Standards and protocols

In today energy market utilities struggle with the non-interoperable hardware with substations, developed by different vendors, that increases operational costs and complexity of asset management. Every utility has an extensive array of legacy systems and devices, supporting different communication layers and interoperability standards. The task is always to make different solutions by different vendors efficiently work in seamless way, that can be solved only by deploying of open standards and developing integration framework. Luxoft offers it’s services to develop software bridges, connecting different manufacturers equipment, that significantly decrease the customer’s efforts on integrating their network.

The Luxoft team has in-depth expertise in industry standards, including not only those being currently adopted but also any new ones being developed. Examples of the standards used in different projects include

• IEC 60870-5-*,
• Modbus,
• IEC 61850,
• SCL,
• Siemens 3964R/RK512,
• Telegyr TG80x Master,
• DLMS/COSEM,
• ZigBee, and more.

The Luxoft Bridge Framework is a set of software modules, crafted to provide High-Availability due to replication and hot-failover schemes on different hardware platforms. The Framework is designed to work in a poor communication links leveraging advanced reliability functions. Modular approach allows to plug-in new protocols and modernize the adaptors deployed.