New Work Proposal: IEC 61850 – Modbus Mapping

The Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute (KERI) has proposed a new work item: Guideline for mapping information between IEC 61850 and IEC 61158-6 (ModBus).

Document: 57/1434/NP
Closing date for voting: 2014-04-25

Quite interesting proposal!

We conducted yesterday (during a Workshop at Beck IPC in Wetzlar/Germany) a very easy tool to map between Modbus, IEC 60870-5-104, IEC 61850, … using a graphical webbased configuration tool needs just a web browser:

1. Topology for mapping between Modbus and 104:

Signals (Inputs and Outputs) that can be used by the WEB PLC:

Available communication solutions (Modbus, IEC 60870-5-104, IEC 61850, OpenVPN, …):

Function chart of objects and simple logic:

The interest in such a simple solution that does not requires any programming – except drawing lines between input/outputs, functions and outputs/inputs – is very high. Wrappers are available to integrate C/C++ or CoDeSys programmed functions (Function Blocks).

The IEC 61850 information models are interpreted and the PLC inputs and outputs are automatically generated and shown as a tree …

Finally we demonstrated a Gateway: Process –> Modbus and other I/Os –> IEC 61850 –> IEC 60870-5-104 (DNP3):

The IEDs com.tom BASIC 3.1S (with 5 Port Ethernet Switch and second Ethernet Port integrated) and BASIC 5.1 have been used for the system (process, process monitoring and control, gateway and CC communication).

A second Workshop in German will be conducted on March 12, 2014. The first Workshop in English is scheduled for March 13, 2014.

Click HERE for more details on the workshops. Register soon – the space is limited … and interest high.