Introduction; General About The Com600 Series; Overview Of Com600 - ABB com600 Configuration Manual

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COM600 series, Version 4.1
HMI Configuration Manual

Introduction

General about the COM600 series

The COM600 series comprises of substation management units that are deployed together
with protection and control relays and other communication devices, such as Relion
protection and control relays and Remote I/O units, to realize smart substation and grid
automation solutions in utility and industrial medium voltage distribution networks. They
are a unique combination of following features:
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Process visualization (HMI)
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Real-time and historical data handling
• Platform for executing industrial and utility substation applications
• Communication gateway
The COM600 series 4.1 release comprises of the following products:
• COM600S – COM600 for substation automation(for IEC and ANSI markets)
• COM600S is a substation automation and data management unit that integrates
devices, facilitates operations and manages communication in utility or industrial
distribution substations.
• COM600F – COM600 for feeder automation (for ANSI/US markets only)
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COM600F is a feeder automation and data management unit that runs distributed
grid applications in ANSI standard-based utility power networks.

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.
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