ICALEPCS2013 - List of Authors (Gonzalez-Berges, M.)

Paper

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New Electrical Network Supervision for CERN: Simpler, Safer, Faster, and Including New Modern Features

27

J-C. Tournier, G. Burdet, M. Gonzalez-Berges, S. Infante, A. Kiourkos, P. Kozlowski, F. Varela
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

Since 2012, an effort started to replace the ageing electrical supervision system (managing more than 200,000 tags) currently in operation with a WinCC OA-based supervision system in order to unify the monitoring systems used by CERN operators and to leverage the internal knowledge and development of the products (JCOP, UNICOS, etc.). Along with the classical functionalities of a typical SCADA system (alarms, event, trending, archiving, access control, etc.), the supervision of the CERN electrical network requires a set of domain specific applications gathered under the name of EMS (Energy Management System). Such applications include network coloring, state estimation, power flow calculations, contingency analysis, optimal power flow, etc. Additionally, as electrical power is a critical service for CERN, a high availability of its infrastructure, including its supervision system, is required. The supervision system is therefore redundant along with a disaster recovery system which is itself redundant. In this paper, we will present the overall architecture of the future supervision system with an emphasis on the parts specific to the supervision of electrical network.

Slides MOCOBAB01 [1.414 MB]

MOPPC023

Centralized Data Engineering for the Monitoring of the CERN Electrical Network

107

A. Kiourkos, P. Golonka, M. Gonzalez-Berges, S. Infante, J-C. Tournier
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

The monitoring and control of the CERN electrical network involves a large variety of devices and software: it ranges from acquisition devices to data concentrators, supervision systems as well as power network simulation tools. The main issue faced nowadays for the engineering of such large and heterogeneous system including more than 20,000 devices and 200,000 tags is that all devices and software have their own data engineering tool while many of the configuration data have to be shared between two or more devices: the same data needs to be entered manually to the different tools leading to duplication of effort and many inconsistencies. This paper presents a tool called ENSDM aiming at centralizing all the data needed to engineer the monitoring and control infrastructure into a single database from which the configuration of the various devices is extracted automatically. Such approach allows the user to enter the information only once and guarantee the consistency of the data across the entire system. The paper will focus more specifically on the configuration of the remote terminal unit) devices, the global supervision system (SCADA) and the power network simulation tools.

Poster MOPPC023 [1.253 MB]

MOPPC137

IEC 61850 Industrial Communication Standards under Test

427

F.M. Tilaro, B. Copy, M. Gonzalez-Berges
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

IEC 61850, as part of the International Electro-technical Commission's Technical Committee 57, defines an international and standardized methodology to design electric power automation substations. It specifies a common way of communicating and integrating heterogeneous systems based on multivendor intelligent electronic devices (IEDs). They are connected to Ethernet network and according to IEC 61850 their abstract data models have been mapped to specific communication protocols: MMS, GOOSE, SV and possibly in the future Web Services. All of them can run over TCP/IP networks, so they can be easily integrated with Enterprise Resource Planning networks; while this integration provides economical and functional benefits for the companies, on the other hand it exposes the industrial infrastructure to the external existing cyber-attacks. Within the Openlab collaboration between CERN and Siemens, a test-bench has been developed specifically to evaluate the robustness of industrial equipment (TRoIE). This paper describes the design and the implementation of the testing framework focusing on the IEC 61850 previously mentioned protocols implementations.

Poster MOPPC137 [1.673 MB]

TUPPC064

Reusing the Knowledge from the LHC Experiments to Implement the NA62 Run Control

725

F. Varela, M. Gonzalez-Berges
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
N. Lurkin
UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

NA62 is an experiment designed to measure very rare kaon decays at the CERN SPS planned to start operation in 2014. Until this date, several intermediate run periods have been scheduled to exercise and commission the different parts and subsystems of the detector. The Run Control system monitors and controls all processes and equipment involved in data-taking. This system is developed as a collaboration between the NA62 Experiment and the Industrial Controls and Engineering (EN-ICE) Group of the Engineering Department at CERN. In this paper, the contribution of EN-ICE to the NA62 Run Control project is summarized. EN-ICE has promoted the utilization of standardized control technologies and frameworks at CERN, which were originally developed for the controls of the LHC experiments. This approach has enabled to deliver a working system for the 2013 Technical Run that exceeded the initial requirements, in a very short time and with limited manpower.

