IEC 61850, Communication Networks and Systems in Substations
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Ralph Mackiewicz is Vice President of SISCO, Inc. a Sterling Heights, Michigan developer of standards based real-time communications and integration products. Ralph obtained a BSEE from Michigan Technological University in 1977 and worked at Westinghouse Electric's PLC division as engineering manager prior to joining SISCO in 1985. Ralph has been an active participant in MMS, UCA and ICCP-TASE.2 standards activities. Ralph has authored chapters on PLCs and MMS for several well-respected industry handbooks. Ralph has authored and presented papers on UCA2, MMS, IEC61850, CIM, GID, and associated standards at technical conferences sponsored by IEEE, ISA, EPRI, and Pennwell. Ralph holds two patents and was a Founding Member and Fellow of the Industrial Computing Society. Mark Adamiak received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Engineering degrees from Cornell University in Electrical Engineering and an MS-EE degree from the Polytechnic Institute of New York. Mark started his career with American Electric Power (AEP) in the System Protection and Control section where his assignments included R&D in Digital Protection, relay and fault analysis, Power Line Carrier and Fault Recorders. In 1990, Mark joined General Electric where his activities have ranged from development, product planning, and system integration. In addition, Mr. Adamiak has been actively involved in developing the framework for next generation relay communications and is presently the Principle Investigator on the Integrated Energy and Communication System Architecture (IECSA). Mark is a Senior Member of IEEE, past Chairman of the IEEE Relay Communications Sub Committee, and a member of the US team on IEC TC57 - Working Group 10 on Substation Communication. Drew Baigent received a Bachelor of Applied Science in Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Toronto in 1985. Since graduation Drew has worked for GE Multilin (formerly Multilin) as a design engineer. His experience includes the design and implementation of test systems, motor protection and control products, power system protection and control products, and communication systems. Drew is a Registered Professional Engineer in the Province of Ontario, Canada and an IEEE member. He is currently involved in the design of IEC 61850 implementations in the GE Multilin Universal Relay family of power system protection products. |
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Power Engineering |
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Over the last decade, the “digitization” of the electron enterprise has grown at exponential rates. Utility, industrial, commercial, and even residential consumers are transforming all aspects of their lives into the digital domain. Moving forward, it is expected that every piece of equipment, every receptacle, every switch, and even every light bulb will possess some type of setting, monitoring and/or control. In order to be able to manage the large number of devices and to enable the various devices to communicate with one another, a new communication model was needed. That model have been developed and standardized as IEC 61850 – Communication Networks and Systems in Utility Automation. This paper provides looks at the needs of next generation communication systems and provides an overview of the IEC 61850 protocol and how it meets these needs. |
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