Helinks STS

HELINKS STS is a toolset for IEC 61850 based Substation Automation System Engineering. It is designed to support a device-independent top-down engineering process in accordance with part 4 and part 6 of the IEC 61850 standard-series. The toolset comprises a

• System Specification Tool;
• System Configuration Tool; and
• Various utilities for SCL Handling.

Advanced graphical editors (Single Line Editor, Function Diagram Editor, System Diagram Editor) serve to build the SCL files for an SAS project.

Additional features include:

• Bay, Function and IED Libraries
• Excel Import/Export of Signal List
• SCL import and export
• SCL direct editing and validation
• Signal Engineering
• Communication specification
• Automatic generation of IEC 61850 communication configurations (MMS Reports, GOOSE)
• Advanced documentation features

Helinks STS comes with different Vendor Packages, providing improved support for different vendor products.  The automatic generation of an SCD communication configuration generally requires a Vendor Package to cater for some of the vendor-specific IEC 61850 product implementation details.