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Optimizing SCADA systems for High-Reliability Electricity Transmission and Distribution
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A global energy business that offers technological solutions for high-reliability electricity transmission and distribution
Energy, Oil and Gas, Manufacturing
End-to-end solution implementation and testing
As the power system deals with power generation, transmission, and distribution sectors, monitoring it all is essential. Thus, implementing Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) improves the overall efficiency of the system optimizing, supervising, and controlling the generation and transmission systems.
However, our client’s expanding customer base led to a significant increase in equipment from different vendors used in the field, as well as a growth in the number of industrial protocols. A conducted analysis showed that the number of SCADA-related defects had increased due to low coverage of protocols.
SCADA is a highly complex core system that controls the distribution network, both monitoring its status and adjusting parameters when needed. Our client needed to integrate a SCADA simulator that supports 23 industrial protocols, including Modbus, DNP3, IEC60870-5-101/104, EWISP, EWISP+, OPC, and others in order to ultimately allow for smooth SCADA integration for customers.
Our team has been involved in develop ing SCADA systems, which are part of Distribution Management Systems (DMSs), for top-ranked vendors in power, oil and gas, and electricity distribution. Thus, Luxoft was able to provide experts that have business knowledge combined with deep industry expertise with a number of SCADA systems, including: MicroSCADA by ABB, DS Agile by Alstom, Ovation by Emerson, E-terraPlatform by Areva, TraceMode by Adastra, Genesis32 by Iconics, IGSS by 7-Technologies and Simatic WinCC by Siemens.
Luxoft’s expertise in system integration and cloud migration also gave us an edge. While our team includes specialists in SCADA itself, we also have individuals who specialize in related services, such as developing a technical solution to simplify SCADA system integration, enabling other applications to consume SCADA data, and making sure interactions with such data are secure.
SCADA development activities included all components of modern SCADA systems, such as:
Our team developed and integrated a sophisticated SCADA testing solution into the client’s infrastructure, including:
We covered the most common user cases with the well-known industry simulator (TMW). Our solution includes test plans and test strategies for DNP3, IEC101, and IEC104 protocols, covering the initialization of end stations, data exchange for digital and analog points, and digital and analog controls with integer and floating-point values. The testing setup for all cases is automatically created using self-designed Python scripts.
We integrated the TMW simulator into our client’s existing testing framework, including the simulator API and a self-designed Remote Interface application for remote execution of the above-mentioned scenarios.
Our solution delivered the following benefits:
