Altus' innovative essence and its continuous investments in research and development allow the company to provide high-tech equipment that complies with the main safety and quality standards on the market. Recently, products from the Hadron Xtorm family received from CEPEL – Electric Energy Research Center a> created through a synergy between Eletrobras, Chesf, Furnas, Eletronorte and Eletrosul – the IEC 60870-5-104 Server certification, a standard that provides a communication profile for sending messages between two electrical systems via a TCP/IP network. This achievement proves the high quality of Xtorm products and their high degree of compliance with the main standards required by the national Electric Energy market.
Divided into two stages, Conformity Tests and Performance Tests, the evaluation process uses SAGE – Open Energy Generation System responsible for the supervision, control and management of the national electrical system – as Communication Master and Hadron Xtorm as Slave. While Conformity Tests aim to prove compatibility between the implementations of the IEC 60870-5-104 protocol in Hadron Xtorm and SAGE, in Performance Tests the objective is to estimate the performance of the protocol implementation in the RTUs, considering the communication strategy adopted in the national system. In none of the tests carried out were incompatibilities found between Altus and SAGE products regarding the implementations of the IEC 60870-5-104 protocol adopted in both systems.
About Hadron Xtorm
Created to meet the demanding security and robustness demands of the Energy market, the series of Hadron Xtorm Remote Terminal Units acts as a central piece of control in the Generation, Transmission and Distribution processes. The products in the Xtorm family have outstanding features, such as redundancy of power supplies, redundancy of CPUs in a rack, configurator for IEC 61850 communication (MMS and GOOSE) and IEC 60870-5-104 and compliance with ONS submodule 2.7. As a modular architecture solution, Hadron Xtorm provides a wide variety of input and output modules that, combined with its powerful 32-bit CPU and high-speed deterministic Ethernet-based bus, meet the requirements of diverse applications.
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