Summerland Power Upgrades its IEDs
and Reduces Visits to the Substation
REMOTE USER
THE USER CONNECTS TO
THE SMP GATEWAY’S WEB
INTERFACE
RADIO MODEMS
CYBECTEC
SMP 4 GATEWAY
RAS – PPP
CONNECTION TO
WEB INTERFACE
MODBUS OVER RS-232
DNP3 OVER RS-485
FORM 6 RECLOSERS
TEMPERATURE
METER
Scope
About Summerland Power
1 Substation
Summerland Power is owned and operated by the District of
Summerland, British Columbia, Canada.
1 Cybectec SMP Gateway is connected to 5 Cooper Form 6
Recloser Control devices and a temperature sensor, with 2
more Form 6 devices and a power meter planned.
Integration by PTI (www.partnertechnologies.net)
Protocol and Devices
DNP3, MODBUS
In Service: 2007
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Summerland Power has 6780 meters powered by
2 substations.
http://www.dist.summerland.bc.ca/
The Challenge
The Solution
Summerland Power wanted to be able to remotely access
weekly peak demand readings. This would reduce visits to
each substation to extract data from IEDs. Remote access
was also required to access the fault data, for example fault
current and the faulted phase.
PTI chose to use the Cybectec SMP Gateway with the onboard modem. The SMP Gateway concentrates all data
from the Form 6 feeder controllers and the temperature
sensor. It is the single point of access to all substation data
for remote users. When connecting to the SMP Gateway,
users take advantage of the built-in Web server to see the
IEDs’ data.
Summerland Power hired Partner Technologies Inc (PTI) to
replace the existing Cooper feeder controllers for new
Cooper Form 6 Recloser Control devices that are accessible
remotely.
In order to have a telephone connection without the need to
pull a telephone cable into the substation, the Trailblazer
telephone extender was selected.
Summerland Power’s Requirements
Summerland Power needed to upgrade and install a remote
data access scheme without any power interruption. This
scheme had to use wireless communications, to eliminate
the need for physical telephone lines in the substation, and
all data from the substation IEDs would have to be available
remotely.
It was paramount to Summerland Power, that the project
was completed quickly with minimum engineering on their
part.
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An uninterruptible power supply (UPS) is in place to keep the
SMP Gateway and radio modems powered and ensure data
is always available, even during a power outage in the
substation.
Reduced Engineering Effort Saves Setup Time
The Cybectec SMP Gateway and radio modems’ initial
configuration was done beforehand. However, during the
installation, the need arose for more data to be available
from the Form 6 Recloser Control devices, resulting in
additional configuration adjustments onsite.
Cybectec SMP tools are designed to simplify the
configuration process. Despite the request for more data to
be available, the installation, testing, configuration and
training, Cooper Power Systems' and Partner Technologies'
teams were able to get the IEDs and the SMP Gateway up
and running in just 3 days.