UCA protocol enhancement developed
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA (February 5, 2003) --- GE Power Systems announced today at the DistribuTECH Conference that its Substation Automation Solutions business has enhanced an existing protocol for its integrated Substation Communications System (iSCS). The Utility Communications Architecture (UCA) upgrade allows power utilities to access substation data with greater ease and flexibility, and increases the speed of distributing plant state changes. The improved protocol is available immediately from the business' manufacturing facility in Calgary, Alberta.
This upgrade also includes the release of a Generic Object-Oriented Substation Event (GOOSE) agent, which provides high-speed communication of plant status changes over a substation local area network.
"For end-users that are looking to improve the performance of their iSCS, the UCA protocol upgrade improves performance in several ways," said Carolyn Shockley, general manager for the Substation Automation Solutions business. "Communication effectiveness is improved through the use of standard data objects on a high speed local area network and by leveraging the power and functionality of the GOOSE agent. More importantly, it enables communication with third party devices from a variety of manufacturers," stated Shockley." We also used this opportunity to add ICCP (the widely-used Inter-Control Center Communications Protocol, also known as TASE.2 or IEC
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