P R OT E C T I O N

IEC 61850 STANDARD

Interoperability for Advanced
Protection and Control
Applications

IEC 61850 is the new international standard for communication in

substations. It enables integration of all protection, control,
measurement and monitoring functions within a substation, and
additionally provides the means for high-speed substation
protection applications, interlocking and intertripping.
It combines the convenience of Ethernet with the performance and
security which is essential in substations today.

As a result of 10 years of active

HMI participation of several AREVA experts in
IEC and UCA working groups developing
SCADA this new substation communication
Gateway
technology, and following successful
interoperability demonstrations at
CIGRE 2004 and many other events,
AREVA T&D Automation has been busy
adapting its Protection (MiCOM P range)
Fast Ethernet IEC 61850 and Control (MiCOM C range) devices to
support this new international standard.
C264 C264C
The protection relays integrate with the
PACiS substation control systems over the
MiCOM relays I/O MiCOM relays IEC 61850 8-1 Substation Bus and at the
RS 485 RS 485
same time can interface with our own or
other vendors Merging Units over the
IEC 61850 9-2 Process Bus, thus
completing AREVA T&D Automation's offer
MiCOM relays MiCOM relays
of a full IEC 61850 solution for your
substation.

AREVA provides solutions that allow the migration from conventional

or different legacy substation automation systems to IEC 61850
based SAS. Relays which have already been delivered with UCA2 on
Ethernet can be easily upgraded to IEC 61850, while relays that
support other communication protocols can be integrated using
"proxy" servers.

Customer benefits
Cost effective solution
due to reduced inter-wiring
Flexible programming
allowing relays and new
protection functions to be MiCOM and PACiS
added without affecting
physical wiring working in harmony
No external protocol
converters are required

AREVA T&D
IEC 61850 OFFERS THE FOLLOWING
BENEFITS TO UTILITIES AND
INDUSTRIAL USERS:
> High Speed Data Exchange
Ethernet links operating at 100 Mbit/s exchange polled
data and commands between devices at a far faster
rate than traditional serial/ fieldbus protocols. Clients
(master stations) can perform supervisory control with
negligible delay.
Client-Server replaces Master-Slave communications
and allows simultaneous access of several clients to
the same server.
> Peer-to-Peer Communication
Since all Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs) within
the substation can communicate with each other using
reliable high-speed peer-to-peer communications,
extensive hardwiring in equipment bays is eliminated
and the cost of implementing advanced distributed
protection and control schemes is significantly
reduced. Generic Substation Event (GSE) messages
can be used for interlocking, disturbance recording
cross-triggering, breaker failure protection tripping,
directional comparison bus protection and many other
advanced applications.
> Process Bus Interface
Analog interface units (or Merging Units) located in the
substation yard interface with conventional or non-
conventional instrument transformers and send the
sampled current and voltage values over fiber, thus
significantly reducing (actually eliminating) the copper
wires between the substation primary equipment and
the protection, control and measuring devices.
> Standard Bay Schemes
Economies of scale will result where standard
protection and control bay schemes are engineered.
The exact customising of the scheme to suit the
application is achieved in software, using GSE logic.
> True Interoperability
The self-descriptive nature of IEC 61850-compatible
IEDs means that system integration and
commissioning is easier.
Standardised data classes and services mean
IEC 61850-enabled MiCOM IEDs can operate
seamlessly in multi-vendor environments.
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> Uniformity
One protocol is all that is needed in the substation.
Costly gateways and split path communications are
thus avoided.
Peer-to-peer messages, control commands,
disturbance files transfer or event driven reports are
interleaved on a single Substation Bus network.
Multiple clients can be integrated, allowing authorised
operators and engineers to interrogate and control the
substation IEDs.
> Simplified Engineering Process
The Substation Configuration Language defined in the
standard represents a leap in the engineering process
related to any type of substation automation
application.
It is based on a standardized abstract object model
that allows the development of substation specification,
configuration, analysis and testing tools
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MiCOM CAPABILITY
The IEC 61850 interface of the MiCOM P range relays
initially provides the following capabilities:
> Object model covering IED measurements,
protection, control and recording functions
> GSE : High-speed Peer-to-Peer Communication
> Read access to measurements and statuses
> Generation of reports on changes of measurements.
Measurement reports can be generated when user
defined criteria have been met. This will usually be in
the form of a setting such as percentage change of a
measurement (deadband).
> Direct Control or Select Before Operate (SBO) with
normal or enhanced security
> Generation of reports on changes of status. Status
reports can be generated by protection events when
user-defined reporting criteria have been met.
> SNTP Time Synchronisation
> Disturbance Record Extraction
The MiCOM S1 engineering tool allows configuration
and setting transfers of IEC 61850- enabled
MiCOM IEDs via traditional communication links
or via an Ethernet connection, whether or not an
IEC 61850-based control system is present.
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