Saitel IEC 61850 Client

and Server
Efficient Substation Automation with IEC 61850 Standard

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The IEC 61850 standard is the result after years of work by

electric utilities and vendors of electronic equipment to create
a uniform, future-proof basis for the protection, control and
communication of substations.

Today, the IEC 61850 Standard provides an internationally recognized method

targeted at interoperability between IEDs from different vendors.

IEC 61850 goes far beyond just a protocol standard by defining a

comprehensive device and object model that uses simple names in a
power system context. IEC 61850 provides a standardized framework for
substation integration specifying the communications requirements, functional
characteristics, structure of data in devices, data naming conventions, how
applications interact and control devices and how conformity with the standard
should be tested. These models are then mapped to a specific set of protocol
profiles that are optimised and secure for each functional area of the system.

This new technology can improve your substation systems by lowering your
costs, improving power reliability or both. IEC 61850 has a proven track record
of deliverable benefits to both small and large utilities. IEC 61850 offers the
ability to implement new capabilities and deliver cost savings in substation
design, installation, commissioning and operation.

Saitel compliance with IEC 61850

Saitel is a highly-evolved field device, offering a solid and powerful platform for
data acquisition, communication, automation and IED integration, including
backplane and DIN rail based solutions.

Saitel RTUs offer both IEC 61850 client and server functionality. Therefore
Saitel is the ideal solution for several applications:
• As a gateway to interface the IEC 61850 station bus through a variety of
modern plus third party communication protocols with different control
centres.

This new technology can improve your

substation systems by lowering your costs,
improving power reliability or both.

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• As a Bay Control Unit for control and monitoring
of switchgear, transformers and other equipment
or devices in substations.
• Integrate existing inputs and outputs into the IEC
61850 station bus.
• Connect serial IEDs to the IEC 61850
station bus.
• Support GOOSE for high-speed data exchange
with other IEC 61850 devices.
Schneider Electric offers you IEC 61850
technology that is certified as Class A
by the independent testing laboratory KEMA for
both IEC 61850 server and client interfaces.
Schneider Electric is the first company ever to
pass a KEMA IEC-61850 Client certification
according to Conformance Test Procedures for
Client System with IEC-61850-8-1 interface.
These certifications are another Schneider Electric
technological landmark in more than 30 years
offering real-time applications for efficient electric
energy business.
Specifications
• Supports up to 75 IEDs
• Client and Server roles
• SCSMs supported
- SCSM: IEC 61850 8.1 (MMS) used
• Generic substation event model (GSE)
- GOOSE Publisher / Subscriber
• Data Modeling
- IEC-61850 Logical Nodes Ed.2
- Logical Nodes for Hydro Power Plants
• Reporting Schemes
- Buffered Report Control Block (BRCB)
- Unbuffered Report Control Block (URCB)
• Commands
- Direct Control
- Enhanced direct control
- SBO control
- Enhanced SBO control
• Data Sets
• Data logging
• Time synchronization via SNTP
• File Transfer via MMS and FTP
• Configuration
- Data model designed using SCL-Tool.
- The resulting SCL file is loaded
The engineering tool – SCL Tool
Schneider Electric CAT SCL Tool is a desktop
application for PC platforms designed to model
intelligent electronic devices (IEDs) as stipulated in
the standard IEC61850. SCL Tool can generate the
configuration files for these devices.
The main functions that the application can
perform are:
• Read and edit any type of configuration file
compliant with the defined restrictions by the
schema of the SCL language.
• Model devices from the libraries of Logical Nodes
(LNs), Common Data Class (CDCs) and Common
Data Attributes (CDAs) defined in the norm.
• Generation of the modelling and SCL
configuration files for devices IEC61850.
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 • Capacity to manage projects with several
devices, generating the files for the configured
devices.
• Visualization and edition of the components of
the standard library of the norm. This can be
customized with user additions or generate
custom libraries for specific projects.
• Export files of data templates
(DataTypeTemplates) that can be reused to model
new devices. This avoids the need to create all
these sections in new models.

Project References
• Spain. Gatica Substation, 220/132kV. Red
Eléctrica Española. Spain.
• Terranova, Quevedo and Sicle. Comisión Federal
de la Electricidad de México.
• 22 HV/MV substations. EMCALI. Columbia.
• TKCSA. Companhia Siderúrgica do Atlántico.
Brazil.
• 2 Substations. Petroproducción. Ecuador.
• Vizcarra Substation. Abengoa Perú.
• Sao Paulo (Abengoa): Substation Gateways
• 3 HV SE Oriximiná, SE Silves e SE Lechuga.
Manaus Transmissora de Energia.
• Substation Control Unit. Gas Natural Fenosa.
• PARK 61850 project. Red Eléctrica de España

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August 2012