Title :
Testing requirements for IEC 61850 based devices
Author :
Apostolov, A. ; Vandiver, B.
Author_Institution :
OMICRON Electron., Los Angeles, CA
Abstract :
The new IEC 61850 standard for communication networks and systems in substations allows the development of high-speed peer-to-peer communications based applications, as well as distributed metering, control and protection solutions based on sampled analog values. The paper describes in detail the principles of different IEC 61850 communications based functions in multifunctional IEDs and analyses the factors that will affect their performance. It also discusses the requirements and principles of their testing. A comparison between the functional testing of conventional IEDs and testing of communications based IEDs are described later in the paper.
Keywords :
IEC standards; peer-to-peer computing; testing; IEC 61850 based devices; communication networks; distributed metering; functional testing; high-speed peer-to-peer communications; protection solutions; testing requirements; Communication networks; Communication standards; Communication system control; Control systems; Distributed control; IEC standards; Peer to peer computing; Standards development; Substations; Testing; IEC 61850; distributed functions; functional testing;
Conference_Titel :
Power Systems Conference: Advanced Metering, Protection, Control, Communication, and Distributed Resources, 2007. PSC 2007
Conference_Location :
Clemson, SC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-0854-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-0855-9
DOI :
10.1109/PSAMP.2007.4740916
