IVPower - A software dedicated to power system monitoring

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IVPower a web-based software for power systems monitoring.

You would like to always know what is going on in the network. While the control systems provide a faithful image of the state of the system, they don’t provide the details about the various kinds of disturbances.
Since 1999, our company has developed dedicated applications for understanding short circuits events, power quality disturbances and wide-area phenomena, trying to make the best use of the wealth of digital data that is available nowadays.

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Fast indication (within 5 minutes) of healthy / faulty lines, accurate and reliable fault location to optimize interventions.

Control center

Very accurate fault location

FAULT LOCATION

Comprehensive support of post mortem fault analysis.

Fault analysis

Web-based user interface for intranet and internet use.

Web application

Role-based access model for easy access to different views: fault analysis, power quality, wide-area monitoring...

Application themes

The software compiles event reports for easy analysis of complex sequences of events.

Automated event analysis

Indications for optimized protection testing and circuit breaker maintenance. Fault statistics.

Asset manager

News

NetCeler at CIGRE 2018 in Paris

NetCeler, a leading Company in Monitoring Software Solutions for Power Utilities will be honoured to contribute to such event.
Automated Disturbance Analysis will be presented at our booth n°225.

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Published on July 31, 2018
On February 20-21, 2018 International experts of protection relays and control systems will gather at FNN / ETG Conference in Berlin.

NetCeler, a leading Company in Monitoring Software Solutions for Power Utilities will be honoured to contribute to such event.
Dr. Luc Philippot, General Manager, will present the automated evaluation of protection systems behaviour, on February 21, 2018 at 2:20 pm.

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Published on January 30, 2018
IVPower Back on the highlights of 2017

Confirming our leadership position in the European market, NetCeler’s Fault Analysis tool has finally been chosen, by tender, to equip a major European TSO during the 2018-2019 timeframe.
This deployment will enhance our offering in the behavioral monitoring of protection relays. Read More...

Published on January 03, 2018
Discover Eskom's paper at 2017 Southern African power system protection conference

Discover Eskom's paper at 2017 Southern African power system protection conference, describing the experience with implementation of the Automated Fault Analysis System (AFAS)

Published on December 12, 2017
A new technology for detecting flaws in IEC 61850 communication !

NetCeler introduces a new solution for detecting abnormal communication patterns in substation automation. Using a passive Ethernet probe and a monitoring ruleset, IVPower SCM (Substation Communication Monitoring) allows to pinpoint suspicious conversations either between IEDs or between a substation and the control system. […] Read more

Published on July 4, 2017
ELIA uses IVPower for Automated Fault Analysis

IVPower allows transmission system operators to partly automate the process of fault and disturbance analysis. In this video, Elia - the Belgian TSO - explains the added value of the installed IVPower solution both for a more efficient system operation and for fueling conditional maintenance processes by the asset management team. […] Read more

Published on April 14, 2017
Post event disturbance analysis

Post event disturbance analysis provided by IVPower web-based software is performed to investigate the power system behaviour. This analysis allows to find out incorrect operation of protection relays and circuit breakers, supporting conditional asset maintenance policies. […] Read more

Published on February 9, 2017
IEC 61850-90-17 makes PQ meters integration so easy !

The era of proprietary power quality systems may be coming to an end : the recent extension of IEC 61850 finally allows to transfer virtually all power quality measurements from compatible PQ meters in a standardized way. […] Read more
The LAD project

As a part of an overall modernization towards a digital grid, RTE - the French TSO - deploys fast TCP/IP communication with its 2700+ substations, complemented with data concentrators and high-level monitoring applications. NetCeler provides its IVPower automated fault location solution[…] Read more

Published on March 31, 2017
NetCeler stands out by innovation at CIGRE 2016 !

CIGRE 2016 has been a great opportunity for Netceler for two reasons:
1. We actively participated to the activities of the Study Committees;
2. We presented our monitoring solutions to the technical exhibition, for the second time in a row.
This year, emphasis has been put on Automated Fault Analysis (AFA), which reached a significant maturity level. Proof of such maturity is the deployment of our tool, IVPower, to nearly a dozen of international Transmission Utilities.[…] Read more
NetCeler at CIGRE – Paris (22-26 August 2016)

Visit us at CIGRE 2016 Technical Exhibition
22 -26 August 2016 – Paris – Palais des Congrès
Level 3, Booth 308
Building upon 15 years of experience in the field of power system monitoring, NetCeler has developed the IVPower web-based software for transmission and distribution system operators. NetCeler unveils its latest innovations at CIGRE 2016, the biennial worldwide forum of the electrical power industry, held in Paris, France.
Collect data efficiently using monitoring gateways and IEC61850

