ION8650 in enterprise energy management systems
Applications that include the meter typically require additional equipment. Display and analysis software tools are almost always used to manage, interpret and distribute the data measured or logged by a meter. There are usually a variety of tools used, and often these tools are connected using different communications standards and protocols.
The meter can adapt to many situations. Advanced communications allow data to be shared simultaneously across multiple networks, built-in I/O provides monitoring and non-critical control capabilities, and a variety of display and analysis tools can be used to monitor your power system.
The meter is factory-configured and ready to operate
Your meter is preconfigured to provide most of the functionality needed in many applications. After you perform the installation and basic setup, all the basic measurements, energy calculations and recording functions are ready to operate. The meter can also be fully customized if necessary, to meet your needs.
Measured Parameters
The meter provides fully bi-directional, 4-quadrant, revenue accurate energy metering. The following sections list some of the parameters measured by the meter.
Energy
The meter provides all common active, reactive and apparent energy parameters.
- kWh, kVARh, kVAh delivered and received
- kWh, kVARh, kVAh net (delivered - received)
- kWh, kVARh, kVAh total (delivered + received)
- Volt-hours and amp-hours
- Integration of any instantaneous measurement
Energy registers can be logged automatically on a programmed schedule. All energy parameters represent the total for all three phases.
Demand
The meter supports standard demand calculation methods, including block, sliding window (rolling block), and predicted demand. It can measure demand on any instantaneous value and record peak (maximum) and minimum demand with date and timestamps to the second. Peak demand registers can be reset manually (password protected) or logged and reset automatically on a programmed schedule.
Measurements include:
- kW, kVAR, kVA demand, min/max
- Amps, Volts demand, min/max
- Demand on any instantaneous measurement
Instantaneous
The meter provides highly accurate, 1 second or 1/2 cycle measurements, including true RMS, per phase and total for:
- Voltage and current
- Active power (kW) and reactive power (kVAR)
- Apparent power (kVA)
- Power factor and frequency
- Voltage and current unbalance
- Phase reversal
Harmonics
Complete harmonic distortion metering, recording and real-time reporting, up to the 63rd harmonic for all voltage and current inputs.
- Individual harmonics (including magnitude, phase and inter-harmonics)
- Total even harmonics and total odd harmonics
- Total harmonics (even +odd)
- K-factor, Crest factor
Min/Max recording
The meter records each new minimum and new maximum value with date and time- stamp for the following parameters:
- Voltage and current min/max
- kW, kVAR, and kVA min/max
- Power factor
- Frequency
- Voltage unbalance
- Plus, any measured value
Power quality
The meter measures and records the following parameters:
- Sag/Swells
- Transients (ION8650A only)
The meter also has the following power quality features:
- Disturbance direction detection: This allows the meter to analyze disturbance (sag/swell) information to help determine the direction of the disturbance relative to the meter.
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EN50160: ION8650A and ION8650B meters have a default framework that measures and presents EN50160 compliance according to guidelines defined by Eurelectric (UNIPEDE).
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IEC 61000-4-30: The meter complies with the IEC 61000-4-30 power quality standard as follows:
- The ION8650A complies with IEC 61000-4-30 Class A.
- The ION8650B complies with IEC 61000-4-30 Class S.
Data display and analysis tools
The meter integrates seamlessly with display and analysis software available from Schneider Electric™, such as Power Monitoring Expert that lets you analyze and monitor your system and produce reports for any department in an organization. Power Monitoring Expert is designed to make use of your meter’s advanced capabilities. You can also use data acquired by the meter in a variety of third-party systems.
The front panel
Local monitoring and standalone applications are facilitated by the meter’s front panel interface. The front panel combines real-time display features with basic device configuration functions. The front panel is often used in combination with Power Monitoring Expert or ION Setup, providing an interface for field personnel.
WebMeter internal web server feature
WebMeter™ provides quick and easy access to real-time energy and basic power quality information without special software using an on-board web server combined with an Ethernet port. The built-in web pages display a range of energy and basic power quality information through the web-enabled device.
Meter internal email server feature
You can configure your meter to automatically email high-priority alarm notifications or scheduled system-status update messages to an external email address. Specify the type of event that triggers an email alert, such as power quality disturbances or logged data at any pre-determined interval, and have your Power Monitoring Expert or ION Setup administrator program the meter to respond with an email message when these events occur. Email messages from your meter can be received like any email message.
XML compatibility
The meters can exchange information using industry-standard XML format. This simple machine-readable format supports integration with custom reporting, spreadsheet, database, and other applications.
