Saturday, March 29, 2025

40 Years Ago I Started Contributing To The MAP/MMS Standardization In Detroit (MI)

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I have contributed to the MAP/MMS Standardization (Manufacturing Automation Protocols/Manufacturing Message Specification) from the very beg...
Saturday, March 1, 2025

Object Modeling in the late 1980s - Too Early!

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One of the crucial aspects of the standard series IEC 61850 is about object modeling ... first versions have been published in the year 200...
Monday, February 10, 2025

IEC 61850-7-410 ED3 CDC - Hydroelectric Power Plants Available for Public Commenting

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Please note that last Friday IEC TC 57 has published the following Committee Draft for Vote (CDV) (57/2750/CDV) for comments by National Com...

Is AI Solving the Future Challenges in Physics, Technologies, Automation ...?

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There are a lot of expectations regarding AI (Artificial Intelligence) ... what are experienced engineers telling us ... I came about a very...
Monday, February 3, 2025

„Lumpensammler“ in der Stationsautomatisierung mit IEC 61850 - Störmelder

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EES (Backnang) bietet eine " super-einfache" Lösung zur Alarmierung von Störungen in IEC 61850 basierten Systemen: "Neben de...

„Rag-man“ in Substations Applying IEC 61850 - Fault Annunciators

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EES (Backnang, Germany) offers a nice solution for simple and easy alarming in IEC 61850 based systems: "In addition to the informatio...
Friday, January 24, 2025

Are LTE And 5G Cell Phone Systems Secure?

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Are you expecting that every communication system has one or the other issue with security? You are right! What's about LTE and 5G? Here...
Thursday, January 16, 2025

IEC 61850 Has Come A Long Way Since February 1995 - 30 Years

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The development of an IEC Standard on "Substation Control and Protection Interfaces" (which is now IEC 61850) was discussed during...
Thursday, January 9, 2025

Why Do We Need IEC 61850 (SCL) Based System Configuration Descriptions?

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IEC 61850 has been developed in the late 1990's mainly by protocol experts and protection engineers - results are well done and applied ...
Wednesday, January 8, 2025

KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm/Sweden) has some interesting things to say about IEC 61850

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Andrea Bonetti (Megger) ... one of my best friends posted some interesting information at LinkedIn ...  Here is a direct YouTube link to an...
Monday, December 16, 2024

Tissue Database for IEC 60870-5 is now online

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The industry asked for another tissue database for IEC standards. The other day the new tissue database for IEC 60870-5 went online: https:/...

Do you know the PAC World Magazine? You should!

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The PAC World Magazine - "Protection, Automation & Control World" - is a great global forum for the corresponding community: h...
Thursday, October 3, 2024

Aktuell: Version 3.0 des Whitepapers "Anforderungen an sichere Steuerungs- und Telekommunikationssysteme"

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"Der BDEW (Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft) und seine österreichischen und schweizer Schwesterverbände (OE Oesterreichs...
Saturday, August 3, 2024

IEC 61850 Tissue Database Has Been Used to Publish The Second Set Of Tissues in Force

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The IEC 61850 Tissue Database is an excellent tool helping to support a high level of quality. Tissues that affect interoperability will be...
Wednesday, July 17, 2024

Interoperability Assessment of IEC 61850 Devices in a Multivendor Digital Substation

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 Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) presented a great paper at the IEEE GPECOM, June 2024, in Budapest: Interoperabi...

Whitepaper: OCPP and IEC 61850 - A Winning Team

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DNV  published a nice whitepaper on the use of IEC 61850 in conjunction with OCPP (Open Charge Point Protocol): Excerpt: "EXECUTIVE SUM...
Friday, May 3, 2024

My Friend Andrea Bonetti Has Been Appointed As New Chair of IEC TC 95 (Protection ...)

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Please note that my friend Andrea Bonetti (currently working for Megger, Sweden) has been appointed as the new chair of IEC TC 95 (Measurin...

Some Hints On Static And Dynamic Reporting According To IEC 61850

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Let me briefly help to understand the term dynamic and static regarding reporting : Every report control block must be “created” in an SCL f...