Evaluation Role and Structure of Information and Communication Technologies for the Development of Electric Power Systems

New era of information and communication technologies (ICT) is changing traditional works and solving challenges for human activities. Progress and advances in different fields are being carried out in order to improve the quality of operations and perform automations. EPS (Electric Power Systems) are not an exception for these advances . Thus, information andcommunication technologies introduce new ways to develop EPS tasks. However, this is only possible if the EPS special requirements on ICT are met (notably in terms of reliability and timing constraints) .The paper proposes a definition for ICT, and then current practices and standards of EPS are briefly cited. The paper analyses the use of the new ICT components in a fault localization and isolation task. The required ICT components are described and a demonstrator is presented. This demonstrator was used in the laboratory experiences in order to evaluate the timing necessary to implement the fault localization ICT under TCP/IP communication protocol

Evaluation Role and Structure of Information and Communication Technologies for the Development of Electric Power Systems Keywords:

ICT networks , Security , communication , management