Overview
To achieve the goals of a Smart Grid, electric utilities require highly reliable, accurate data acquisition and control in a substation to respond to real-time events with appropriate actions. Survalent's line of substation controller products, combined with SmartSCADA and SmartHMI enable 100's of utilities world-wide to increase reliability in their systems while reducing maintenance and other operational costs. Working with utilities for over 45 years has given us a deep understanding of utility-specific requirements and a unique perspective of our customer base. We have tailored our products to our customer needs for substation automation.
Survalent's substation automation solutions ensure reliable power delivery. Our SmartSA products provide you with state-of-the-art performance, flexible architectures, and open standards such as IEC 61850 and DNP 3.0.
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Station Explorer 3
Station Explorer 3 (SE3) is an application for configuration, management and monitoring of Survalent Station Controllers of old and new generations (Scout, Hunter, MiniRTU,ETC.) SE3 can run on any modern Operating System (Windows, Linux, iOS). SE3 offers all the benefits and advantages of Java technologies, ensuring performance, high availability, security and robustness.
SE3 is an Intuitive Standalone Solution that provides reliable offline and online tools for Station Controllers (setup, maintenance and live-data monitoring).
Benefits
- Rapid development of associations between the IEDs – Station Controllers and Masters
- Reuse existing templates for IEDs generated for Survalent SCADA
- Generate new IED templates in few minutes and use them on Survalent Station Controllers or SCADA
- Off-line and On-line of Configuration and Mapping files
- Real time communication and data presentation with the RTU
An Extensive Range of Services
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Implementation Support
Survalent Technology's engineers provide full support all through the various project steps including:
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Scout Station Controller
The SCOUT™ is a member of the Station Controller family of devices. Station Controllers not only combine the functions of a traditional RTU with the functionality of a Data Concentrator, but also includes a Terminal Server and a Web Server. Extensive communications capabilities are available over both serial and Ethernet networks.
Modular I/O Architecture allows the SCOUT to be scaled to the desired point size up to 256 I/O points of each type per SCOUT™ module up to a database size of 16,000 points. This innovative architecture allows the SCOUT™ to monitor and control points connected directly to the RTU The modular I/O boards are compatible with those used on previous Survalent RTUs. Hence, the Scout™ will be able to replace the main electronic circuits in previous RTUs such as the XPPB. This capability also enables a customer to upgrade to a more feature-rich RTU while leaving the external wiring untouched. This upgrade capability also applies to the older 6CPP4 and 6CPP6 RTU models.
Extensive communications capabilities allow the SCOUT™ to connect to many IEDs either on multiple ports with multi-drop configurations or over one or two Ethernet ports. The communication to the master or masters can be configured to occur via one or more of four serial ports or via one or two Ethernet ports.
When connected to an Ethernet LAN, one or more serial ports can be configured to act as terminal server ports. This allows a remote device (the master or other appropriate computer on the LAN) to access this port and exchange data with an external device. As an example, this feature can be used to remotely configure IEDs or upload historical data files.
The SCOUT™ has a dedicated serial port for configuration, point monitoring and diagnostics. A simple terminal connected to this port will act as the Human interface. When connected to an Ethernet LAN, the same configuration and diagnostic operations can be performed remotely on the RTU via Telnet or Web Browser.
A powerful Web Server is also integrated within the SCOUT™. This user friendly tool allows operation, maintenance and configuration of the RTU without the need of proprietary software. Any standard web browser allows direct access to the web server built-in within the SCOUT™.
Simple configuration is provided by the Points Mapping Wizard which allows points mapping of third party IEDs and I/O cards in a graphical environment. An extensive library of point maps is available for the most common IEDs available on the market, making IED point mapping a few clicks of the mouse.
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The HUNTER™ uses the raw voltage and current inputs to measure and calculate the most common electrical parameters such as; Voltage, Current, Watts, VARs, Power Factor, Frequency, Watt hours, etc.
Remote Power Quality Monitoring with Oscillography is also a valuable feature of the HUNTER. Power Quality is accurately measured with 32 samples per cycle.
Power Quality measurements include:
- Total Harmonic Distortion in Voltage THD (V)
- Total Harmonic Distortion in Current THD (I)
- Harmonic Spectrum up to the 15th harmonic
Event Triggered Oscillography for all analog input AC channels may be triggered by:
- Fault Current
- Harmonic Distortion (Voltage and/or Current)
- Sag
- Swell
The user can set up oscillography triggers to capture data from each AC input.
The HUNTER™ has a dedicated serial port for configuration, point monitoring and diagnostics. A simple terminal connected to this port will act as the Human interface. When connected to an Ethernet LAN, the same configuration and diagnostic operations can be performed remotely on the RTU via Telnet or Web Browser.
