Click HERE for some photos from the exhibition provided by Oscar Naval … see IEC 61850 (IEC 61400-25) in action for the wind industry and other application domains.
Thursday, May 26, 2011
TÜV Süd – Getting involved in IEC 61850 Conformance Testing
Sunday, May 22, 2011
IEC 61400-25 & IEC 61850 at AWEA WINDPOWER 2011 Anaheim, CA, May 22-25
The interest in the International Standards IEC 61400-25 and IEC 61850 is picking-up globally and also in North America. Some 45 experts form BCIT (British Columbia Institute of Technology) and BC Hydro had been in a 3 day seminar and hands-on training in Vancouver, BC (Canada). More people were interested to attend – the meeting room just had 45 seats.
This week (Sunday – Wednesday,May 22-25) there is another step towards simple, powerful and easy to use automation devices that support at the
AWEA WINDPOWER 2011, Anaheim, CA, May 22-25:
- Standardized information and information modeling (IEC 61400-25-2, IEC 61850-7-x),
- Information exchange (IEC 61400-25-4, IEC 61850-8-1),
- System configuration language (IEC 61850-6), and
- Function programming (IEC 61131-3 and IEC 61499):
Booth 185 (Hall D) exhibits the full range of the above standards:
- Beck IPC (IEC 61400-25, IEC 61850, IEC 61131-3, …): Chips, Devices, charging station, PLC, …
- SystemCorp (IEC 61400-25, IEC 61850, IEC 61131-3, …): Stack Software, Devices, Tools, …
- ISaGRAF (IEC 61131-3, IEC 61499, IEC 61400-25, IEC 61850): Programming language/tool running on the Beck IPC Chip
See below the Booth 185 in Hall D:
A video of some 15 MB shows the steps in programming IEC 61131-3 using IEC 61400-25 and IEC 61850 on a Beck IPC Chip:
www.nettedautomation.com/download/isagraf/IEC61850_2011-05-18.mp4
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Remote Service Forum und IEC 61850
Das 19. Remote Service Forum findet vom 6.-7. Juli 2011 bei der IHK Karlsruhe unter dem Titel “Von der Technologie zu neuen Dienstleistungen” statt. Neue Dienstleistungen im Bereich der erneuerbaren Energien und intelligenten Energieversorgungs-Netze sind unumgänglich, um die Flut der Informationen zum Überwachen, Steuern und Regeln des Energieflusses zu beherrschen. Industrielle Kommunikationsnetze (Feldbusse) sind kaum als Basis geeignet, weil es zu viele gibt: mehrere hundert!
In der elektrischen Energieversorung haben sich die Normen IEC 60870-5-10x (Telecontrol), IEC 60870-6 TASE.2 (Inter-control center communication), IEC 61850 (substation automation and protection, DER, Hydro power plant monitoring and control), IEC 61400-25 (monitoring and control of wind turbines), und IEC 61131-3 (open PLC programming language) durchgesetzt.
Herr Dipl.-Ing. Karlheinz Schwarz (SCC) wird am 7.Juli 2011 einen Vortrag unter dem Titel “Genormter Remote-Zugriff auf Informationen elektrotechnischer Erzeugungs-und Verteilungsanlagen mit IEC 61850” halten.
NettedAutomation GmbH wird in der begleitenden Ausstellung über die neuesten Trends bei der Realisierung von IEC 61850 basierten Komponenten berichten und Realisierungsmöglichkeiten für embedded controller und vieles mehr vorstellen.
HIER klicken, um das Programm und die Anmeldeinformationen herunterzuladen.
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Electro Mobility, Substation Automation and IEC 61850
The basics for the infrastructure needed for the Electro Mobility have already been standardized – the electrical power delivery system: generation – transmission – distribution of electric A.C. power. The standardization of the electrical system has a long tradition. The monitoring, protection and control of electric power is automated in many higher voltage levels. There are mainly five international standards used all over: IEC 60870-5-10x for telecontrol, IEC 60870-6 TASE.2 for inter-control center communication, IEC 61850 for substation automation and protection, DER, Hydro power plant monitoring and control, IEC 61400-25 for monitoring and control of wind turbines, and IEC 61131-3 for a open PLC programming language.
These standards cover most of the needs for information modeling, information, system configuration, information exchange, and function programming for substations and power generation.
Mr Roland Bent (CEO of Phoenix Contact) stated the other day in the Open Automation magazine that EV charging stations are small low voltage substations. He is absolutely right! It is crucial to understand that the above mentioned standards are applicable in all voltage levels. What is the difference of a three phase Y-system for 400.000 V and 400 V? The multiplier of factor 10**3. There is no need to re-event the wheel again.
