ALBEDO

Albedo Tester’s are designed to install and maintain the communications in the power industry. They supports legacy and new generation interfaces in order to verify Ethernet / IP, PTP, SyncE, ToD, IRIG-B, T1 / E1, C37.94, RS-232, G703 and protocols such as GOOSE, SV or MMS, therefore you will get a perfect vision and control of your infrastructures improving protection and data acquisition.

In substation automation many resources require accurate synchronization ranging from microseconds to milliseconds:

• Applications that use SV / GOOSE and need to minimize latency.
• Data acquisition at IED, RTU and MU.
• SCADA and the MMS protocol.
• Line protection schemes.
• Events recording.
• Synchro-phasors deployed across the WAN to monitor the power grid.

Smart grid automation requires extremely accurate timing – and stability – for tasks such as peak hour billing, virtual power generators or outage management. It is also required for automatic protection of high-voltage lines, which are constantly monitored; when a substation detects an event, it is timestamped and transmitted to ensure correct operation.

Albedo offers synchronization solutions  Net.Time Ω is a PTP / NTP / SyncE appliance that can be configured as a master, boundary or slave clock to distribute a wide variety of time signals including PTP, NTP, SyncE, ToD, IRIG-B, PPS, T1, E1 and MHz. Net.Time Ω is equipped with a Rubidium Atomic Oscillator to ensure the highest time accuracy in hold-over, and an OCXO is also a valuable option to maintain excellent time stability in locked mode. Net.Time Ω is very flexible indeed, accepting multiple clock references to discipline the internal circuitry. GNSS is the default and most obvious reference, but signals such as PTP, NTP, SyncE, ToD and IRIG-B can also be used as main reference inputs and can be activated in a hierarchical way.