Introduction; Overview Of Com600 - ABB COM600 Owner's/Operator's Manual

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Station Automation COM600
Operator's Manual

Introduction

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.
COM600 can by using the optional web HMI (requires Microsoft Internet Explorer with
Adobe SVG viewer 3.03) be used for efficient substation visualization, monitoring and
control. 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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