Pilot system “intelligent low voltage grid”

In the context of numerous demonstration activities and pilot deployments of Smart Grid technologies in Austria, the need for a testing environment for automation components, smart grid controllers and their parameterization became obvious. This paper describes the design and functionality of the pilot system “Intelligent Low Voltage Grid”, which has been developed for this purpose in the context of the close cooperation between Siemens Austria and the Institute of Computer Technology at Vienna University of Technology.