Use zenon Energy Edition for effective and secure operation of substations – locally or remotely. For electrical substations and switchyards of any scale, you will benefit from quick project configuration, simple operation, and maximum reliability.


Full control and situational awareness at any scale

zenon Energy Edition from COPA-DATA is the ideal complement for any PAC (protection, automation and control) installation. This substation automation system is perfectly suited for various tasks in the substation domain, such as:


Future-proof substation automation solutions for all operational areas

Public utilities, but also industrial and public transport companies rely on zenon to effectively digitalize their assets.


Key Features and Benefits:

Technical features:

  • Single Line Diagram with Topological Coloring
  • Topological Interlocking
  • Safe Command Processing, Lockout-Tagout
  • Seamless routing of commands and signals among protocols, such as IEC 61850, IEC 60870, DNP3
  • Alarm Management
  • Sequence of Events (SoE)
  • Collection and Investigation of Disturbance Records (COMTRADE)
  • Integrated Historian
  • Seamless Process Server Redundancy
  • Parallel Redundancy Protocol Support (PRP)
  • Process Simulation
  • Process Replay
  • Automatic Switching Sequences
  • Programmable Soft Logic (IEC 61131-3)
  • Mobile Event Notification (E-Mail, SMS, VoIP)
  • Role-based Access Control
  • Secure Remote Access

What zenon offers you:

  • Highest performance and substation automation solution scalability, from small and cost-effective solution packages to large substations and supervisory control room SCADA
  • Advanced situational awareness through powerful command and event processing, operated through an intuitive user interface
  • Comprehensive support of IEC 61850
  • Efficient integration with higher-level control systems through diverse gateway protocols
  • Engineering simplicity through configurable functions, templates, and automatable engineering
  • Advanced options for OT servicing through virtualization and containerized services
  • Strong cyber security methods and IEC 62443-4-1 compliant Secure Development Lifecycle Process (SDL)

Your benefits:

  • Efficiently integrate your assets in green and brown-field environments
  • Attain vendor independence through a wide spectrum of supported protocols
  • Safe engineering effort due to powerful functions and templates, available ‘out of the box’
  • Establish platform standards, for efficient roll-out and commissioning
 

Manual or autonomous operation – as you require

zenon is a flexible platform for all aspects of substation automation. You can use the software for unmanned, automated operation of substations, as well as manual operation via stationary and mobile visualization on-site or via secure remote access. Advanced functional modules allow for the utilization of custom monitoring and control features, such as complex interlocking, load shedding, voltage regulation, or execution of command sequences.

 

Regardless of where operations are taking place, zenon’s industry-leading visualization provides the most informed view of all connected sites and assets.




Efficient engineering – create projects from sophisticated templates

Configure your substation quickly and avoid errors, without having to write a single line of programming code. zenon is structured in a completely object-oriented manner – you can create a robust library of common objects and reuse them across projects. Even complex functions such as interlockings or redundancies are integrated into zenon as a standard and can be configured out of the box. As a result, project development time can be significantly reduced. Especially in IEC 61850 based projects, zenon allows you to automatically generate projects from the available data models.

 

Application libraries in zenon provide you with comprehensive templates, to efficiently progress throughout your project. Among others, configurable process templates are available for typical assets such as breakers, disconnectors, transformers, IEDs, and many more. Being fully pre-developed including single-line display, detailed views, data model, and command behavior, the process templates can be applied with a few mouse clicks.


Build on powerful connectivity and networking support

zenon supports all common communication protocols in the energy industry. As a vendor-independent system, zenon is orientated along with international standards, provides great functional coverage and at the same time ensures simple applicability, and security. Protocols can be utilized to integrate on PAC equipment of any type and brand and can be combined freely to attain maximum solution effectiveness. Here is a selection of zenon-supported protocols:

  • IEC 61850
  • DNP3
  • IEC 60870-5 (101/103/104)
  • MODBUS
  • ICCP/TASE.2 (Inter Control Center Protocol)
  • OPC-UA / OPC-DA
  • IEEE C37.118 (Synchrophasor)
  • IEC 61850-90-5 (Synchrophasor)
  • 62056-21 (Metering)



Additional protocols, such as SNMPv3, Syslog, or PRP (Parallel Redundancy Protocol) can be utilized with zenon to support IT networking infrastructure monitoring, realize centralized security logging, or improve the resilience of the overall system architecture.

 

Additional network security is provided through the optional use of cybersecurity features, such as TLS based encryption or Secure Authentication – in conformance with the IEC 62351 Standard series.


Create your optimal substation automation solution with zenon

The zenon substation automation software offers powerful solutions to control, visualize and automate substations, in conjunction with any type of PAC equipment and higher-level control systems. A multitude of highly sophisticated functions, as well as great networking and security features, ensure a scalable and future-proof solution. You will quickly proceed through the evaluation, development, and commissioning of your facilities, due to zenon´s powerful templates, standardization, and efficient engineering functions.