Digital Substation

Digital Substation is a platform for automating and centralizing the information collection process (diagnostics) of substations main equipment. The solution makes it possible to apply predictive analytics for efficient equipment performance monitoring to plan maintenance and repair work, reduce the amount of preventive maintenance, reduce the troubleshooting time and the load on maintenance personnel, and improve the manageability of repair and maintenance processes.

Key features

• Remote collection of information from telemetry sensors of diagnosed devices included in the substation topology;
• Support for major data transfer protocols, including:
  • IEC 60870-5-101;
  • IEC 60870-5-104;
  • DNP-3;
  • OPC;
  • Modbus ASC II/RTU TCP, etc.
• Data verification, evaluation and calculation of parameters based on the mathematical calculation methodology, resource service model;
• Information analysis as part of the processes for determining the technical condition of the main electrical and related equipment;
• Permanent technical control of equipment to maintain its operation and manage the processes and associated resources;

Key benefits

• Unified infrastructure powered by digital technologies;
• Improving the facility maintenance process by creating a digital substation dynamic model—a virtual model duplicates a real facility, provides continuous data collection, and is used throughout its entire life cycle;
• Improving the quality of operational documentation, reducing the labor costs of personnel for its development;
• Reducing the scope and frequency of periodic inspections through the organization of optimal planning of preventive and necessary restoration work;
• Increasing the service life of power electrical equipment;
• Reducing the number of spare parts;
• Reducing the recovery time, reducing operating expenses for the maintenance of transformer substations due to self-diagnosis compatibility, remote control of equipment and automatic control of the substation(s) from the controller automated working position without operational personnel guidance;
• Minimizing the human factor impact in failure occurrence—increased safety of the facility and reduced injuries;
• Providing operational information, organizing maintenance and repair according to the technical condition of the equipment and, as a final effect, increasing the sustainability of electricity services.