Multilingual power system protection device

• US 10,199,864 B2
• Filed: 01/19/2016
• Issued: 02/05/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 01/20/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Incorporated
• Inventors: D'Aversa, Angelo, Lee, Man Lung, Howell, Matthew J., Stanley, Thomas Allen
• Primary Examiner(s): Desir, Pierre Louis
• Assistant Examiner(s): Kim, Jonathan C
• Application Number:
  US15/000,858
• Publication Number:
  US 20160210967A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,113 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/22 Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 13/00001 characterised by the display of information or by user interaction, e.g. supervisory control and data acquisition systems [SCADA] or graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 13/00017 using optical fiber
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 13/00034 the elements or equipment being or involving an electric power substation
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/00 Enabling technologies; Technologies with a potential or indirect contribution to GHG emissions mitigation
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 10/18 using switches, relays or circuit breakers, e.g. intelligent electronic devices [IED]
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 10/40 Display of information, e.g. of data or controls
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 40/124 using wired telecommunication networks or data transmission busses

Abstract

A multilingual power system protection device to facilitate communications in different human languages over different communication ports is described herein. In one embodiment, an electric power system device may include communication ports configured to receive inputs in different human languages and a monitored equipment interface in communication with a component of an electric power system. The electric power system device may receive an input on one of the communication ports and may associate the input with a function implemented by the component of the electric power system. The electric power system device may further generate a response in a pre-selected human language, and may transmit the response using the communication ports.

Claims

1. A system for facilitating communications with an electric power system protective device in multiple human languages, comprising;

a first human-machine interface device configured to receive a first input in a first human language and to receive a first response in the first human language;

a second human-machine interface device configured to receive a second input in a second human language and to receive a second response in the second human language; and

,

an electric power system device configured to execute a first command associated with the first input and to execute a second command associated with the second input, the electric power system device comprising;

a first communications port in communication with the first human-machine interface device;

a second communications port in communication with the second human-machine interface device;

a monitored equipment interface configured to communicate the first command and the second command to a component of an electric power system; and

a processor in communication with the first communications port and the second communications port and configured to;

generate a first response in the first human language based on the human language of the first input, and

generate a second response in the second human language based on the human language of the second input;

wherein the first response and the second response are based on an array of values stored in a memory device in communication with the processor, the array comprising a first association between the input in the first human language, the first command, and the first response in the first human language and a second association between the second input in the second human language, the second command, and the second response in the second human language; and

wherein the first response is communicated through the first communication port and displayed on the first human-machine interface device, the first communication port being configured to subsequently communicate in the first human language, and the second response is communicated through the second communication port and displayed on the second human-machine interface device, the second communication port being configured to subsequently communicate in the second human language.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the first communication port is configured to communicate exclusively in the first human language, and the second communications port is configured to communicate exclusively in the second human language.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the array further comprises a plurality of functions accessible by the first human language and by the second human language.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the array comprises a plurality of input text strings in a plurality of human languages, including the first human language and the second human language, and a plurality of functions associated with the plurality of input text strings to be implemented by the component of the electric power system.

5. The system of claim 3, wherein the array further comprises a plurality of response text strings in the plurality of human languages, including the first human language and the second human language, and wherein the first response and the second response are associated respectively with the first input and the second input in the array.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the electric power system protective device further comprises a network communications port configured to receive communications using a plurality of logical ports, and wherein the first communications port and the second communications port each comprise a logical port associated with the network communications port.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the first input, the first response, the second input, and the second response each comprise a text string.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the first human language and the second human language comprise different human languages.

9. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

a display subsystem configured to;

display the first response in the first human language on the first human-machine interface; and

display the second response in the second human language on the second human-machine interface.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the first human-machine interface device and the second human-machine interface device comprise a text-based command interface.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the electric power system device comprises a local display configured to facilitate communications in a third human language.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein each of the first human language, the second human language, and the third human language comprise different human languages.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein the electric power system device comprises one of an intelligent electronic device and a programmable logic controller.

14. The system of claim 1, wherein the electric power system device is configured to facilitate communications in the first human language and the second human language simultaneously.

15. The system of claim 1, wherein the first communications port comprises a front-panel communications port.

16. The system of claim 1, wherein the electric power system device comprises a local human-machine interface display in communication with one of the first communications port and the second communications port.

17. An intelligent electronic device (“

IED”

) for facilitating communications in a plurality of human languages, comprising;

a first communications port in communication with a first human-machine interface device and configured to receive a first input in a first human language;

a second communications port in communication with the second human-machine interface device and configured to receive a second input in a second human language;

a monitored equipment interface configured to communicate the first command and the second command to a component of an electric power system; and

a processor in communication with the first communications port and the second communications port and configured to;

generate a first response in the first human language based on the human language of the first input,

generate a second response in the second human language based on the human language of the second input,

communicate the first response to the first communications port, and

communicate the second response to the second communications port;

wherein the first response and the second response are based on an array of values stored in a memory device in communication with the processor, the array comprising the command, an association between the command and the first input in the first human language and the second input in the second human language; and

an association between the command and the first response in the first human language and the second response in the second human language;

wherein the first response is communicated through the first communication port and displayed on the first human-machine interface device, the first communication port being configured to subsequently communicate in the first human language, and the second response is communicated through the second communication port and displayed on the second human-machine interface device, the second communication port being configured to subsequently communicate in the second human language.

18. The IED of claim 17, wherein the IED is configured to facilitate communications in particular human languages over the first communications port and the second communications port by a manufacturer of the IED according to specifications of an end user of the IED.

19. The IED of claim 17, wherein the IED is configurable by the end user to facilitate communications in different human languages over the first communications port and the second communications port.

20. An electric power system protective device for facilitating communications in a plurality of human languages, comprising;

a plurality of human-machine interface devices configure to communicate through a plurality of communication ports;

a first human-machine interface device among the plurality of human-machine interface devices configured to receive an input in one of a plurality of human languages;

a first communications port among the plurality of communication ports in communication with the first human-machine interface device;

a processor in communication with the plurality of communications ports configured to;

receive the input;

identify the one of a plurality of human languages based on the input; and

associate the input with a command based on an array of values;

a monitored equipment interface configured to communicate the command to a component of an electric power system;

the processor further configured to;

generate a response in the identified human language based on a status of the component of the electric power system;

wherein the array of values stored in a memory device in communication with the processor, the array comprising an association between the input in one of the plurality of human languages, the command, and the response; and

wherein the response is communicated through the first communication port and displayed on the first human-machine interface device, the first communication port being configured to subsequently communicate in the identified human language.