AMA-SYSTEMS GMBH was founded 1976 and had its roots in trading and engineering for industrial automation. Over the years AMA established itself in the Open Communications Standards Market and evolved into a strong player with strategic partners: development of customer-specific software applications for manufacturing processes started in the 1990s and since year 2000 AMA-SYSTEMS has entered the energy market, providing specialized IT services, with software, hardware and solutions.

With almost four decades of experiences, AMA-SYSTEMS today unites outstanding competences in industrial automation, information and communication technologies serving customers in the energy and manufacturing industry as well as in the machine and plant manufacturing realm. At the center of our activity lies the solution of complex technical tasks in operative or productive environments – with flexibility, speed and efficiency deriving from our broad, trans-sectorial know-how.

One particular focus of AMA-SYSTEMS is communication in the energy industry. We provide products and services for the industry standards and protocols IEC 60870-6/ICCP/TASE.2 and IEC 61850 / IEC 61400-25 and support our customers from the HW up to Enterprise Data warehouses. At the core of this business lies the Europe-wide distribution and support of software products of internationally renowned vendors. Based on these products AMA-SYSTEMS offers gateways, tools, trainings, certification and consulting - especially for smart grid technology, conformance tests and software libraries.

Dynamic Organics, LLC (DO), is a smart grid integration services and software development company headquartered in Putney, Vermont and founded in 2014. DO provides smart grid software solutions for commercial businesses and utilities, with a focus on interoperable smart grid architectures. Since 2015, DO has been working with Green Mountain Power (GMP) to develop the Flexible Load Management (FLM) pilot program and demonstrate demand flexibility of grid-interactive efficient buildings (GEB’s). DO has developed a distributed energy resource management system (DERMS) for GMP that uses standards-based communications protocols (OpenADR) to support automated demand response (Auto-DR) operations. DO has also developed gateway software that communicates natively with building automation systems (BAS) and industrial SCADA systems using open protocols (e.g., BACnet, Modbus).  

DO develops software and provides design consulting services for utilities in order to help implement the required information technologies to operate a smart grid. Since 2020, DO has been providing owners-independent smart grid architecture design services to the Vermont Electric Power Company (VELCO), the transmission operator of the Vermont electrical grid, to help with the design and implementation of interoperable smart grid information and communication technologies. 

GridClone, a Dutch company, was founded with the objective to provide high quality and flexible simulators for IEC 61850 based substation automation and power systems.

With the introduction of IEC 61850 advanced testing tools and simulators will be needed by utilities, system integrators and manufacturers of power system equipment. These tools and simulators will support the verification of the conformity and functionality of the integrated system and its components.

GridClone has professionals that have gained many years of experience in the power system domain, conformance testing of IEC 61850 devices and systems and development of IEC 61850 software test tools.

Hitachi Energy

Hitachi Energy is a global technology leader that is advancing a sustainable energy future for all. We are advancing the world’s energy system to be more sustainable, flexible, and secure, and we collaborate with customers and partners to enable a sustainable energy future – for today’s generations and those to come.

Hitachi Energy was officially incorporated on June 30, 2021, but our story began long before that. With a combined corporate heritage of over 250 years — passed down from both our predecessor company, ABB, and our parent company, Hitachi Ltd. — ours is a story rooted in a long-standing tradition of technological innovations that have provided real impact not only to our customers but also, and more importantly, to society at large.

Together with stakeholders across sectors and geographies, we enable the digital transformation required to accelerate the energy transition towards a carbon-neutral future.

Headquartered in Switzerland, we employ around 45,000 people in 60 countries and generate business volumes of around $13 billion USD.

Substation Automation & Communication

Without adequate protection, substations are subject to failure on numerous fronts.

For over 100 years, Hitachi Energy has been keeping substations safe and secure, with protective relays and breakers connected over bulletproof telecommunications. Our substation protection, substation control and automation solutions, thanks to international standards like IEC 61850, ensure the highest interoperability, providing efficiency and increased productivity for grid operators and owners.

Our long-standing experience and quality in the field and full scope of services and support, make us a leader and pioneer in substation automation and protection.

Our products have been designed to implement the core values of the IEC 61850 standard, to enable interoperable and future-proof solutions for your grid.

Hardware is only as useful as the software used to manage it, and Hitachi Energy’s range of software-tools offers unparalleled ease of use and utility to make deployment, operation, and maintenance of protection systems as simple, and safe, as possible.

Substation Automation | Hitachi Energy

JPEmbedded's mission and main interest is development of state of the art software and hardware solutions supporting reliable and secure communication in the smart grids. Our most popular products are: IEC 61850 library, IEC 61850 protocol converter, ICCP/TASE.2 library, IEC 60870-5-104 and IEC 60870-5-103 library.

IEC 61850 solutions

IEC 61850 library by JPEmbedded exhibits object-oriented design and is implemented in C ++ language. This hardware platform independent solution, is easy to integrate on any device with or without operating system. Other advantages of our product are its high configurability in terms of functionality and resources used, and very low memory footprint which is especially important for embedded devices. Depending on data model and functionality of the specific device memory usage could be as low as 240kB of Flash and 150kB of RAM.

Our portfolio also includes hardware gateway converting various protocols (Modbus RTU, Modbus TCP,IEC 60870-5-103, IEC 60870-5-104, DNP3, MQTT, Profinet) to IEC 61850.

Implemented features:

• MMS server.
• Object oriented data model.
• Data sets.
• Reporting (buffered & unbuffered).
• GOOSE (subscriber & publisher).
• R-GOOSE (routable GOOSE)
• Sampled Values (subscriber & publisher).
• Control Model.
• Logging.

