ENGINEERINGNET.EU -- The Energy Department at the Austrian Institute of Technology is committed to develop solutions for the energy supply of tomorrow.
This work includes designing automation concepts for distributing power intelligently in so-called smart grids so that renewable forms of energy can be deployed on a massive scale.
Because this involves the integration of distributed systems with a heterogeneous hardware structure, strategies for deploying ICT-based energy systems more often than not recommend adopting the IEC 61499 international standard.
The institute has chosen Powerlink to do the job. Its integration into the open, IEC 61499-compliant control system was simple, states Powerlink founder B&R in a press release.
All system developers Filip Andrén and Thomas Strasser had to do was introduce object classes for the master and slave nodes as well as for the necessary conversions between time- and event-dependent sequences.
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BACKGROUNDER
The Ethernet Powerlink Standardization Group (EPSG) is an independent organization founded in 2003 by leading companies from the drive and automation industry. The high-performance real-time communication system is a solution based on the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet standard, designed to ensure real-time data transfer on the microsecond level. EPSG cooperates with leading standardization organizations, such as CAN in Automation (CiA) and the IEC.