A powerful Web Server is also integrated within the HUNTER™ This user friendly tool allows operation, maintenance and configuration of the RTU without the need of proprietary software. Any standard web browser allows direct access to the web server built-in within the SCOUT™.
Simple configuration is provided by the Points Mapping Wizard which allows points mapping of third party IEDs and I/O cards in a graphical environment. An extensive library of point maps is available for the most common IEDs available on the market, making IED point mapping a few clicks of the mouse.
SmartGateway
IED points can be mapped to the SmartGateway using our database editing tool SCADA Explorer, imported from MS Excel spreadsheets, or automatically created using our IED Wizard.
Interoperability is setup in the Data Exchange by defining Servers, Virtual RTUs, and Datasets. The Servers editor allows you to define links to other systems. For each link, you specify the type of interface, the communications ports or IP addresses used to access the other system, and other communication parameters. The Virtual RTU editor is used to create one or more Virtual RTUs for each server. Each Virtual RTU references a Dataset of SCADA points whose values are to be reported to the client. Supported Servers include: ICCP, MultiSpeak, OPC, DNP 3.0, Modbus, and QUICS IV. The Datasets editor is used to create sets of points that are referenced by the Virtual RTUs. Each dataset contains blocks of status, analog, control, setpoint, and accumulator entries to which SCADA points can be mapped.
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Features
- Hardware platform independent
- The SmartGateway data exchange servers are designed to make data appear to other client systems like it is coming from one or more RTUs. It can support multiple master stations or client applications.
- Complete Datasets can be created and assigned to multiple Virtual RTUs. This means that the same data can easily be sent to more than one master system without having to maintain duplicate dataset definitions for each Virtual RTU.
- Points are easily added to the Virtual RTU with the drag-n-drop point browser. Our Virtual RTU application includes all the editors for setting up the communication connection and how the data is formatted when polled by the other system.
Benefits
- SmartGateway runs the same baseline software as our SmartSCADA master station:
- Multiple redundancy
- NERC CIP compliance
- SmartGateway is fully scalable. Applications such as Event Data Recorder, GPS Clock, and Voltage Reduction can be added to extend the capabilities of the gateway.
- SmartHMI can be added to the gateway to provide a full graphical user interface based on our WorldView GUI
SmartHMI
SmartHMI delivers data acquisition, visualization, and utility-grade applications for substation automation solutions.
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WorldView World Map GUI
Supervisory Control
SmartHMI utilizes a Select Before Operate (SBO) procedure that is fully compliant with IEEE standards.
Extensive Communications Management
SmartHMI supports a wide range of open and legacy protocols; such as DNP3.0, Modbus RTU, and IEC 61850. All protocols run in native mode, i.e. there is no need for an external protocol converter (hardware unit) or internal converter (third party software driver), nor is there any need for any kind of front-end processor.
Authentication and Access Control
User account passwords are a minimum 128-bit encrypted and neither stored nor transmitted in plaintext. SmartHMI allows a settable number of failed login attempts by an account, and a timeout period to block the user login if the number of failed login attempts is exceeded.
Each user account is assigned a set of user rights that determines the actions that the user may take. This provides individual control over various operating and editing functions. These user rights can include the ability to: acknowledge, block, unblock, and silence alarms; edit database, maps, reports, analog limits, and notes; manual set, control, and tag/un-tag points.
SmartHMI can be partitioned into 128 areas (or zones) of responsibility The user has the ability to assign any combination of the 128 zones to each database point (telemetered or calculated) and/or to each login account. The user is able to create any number of zone groups containing various combinations of the 128 zones and to give each zone group a name. An operator is able to manipulate only those points whose zones overlap those of his login account.
Tag Management
SmartHMI allows operators to inhibit control of devices by means of a secure, multi-level tagging feature. This feature allows operators to apply up to eight tags to each point, each tag being stored with a date/time stamp and optional operator-entered description.
Alarm Management
SmartHMI provides summary lists for all unacknowledged, acknowledged, blocked, suppressed and for all alarms. The user is able to perform alarm filtering based on certain parameters or filters. The filtering of alarm summary lists can be performed from a template where the operator can enter the filtering parameters and obtain the filtered lists.
Report Management
SmartHMI supports a report generation capability that allows the user a high level of flexibility in the definition, formatting and scheduling of on-demand and periodic reports. The reports include data from both the real-time database and historical database. A report editor is available to allow the user to define reports by specifying a database table, a set of desired data fields and the selection criteria for retrieving records from the database table.