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5. Supported ABB solutions
ABB’s 620 series protection and control relays to-
gether with the COM600 Station Automation de-
vice constitute a genuine IEC 61850 solution for re-
liable power distribution in utility and industrial
power systems. To facilitate and streamline the
system engineering, ABB’s relays are supplied with
Connectivity Packages containing a compilation of
software and relay-specific information including
single-line diagram templates, a full relay data
model including event and parameter lists. By uti-
lizing the Connectivity Packages the relays can be
readily configured via the PCM600 Protection and
Control Relay Manager and integrated with the
COM600 Station Automation device or the MicroS-
CADA Pro network control and management sys-
tem.
The 620 series protection and control relays offer
native support for the IEC 61850 standard also in-
cluding horizontal GOOSE messaging. Compared
with traditional hard-wired inter-device signaling,
peer-to-peer communication over a switched Eth-
ernet LAN offers an advanced and versatile plat-
form for power system protection. Fast soft-
ware-based communication, continuous
supervision of the integrity of the protection and
communication system, and inherent flexibility for
reconfiguration and upgrades are among the dis-
tinctive features of the protection system ap-
proach enabled by the full implementation of the
IEC 61850 substation automation standard.
At the substation level COM600 utilizes the data
content of the design level protection and control
relays to offer enhanced substation level function-
ality. COM600 features a web-browser based HMI
providing a customizable graphical display for visu-
alizing single line mimic diagrams for switchgear
design solutions. Further, the web HMI of COM600
offers an overview of the whole substation and out-
going feeders with reclosers, including relay spe-
cific single line diagrams, thus enabling convenient
information accessibility To enhance personnel
safety, the web HMI also enables remote access to
substation devices and processes. Furthermore,
COM600 can be used as a local data warehouse for
technical documentation of the substation and for
network data collected by the protection and con-
trol relays. The collected network data facilitates
extensive reporting and analyzing of network fault
situations using the data historian and event han-
dling features of COM600. The data historian can
be used for accurate process performance monitor-
ing by following process and equipment perfor-
mance calculations with real-time and history val-
ues. Better understanding of the process behavior
by joining time-based process measurements with
production and maintenance events helps the user
to understand the process dynamics.
COM600 also features gateway functionality pro-
viding seamless connectivity between the substa-
tion, recloser protection and control relays and net-
work-level control and management systems such
as MicroSCADA Pro and System 800xA.
Product
Version
Station Automation COM600
3.5 or later
MicroSCADA Pro
9.2 SP2 or later
System 800xA
5.0 Service Pack 2
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Table 2. Supported ABB solutions
