Terminology - ABB COM600 Series Operator's Manual

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COM600 Station Automation Series
Operator's Guide
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Terminology

The following is a list of terms associated with the Station Computer COM615 that you
should be familiar with. The list contains terms that are unique to ABB or have a usage
or definition that is different from standard industry usage.
Term
Alarm
Alarms and Events; AE
Data Object; DO
Device
Event
Intelligent Electronic Device
LON
LON Application Guideline for
substation automation; LAG
OPC
Property
SPA
Description
An abnormal state of a condition.
An OPC service for providing information about alarms and
events to OPC clients.
Part of a logical node object representing specific information,
e.g., status or measurement. From an object-oriented point of
view a data object is an instance of a class data object. DOs are
normally used as transaction objects; i.e., they are data struc-
tures.
A physical device that behaves as its own communication node
in the network, e.g. protection relay.
Change of process data or an OPC internal value. Normally, an
event consists of value, quality and timestamp.
A physical IEC 61850 device that behaves as its own commu-
nication node in the IEC 61850 protocol.
A communication protocol developed by Echelon.
A proprietary method of ABB on top of the standard LON pro-
tocol.
Series of standards specifications aiming at open connectivity
in industrial automation and the enterprise systems that support
industry.
Named data item.
ABB proprietary communication protocol used in substation
automation.
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