Yukon Visual T&D is a smart monitoring and control alternative to traditional SCADA. Many utility customers want the benefits of a SCADA system, but do not have the resources to implement a complicated project or to staff a 24x7 control room. Visual T&D provides a scalable, pre-configured, easy-to-use alternative.
Visual T&D is an application that continuously monitors substation and distribution equipment operation and performance. It provides all of the information regularly provided by traditional SCADA systems in a way that is less complex and simpler to implement and use. The system collects a long-term, detailed operational history that allows utilities to understand their system operation and to plan maintenance and capital expenditure programs more efficiently.
| Windows Operating System | Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012 R2. Visual T&D can be installed on the 64-bit versions of the aforementioned operating systems, but will run in Compatibility mode. |
| Minimum Processor Requirement | Intel Pentium, 2.8 GHz |
| Minimum RAM | 4 GB |
| Disk Space | 250 GB |
| Database Requirements | PostgreSQL 9.3, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, 2012, 2014 |
| Additional Requirements | MS Excel Add In 2007 and 2010 32-bit. |
Features
- Real-time data display
- Single-line diagrams
- Data point tagging for information and control inhibition
- Local SBO control operations with tag functions
- Alarm and event processing
- Email and pager notifications
- Complete historical data logging for all transitions and historical data views
- Report generation
- Client-server architecture
- Scalable licensing model
- Supports a large variety of devices and data sources
- Enhanced Data Logging using various deadband options
- Commercial Database support
Visual T&D was designed from the ground up to support electric generation, transmission, distribution monitoring and control. Visual T&D Client/Server and Visual T&D HMI have the following advanced features:
- Automatically retrieve event files
- Millisecond time tagging and IEC 61850 data quality attributes
- True select before operate control operations
- Power industry shape libraries to simplify diagram creation
- Data point tagging for information and control inhibition
- Automatically convert device timestamps to support different time zones
- Automatically add prefixes to support multiple sources with identically named data points
- Licensing model adapted to the large number of data points in modern IEDs
- Connect to power industry-standard OPC servers, including Cooper Power Systems DNP3 and IEC 60870-5-101/104 OPC servers
- Connect to Cooper Power Systems SMP Gateway
- Use the Communication Server module to provide access to a large variety of devices from ABB, AREVA, GE, SEL, SIEMENS and others, using standard or proprietary protocols
Visual T&D is also used in a wide variety of applications because of its full feature set, including:
- Built-in high-performance historian logs events, alarms, operator actions and all transitions on all data points
- Build point lists automatically
- Supports a large variety of devices and data sources
- Use the built-in equation editor to create new logical data points based on calculations performed on physical data points
Alarms and Data Management
Visual T&D provides comprehensive alarm and event processing:
- Events tab displays a chronological list of recent events and alarms
- Alarms tab displays a separate color-coded list of all current alarms
- Configurable Alarm Management Process
- Scaled site layout view quickly determines position, state and acknowledgment status of any alarm
- Additional tabs provide filtered views of Blocked, Silent and Permanent alarms
- Notes tab is used to share information among operators
- Create additional tabs with filtered views of events or alarms
- Attach detail files to alarm sources in order to provide additional information or special operator procedures when an alarm is triggered
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Data Logging
The Visual T&D data log is a true historian and is designed to provide a complete record of all substation data, alarms and events:
- Log all transitions, on all data points, analog and binary
- Log all tag operations
- Disable logging of selected data points
- Use individually configurable deadbands to limit the amount of recorded data
- Field-proven performance with up to 200K data points and up to 10K sustained transitions per secondof recorded data
- Supports millisecond timestamping and data quality
- Supports out-of-sequence data
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Commercial Database Support
- Reliable data-logging capability
- Records all substation data, alarms and events
- All logged data can be safely backed up at all times, following your corporate IT guidelines
- Data log size is only limited by your hardware infrastructure
- Reports can be generated using Visual T&D native tools as well as any third-party reporting tools
- Data log can be based on a dedicated database or existing corporate ones
Diagram Editor
Create interactive diagrams to monitor and operate your substation, and even your network. Visual T&D Diagram Editor is a complete drawing program:
- Complete set of standard drawing tools—lines, rectangles, ellipses and text labels
- Create complex shapes by grouping simple shapes
- Import pictures and bitmaps
- Display real-time values
- Evaluate expressions and display the results
- Flash or change colors to indicate status or alarm conditions
- Select and display text messages
- Move and resize shapes
Visual Real-Time Substation Data
Visual T&D Explorer provides immediate access to all data points, in real time, in a variety of formats, with minimum configuration effort.
Table Views provide a spreadsheet-like display of the real-time values of selected data points:
- Create any number of shared server views or local user views
- Define filters to select view contents
- Select display columns and sort order
- Map binary values to user-defined strings and icons
- Transition counters and highlighting of changed values
- Real-time printing of events
| Document Number | Title |
|---|---|
| 1140-10 | Visual T&D Catalog Section |
| B1140-07016 | Yukon Visual Transmission & Distribution (T&D) HMI/SCADA |
| B1100-07341EA | Mini-SCADA Solution |
| Automation of Wind Farms | Automation of Wind Farms Cooper Power Systems Solution |
| G1140-10-1 | Guideform Specification (Word) |