Here is an excerpt of Mr Bent’s statement in German:
“Ein noch wesentlich größeres, neues Marktfeld findet sich in der Infrastruktur für Elektromobilität. Ladestationen für Elektrofahrzeuge sind kleine Niederspannungsschaltanlagen mit all den Komponenten und Steuerungskonzepten aus diesem Bereich. Sie müssen auch informationstechnisch in die intelligenten Netzstrukturen integriert werden und stellen neue Anforderungen an IKT-Strukturen, zum Beispiel im Bereich der Abrechungssysteme. Auch hier werden wieder Kompetenzen und
Know-how aus der Industrieautomation benötigt.”
Click HERE to read the complete statement from Mr Bent.
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
New Date for Seminar and Hands-on Training in Frankfurt
Please note that due to the huge fair IAA 2011 in Frankfurt mid-September 2011 we have deferred the date for the seminar on IEC 61850 Seminar and Hands-on Training from
14.-16. September to 05.-07. October 2011
The seminar will be held at the NH Hotel Frankfurt/Moerfelden.
Click HERE for the program.
Click HERE for the registration information.
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:
- The number of LNs this product can support depends on the hardware configuration.
- 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.
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Is the Protocol Stack for IEC 61850 important?
No and Yes! No, compared to the many other aspects covered by IEC 61850, the protocol issue of IEC 61850-8-1 (upper layers like MMS and transport layers …) are relatively of minor importance. There are the two crucial areas defined in IEC 61850: Information Models and System Configuration Language. I usually put it that way: SCL, engineering and configuration is 51 per cent of the importance … may be 52 now …
There is no real need to discuss other protocols and mappings from the view point of importance.
Yes, the protocols are very crucial!! … when it comes to the question how and how fast and for what cost can I get IEC 61850 information communicated? To exchange even the value of a single bit position of a digital input requires the implementation of the various protocols like MMS, Presentation, Session, RFC 1006, TCP/IP, …
This was – and still is –in many cases a quite expensive and time consuming effort! Yes, the availability of the protocol software is very IMPORTANT!
The other day I received an email with the following: “Although we have a … license, we wanted to get started with SystemCorp's stack. The reason was simple: some manufacturers came to us asking what to do to incorporate IEC 61850 to their products. When we told them about …, what it costs, how big it's API is, etc, they got frightened and said that it wasn't worth by now. When we first saw SystemCorp's solution in your blog, we realized that it was an excellent product for companies that wanted to "explore" IEC 61850.”
A lot of people have made similar statements during the last months.
Impact of User Application on the Conformance of an IEC 61850 IED
One of the latest conformance tests has shown quite interesting results. An IED developed by SystemCorp (Perth, Western Australia) was successfully tested by KEMA recently. The IED uses a Beck IPC Chip as the core component. The SystemCorp IEC 61850 software (PIS-10 Stack) is running on this Chip platform as an integrated part – encapsulated and thus a given component.
In a paper SystemCorp has published a table of 120 test cases and shown which tested Functions are integrated in the PIS-10 Stack (integrated on the Chip) and which Functions are in the User Application that impact the conformance test.
More than 75 per cent of the test cases are of the first category (integrated in the Stack software) and less than 25 per cent of the test cases are directly depending on the User Application.
It is likely that other IEDs with the same Beck Chip and the same integrated PIS-10 stack will pass the 91 test cases of the first category easily.
Click HERE to access the table [PDF].
THE END: INTERBUS Club now part of Profibus User Organization
Ethernet has become THE major solution for future field busses – as has been suggested more than 20 years ago. It took many years before enough users requested Ethernet based field busses.
Interbus is one of successful conventional field busses – in strong competition with Profibus and other solutions. Finally, Ethernet wins over Interbus and many other standard field busses. The Interbus Club released this: “Within users a strong change by the field bus technologies in the direction of Ethernet is to be recognized. Hence, the INTERCBUS club had promptly decided to set on … ethernet based standard.”
Click HERE for more information on the end of the Interbus Club.
There are (too) many Ethernet based international field bus standards specified in IEC 61158.
On the other side, IEC 61850 has – from the very beginning – decided to use native Ethernet and ICP/IP as specified in IEC 61850-8-1. There is an IEC 61850-8-1, where is the IEC 61850-8-2? The mapping of the ACSI and the information models to Profibus FMS was intended to be published as 8-2. Fortunately it was decided very some 15 years ago (!) to rely on Ethernet, TCP/IP and MMS – and not on a field bus.