TUPPC115

Hierarchies of Alarms for Large Distributed Systems

844

M. Boccioli, M. Gonzalez-Berges, V. Martos
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
O. Holme
ETH, Zurich, Switzerland

The control systems of most of the infrastructure at CERN makes use of the SCADA package WinCC OA by ETM, including successful projects to control large scale systems (i.e. the LHC accelerator and associated experiments). Each of these systems features up to 150 supervisory computers and several millions of parameters. To handle such large systems, the control topologies are designed in a hierarchical way (i.e. sensor, module, detector, experiment) with the main goal of supervising a complete installation with a single person from a central user interface. One of the key features to achieve this is alarm management (generation, handling, storage, reporting). Although most critical systems include automatic reactions to faults, alarms are fundamental for intervention and diagnostics. Since one installation can have up to 250k alarms defined, a major failure may create an avalanche of alarms that is difficult for an operator to interpret. Missing important alarms may lead to downtime or to danger for the equipment. The paper presents the developments made in recent years on WinCC OA to work with large hierarchies of alarms and to present summarized information to the operators.

THPPC081

High-level Functions for Modern Control Systems: A Practical Example

1262

F. Varela, W.J. Fabian, P. Golonka, M. Gonzalez-Berges, L.B. Petrova
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

Modern control systems make wide usage of different IT technologies and complex computational techniques to render the data gathered accessible from different locations and devices, as well as to understand and even predict the behavior of the systems under supervision. The Industrial Controls Engineering (ICE) Group of the EN Department develops and maintains more than 150 vital controls applications for a number of strategic sectors at CERN like the accelerator, the experiments and the central infrastructure systems. All these applications are supervised by MOON, a very successful central monitoring and configuration tool developed by the group that has been in operation 24/7 since 2011. The basic functionality of MOON was presented in previous editions of these series of conferences. In this contribution we focus on the high-level functionality recently added to the tool to grant access to multiple users through the web and mobile devices to the data gathered, as well as a first attempt to data analytics with the goal of identifying useful information to support developers during the optimization of their systems and help in the daily operations of the systems.

Paper	Title	Page
MOCOBAB01	New Electrical Network Supervision for CERN: Simpler, Safer, Faster, and Including New Modern Features	27
	J-C. Tournier, G. Burdet, M. Gonzalez-Berges, S. Infante, A. Kiourkos, P. Kozlowski, F. Varela CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	Since 2012, an effort started to replace the ageing electrical supervision system (managing more than 200,000 tags) currently in operation with a WinCC OA-based supervision system in order to unify the monitoring systems used by CERN operators and to leverage the internal knowledge and development of the products (JCOP, UNICOS, etc.). Along with the classical functionalities of a typical SCADA system (alarms, event, trending, archiving, access control, etc.), the supervision of the CERN electrical network requires a set of domain specific applications gathered under the name of EMS (Energy Management System). Such applications include network coloring, state estimation, power flow calculations, contingency analysis, optimal power flow, etc. Additionally, as electrical power is a critical service for CERN, a high availability of its infrastructure, including its supervision system, is required. The supervision system is therefore redundant along with a disaster recovery system which is itself redundant. In this paper, we will present the overall architecture of the future supervision system with an emphasis on the parts specific to the supervision of electrical network.
	Slides MOCOBAB01 [1.414 MB]

MOPPC023	Centralized Data Engineering for the Monitoring of the CERN Electrical Network	107
	A. Kiourkos, P. Golonka, M. Gonzalez-Berges, S. Infante, J-C. Tournier CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	The monitoring and control of the CERN electrical network involves a large variety of devices and software: it ranges from acquisition devices to data concentrators, supervision systems as well as power network simulation tools. The main issue faced nowadays for the engineering of such large and heterogeneous system including more than 20,000 devices and 200,000 tags is that all devices and software have their own data engineering tool while many of the configuration data have to be shared between two or more devices: the same data needs to be entered manually to the different tools leading to duplication of effort and many inconsistencies. This paper presents a tool called ENSDM aiming at centralizing all the data needed to engineer the monitoring and control infrastructure into a single database from which the configuration of the various devices is extracted automatically. Such approach allows the user to enter the information only once and guarantee the consistency of the data across the entire system. The paper will focus more specifically on the configuration of the remote terminal unit) devices, the global supervision system (SCADA) and the power network simulation tools.
	Poster MOPPC023 [1.253 MB]

