Alarms and Events

Alarm and Event Management

Visual Substation provides comprehensive alarm and event processing—

Use binary state changes to trigger alarms or events
Trigger alarms or events when analog values move out of their operational range
Use logical data points to configure multiple ranges or low-low/high-high limits
Built-in system alarms on loss of data source or time synchronization
Built-in alarms on loss of data quality

Use the built-in Alarms and Events view for immediate access to all important alarm and event information.

Alarms and Events view features—

Events tab displays a chronological list of recent events and alarms
Alarms tab displays a separate color-coded list of all current alarms
Specify whether alarms should be acknowledged in their order of appearance or individually
Scaled site layout view quickly determines position, state and acknowledgment status of any alarm
Additional tabs provide filtered views of Blocked, Silent and Permanent alarms
Notes tab is used to share information among operators
Create additional tabs with filtered views of events or alarms
Attach detail files to alarm sources in order to provide additional information or special operator procedures when an alarm is triggered

Visual Substation can automatically notify selected users by email, SMS or pager, when alarms and events occur.

The event notification function offers the following capabilities—

Select event categories—user or system events, alarms, device failures, etc.
Select sources—internal or external data points
Trigger notification by appearance, disappearance or acknowledgement of a conditions
Set up filters to limit the number of notifications in avalanche conditions
Add sequence of events to notification, directly in the message or as an attached file
Assign notifications to individual contacts, by email, SMS or pager

When used with Cybectec SMP Gateway Visual Substation can automatically retrieve event files from digital fault recorders and relays.

Visual Substation supports the following event processing capabilities—

Automatically retrieve events from a growing number of devices, including DFRs and relays
Convert event files to industry-standard COMTRADE format
Use the search filter to simplify file browsing
Display multiple channels simultaneously
Extract channel data for processing and analysis
Automatically notify selected users by email, SMS or pager, when event files are available