Relay dualization apparatus

• US 8,988,980 B2
• Filed: 07/16/2012
• Issued: 03/24/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/26/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LSIS Co. Ltd. (LS Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LSIS Co. Ltd. (LS Corporation)
• Inventors: Kim, Kyung Ho
• Primary Examiner(s): Cho, Un C
• Assistant Examiner(s): Deng, Fangyan
• Application Number:
  US13/550,408
• Publication Number:
  US 20130051215A1
• Time in Patent Office: 981 Days
• Field of Search: 370/216, 709/221
• US Class Current: 370/216
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/40 for recovering from a failure of a protocol instance or entity, e.g. service redundancy protocols, protocol state redundancy or protocol service redirection management of faults, events, alarms or notifications in data switching networks H04L41/06
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 10/16 Electric power substations
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 10/52 Outage or fault management, e.g. fault detection or location

Abstract

Provided is a relay dualization apparatus, in a substation automation system including at least one or more upper units and at least one or more lower units, the apparatus including a plurality of first relays receiving a power data from the lower unit using a predetermined communication method, and transmitting the power data to the upper unit, and receiving a control command from the upper unit and transmitting the control command to the lower unit, and a second relay performing communications with the plurality of first relays using the communication method to replace a relay that has generated an error in the plurality of relays.

Claims

1. A relay dualization apparatus in a substation automation system including at least one or more upper units and at least one or more lower units, the apparatus comprising:

a plurality of first relays receiving a power data from the lower unit using a predetermined communication method, and transmitting the power data to the upper unit, and

receiving a control command from the upper unit and transmitting the control command to the lower unit; and

a second relay performing communications with the plurality of first relays using the communication method to replace a relay that has generated an error in the plurality of relays;

wherein each of the plurality of first relays comprises a first storage storing the power data, the control command, and event and system algorithm;

wherein the second relay comprises a second storage storing the power data, the control command, the event and the system algorithm communicated by the plurality of first relays, received from the plurality of first relays;

wherein the second storage comprises a plurality of storages to store the data of each of the plurality of first relays, or comprises a storage to divisionally store the data of each of the plurality of first relays;

wherein the second relay performs a real-time or periodical communication with the plurality of first relays and updates the second storage in real-time or periodically; and

wherein the second relay performs to replace the relay that has generated an error in the plurality of relays based on the power data, the control command, the event and system algorithm in the second storage.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the second relay detects an error of a relay in the plurality of first relays and notifies the error to the upper unit.

3. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the upper unit transmits to the second relay a switch command replacing the erroneous relay with the second relay.

4. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the second relay replaces an erroneous relay.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a first hub switching at least one or more upper units with a plurality of first relays and the second relay.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a second hub switching the plurality of first relays and the second relay with at least one or more lower units.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the predetermined communication method is Ethernet communication method.