MOPPC137	IEC 61850 Industrial Communication Standards under Test	427
	F.M. Tilaro, B. Copy, M. Gonzalez-Berges CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	IEC 61850, as part of the International Electro-technical Commission's Technical Committee 57, defines an international and standardized methodology to design electric power automation substations. It specifies a common way of communicating and integrating heterogeneous systems based on multivendor intelligent electronic devices (IEDs). They are connected to Ethernet network and according to IEC 61850 their abstract data models have been mapped to specific communication protocols: MMS, GOOSE, SV and possibly in the future Web Services. All of them can run over TCP/IP networks, so they can be easily integrated with Enterprise Resource Planning networks; while this integration provides economical and functional benefits for the companies, on the other hand it exposes the industrial infrastructure to the external existing cyber-attacks. Within the Openlab collaboration between CERN and Siemens, a test-bench has been developed specifically to evaluate the robustness of industrial equipment (TRoIE). This paper describes the design and the implementation of the testing framework focusing on the IEC 61850 previously mentioned protocols implementations.
	Poster MOPPC137 [1.673 MB]

TUPPC064	Reusing the Knowledge from the LHC Experiments to Implement the NA62 Run Control	725
	F. Varela, M. Gonzalez-Berges CERN, Geneva, Switzerland N. Lurkin UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
	NA62 is an experiment designed to measure very rare kaon decays at the CERN SPS planned to start operation in 2014. Until this date, several intermediate run periods have been scheduled to exercise and commission the different parts and subsystems of the detector. The Run Control system monitors and controls all processes and equipment involved in data-taking. This system is developed as a collaboration between the NA62 Experiment and the Industrial Controls and Engineering (EN-ICE) Group of the Engineering Department at CERN. In this paper, the contribution of EN-ICE to the NA62 Run Control project is summarized. EN-ICE has promoted the utilization of standardized control technologies and frameworks at CERN, which were originally developed for the controls of the LHC experiments. This approach has enabled to deliver a working system for the 2013 Technical Run that exceeded the initial requirements, in a very short time and with limited manpower.

TUPPC115	Hierarchies of Alarms for Large Distributed Systems	844
	M. Boccioli, M. Gonzalez-Berges, V. Martos CERN, Geneva, Switzerland O. Holme ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
	The control systems of most of the infrastructure at CERN makes use of the SCADA package WinCC OA by ETM, including successful projects to control large scale systems (i.e. the LHC accelerator and associated experiments). Each of these systems features up to 150 supervisory computers and several millions of parameters. To handle such large systems, the control topologies are designed in a hierarchical way (i.e. sensor, module, detector, experiment) with the main goal of supervising a complete installation with a single person from a central user interface. One of the key features to achieve this is alarm management (generation, handling, storage, reporting). Although most critical systems include automatic reactions to faults, alarms are fundamental for intervention and diagnostics. Since one installation can have up to 250k alarms defined, a major failure may create an avalanche of alarms that is difficult for an operator to interpret. Missing important alarms may lead to downtime or to danger for the equipment. The paper presents the developments made in recent years on WinCC OA to work with large hierarchies of alarms and to present summarized information to the operators.

THPPC081	High-level Functions for Modern Control Systems: A Practical Example	1262
	F. Varela, W.J. Fabian, P. Golonka, M. Gonzalez-Berges, L.B. Petrova CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
	Modern control systems make wide usage of different IT technologies and complex computational techniques to render the data gathered accessible from different locations and devices, as well as to understand and even predict the behavior of the systems under supervision. The Industrial Controls Engineering (ICE) Group of the EN Department develops and maintains more than 150 vital controls applications for a number of strategic sectors at CERN like the accelerator, the experiments and the central infrastructure systems. All these applications are supervised by MOON, a very successful central monitoring and configuration tool developed by the group that has been in operation 24/7 since 2011. The basic functionality of MOON was presented in previous editions of these series of conferences. In this contribution we focus on the high-level functionality recently added to the tool to grant access to multiple users through the web and mobile devices to the data gathered, as well as a first attempt to data analytics with the goal of identifying useful information to support developers during the optimization of their systems and help in the daily operations of the systems.