Contact:  sales@jpembedded.eu, +48 601 088 970

Built upon decades of research, development, and leveraging numerous operational experiences in secondary power systems, NR Electric has developed a unified and integrative solution for digital substation. The fully digitalized solution connects the control room to the switchyard with optic fiber links. This proven solution reduces your capital investment, operational and maintenance costs. It also offers unmatched information integration, and provides better reliability and security for substations.

PCItek, formerly Project Consultants LLC, supports the utility industry with innovative products, custom software development, consulting and standards training.  Our personnel have a broad depth of international experience in cyber security, IEC 61850, CIM Standards and enterprise architecture using industry standard methodologies.    

PCItek offers business products and services including:

• Products:
  • Garibaldi, an advanced enterprise and local key distribution center, part of CENTARI, a suite of substation security products
  • RIC, the Operations and Planning Ratings and Impedance Calculator
• Services:
  • Electric Utility Consulting
  • Testing and Training
  • Requirements Analysis and Documentation
  • Interoperability Testing
  • Establishing Reference Architecture
  • Standards-based Training

PCItek is currently providing our products as well as standards-based consulting and training to several utilities around the world.

Connecting, distributing, and controlling power and data flows - we have been developing the right products for this purpose since 1923. Whether in industrial production facilities, in the field of renewable energies, in infrastructure, or for complex device connections: our solutions are used wherever processes must run automatically. Above and beyond their pure function, they help our partners to develop sustainable applications with more efficient processes and reduced costs to aid in our mission of Empowering the All Electric Society.

Also of note, the Phoenix Contact Group acquired Canadian company iS5 Communications Inc., based in Mississauga, Ontario. Now rebranded to Phoenix Contact Network Communication, the team will act as a provider of industrial network products specialized in services and solutions for critical infrastructure networks.

The Raptor portfolio of switches meets the stringent requirements of IEC 61850-3 and IEEE 1613 standards and is ideal for critical infrastructure and power supply applications. 

Learn more about how Phoenix Contact can be implemented in industry applications at the following link:

https://phoe.co/raptorswitches

R&D NESTER – Centro de Investigação em Energia REN - State Grid, S.A. is an energy research centre and for-profit company belonging to the Portuguese Transmission System Operator REN (REN – Redes Energéticas Nacionais, SGPS, SA) and SGCC.

As an energy research Centre, our mission is to provide an international platform for knowledge, delivering innovative solutions and services to be applied into energy systems. R&D NESTER aims at providing new tools, strategies and processes well-tuned to the new energy paradigm, and serving as a driving force towards more efficient and sustainable energy systems.

The main areas of activity are Power Systems Simulation, Renewable Energy Management, Smart Grid Technologies, Energy Markets and Economics, Power Systems Planning and Operation. For this purpose, R&D NESTER own and operates a real-time power systems simulation laboratory with hardware-in-the-loop capabilities (details available here https://www.rdnester.com/en-GB/lab/ ), ideal to leverage R&D NESTERs core competences through state-of-the-art technologies, enabling the simulation and testing of both power systems and communication networks, either in a stand-alone mode or by performing co-simulation.

R&D NESTER has been recognized by Portuguese government in the field of R&D for the technical-scientific knowledge domain of conception and development of energy grid innovative solutions. Since December 2015, R&D NESTER became a Research, Development and Innovation (RDI) certified company, in accordance with standard NP 4457:2007 and is also ISO Certified 9001/14001/18001.

R&D NESTER frequently publishes in international and recognized scientific journals and conferences in Europe, U.S. and Asia (e.g. IEEE or CIGRÉ) highlighting the advanced knowledge in our areas of activity.

SISCO provides communication and integration solutions that supports IEC 61850 for substation automation and wide area centralized remedial action systems(C-RAS); ICCP-TASE.2 for intercontrol center communications, EMS/SCADA integration, and power plant dispatching; C37.118 with IEC 61850 for synchrophasor processing and wide area measurement systems for improved situational awareness; and the Common Information Model (CIM per IEC61970 and IEC 61968) in a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) for Smart Grid integration using Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).  SISCO's products and services include:

• Systems Integration Services
• Off-the-shelf OPC interfaces
• Protocol Source Code
• Technology and Product Training

Sparx Systems specializes in high performance and scalable visual modeling tools for the planning, design and construction of software intensive systems.

With customers in industries ranging from aerospace and automotive engineering to finance, defense, government, entertainment and telecommunications, Sparx Systems is a leading vendor of innovative solutions based on the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and its related specifications. A Contributing Member of the Object Management Group (OMG), Sparx Systems is committed to realizing the potential of model-driven development based on open standards.

The company’s flagship product, Enterprise Architect, has received numerous accolades since its commercial release in August, 2000. At present, Enterprise Architect is the design tool of choice for over 200,000 registered users world-wide.

Survalent is the most trusted provider of SCADA and advanced distribution management systems (ADMS) for electric, water/wastewater, oil & gas, renewable energy and transit utilities across the globe.  Over 700 utilities in 40 countries rely on the SurvalentONE platform to effectively operate, monitor, analyze, restore and optimize operations.  By supporting critical utility operations with a fully integrated solution, our customers have significantly improved operational efficiencies, customer satisfaction and network reliability.  The company's comprehensive substation automation solution, Survalent StationCentral, delivers advanced control and monitoring for enhanced network performance and protection.  Our unwavering commitment to excellence and to our customers has been the key to our success for over 60 years.  For more information, please visit www.survalent.com.

Zepben provides software solutions for Electricity Distribution Networks. Our solutions support business processes for network owned asset operations and management, and the management of customer owned distributed energy resources.

Our solutions are built on a platform based on the IEC CIM data model that provides a scalable network and measurement aware data fabric, authentication mechanisms, user interface elements and integrations with GIS, ADMS, AMI and CIS. It is also available to our customers and 3rd parties for application development.