Smart industrial substations

Author

Cossé, Roy E. ; Bowen, James E. ; Combs, Harrison T. ; Dunn, Donald G. ; Hildreth, Martyn A. ; Pilcher, Alan

Author_Institution

Powell Electr. Manuf. Co., Houson, TX, USA

Volume

11

Issue

2

fYear

2005

Firstpage

12

Lastpage

20

Abstract

The smart industrial substations enhances plant electrical personnel safety by physically removing the operator from the arc flash zone. The smart industrial substations shifts electrical technician functions from time-consuming tasks in front of substations equipments to time-saving tasks away from the substations. The smart industrial substation is a "best fit" integration of traditional and modern substation devices with local/remote human-machine interfaces (HMIs), pagers, and cell phones.

Keywords

SCADA systems; programmable controllers; reliability; safety; substation automation; PLC; SCADA; arc flash zone; cell phones; local-remote human-machine interfaces; pagers; plant electrical personnel safety; programmable logic controllers; smart industrial substations; supervisory control and data acquisition; Communication system control; Delay; Distributed control; Electrical equipment industry; Industrial control; Microprocessors; Process control; SCADA systems; Safety; Substations;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Industry Applications Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1077-2618

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MIA.2005.1405822

Filename

1405822