Power Monitoring Expert software
Power Monitoring Expert allows the meter to be part of a fully networked information system with other meters and local and wide-area computer networks. Power Monitoring Expert is recommended for all power monitoring systems where advanced analysis and non-critical control capabilities are required.
Power Monitoring Expert provides tools for managing your power monitoring network, logging data, analyzing real-time and logged data, generating power system reports, and creating custom functionality at the meter level.
Power Monitoring Expert also offers ways to remotely view information through a web browser: for example, through the WebReach and Web Reporter components of Power Monitoring Expert, and through Microsoft Terminal Services.
See Power Monitoring Expert help for more information.
ION Setup device configuration tool
ION Setup is a meter configuration tool designed specifically to configure and test meters. ION Setup offers a graphical interface for performing basic meter setup, installing templates into meters, upgrading firmware, viewing real-time and reset accumulated values, verifying meter accuracy and measurements, and setting up advanced security.
You can download ION Setup from www.se.com. It is recommended that you always upgrade to the latest version of ION Setup to help properly configure the features available on your device.
MV-90
MV-90 software (by Utility Translation Systems) is a multi-vendor translation system that can collect and analyze data from a variety of different brands of meters, each with unique database formats. MV-90 manipulates this data without extensive knowledge of the device of origin.
For more information on using the meter in an MV-90 system, see the MV-90 and ION Technology technical note.
IEC 61850
IEC 61850 is an Ethernet-based protocol designed for electrical substations. It is a standard (vendor-independent) method of communications, developed to support integrated systems composed of multi-vendor, self-describing devices. When properly configured, the meter acts as a server in an IEC 61850 system. This meter supports IEC 61850:2010 (Edition 2).
Alerting
The meter can be configured to send alerts in response to power system conditions that you define, such as a power quality problem (including surges, sags and swells), changes in relays, power outages or required equipment maintenance. This allows you to automatically advise key people of problems to allow quick remedial action, notify software so logs can be uploaded from the site that initiated the alert, or service equipment on schedule.
You can configure the meter to send alerts to email, pagers, outage notification servers or to software such as Power Monitoring Expert.
For more information on configuring alerting on the meter, see the ION meter alerts technical note and the Alert module description in the ION Reference. For more information on configuring alerting in Power Monitoring Expert, see Power Monitoring Expert help.
For more information on Ethernet outage notification, see the Outage notifications on the PowerLogic ION8650 product option document.
Communications methods
The meter can be integrated into various industry-standard networks. Data from the meter can be made available to other devices using the Modbus™ Master, Modbus RTU, Modbus TCP, DLMS and DNP 3.0 protocols, as well the MV-90 translation system. You can also configure the meter to import data from devices on these networks. With these advanced communications functions, the meter operates in most existing power monitoring systems. Any data display and analysis software that works with these protocols also functions with the meter.
The standard meter includes a selectable RS-232/RS-485 port, a high-speed RS-485 port, and an optical port for communications in the field. Order options include a 10/ 100Base-T Ethernet port, 57.6 kbps internal modem (both FCC and CTR-21 compliant) and an internal cellular modem. Depending on the hardware options purchased, up to four separate ports can communicate simultaneously.
Security
This meter offers standard and advanced security. Standard security is enabled by default from the factory, and advanced security allows you to configure specific security settings. These include features such as adding users with unique access privileges, and communications lockouts.
There are also additional features available on the meter that are based on the North American Electrical Reliability Corporation Critical Infrastructure Protection (NERC CIP) standards, allowing this meter to assist in making your facility NERC CIP compliant. These additional features include advanced security through the front panel, communications and network port enabling and disabling, Ethernet port number assignment and event log loss preventative measures.
Digital and analog I/O options
Onboard I/O
There are two optional onboard I/O configurations available, each providing different capabilities. The number and form of the digital inputs and outputs depend on the option you ordered; see your meter’s Installation Guide to determine the configuration available on your meter.
Additionally, two infrared ports (and corresponding LEDs) on the front panel are configured by default for energy pulsing.
Digital inputs
The meter can be ordered with internally or externally excited Form A digital inputs. They can be used for tariff inputs and other pulse counting applications.
Digital outputs
The meter can be ordered with both Form C and Form A solid-state outputs.
Expanded I/O
The I/O Expander option extends the meter’s I/O capabilities. The digital I/O Expander model provides four Form A digital outputs, four Form C digital outputs, and eight Form A digital inputs. The analog I/O Expander model replaces the four form A digital outputs with analog outputs.
Refer to the PowerLogic I/O Expander Installation Guide for details on the options and installation and operation instructions.