Integrate IEDS with OPC Technology

Author

Bhatt, Pankaj ; Baldevia, Roger P., Jr.

Author_Institution

Schweitzer Eng. Labs. Inc., Pullman, WA

fYear

2006

fDate

14-17 March 2006

Firstpage

391

Lastpage

407

Abstract

As technology spawns more intelligent electronic devices (IEDs), the communication protocols that support them also increase. The goal of the project documented in this paper was to design and test a system using several protocol drivers that also act as OPC servers for several different protocols within the same system. This demonstrates that different protocols can coexist and their common OPC interface supports multiple applications on various hardware platforms representing real-world applications. We used readily available OPC servers that could easily be used off the shelf, without software customization

Keywords

client-server systems; control engineering computing; process control; transport protocols; user interfaces; HMI; IED; OPC interface; OPC servers; OPC technology; communication protocols; human machine interface; intelligent electronic devices; object linking; process control; protocol drivers; Application software; Code standards; Data engineering; Hardware; Information retrieval; Programmable control; Protocols; SCADA systems; Standards organizations; TCPIP;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Systems Conference: Advanced Metering, Protection, Control, Communication, and Distributed Resources, 2006. PS '06

Conference_Location

Clemson, SC

Print_ISBN

0-615-13280-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PSAMP.2006.285408

Filename

4064688