ABB 615 series IEC 61850 Engineering Guide

The international IEC 61850 standard defines a framework for substation communications networks and systems. The standard consists of several parts ranging from the requirements on substation automation systems to the details of a communication protocol.

One major difference between the other communication protocols applied in substation automation and IEC 61850 is that the latter is not only a communication protocol, but a whole framework for specifying, engineering and operating substation automation systems. The communication part covers the connection between the IEDs and the substation clients, for example, SCADA and gateways.

Product benefits of ABB 615 series IEC 61850

Extensive range of protection and control functionality, either with sensors or conventional instrument transformers

Ready-made standard configurations for fast and easy setup with tailoring capabilities

Withdrawable plug-in unit design for swift installation and testing

Large graphical display for showing customizable SLDs, accessible either locally or through an easy-to-use web-browser-based HMI

Extensive life-cycle services

The protection relays have been fully designed according to IEC 61850. This means that the functionality of the protection relay is represented in a data model in accordance with the standard and the protection relays support a wide range of the services provided by the standard.

Process data: monitoring of statuses and measurements

Application data: protection activation, tripping, fault recordings

Disturbance records

Control commands

Protection settings

Settings and setting groups

Configuration data

Diagnostics and self-supervision

Fast horizontal communication between devices

Time synchronization

File transfer