Battery Alarm and EFI Signalling from HV Secondary Substations

Apr 2013

Electricity Transmission

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Status: Live

Start Date: Apr 2013

End Date: Unknown

Funding Licencee(s): SP Energy Networks

Contact: SP Energy Networks Innovation

Funding Mechanism Innovation Funding Incentive

Research Area: None

Core Technology(ies): Asset Management

Estimated Expenditure: £104,200.00

Introduction: This project is to develop a low cost simple radio that will interface into the existing NCP radio communications infrastructure using spare I/O channels to recover single digital data alarms. By developing a way to utilise the digital channels of the unused control channels on Network Control Point (NCP) Remote Terminal Units (RTUs), the existing NCP asset could be used as a route for remote alarms into Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA).

Objectives: Enable recovery of single digital data points for alarm conditions, for example Battery Alarms, relay watchdog alarms, passage of fault indication.