Configuring equipment

Equipment refers to Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs) that receive data from datapoints. In Profile Studio, the Equipment pane reflects the IEDs in your project. These are grouped by subnetworks, such as 8-MMS (IEC 61850), T104, Modbus-Serial, Modbus-IP, etc. The purpose of the Equipment pane is to configure each subnetwork with its matching protocol.

Logical Node Classes are grouped by subnetwork. The IEDs are grouped by equipment types:

  • ITCI: List of gateways
  • IHMI: List of HMIs (for example: PC equipment with an EcoSUI view)
  • IED: List of devices

For each device, the following columns are present:

Column

Description

Action
Subnetworks The devices are divided by subnetworks. The subnetwork name is an aggregate of its type and the name given to it by the user. For MODBUS-IP, select the matching private protocol from the drop-down list.

IP address

The physical address of the device (for S-BUS).

Double-click to modify.

Used as

The selected product will affect which configuration files are exported.

Select to select a product from the drop-down list.

IED type

Displays the device type.

Depending on the subnetwork, this may be editable or read-only.

Pidd version

When the Used as column is set to ECOGTW, the Pidd version drop-down list becomes available.

Double-click to modify.

Prot 0 to 7

The protocols used for data transfers (for L-BUS or T-BUS). When the Used as column is set to ECOGTW, protocol settings become available.

Double-click to modify, or right-click to remove the protocol. Select a protocol from the drop-down list. In the Configuration pane Equipment tab, select the HMI from the Name drop-down list. On the Protocols tab, name, value, and description are displayed for each parameter. Select the Value field to configure it based on instructions in its Description field.

SCADA/LEGACY buttons: Configure protocols, Prot 0 to 7. For T-BUS (Telecontrol Bus protocol), enable the SCADA button. For L-BUS, enable the LEGACY button.

L-BUS (Legacy Bus protocol) is not an IEC 61850 protocol, but does cover Modbus, T103, etc.

See Exporting configuration packages for information on exporting selected devices in the Equipment tab.