Optimize performance and de-risk deployment of new protection schemes and algorithms
Digital simulation allows protection equipment to be subjected to virtually all possible faults and operating conditions in a controlled, flexible environment. Because the simulation runs in real time, protective devices can be physically interfaced to the simulated network in a closed loop.
Benefits of performing HIL testing
Insight on both the performance of the relay scheme and the dynamic response of the power system
Development and pre-commissioning of protection schemes for utilities
Testing a combination of hardware relays and software relay models
Testing interoperability of relays from multiple vendors
Interface conventional relays, IEC 61850 and other smart grid protocols, and traveling wave relays
Testing novel protection algorithms in real time, prior to target hardware availability