• High Reliability: MTBF >1,000,000hrs
• High Availability: >99.9999%
• High EMI Immunity: IEEE 1613-Class 2
• Integrated Cyber Security: NERC CIP
• Precision Time Sync: <1µs
• Support for Protection & Control applications
• Support for: AMI, DA, DMS, EMS, SCADA & IT
• Standards Based
• RuggedRated™ for Utility environments

The RuggedRated™ symbol identifies communications products that have been specifically designed and tested to withstand the demands of the substation environment.

View the Smart Grid Presentation.

What is Smart Grid?

Here’s one definition:
“An integrated communications and power system infrastructure which allows for robust two-way communications, advanced sensors, and distributed computers to improve the efficiency, reliability and safety of power delivery and use.”

Here’s another:
“The integration of communications networks with the power grid in order to create an electricity-communications superhighway capable of monitoring its own health at all times, alerting officials immediately when problems arise, and automatically taking corrective actions that enable the grid to fail gracefully and prevent a local failure from cascading out of control, as happened August 14, 2003 (The Great Northeast Blackout).”

Next to the power system the most critical infrastructure to creating a reliable high-performance Smart Grid is the communications infrastructure.

The most comprehensive “Utility Grade” product offering:

• Substation Rated: IEEE 1613, IEC 61850-3
• Zero-packet-loss™ under EMI stress
  (KEMA tested)
• IEEE 1613 Class 2 performance (KEMA tested)
• Extended Temperature: -40 to 85°C
• Wireline & Wireless for WAN, MAN, NAN & LAN
• Standards based: IEEE, IEC, IETF, NERC... etc

RuggedGrid — The Information Backbone of the Smart Grid™

RuggedCom has developed communications products and technologies specifically designed to operate reliably in harsh environments such as those found in electric utility substations.  These products comprise what we call our RuggedGRID™ solution and are designed to create a reliable and rugged information backbone for the Smart Grid:

"Enabling the Smart Grid" PDF

• Modular Architecture; Field Hot-Swappable
• High Port Density and Mix
• Layer 3 Routing and Switching
• Integrated Cyber Security features for NERC CIP
• RuggedRated™ for Utility Environments

• Modular Architecture; Field Hot-Swappable
• Medium Port Density and Mix
• Layer 3 Routing and Switching
• Integrated Cyber Security features for NERC CIP
• RuggedRated™ for Utility Environments

• Integrated Routing, Firewall and VPN
• Support for NERC CIP Cyber Security
• Mulitple WAN/LAN interfaces
• RuggedRated™ for Utility Environments

• High EMI immunity: Zero-Packet-Loss
• High Availability and Reliability
• Integrated Cyber Security features for NERC CIP
• RuggedRated™ for Utility Environments

Elements for NERC CIP:

• Secure Remote IED Access
• Authenticate users against IT systems
• Automate user login
  

Substation Automation:

• Substation Communications Server
• Real-time SCADA Engine
• Automate IED file retrieval

HMI⁄SCADA:

• Single Line Visualization
• Graphic Trending of Values
• Alarm Summary and Alerting
• Web-Launched Client
• Historian
  

Asset Management:

• Storage, Visualization & Analysis of T&D Data
• System-wide View of Asset Health
• Integration with Work Managment & Maintenance Systems
• Support for Condition-based Maintenance
  

• High Speed Low-Latency WiMAX Designed for Distribution Automation
• Substation Rated WiFi and Cellular routers
• Integrated Cyber Security features for NERC CIP
• RuggedRated™ for Utility Environments

• Secure Data Management
• NERC CIP Compliance
• Data Management and Visualization
• Substation Automation
  

RuggedGrid™ — means Utility Grade communication

The RuggedGRID solution provides communications that is Utility Grade which means it has the following characteristics and performance levels:

• Substation Rated: IEEE 1613, IEC 61850-3
• Zero-packet-loss™ under EMI stress (KEMA tested)
  • IEEE 1613 Class 2 performance (KEMA tested)
• Extended Temperature: -40 to +85°C
• High reliability: MTBF > 1,000,000 hours
• High availability: > 99.9999%
• Wireline & wireless for WAN, MAN, NAN and LAN
• Standards based: e.g. IEEE, IEC, IETF, NERC

Learn more about Substation Rated Ethernet
More information about NERC Cyber Security