Remote Terminal Unit RTU560

Remote Terminal Unit RTU560

The Application Requirements

Transmission and distribution networks are frequently being expanded and reinforced,often resulting in more complex networks.This is valid for electrical transmission and distribution networks, as well as for gas,oil,water,wastewater and district heating grids. The task of monitoring and controlling the energy transportation in order to achieve an economical operation control requires an ongoing penetration of the grid down to the lowest levels

The increasing availability requirements of energy and its distribution and transportation also increases the demand of control systems.New and improved communication possibilities with higher transmission bandwidths and new transmission media allow telecontrol technology to mange this.

Continually increasing capabilities of decentralized control and closed-loop control solutions,based on higher performance microcontroller technology,also allows more functions to run directly in the station.This is valid not only for new remote stations,but also in stations which have to be upgraded due to a higher demand for information or station that need to be modernized due to age (retrofit).

In all cases,the telecontrol interface is the basic functional package.

The adaptation of new Intelligent Electronic Devices (IED) and expansion with application functions based on Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) solutions must also be possible.It is the task of modern RTU's to provide the right solution to these requirements.

The deregulation activities in the energy market, especially the metering tasks,requires more online information in order to control the energy flow and energy consumption.Municipal utility companies,responsible for the electrical,gas,water and wastewater grids,are moving towards controlling these networks in a more centralized fashion,i.e.in one central control center utilizing only one control system.This requires the different telecontrol communication links to be harmonized. The process data object model has to be coordinated between the different grid types

The standardization of telecontrol protocols and the increasing capabilities of communication networks makes this possible. A new RTU must be able to support demands of higher flexibility by adapting ANSI and IEC telecontrol protocol standards.The new RTU shall have the capacity to be connected to new communication media and digital communication networks.

• Usable for different applications 

• Remote Control • Station Automation 

• Communication Gateway 

• Process-oriented configuration with open data exchange concept and MS-ExcelTM-Integration 

• Integrated Human Machine Interface with basic monitoring and control functions 

• No special tool for diagnoses required due to utilisation of web server technologies 

• Programmable PLC functions • Support of standard transmission/communication protocols 

• Events detection with a time resolution of 1 ms 

• Real-time acquisition with DCF77,GPS,SNTP or IRIG-B 

• Flexible system concept - scalable redundancy - scalable I/O - scalable communication 

• High performance central processing units with 32-bit processor and multiple interfaces 

• Distributed input/output units with high degree pre-processing functions 

• Only a few types of different I/O modules 

• Same I/O modules used in RTU200 and RTU232 

• Applicable from medium voltage to highest voltage level 

• Local presence of ABB in more than 50 countries 

• 2'000 worldwide RTU560 installations per year, more than 10'000 RTU560 installations in total

• Security of investment • Step by step investment possible • Easy functional extension • Reduced engineering costs • Reduced engineering costs and no need of an additional monitoring and control system 

• Reduced maintenance costs 

• No need of an additional PLC system 

• Communication with existing control systems and subordinated IEDs 

• Precise analysis of disturbances 

• Precise system wide analysis of network incidents 

• Reduced investment costs 

• High processing capacity and flexibility 

• Reduced system costs 

• Reduced maintenance and spare part costs 

• Cost efficient migration to RTU560 

• Reduced maintenance and spare part costs due to same hardware components 

• Close to our customers all over the world 

• Security of investment

The engineering work is an important cost factor that can be reduced by standardizing the process object model and ensuring that it supports stateof-the-art engineering tools.The engineering tool of the RTU must be able to perform the task of a single,stand-alone RTU,as well as be able to be integrated into an overall data engineering concept for a network control system. In addition to the basic functions,(i.e.data acquisition and control) modern telecontrol systems are required to provide a higher degree of functionality within the stations e.g.: 

• High functional scope for telecontrol application functions 

• Execute control and closed-loop applications using PLC capabilities