Digital Substation

Digital Substation is an engineering publication focused on IEC 61850 automation, protection systems, and digital grid intelligence.

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Latest engineering publications on IEC 61850, digital substations, PRP/HSR, and IEEE 1588 (PTPv2).

SmartSec Europe 2016: Cyber-Security Strategies to Achieve Smart Grid Resilience

The exponential rate at which IT/OT integration is taking place calls for advanced approaches to utility cyber-security to ensure the resilience of smart infrastructures. And with senior management investment support at an all-time high, smart utility cyber-security leaders must step up to the challenge of driving the implementation of next generation cyber-security strategies, technologies, and processes. At the 3rd annual SmartSec Europe 2016 conference (November 29-30, 2016 - Amsterdam, The Netherlands), exhibition and networking forum, 120+ utility IT and OT cyber-security leaders come tog

IEC 61580 training in Rome, Italy

IEC 61850 standard is becoming more and more widespread in electric power industry today. А great number of installations and R&D activities involve application of IEC 61850 and many vendors offer IEC 61850 compliant products with less alternatives every other day. These circumstances call for the improvement of engineers’ competence. We are glad to invite engineers of your company to participate in the unique 5-day training course – Development, design, commissioning and maintenance of IEC 61850 compliant systems, which will take place in Rome (Italy) on November 7-11, 2016.

Fault recording in digital substations

Using which IEC 61850 services fault recorders in digital substations must acquire data? How the architecture of fault recording systems must change in digital substation? Experts talk.

How to monitor IEC 61850 traffic?

There are several applications that can be used for monitoring IEC 61850 traffic in the Ethernet network. But there is one free-of-charge option everyone should know about.

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