scholarly journals Implementation of Resilient Self-Healing Microgrids with IEC 61850-Based Communications

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 547
Author(s):  
Junho Hong ◽  
Dmitry Ishchenko ◽  
Anil Kondabathini

Due to the high penetration of distributed energy resources (DER) and emerging DER interconnection and interoperability requirements, fast and standardized information exchange is essential for stable, resilient, and reliable operations in microgrids. This paper proposes fast fault detection, isolation, and restoration (F-FDIR) for microgrid application with the IEC 61850 Generic Object Oriented Substation Event (GOOSE) communication considering the communication/system failure. GOOSE provides a mechanism for lightweight low latency peer-to-peer data exchange between devices, which reduces the restoration time compared to conventional client-server communication paradigm. The proposed mitigation method for the communication/system failure can find an available restoration scenario and reduce the overall process time. Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testbed is designed and implemented with real time digital simulator, microgrid control system, and protection and control intelligent electric devices (IEDs) for the validation. The experimental results show that the proposed F-FDIR and IEC 61850 models can enhance the reliability and interoperability of the microgrid operation and enable self-healing microgrids.

Author(s):  
Volodymyr Smirnov ◽  
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Natalia Smirnova ◽  

The purpose of the article is to develop an adaptive mobile network node architecture with an amorphous topology. The article describes the host controller architecture. The concept of a mobile network is described. The mobile network is adaptive, self-organizing, and able to operate autonomously. The presented mobile network node controller architecture is the object swarm control system basis. A stack of mobile network protocols is presented, consisting of a control protocol, a data exchange protocol and a configuration protocol. The nodes of the network controllers interaction is carried out using several transceivers. The use of multiple transceivers made it possible to distribute data traffic, configuration traffic, and management traffic over different channels, which made it possible to carry out information exchange at the same time. The protocol stack is minimized. The functionality of the host and the network object (swarm) is completely separated. The topology of the mobile network is not deterministic, amorphous and changes when the network objects move in space. In this case, some connections are lost and others arise. The routing tables are constantly updated. The network in accordance with the laid down algorithm, is able to build the necessary topology and organize the necessary connections in order to complete the task with a swarm of objects. The network is capable of building packet retransmission chains for remote network objects. Thus, the implementation of a mobile network at its low cost allows solving a certain range of problems. The performer can be either a separate object associated with the operator through a swarm of repeaters, or a swarm of objects. In order to increase the efficiency of the formation of routing tables and minimize the cluster structures in a mobile network, it is advisable to use optimization algorithms based on set theory. The mobile network is designed to control a swarm of objects, which can be UAVs, robotic objects and control systems for various technological processes.


2013 ◽  
Vol 846-847 ◽  
pp. 392-395
Author(s):  
De Wen Wang ◽  
Liang Ge ◽  
Ru Kun Liu

Currently, the information exchange between various systems in substation is difficult, and the scheme of integrated supervision and control system of substation can effectively promote the smooth flow of information in the substation. In this paper, by analyzing the Communication architecture of integrated supervision and control system, the devices that communicate following the IEC61850 standard in station layer are given, which all need to integrate IEC61850 client. Then an integration method of IEC61850 client is proposed, providing unified IEC61850 client for different devices in integrated supervision and control system of substation to reduce the risk of interoperability failure because of using different IEC61850 clients. While a communication test is conducted using IED simulator and communication gateway simulator to verify the feasibility of the proposed integration method.


2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (6) ◽  
pp. 1887-1891
Author(s):  
Todor Kalinov

Management and Command253 are two different words and terms, but military structures use them as synonyms. Military commanders’ authorities are almost equal in meaning to civilian managers’ privileges and power. Comparison between military command and the civilian management system structure, organization, and way of work shows almost full identity and overlapping. The highest in scale and size military systems are national ministries of defense and multinational military alliances and coalitions. Military systems at this level combine military command structures with civilian political leadership and support elements. Therefore, they incorporate both military command and civilian management organizations without any complications, because their nature originated from same source and have similar framework and content. Management of organizations requires communication in order to plan, coordinate, lead, control, and conduct all routine or extraordinary activities. Immediate long-distance communications originated from telegraphy, which was firstly applied in 19th century. Later, long-distance communications included telephony, aerial transmitting, satellite, and last but not least internet data exchange. They allowed immediate exchange of letters, voice and images, bringing to new capabilities of the managers. Their sophisticated technical base brought to new area of the military command and civilian management structures. These area covered technical and operational parts of communications, and created engineer sub-field of science, that has become one of the most popular educations, worldwide. Communications were excluded from the military command and moved to separate field, named Computers and Communications. A historic overview and analysis of the command and management structures and requirements shows their relationships, common origin, and mission. They have significant differences: management and control are based on humanities, natural and social sciences, while communications are mainly based on engineering and technology. These differences do not create enough conditions for defragmentation of communications from the management structures. They exist together in symbiosis and management structures need communications in order to exist and multiply their effectiveness and efficiency. Future defragmentation between military command and communications will bring risks of worse coordination, need for more human resources, and worse end states. These risks are extremely negative for nations and should be avoided by wide appliance of the education and science among nowadays and future leaders, managers, and commanders.


