The standard IEC 61850 of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) describes a general transmission protocol for protection and control technology in electrical switchgear of medium and high-voltage technology (station automation).

The data interface ibaPDA-Interface-IEC61850-Client is suitable for the measured data recording from an IEC 61850-compliant server via standard network cards.

The following protocols are supported:

• • Manufacturing Messaging Specification (MMS)

  • Generic Object Oriented Substation Events (GOOSE)

The selection of the signals to be measured is hereby conveniently carried out by means of symbolic names supported by the IEC 61850 symbol browser. This makes it possible to access all measurable data attributes based on the imported server object list of the IEC 61850 device.

Furthermore, ibaPDA supports retrieval, transfer and renaming of COMTRADE files according to IEC 61850-7-2 by means of a so called file module, which can be configured for each IEC 61850 device.