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Back on writing Blog postings
You may have wondered that I haven’t posted information on this blog for some three weeks. The reason simply was this: I was traveling internationally conducting comprehensive seminars and hands-on trainings in Harare (Zimbabwe; attendees from 10 Southern African countries!!), near Birmingham (UK), near Zurich (Switzerland), and presenting IEC 61850 at a fair in Darmstadt (Germany).
And now getting prepared for the next training in Frankfurt (Germany) mid of next week. See next post.
Hope to see a few people of the readers there.
Final Call for IEC 61850 Seminar and Hands-on Training in Frankfurt on May 04-06, 2011
There are a few seats left for the upcoming 3 day IEC 61850/61400-25 Seminar/Hands-on Training (NettedAutomation):
Frankfurt (Germany)
04.-06. May 2011
Click HERE for the program and registration information.
I allow a discount for the remaining seats!!
Please contact us as soon as possible to get one of the few remaining seats.
Click HERE to send an email to get a special offer.
Process and Factory Automation – And Electric Power Automation?
The Process and Factory/Manufacturing Automation domain is quite well developed since the nineties. Many communication solutions and standards have been developed since the MAP days in the eighties. The Automation of Electric Power Systems has been progressed independently of most other domain – maybe because of the fear of the danger of the high voltage!?
Usually there is very little exchange of information between the domain of Electric Power Automation and other areas. Also in the standardization world there is very little cooperation between these domains … with a few exceptions: IEC 60870-6 TASE.2 and IEC 61850 (standards for Power Systems) are using a Manufacturing specific communication solution: Manufacturing Message Specification (MMS, ISO 9506). On the other side IEC 61850 is referring to the Redundancy standard developed for Factor Automation (IEC 62439 – developed in cooperation between experts from IEC TC 65 and TC 57).
More and more experts are understanding the need to exchange information between all three domains. In the future it will be quite crucial for the Process and Factory/Manufacturing Automation domain to get information from the Power Automation systems – in order to use the electric power more efficiently!
Fortunately there is an easy way to retrieve the information from the Power Automation to an other domain that uses power: IEC 61850.
At the ABB Power and Automation Conference in Orlando, “ARC analyst Barry Young said industry is the number one U.S. consumer of energy by end use sector, followed by transportation, residential and commercial entities.
Process heating (fired heaters) and machine drives are the two biggest energy consumers in the manufacturing sector, and represent the best areas for energy savings opportunity.
Savings as high as 10 percent can be realized with no major investment, said Young, but a major roadblock exists. “Automation and electrification are separate islands, and operators have no view into the power side. They cannot identify or take advantage of energy savings,” he said. …
For 49 percent of companies, energy is not part of active process control. “IEC 61850 is an Ethernet-based solution that provides tight integration between automation and power systems,” said Young. “It is the fieldbus for electrical [systems]. Adoption, however, has been slow due to the learning curve.”” … Hm, it is much more than a fieldbus!!
Click HERE for the report from the ABB conference.
It is easier to look into the Power Automation System (with a single solution: IEC 61850) than into the other systems (with the many many field busses in IEC 61158 …).
Want to look into the Power Automation System? Just use a simple IEC 61850 DLL (Dynamic Link Library) and a very simple client software that uses the DLL … and talk to an IEC 61850 compliant power protection or control device:
Click HERE to let YOUR Application speak IEC 61850 in hours.
Sunday, April 3, 2011
SEL Reduces Prices for their IEC 61850 Option by 60 percent
One crucial result of the standardization work is that prices of standard based solutions are lowered! A good proof of this expectation is the announced price reduction of IEC 61850 based communication for SEL protection and control IEDs:
SEL reduced the price for the IEC 61850 option by 60 (SIXTY!) percent !!
““Utilities in Brazil, Mexico, the United States, India, Vietnam, Namibia, and many other countries rely on SEL solutions with IEC 61850 technology to maximize their power systems’ reliability and safety,” said Erik Newman, SEL vice president of Sales and Customer Service. “We look forward to offering this new option price to our customers who choose IEC 61850 as a method of communication and integration.”
IEC 61850 was created to be an internationally standardized method of communication and integration and to support systems built from multivendor intelligent electronic devices (IEDs) that are networked to perform protection, monitoring, automation, metering, and control.”
This is what the market expected in the MAP days (during the early nineties). The MAP (Manufacturing Automation Protocols) were just too early … it took another 20 years to get here! It’s not too late – we are still at the beginning of the Journey IEC 61850 and IEC 61400-25.
Click HERE for the press release [PDF].
Click HERE for more information on IEC 61850 provided by SEL.
