CONFIGURATION OF AN IEC 61850 TELEPROTECTION IED

摘要

The present invention is concerned with a teleprotection system engineering process that starts with the generation of a description of two teleprotection Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs) at two substations connected via a teleprotection link, based on the intended functionality or semantics to be transferred between the substations and the needed telecommunication properties for this semantics. A corresponding teleprotection link definition is used as a unique input for a co-generation of two IED Capability Description (ICD) files representing the two teleprotection IEDs or IEC 61850 gateways. A single ICD generation module or function block performs this task thus reducing the possibilities for erroneous manual input of the link definition data. The generation of the two ICD files occurs prior to, and hence independently of, any generation of Substation Configuration Description (SCD) files, i.e. before a detailed Substation Automation (SA) system engineering actually takes place.