Overview Of Com600 - ABB COM600 series User Manual

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COM600 series, version 4.1
User's Manual
The main reasons are the following:
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To derive a maximum benefit from the versatility of the COM600 series
• To ensure an optimum feature set to be bundled together for a specific application
• To ensure a future-proof product approach
Based on the primary intent or application, this release comprises of two products:
• COM600S – COM600 for Substation Automation (for IEC and ANSI markets)
• COM600F – COM600 for Feeder Automation (for ANSI/US markets only).
The COM600S represents the basic product in the product series. Many of COM600S
features will also be included in the COM600F product.

Overview of COM600

COM600 provides gateway functions for mapping signals between protection and control
IEDs in industrial or utility substations and higher-level systems. It further includes an
optional HMI that provides data and information from the substation to the users.
COM600 gathers data from protection and control IEDs and from process devices using
different communication protocols. The supported protocols can be combined freely in
one station computer, limited only by the number of hardware interfaces and the license.
COM600 uses web technology to display data to different users in a professional and
user-friendly manner. The web technology is further used to transfer information to a
network control centre (NCC) or distributed control system (DCS).
COM600 benefits from the potential of the IEC 61850 standard by using the IEC 61850-
6 substation configuration language (SCL) and IEC 61850 -7 communications modeling
regardless of protocol used. As the IEC 61850 data modeling is used for all communic-
ation protocols the gateway cross-reference is done in the same way regardless of the
protocol, for example IEC 61850-8-1 or DNP3.
With the optional web HMI, COM600 can be used for efficient substation visualization,
monitoring, and control. The supported browsers are Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE6,
IE7 and IE8 require Adobe SVG viewer 3.03), Mozilla Firefox®, Opera and Google
Chrome. Measured values from process devices are displayed on the HMI. Single-line
diagrams can be used to view any available measured values from the process devices.
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