UCA{trademark} demonstration project at United Power Association. Final report

Technical Report · Sun Nov 30 23:00:00 EST 1997

OSTI ID:354958

Integrated communications, field device interfaces, and control center operations are key aspects of successful distribution automation projects. This project demonstrated substation, feeder, and customer automation functions supported by twelve vendors using EPRI`s Utility Communications Architecture (UCA{trademark}) in an end-to-end implementation of the UCA 2.0 standard. A key project highlight was the ability of the vendor team to achieve the common goal of UCA implementation in a distribution automation setting.

• Research Organization: Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (United States); Alligator Communications, Inc. (United States); BBN Internet Service Corp. (United States); Beckwith Electric Co., Inc. (United States); Cycle Software (United States); Dairyland Electric Cooperative, Inc. (United States); Harlow Engineering Associates (United States); National Rural Electric Research Association-Rural Electric Research (United States); Power Diagnostics Corp. (United States); Power System Engineering, Inc. (United States); Process Systems, Inc. (United States); Rochester Instrument Systems, Inc. (United States); S and C Electric Co. (United States); SISCO, Inc. (United States); Tamarack Consulting (United States); United Power Association (United States); Valmet Automation (United States); Wright-Hennepin Cooperative Electric Association (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (United States)
• OSTI ID: 354958
• Report Number(s): EPRI-TR--109480
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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24 POWER TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION
99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS
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DATA TRANSMISSION
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INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
INFORMATION SYSTEMS
MONITORING
POWER SYSTEMS
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