The German FNN Steuerbox Version 1.4 (official) is available for just 39 Euro!

The officially published FNN Steuerbox specification (in German only) is available for immediate download (of a personalized pdf) ... if you pay 39 Euro ... really affordable!

The Steuerbox uses a subset of IEC 61850 models and services ... check it:

https://www.vde-verlag.de/buecher/636412/lastenheft-steuerbox.html

The document contains a link (on the last page) to additional material: ICD File, certificate and settings XSDs ... WOW ...

This is one of the great news: to get the material for almost free!

In the History element of the ICD file you can see that my granddaughter Jana and I have been involved ...  

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New Version of IED Model Designer: IDCDesigner from SystemCorp

Please note that SystemCorp has released Version 2.0.24 of their ICDDesigner.
The version that can be downloaded runs for six (6) month.

Installer / update:

http://licenses.systemcorp.com.au/downloads/ICDDesignerSetupV2.00.024.exe

Standalone version:

http://licenses.systemcorp.com.au/downloads/ICDDesignerStandaloneV2.00.024.zip

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IEC 61850 ICD Designer update available

A new update of SystemCorp’s IEC 61850 ICD Designer is available for download: Version 2.00.011

Upgrade / installation:
http://licenses.systemcorp.com.au/downloads/ICDDesignerSetupV2.00.011.exe

Standalone version:
http://licenses.systemcorp.com.au/downloads/ICDDesignerStandaloneV2.00.011.zip

This is the same version available on the SystemCorp website “Demo”. All versions will operate as a demo if the dongle is missing. The demo version becomes the full version when a dongle is present.

The latest documentation is Revision 2.01 (contained in the above uploads):

The latest ICD Designer offers several new features – worth to test.

How to Generate IEC 61850 IED Models?

IEC 61850-6 (SCL – System Configuration Language) supports the design, engineering and configuration of systems … systems composed of many IEDs (Intelligent Electronic Devices). One key question is: How can I define a model of an IED?

Big vendors like ABB, GE, Siemens, … have their own vendor-specific tools. What’s about third-party tools? Or even freely available tools?

The following tools may be used for free (with some restrictions):

IEDmodeler from RedWind:

IED Modeler is a tool free for use as long as you have an access to the internet and accept their license … The program is free of charge for non-profit purposes including teaching and research at universities, colleges and other educational institutions, research at non-profit research institutions, and personal non-profit purposes.

Click HERE for more information.

ICD Designer from SystemCorp:

The ICD Designer can be used to model IEDs according to Edition 1 and Edition 2 of the core parts of IEC 61850. In addition to modeling IEDs it can be used to bind Models to real applications: bind the “XCBR2.Pos.stVal” to a specific memory location or to a Modbus Coil:

The “Pos.stVal” can be bound to a Modbus Slave:

This binding allows automatic configuration of the IEC 61850 Stack/API and binding to the corresponding Modbus device at address 321.

Other bindings are supported: DNP3, IEC 60870-5-104, …

The ICD Designer can be used to simplify the application of the SystemCorp IEC 61850 Stack/API.

Click HERE for more information on the ICD Designer. The ICD Designer can – of course – also be used for creating CID Files.

IEC 61850-90-8 Object Models for E-Mobility

IEC TC 57 has published (as 57/1254/DC) on June 01, 2012 the

Draft IEC TR 61850-90-8 – Communication networks and systems for power utility automation – Part 90-8: IEC 61850 object models for electric mobility

The Technical Report describes how current standardization for Electric Road Vehicles and the Vehicle-to-Grid Communication Interface can be linked to the IEC 61850-7-420 standard for Distributed Energy Resources (DER). The technical report provides necessary background information and proposes an object model for e-mobility in order to establish an Electric Vehicle plugged into the power grid as DER according to the principles of IEC 61850-7-420. The basic information modeling in IEC 61850 and IEC 61850-7-420 already covers a lot of needs for the e-Mobility domain. Missing parts can be modeled as new logical nodes and data objects, which this technical report defines.

New/extended information models are:

E-mobility supply equipment  LN DESE
E-mobility outlet LN DEOL
E-mobility Electric Vehicle  LN DEEV
Power cable LN ZCAB
Schedule LN DSCH

It is easy to add the definition of the LN DEOL to an ICD File. Here is an example of the “Plug Present” Data Object of the New LN Class according to DTR 61850-90-8:

This LN Class can easily be added to the model template for the SystemCorp ICD Designer <<61850DTT.xml>>:

Almost any new Logical Node published by IEC or any other extended or new LN can easily be modeled with the ICD Designer … and can easily be applied for building clients and servers using the SystemCorp IEC61850 Stack/API, e.g., using the free evaluation version of the SystemCorp Windows DLL or using the Beck IPC embedded controller.

There is no need to purchase an expensive package to use IEC 61850 for any model. Just use the SystemCorp IEC61850 Stack/API – and you are ahead of the market.

Many people are now using the Beck IPC Development Kit DK61 or DK55 to implement a gateway between “their data” and the various models according to IEC 61850. It just takes hours to get their (or your) data speaking IEC 61850 …

It’s really so easy!

ICD Documents for programmable and modular IEDs

If you have a modular 61850 product that can be shipped with a variable number of I/O cards, this may have a number of consequences:

1. The number of LNs this product can support depends on the hardware configuration.
2. LNs use shared resources, so if the user adds an LN of one type, he may not be able to add an LN of another type.

Be aware: everything is limited!

These tradeoffs are complex. If you produced an ICD file with the maximum number of LNs of every type your IED supports, for the maximum hardware configuration, the resulting file would be ridiculously large and unwieldy.

How to solve this issue?

All IEDs with a fixed functionality have definitely an easy to build icd file.

IEDs that are programmable or that are modular with one or more I/O cards are different. When the IED comes from the factory, you do not know what the application will be – so you do not know the information model and therefore you cannot provide an icd file for an application running on an IED.

What you could do is to provide an icd file that specifies the communication capabilities (services) and the DataTypeTemplates with all LNTypes that can be instantiated in that IED.

Once it is decided which functions (and LNs) will be running on a particular IED (with one, two, … or five I/O cards), then the IED Configurator (as a manufacturer-specific tool) can create the “final” ICD file for a particular function.

The icd must have exactly one IED section. I would put the LN instances of LLN0 and LPHD in the IED section. The other (functional LNs) would be added be the IED Configurator later … when the number of I/O cards etc are known and selected.

SystemCorp’s IEC 61850 SCL ICD Designer available for Online Purchase

The “ICD Designer” is SystemCORP Embedded Technology’s Intelligent Electronic Device (IED) Capability Description designer application. This ICD Designer application is used to define and edit substation configuration descriptions for IEC 61850 through a graphical user interface to create an XML formatted file.

Correctly speaking, the “ICD Designer” (as a product name) is a tool that has many functions for creating “IID Documents” – “Instantiated IED Description”. IIDs have been defined in edition 2 of IEC 61850-6 (SCL).

The tools supports also the instance specific binding of the model to the real world data points, e.g., referenced by DNP3 or 101/104 points. The tool uses an XML document with the TypeTemplates. Any extended model can easily be added to that XML document to define your own model. It is really that easy.

Click HERE for an example of the binding (fourth slide).

The full version of the ICD Designer is now available for online purchase.

Click HERE for more information on the product and how to order online.