NetCeler now uses the same protocol as well for transferring measurements and disturbance recording files from the substations to network control or service centers where our power & energy software like IVPower and IVEnergy is installed. Such data transfer through IEC 61850 is expected to become an official recommendation – and a widespread practice – within 2-3 years from now, since the benefits are plentiful and the industry cannot afford developing new protocols for the cutting edge applications that are required now, like virtual power plants, distribution monitoring and blackout prevention. […] Read more
Grid Monitoring: from research to application

Luc Philippot’s passion for power system monitoring applications

Luc Philippot has developed technical expertise in power system protection and monitoring first during his Ph.D. in Belgium, then during his work for Siemens in Germany. His areas of interest include: fault location in transmission and distribution networks, power quality analysis, power system transients and network stability. […] Read more
Power Transmission: how to collect fault records efficiently using monitoring ?

Automatic collection of disturbances data with IEC 61850 monitoring applications

The power industry - especially distribution system operators - shifts to IEC 61850 for communication with protection devices and a variety of other IEDs in the substations. NetCeler now supports IEC 61850 as well for transferring measurements and disturbance recording files from the substations to data centers where power & energy monitoring software like IVPower is installed. […] Read more
IVPower: Detecting hidden failures in the protection systems contributes to black-out prevention

IVPower analyzes the power system events automatically in order to help RTOs, ISOs and Utilities to understand what happened and take appropriate decisions in critical situations.

In « near real time », i.e. within a few minutes after the event, essential information about the faults is provided by IVPower to the operators of the regional control center to help them re-energize the lines as soon as possible. […] Read more
IVPower: Fast, accurate and reliable fault location

Fast, accurate and reliable fault location

Making use of all available transients records, IVPower provides reactance-based fault location using measurements from one, two, or more terminals of power lines or cables. The methods used include the most recent advances, like estimation of the tolerance, indication of closest tower and geographical position, automatic selection of voltage channels, compensation of mutual coupling with several parallel circuits, and consideration of shunt reactors and double-cable sections […] Read more
IVPower: Post-mortem fault analysis for TSOs

Post-mortem fault analysis for TSOs

Post-mortem disturbance analysis is performed to investigate the power system behaviour and possibly find out incorrect or suspicious operation of protection relays, circuit breakers etc. This process provides input for further processes, including: preparing fault statistics, assessing power quality, optimizing the maintenance, and maintaining the quality of the network models. […] Read more

Our Software solutions

Our R&D effort is currently focused on advanced monitoring rules for protection systems of both large Transmission and Distribution Utilities.

TSO

Solutions for power transmission

DSO

Solutions for power distribution

Solutions for power transmission

Automated Fault Analysis

Fast faults characterization
for control center operators

Comprehensive support of
post mortem fault analysis

Assistance to conditional maintenance
and refurbishment planning
Main benefits :
- Automatic collection and classification of various events-related data to save time during any disturbance analysis.
- Fast indication (within 5 minutes) of healthy / faulty lines, accurate and reliable fault location to optimize interventions.
- Presentation of the sequence of events, measurements and key performance indicators to facilitate and speed up the post mortem analysis.
- Detection of latent defects in the protection system.
- Postponement of tests for protections that appear to behave correctly.
- Optimization of the circuit breaker maintenance.
- Providing of fault statistics regarding lines, transformers, breakers and protection devices.
Power Quality Monitoring

IVPower also provides the TSOs with a “network” view of the power quality:
correlation between the causes of disturbances (lightning strikes …) and their consequences (voltage dips) allows fast and competent processing of customer claims and medium-term improvement of the power system. All measurements provided by power quality meters are available and IVPower indicates the operating margin.
Wide-Area Frequency and Phase Monitoring

IVPower may be adapted to become an effective wide-area monitoring (WAM) system.
IVPower includes standard features for processing and displaying synchrophasors in real time. But the software can also record them and provide data captures in case of a fault or on any other triggering event. An example of application is the detection and recording of power swings in case of a long fault or unstable power system operation.

Solutions for power distribution

The power industry shifts to IEC 61850 for communication with protection devices.

Based upon our experience in automated fault analysis for transmission systems, we also provide a simplified solution for distribution systems, in particular for the utilities deploying digital protection relays with IEC61850 communications. Disturbance records analysis complements nicely the information provided by the SCADA/DMS.

Besides this, we also provide power quality analysis applications at network level. The main focus of these is to integrate power quality data from any manufacturer and provide insight into the patterns of the disturbances, starting with voltage dips all the way to flicker levels.

Our Services

IVPower is designed to adapt and fit to the IT organization of each company.

Advice on how to use existing devices as much as possible for optimizing the coverage ratio of every function proposed,

Engineering, installation, qualification and maintenance services,

Assistance in device integration projects by proposing SMGs (Substation Monitoring Gateways) capable of supporting the main communication protocols in substations, such as IEC 61850 and IEC 60870-5-103.