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AREVA IEDs for EPRI Smart Grid Research

AREVA’s Transmission and Distribution division recently announced that it will supply intelligent electronic devices to important smart grid research by the U.S.-based Electric Power Research Institute. Reinforcing its ongoing commitment to smart grid development, Areva T&D will provide EPRI with thirteen different IEDs, to be used in the Institute’s labs to be located a... More

Bitronics M650 - Three M650 models S3, B3, and M3

The Bitronics 50 Series of SCADA meters is the latest product family from Bitronics, a NovaTech Company.  M650 meters have an unrivaled display, are simple to set up and use, and offer superior communications flexibility. There are three M650 models (S3, B3, and M3) with the following key features:  Instant recognition of displayed parameter via Bitronics alphanumeri... More

Multitalented PAC Engineers

The 2009 CIGRE B5 meeting and colloquium were held in Jeju, Korea. Protection and control experts from many countries from all continents gathered at the Lotte hotel to share their experience and decide on future CIGRE activities related to the protection and control of the electric power systems. The social program this time included an event that demonstrated that protection experts a... More

Next Generation of Substation Automation

The new SEL-3530 Real-Time Automation Controller (RTAC) is a complete substation automation platform that incorporates state-of-the-art communications, security, and custom logic into exceedingly simple configuration software. The RTAC is the industry’s first automation gateway to include the IEEE C37.118 client protocol for receiving synchronized phasor messages. With the time-al... More

Online Monitoring Tool for IEC 61850 Networks

With Siemens' Online GOOSE Inspector Monitoring Tool you can capture IEC 61850 related packets from the station bus. The IEC 61850 telegrams can be decoded, checked, displayed, filtered, stored in a ring buffer and if necessary be printed. Through the Import of a Station Configuration Description file (SCD) the users of SIPROTEC devices and DIGSI, will have a clear picture with the Siem... More

Protocol in Wireshark

Since version 1.2.0 (released June 2009), the popular free protocol analyzer SW Wireshark (www.wireshark.org) supports the protocol according to the synchrophasor standard IEEE C37.118-2005. The phasor values are displayed in the common notation (magnitudes and phases) used in electrical engineering. For decoding the actual data, related configuration frames are used. The ... More

RuggedCom Introduces IEEE 1588 v2 devices

RuggedCom has introduced the RuggedSwitchTM RSG2288 and RS416 Serial Server with IEEE 1588 v2 allowing more accurate, converged data and timing networks to streamline substation operations.  The new RuggedSwitch™ RSG2288 supports IEEE 1588 v2 Master / Grand Master with: GPS input Transparent Clock and Slave Clock modes with 1us or better time accuracy ... More

SR 3 Series of protection relays - functional innovative & intuitive series

GE's Multilin SR 3 Series of protection relays is a highly functional innovative & intuitive series of relays for feeders (SR 350), motors (SR 339) and transformers (SR 345).  By providing an economical system for protection, control, monitoring and metering, and both local and remote user interfaces in one assembly, the SR 3 Series relays effectively eliminate the need for expensiv... More

Toshiba 'Micro-EMS' for Smart Grid

Smart Grids - with the introduction of renewable generation and the subsequent problems caused by intermittency on the demand-supply balance Toshiba have introduced a ‘Micro-EMS’ which will reduce the impact of power fluctuations on power system frequency and voltage. Sudden changes in the weather have an immediate impact on the output of renewable generation such as win... More

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Augmented Reality

New Popular Resource     Augmented reality (AR) is a term that is becoming increasingly popular with recent developments in technology – advanced low power chips and new operating systems in mobile devices, built-in GPS and high-speed communications. The term is believed to have been first used by Thomas Caudell from Boeing in 1990. The augmentation of reali... More

The Google Chrome OS - rethinking what an operating system should be

Nine months after the launch of the Google Chrome browser, the company announced a new project as its natural extension - the Google Chrome Operating System. It is an attempt to rethink what operating systems should be. The main reason behind this effort is the fact that the operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no web. So Google Chrome OS is anno... More

WiMAX

Transmission Technology WiMAX  is a telecommunications technology for wireless transmission of data using  a variety of transmission modes with speed up to 3 Mbit/s based on the IEEE 802.16 standard. The name is an acronym for Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access created by the WiMAX Forum to promote conformity and interoperability of the standard. The forum desc... More

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