2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. e100241
Author(s):  
Job Nyangena ◽  
Rohini Rajgopal ◽  
Elizabeth Adhiambo Ombech ◽  
Enock Oloo ◽  
Humphrey Luchetu ◽  
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BackgroundThe use of digital technology in healthcare promises to improve quality of care and reduce costs over time. This promise will be difficult to attain without interoperability: facilitating seamless health information exchange between the deployed digital health information systems (HIS).ObjectiveTo determine the maturity readiness of the interoperability capacity of Kenya’s HIS.MethodsWe used the HIS Interoperability Maturity Toolkit, developed by MEASURE Evaluation and the Health Data Collaborative’s Digital Health and Interoperability Working Group. The assessment was undertaken by eHealth stakeholder representatives primarily from the Ministry of Health’s Digital Health Technical Working Group. The toolkit focused on three major domains: leadership and governance, human resources and technology.ResultsMost domains are at the lowest two levels of maturity: nascent or emerging. At the nascent level, HIS activities happen by chance or represent isolated, ad hoc efforts. An emerging maturity level characterises a system with defined HIS processes and structures. However, such processes are not systematically documented and lack ongoing monitoring mechanisms.ConclusionNone of the domains had a maturity level greater than level 2 (emerging). The subdomains of governance structures for HIS, defined national enterprise architecture for HIS, defined technical standards for data exchange, nationwide communication network infrastructure, and capacity for operations and maintenance of hardware attained higher maturity levels. These findings are similar to those from interoperability maturity assessments done in Ghana and Uganda.


Machines ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abe Zeid ◽  
Sarvesh Sundaram ◽  
Mohsen Moghaddam ◽  
Sagar Kamarthi ◽  
Tucker Marion

Recent advances in manufacturing technology, such as cyber–physical systems, industrial Internet, AI (Artificial Intelligence), and machine learning have driven the evolution of manufacturing architectures into integrated networks of automation devices, services, and enterprises. One of the resulting challenges of this evolution is the increased need for interoperability at different levels of the manufacturing ecosystem. The scope ranges from shop–floor software, devices, and control systems to Internet-based cloud-platforms, providing various services on-demand. Successful implementation of interoperability in smart manufacturing would, thus, result in effective communication and error-prone data-exchange between machines, sensors, actuators, users, systems, and platforms. A significant challenge to this is the architecture and the platforms that are used by machines and software packages. A better understanding of the subject can be achieved by studying industry-specific communication protocols and their respective logical semantics. A review of research conducted in this area is provided in this article to gain perspective on the various dimensions and types of interoperability. This article provides a multi-faceted approach to the research area of interoperability by reviewing key concepts and existing research efforts in the domain, as well as by discussing challenges and solutions.


Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (8) ◽  
pp. 2337
Author(s):  
Linwei Chen ◽  
Haiyu Li ◽  
Thomas Charton ◽  
Ray Zhang

Interoperability testing and analysis tools provide a means for achieving and assuring the integrity of multivendor intelligent electronic devices (IEDs) data exchanges. However, the testing and analysis are very time consuming and error prone, and these problems worsen when a substation becomes large and complex during the engineering process, commission, replacement, maintenance, and extension. To address this challenge, this paper presents a virtual digital substation test system (VDSTS) with interoperability analysis tools for assessing and identifying the engineering challenges for the multiple-vendors digital substation. This VDSTS consists of three parts: (i) A virtual digital substation modelling for generating real-time digital substation primary plant operation and fault conditions, (ii) a standard IEC 61850-based substation protection, automation, and control (PAC) system architecture with multivendor IEDs and bay solutions, and (iii) multivendor Substation Configuration description Language (SCL) tools and in-house built data visualisation tool. The study focuses on the interoperability testing of sampled values (SV), generic object-oriented substation events (GOOSE), and manufacturing message specification (MMS) communication services, as defined in IEC 61850. The main issues identified are compatibility issues of SCL tools, protocol implementation issues, different information models, and application limitations. The outcomes will help utilities to reduce the risks associated with the general rollout of digital substations.


Author(s):  
A. N. Brysin ◽  
Yu. A. Zhuravleva ◽  
A. S. Mikaeva ◽  
S. A. Mikaeva

The article describes an electronic multifunctional adder for electricity metering SEM-3. The authors give the technical characteristics, the device and the principle of its operation. The presented adder is designed to monitor and account for the consumption of electricity generation and power directly from consumers, as well as in automated centralized accounting and control systems, and is designed for round-the-clock operation. The adder can collect and transmit information over six independent serial interfaces. The adder with a builtin GSM module provides bidirectional information exchange via cellular modem communication with remote devices and the transfer of accumulated data to the upper level of the automated electricity metering system. It provides bidirectional exchange of information over a local network with a PC over the built-in 10/100 Base-T Ethernet interface.


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