StationScout
The innovative testing solution for IEC 61850 substation automation systems
Simple yet Powerful
StationScout simplifies testing for Substation Automation Systems (SAS) and significantly reduces the required testing effort. It comes with a robust and powerful hardware that allows users to simulate multiple IEDs with secure isolation to the SAS networks. This user-friendly software helps you to visualize SCL files or tracing signals within your substation without any configuration effort.
Designed for the entire lifecycle
Powerful hardware
Afraid to connect a PC to your substation system? Do you need to simulate several IEDs? Is it important to share your license?
This is why we developed the MBX1:
- No administrator rights are needed on your enterprise PCs to set up IP addresses for IED simulation.
- Enough network ports to connect to different substation networks.
- Very powerful HW for simulating many IEDs.
- The license is in the box and can be shared easily with your team.
Is it just a regular PC?
No, it has special network interfaces, a secure crypto-processor (TPM) and its rugged design makes it ideal for substation use.
"Within the Qirion OT company, we are very pleased with StationScout. It simplifies our way of testing complete automation systems without using physical IEDs. Furthermore, StationScout is a useful device for testing interlockings between IEDs, because the state of the interlocking is graphically displayed on the screen. So, no switching is necessary. This gives us a great benefit for testing interlockings in a live automation system as well as in an in-house test environment."
Robbert Koenderman
Senior Engineer at Qirion, part of Alliander
Product Manager
"StationScout is a great tool to visualize the configuration and to see, that manufacturers are fulfilling our 61850 requirements. This gives us new opportunities for the future to “virtualize” our protection and control specifications into SSD files and create and visualize all needed functionalities which can be used as a handover packing in a digital substation concept."
Sebastian Sjögren
Specialist - Secondary Systems at Fingrid Oyj
Head of Substation Automation Systems
Key benefits
Status overview
StationScout provides a clear overview of the substation, visualizing the communication according to IEC 61850 in SCL files, values and states in the substation.
Signal tracing
The communication diagram of StationScout allows you to use signal tracing, from the overview down to the detailed communication message attributes.
Test cases*
StationScout is able to re-use predefined test cases for an automated testing procedure.
*comes with the Commissioning License
Cyber security
The dedicated hardware for StationScout ensures cyber secure operation within the substation communication network.
Simulation
StationScout’s powerful simulation features simplify testing and commissioning. Missing IEDs and IOs can also be simulated.
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