Method of configuring intelligent electronic devices to facilitate standardized communication messages among a plurality of IEDS within a network

• US 8,739,178 B2
• Filed: 07/23/2007
• Issued: 05/27/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/21/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Incorporated
• Inventors: Bosold, Mark J., Ristine, Thomas L., Day, Benjamin S., Nieuwsma, David M., Dearien, Jason A., Tibbals, Timothy P., Evans, Edward L., Baiar, Ronald L.
• Primary Examiner(s): DAO, TUAN C.
• Application Number:
  US11/781,468
• Publication Number:
  US 20080127210A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,500 Days
• US Class Current: 719/313
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 13/00 Circuit arrangements for providing remote indication of network conditions, e.g. an instantaneous record of the open or closed condition of each circuitbreaker in the network; Circuit arrangements for providing remote control of switching means in a power distribution network, e.g. switching in and out of current consumers by using a pulse code signal carried by the network
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 13/00002 characterised by monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 13/00034 the elements or equipment being or involving an electric power substation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/025 for remote control or remote monitoring of applications
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/00 Enabling technologies; Technologies with a potential or indirect contribution to GHG emissions mitigation
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 10/30 State monitoring, e.g. fault, temperature monitoring, insulator monitoring, corona discharge

Abstract

Provided is a system and method of configuring IEDs to facilitate standardized communication messages among a plurality of IEDs within a power system network based on the IEC 61850 standard. A description file is described for an intelligent electronic device configured in accordance with the IEC-61850 standard. The description file includes a section which indicates which GOOSE message the intelligent electronic device should receive. In yet another embodiment, the description file includes a section which is capable of linking to logic functions of the intelligent electronic device for performing programmable data binding or dynamic data binding. A configuration tool is further provided for editing and creating such description files. A method for selectively receiving messages from an intelligent electronic device configured in accordance with the IEC-61850 standard is also described herein, along with a method for optimizing file space and improving execution speed of an intelligent electronic device configured in accordance with the IEC-61850 standard.

Claims

1. A device adapted for communication with a first intelligent electronic device, wherein said first intelligent electronic device is adapted to communicate with other intelligent electronic devices through a plurality of different IEC-61850 Generic Object-Oriented Substation Event (GOOSE) communications messages, wherein the intelligent electronic devices are each adapted to describe an outgoing GOOSE message transmitted therefrom, wherein the first intelligent electronic device and the other intelligent electronic devices have different data structures, said device comprising:

a processor for generating a Configured IED Description (CID) file including a section of eXtensible Markup Language (XML) information in Substation Configuration Language (SCL) within the CID file for indicating which one of the plurality of different GOOSE messages the first intelligent electronic device should receive, wherein the CID file comprises a section for mapping data between the first intelligent electronic device and the other intelligent electronic devices;

wherein the CID file comprises a model for associating the data structure of the first intelligent electronic device to the data structure of at least one of the other intelligent electronic devices; and

wherein the CID file further comprises a section capable of linking to logic functions of the first intelligent electronic device for performing programmable data binding or dynamic data binding.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the section of the CID file includes a logical node data from at least one of the other intelligent electronic devices.

3. The device of claim 1, wherein the section of the CID file includes internal data specific to at least one of the other intelligent electronic devices.

4. The device of claim 1, wherein the processor of the device and at least some of the other intelligent electronic devices are manufactured by different manufacturers, and

wherein the processor of the device is adapted to receive information selected from the group consisting of a manufacturer IED Capability Description (ICD) file, a different manufacturer ICD file, a different manufacturer Configured IED Description (CID) file, and a different manufacturer Substation Configuration Description (SCD) file, and

wherein the processor generates a CID file including a section which indicates which one of the plurality of different GOOSE messages it should receive based on such received information.

5. The device of claim 1, wherein the device is an intelligent electronic device.

6. The device of claim 1 further comprising a memory location coupled to the processor, wherein the memory location stores a repository of IED standard files for generation of a CID file by the processor.

7. The device of claim 6, wherein the IED standard files are selected from the group consisting of ICD, CID, SSD and SCD files.

8. A device adapted for communication with a first intelligent electronic device, wherein said first intelligent electronic device is adapted to communicate with a plurality of other intelligent electronic devices, wherein at least some of the intelligent electronic devices are adapted to communicate with one of the other intelligent electronic devices through a plurality of different IEC-61850 Generic Object-Oriented Substation Event (GOOSE) communications messages, wherein the intelligent electronic devices are each adapted to describe an outgoing GOOSE message transmitted therefrom, wherein the first intelligent electronic device and the other intelligent electronic devices have different data structures, said first intelligent electronic device comprising:

a processor for editing a Configured IED Description (CID) file by adding a section of eXtensible Markup Language (XML) information to Substation Configuration Language (SCL) within the CID file for indicating which one of the plurality of different GOOSE messages the first intelligent electronic device should receive, wherein the CID file comprises a section for mapping data between the first intelligent electronic device and the other intelligent electronic devices;

wherein the CID file comprises a model for associating the data structure of the first intelligent electronic device to the data structure of at least one of the other intelligent electronic devices; and

wherein the CID file further comprises a section capable of linking to logic functions of the first intelligent electronic device for performing programmable data binding or dynamic data binding.

9. The device of claim 8, wherein the processor edits the CID file based on an IED Capability Description (ICD) file.

10. The device of claim 8, wherein the first intelligent electronic device and at least some of the other intelligent electronic devices are manufactured by different manufacturers, and wherein the processor of the first intelligent electronic device is adapted to receive information selected from the group consisting of a model number for one of the other intelligent electronic devices, a version number for one of the other intelligent electronic devices, and a part number for one of the other intelligent electronic devices, and wherein the processor edits the CID file based on such received information.

11. The device of claim 8, wherein the first intelligent electronic device and at least some of the other intelligent electronic devices are manufactured by different manufacturers, and wherein the processor of the first intelligent electronic device is adapted to receive information selected from the group consisting of a manufacturer IED Capability Description (ICD) file, a different manufacturer ICD file, a different manufacturer Configured IED Description (CID) file, and a different manufacturer Substation Configuration Description (SCD) file, and wherein the processor generates a CID file including a section which indicates which one of the plurality of different GOOSE messages the first intelligent electronic device should receive based on such received information.

12. The device of claim 8, wherein the device is an intelligent electronic device.

13. The device of claim 8 further comprising a memory location coupled to the processor, wherein the memory location stores a repository of IED standard files for editing a CID file by the processor.

14. The device of claim 13, wherein the IED standard files are selected from the group consisting of ICD, CID, SSD and SCD files.

15. The device of claim 13, wherein the SCL file is an IED Capability Description (ICD) file.