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USER GUIDE - Rev.5 (January 2018)
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INTRODUCTION
1.1
INTELLIGENT NETWORKS
Intelligent Electrical Grids or "smartgrids" are known to everyone, and not just
specialists/technicians from the electrical sector. Nowadays, it is usual for the press to
publish articles about breakthroughs in this field. The diverse applications of "smartgrids"
are known to all; from demand management thanks to the new smart meters, to the
automation of distribution, the integration of renewable energies and the impact of electric
vehicles in future networks, etc.
To make those applications real, different technologies are required. Those technologies
include telecommunications, which play a fundamental role.
Electricity distribution companies have been deploying telecommunication networks to
provide remote connectivity to all their electrical substations. The new "smartgrid"
applications must provide safe connectivity for Transformation Centres. This aspect poses
an enormous challenge for the telecommunications areas of many electricity distribution
companies, mainly because of the large number of installations and the virtual lack of
connectivity in those installations at the present time.
The automation of transformation centres is therefore a necessary step on the way to
implementing "SmartGrids".
1.2
DRA-2 SOLUTION
To convert the new "smartgrid" applications into a reality, Transformation Centres need
more communications. But what type of information must the new telecommunications
equipment installed by us transmit?.
ZIV is in favour of the DRA-2 universal communication equipment for Medium Voltage
Transformation Centres.
