Indian Railways uses SCADA system for monitoring and control of Traction Power system which is responsible for providing power to the electric trains. Power is directly tapped from the grid at Traction sub Stations(TSS) located along the railway line. Northern Railways entrusted Synergy Systems and Solutions with the task of Upgrading the SCADA system. The challenge lied in developing the interfaces to the RTUs and the MIMIC Controller as the details of the interfaces were unavailable.
Indian Railways uses SCADA system for monitoring and control of Traction Power system which is responsible for providing power to the electric trains. Power is directly tapped from the grid at Traction sub Stations(TSS) located along the railway line. Northern Railways entrusted Synergy Systems and Solutions with the task of Upgrading the SCADA system. The challenge lied in developing the interfaces to the RTUs and the MIMIC Controller as the details of the interfaces were unavailable.
Indian Railways uses SCADA system for monitoring and control of Traction Power system which is responsible for providing power to the electric trains. Power is directly tapped from the grid at Traction sub Stations(TSS) located along the railway line. Northern Railways entrusted Synergy Systems and Solutions with the task of Upgrading the SCADA system. The challenge lied in developing the interfaces to the RTUs and the MIMIC Controller as the details of the interfaces were unavailable.
Indian Railways uses SCADA system for monitoring and control of Traction Power system which is responsible for providing power to the electric trains. Power is directly tapped from the grid at Traction sub Stations(TSS) located along the railway line. Northern Railways entrusted Synergy Systems and Solutions with the task of Upgrading the SCADA system. The challenge lied in developing the interfaces to the RTUs and the MIMIC Controller as the details of the interfaces were unavailable.
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Northern Railways Traction
Power Monitoring & Control
success story... Indian Railways uses SCADA system for monitoring and SIRIUS is configured in dual redundant configuration control of Traction Power system which is responsible for with redundant SCADA and Communication Servers, providing power to the electric trains. Power is directly ready to takeover in case of failure of the online server. tapped from the grid at Traction Sub Stations(TSS) located along the railway line. ‘...Power Block, Auto Fault The 230 km long Delhi-Ambala Section of Northern Localization (AFL), Maximum Railways is controlled from a control room located near Demand, Time Sync, Reports...’ New Delhi Railway Station. Northern Railways entrusted Synergy Systems and Solutions with the task of Upgrading Data synchronization is achieved between the servers in the SCADA system (originally installed by real-time over Local Area Network. SIEMENS)retaining existing Remote Terminal Units (RTUs) and the MIMIC hardware. The challenge lied in The following railways specific applications were developing the interfaces to the RTUs and the MIMIC implemented: Controller as the details of the interfaces were unavailable. Power Block: For day to day maintenance, Power Block is granted on a section or sub-section that cuts off the Traction Power data is presented using Single Line power of the section. The command automatically Diagrams(SLD) of each of the 18 posts separately using opens the associated BMs of the section and starts Circuit Breakers(CB), Breaker Mains(BM), Transformer monitoring. An alarm is generated on the expiry of Tap Positions. The status is also displayed on the Wall power block period. MIMIC.
‘...18 RTUs on 600 baud, 1500 I/O,
MIMIC Board with 500 I/O...’
Auto Fault Localization: AFL process automatically
segregates the faulty section in the Event of tripping of associated CB at TSS. The process, disconnects all subsections by opening the associated BMs and then connects each sub section one by one to the TSS by operating the BMs. When the CB trips again, then the last subsection connected is the one having the fault. Reports & Trends: Trends of selected analog parameters is shown with 1 second resolution. The Maximum Demand: The Railways is given a pre- determined power it can draw from the grid. Railways following additional information is also displayed ! is not allowed to exceed this limit for more than 15 Maximum, Minimum & Average Value ! Precise minutes. The SCADA system alerts the operator by Values for all the curves raising an alarm in case the current demand remains higher than the Maximum Demand. The following reports have been provided: ! CB Tripping: Records the daily trippings along with the The project scope included design, engineering and reason. supply of redundant SIRIUS SCADA Software licenses, ! Analog Report: Voltage and Current of all the SCADA Servers, Communication Servers and Printers. 18 posts. The operator can select the post as well as parameters for display. The project was successfully commissioned in August, ! Historical Events: Events can be filtered on 2004. time, text and post.