Multiprotocol monitor and simulator for conformance and interoperability tests at smart grid equipment

Author

Mafra, Johnny J. ; Netto Lacerda, Rodrigo ; Daride Gaspar, Marcelo ; Senna Guimaraes, Daniel ; Monteiro Leitao, Carlos Alberto

Author_Institution

Fundacao para Inovacoes Tecnol. - FITec, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

fYear

2013

fDate

15-17 April 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

It was developed an Interoperability Test Platform (ITP) which is capable of interoperability, functional and penetration tests in equipment applied to Smart Grids and their protocols. One of the implemented protocols is the ABNT NBR 14522, which has several particularities related to the Brazilian energy market which make it of special interest for evaluation. The main one is that there isn´t so far a test environment for it. The objective of this work is to demonstrate the protocol simulation and monitoring resources of ITP through conformance, interoperability and functional test scripts for the ABNT protocol. ITP has also the capability to test Zigbee and DNP3 protocols and some results on them will also be presented.

Keywords

Zigbee; computer networks; computerised instrumentation; conformance testing; power engineering computing; power markets; power system measurement; protocols; smart power grids; ABNT NBR 14522; ABNT protocol; Brazilian energy market; DNP3 protocol; Zigbee protocol; conformance test; functional test; interoperability test platform; monitoring resource; multiprotocol monitor; multiprotocol simulator; penetration tests; protocol simulation; smart grid equipment; Decoding; IEC standards; Interoperability; Monitoring; Protocols; XML; Zigbee; Automatic test equipment; protocols; smart grids; software testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Latin America (ISGT LA), 2013 IEEE PES Conference On

Conference_Location

Sao Paulo

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5272-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISGT-LA.2013.6554395

Filename

6554395