CONCLUSIONS

During the session in Paris many topics have been presented and lively presentations and discussions took place on how IEC 61850 will impact protection and automation.

IEC 61850 already has and will continue to have an impact on protection and automation. New architectures become possible and require new IEDs, new test methods, re-evaluation of existing concepts and principles and thus raise controversy regarding efficiency, performance, reliability, availability and maintainability.

The strongest benefits are expected in improvements of the engineering process, the application of the process bus and the use and re-use of the object models.