Testing requirements for IEC 61850 based devices

Author

Apostolov, A. ; Vandiver, B.

Author_Institution

OMICRON Electron., Los Angeles, CA

fYear

2007

fDate

13-16 March 2007

Firstpage

249

Lastpage

253

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PSAMP.2007.4740916

Filename

4740916