Software-Defined Analog Processing Based on IEC 61850 Implemented in an Edge Hardware Platform to be Used in Digital Substations

Martinez, Maria Teresa Villén; Comech, María Paz; Hurtado, Anibal Antonio Prada; Olivan, Miguel Angel; Cortón, David López; Castillo, Carlos Rodriguez Del

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“…Such an approach can significantly reduce the expenses and costs of testing for manufacturers or integrators. In comparison to the existing literature on virtual IEDs [5,[10][11][12], the focus here is neither on virtualization nor on time requirements, but rather on functional implementation for testing purposes. Enhancements in the area of vIED development can enable virtual protection assessments to be carried out, which can significantly reduce the time and effort required for factory acceptance tests (FATs) and site acceptance tests (SATs).…”

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The Implementation and Evaluation of Virtualized Protection Intelligent Electronic Devices into a Virtual Substation

Rösch,

Schäfer,

Nicolai

2024

Electricity

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This paper presents an investigation into the virtualization of substation protection IED functions using a sophisticated co-simulation environment that integrates virtual intelligent electronic devices (vIEDs) with a real-time power grid simulation. Anchored by the IEC 61850 protocol, this study constructs a virtualized IED framework, emphasizing the encapsulation of protection schemes using the example of different types of overcurrent protection within a containerized vIED. Using open-source software, this study aims to replicate the communication and functional aspects of physical IEDs. This study uses a co-simulation environment that couples virtualized network components with a real-time power grid simulation to validate the vIEDs against real substation hardware. Simulation results from induced short-circuit events confirm the operational congruence of the vIEDs with their physical counterparts, demonstrating their potential to serve as cost-effective and adaptable testbeds for substation automation. This paper concludes that virtualized IEDs represent a cost-effective, flexible alternative for substation automation testing, with future research directed towards increasing the functional complexity and real-world applicability of these virtual systems.

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The Implementation and Evaluation of Virtualized Protection Intelligent Electronic Devices into a Virtual Substation

Rösch,

Schäfer,

Nicolai

2024

Electricity

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“…Central to the next-generation offshore wind farm's IIoT-Edge data-acquisition system (shown in Figure 3) is a communication network that leverages SDN and NFV technologies to facilitate critical, latency-sensitive data transfer [63,64]. There is a need to model robust communication frameworks to guarantee seamless offshore wind farm operations [65].…”

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“…Several standards are explored to assess the performance of such networks in offshore wind farms and other smart grids. Wang et al [116] assess the end-to-end communication delay between communication devices in machine-to-machine communication application scenarios highlighting standards such as IEEE 1646 (communication delivery times within and external to an electrical substation), IEEE C37.1 (for wide-area situational awareness network performance in SCADA and automation systems), IEEE 1379 (communication protocol stack mapping for substation network functionality), and IEC 61850-5 (application recovery delay for substation bus communication) [65].…”

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Towards a Software-Defined Industrial IoT-Edge Network for Next-Generation Offshore Wind Farms: State of the Art, Resilience, and Self-X Network and Service Management

Mwangi,

Sahay,

Fumagalli

et al. 2024

Energies

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Offshore wind farms are growing in complexity and size, expanding deeper into maritime environments to capture stronger and steadier wind energy. Like other domains in the energy sector, the wind energy domain is continuing to digitalize its systems by embracing Industry 4.0 technologies such as the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), virtualization, and edge computing to monitor and manage its critical infrastructure remotely. Adopting these technologies creates dynamic, scalable, and cost-effective data-acquisition systems. At the heart of these data-acquisition systems is a communication network that facilitates data transfer between communicating nodes. Given the challenges of configuring, managing, and troubleshooting large-scale communication networks, this review paper explores the adoption of the state-of-the-art software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) technologies in the design of next-generation offshore wind farm IIoT–Edge communication networks. While SDN and NFV technologies present a promising solution to address the challenges of these large-scale communication networks, this paper discusses the SDN/NFV-related performance, security, reliability, and scalability concerns, highlighting current mitigation strategies. Building on these mitigation strategies, the concept of resilience (that is, the ability to recover from component failures, attacks, and service interruptions) is given special attention. The paper highlights the self-X (self-configuring, self-healing, and self-optimizing) approaches that build resilience in the software-defined IIoT–Edge communication network architectures. These resilience approaches enable the network to autonomously adjust its configuration, self-repair during stochastic failures, and optimize performance in response to changing conditions. The paper concludes that resilient software-defined IIoT–Edge communication networks will play a big role in guaranteeing seamless next-generation offshore wind farm operations by facilitating critical, latency-sensitive data transfers.

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Software-Defined Analog Processing Based on IEC 61850 Implemented in an Edge Hardware Platform to be Used in Digital Substations

Abstract: The EPICS (Edge Protection and Intelligent Control System) project of ELEWIT (A REDEIA company) has allowed the use of the EPICS platform for the development and implementation of the analog processing module.

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The Implementation and Evaluation of Virtualized Protection Intelligent Electronic Devices into a Virtual Substation

The Implementation and Evaluation of Virtualized Protection Intelligent Electronic Devices into a Virtual Substation

Towards a Software-Defined Industrial IoT-Edge Network for Next-Generation Offshore Wind Farms: State of the Art, Resilience, and Self-X Network and Service Management

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