Enhancing Traditional Process SCADA and Historians for Industrial and Commercial Power Systems With Energy (Via IEC 61850)

The coordination of large-scale distributed measurement and control systems, such as supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) and other process control system implementations, require reliable and robust networks that can connect thousands of remote devices from multiple remote locations. Additionally, many heavy industries have ever-increasing demands for their infrastructure to handle more network services and deliver a full spectrum of the control and monitoring of thousands and even tens of thousands of points within their global business operations. This paper will outline a novel method of providing a convergent use of the International Electrotechnical Commission 61850 protocol within process control networks to provide a more deterministic type of process control, monitoring, and energy management. The benefits of the real-time archiving of process values, process messages, the intelligent electronic device status, and alarm data, along with process batch data, can be achieved in an advancement of traditional historian-based systems. This new approach provides traditional downtime reports and alarm summaries for maintenance purposes and the added benefits of providing the opportunity for highly accurate and time-synchronized energy consumption and energy balance data, along with efficiency reports of various production or process operations.