;
• a random-number creating unit creating a random number;
• and
• a synchronization-frame processing unit setting a timing of sending a synchronization frame to the another protective relay device via the network based on the random number created by the random-number creating unit,
• wherein when sequentially obtaining identical random numbers from the random-number creating unit, the synchronization-frame processing unit obtains again a random number, and sets the timing based on the random number obtained again.