About tags

Power Operation includes a variety of tag types: real-time, alarm, and trend. Most of the tags that you will need are already added. However, you can add custom tags to suit special needs. This section describes how tags are constructed and provides further specific information about the construction of format codes, logic codes, and addresses.

The Power Operation tag naming convention follows the IEC 61850 standard. IEC 61850 tags are flexible, which allows them to specify how functions are implemented in devices. The IEC 61850 tag was developed for medium-voltage and high-voltage applications, such as monitoring, control, and substation automation.

Some of our devices include data and functionality that are not yet covered by IEC 61850. For these devices, the general IEC 61850 formatting was followed when creating tags.

If you are writing Cicode, see Customize a project using Cicode. You will need to know the IEC 61850 tag name that you added to the device profile for that device. You can print the CSV file to view tag names, (see Printing the .CSV file). Apart from that, you would only need to add tags if you are installing a third-party device that is not standard to Power Operation. If you do need to add tags, create any category you wish, and follow the format shown below.

For detailed information on tag naming, see Tag naming convention.