Read a paper published by Karlheinz Schwarz in November 1991 on the Use of Ethernet instead of Token passing in the MAP 3.0 specification [PDF, 720 KB] - at that time the author did not know about Gigabit Ethernet; and a paper published by Karlheinz Schwarz in March 1991 on the Use of Ethernet as a Fieldbus [PDF, 720 KB].
It just takes time – the waiting for the right standard solution for information exchange, modeling and configuration is over: IEC 61850 is here!
Friday, April 1, 2011
IEC 61850 at Smart Grid Symposium and Exhibition
NettedAutomation GmbH (Karlsruhe/Germany) will present the latest developments in products for IEC 61850 during the
Symposium and Exhibition - Power Distribution Systems of the Future:
Novel solutions of the information and communication technology
as the backbone of Smart Distribution
12.-13. April 2011
darmstadtium
Wissenschafts- und Kongresszentrum
Schlossgraben 1
64283 Darmstadt
Germany
organized by
HEAG Südhessische Energie AG
NTB Technoservice
VDE
Click HERE for information on the event and registration:
What NettedAutomation GmbH will present at both 12:
- Lite Stack implementation for IEC 61850 and IEC 61400-25
- IEC61850@CHIP - THE most efficient way to let devices speak IEC 61850 and IEC 61400-25
- IEC61850 DLL - THE most efficient way to let PCs speak IEC 61850-25
- SCL Configuration Tool (System Configuration Language)
- Ready to GO! ruggedized devices like Gateways, RTUs, generic controller [programmable in IEC 61131-3 (CoDeSys and ISaGRAF) and C/C++], ...
- Experience and international trends in IEC 61850
- Training material
Objectives of the event:
- Exchange of experience between the European and German lighthouse projects.
- Information of the public, of vendors, grid operators and other stakeholders of the energy market, of universities and research institutes about the running lighthouse projects
- Discussion of the broad dissemination of the project results and how to overcome the existing barriers.
IEC Standards like IEC 61850 play a key role in the future Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution Systems. Several presentations and a workshop deal with THE Global accepted and used standard IEC 61850 in the context of Distribution Systems.
IEC 61850 Certificate issued
SystemCorp's IEC 61850 device has successfully been conformance tested. The SystemCorp device was based upon SystemCorp's independently developed IEC 61850 source code and was implemented on the Beck IPC Chip SC143.
Click HERE for a copy of the certificate [PDF, 1MB].
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
North America - IEC 61850 is riding the leading edge of progress
Progress of IEC 61850 has arrived in North America according to the March 2011 Newton-Evans Research report “Market Trends Digest, March 2011”.
The report found out interesting figures, e.g., “Within the Substation, IEC 60870-5-103 was the most frequently used protocol (40%). IEC 61850 (31%) fell close to serial protocols Modbus (31%) and DNP3 (33%), however, 24% indicated that they plan on implementing IEC 61850 within the substation by YE 2013. If that becomes the case, IEC 61850 will become the most used protocol by far.”
Click HERE to download the report [PDF, 1 MB].
IEC 61850 Training opportunities
NettedAutomation GmbH offers several public training opportunities in 2011.
Please find the current schedule for 2011:
Frankfurt (Germany)
04.-06. May 2011 [*****STILL SEATS AVAILABLE*****]
14.-16. September 2011
3 day IEC 61850/61400-25 Seminar/Hands-on Training (NettedAutomation) with Measurement IED and free evaluation software (DLL etc. fully functional - free to take home).
http://nettedautomation.com/seminars/uca/sem.html#standard
Toronto (ON, Canada)
10-13 May 2011
4 day IEC 61850 Seminar/Hands-on Training in cooperation with Kinectrics
Cincinnati (OH, USA)
21-24 June 2011
4 day IEC 61850 Seminar/Hands-on Training in cooperation with Kinectrics
Shanghai (China)
05. September 2011
1 day Developers Workshop for IEC 61850 similar to the successful event at Myong Ji University, Yongin (RP of Korea)
http://blog.iec61850.com/2011/03/developers-workshop-for-iec-61850-at.html
Contact us for details please.
Nashville (TN, USA) at Remote Conference
20.-21. September 2011
2 day Seminar (NettedAutomation) on Power System Communication covering IEC 61850, IEC 61400-25, DNP3, NIST Interoperability Roadmap, Smart Grids, ...
http://nettedautomation.com/seminars/uca/sem.html#nash
For further information and updates visit:
http://nettedautomation.com/seminars/uca/sem.html#standard
NettedAutomation is confident, that their experience and service would meet all your expectations! You would get first-hand, very comprehensive, vendor neutral and up-to-date knowledge, experience, and guidance; learn how to reach interoperability of devices. NettedAutomation has trained more than 2.300 experts from more than 60 countries from more than 500 companies – all over.
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