Solutions for Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution:



Meinberg products make frictionless power transportation possible. By accurately synchronizing your IT-Network and reliably monitoring your power line frequency.

• Accurate synchronization of your IT-Network
• Reliable monitoring of your power line frequency

Accurate synchronization of your IT-Network
Normally power is not being produced where it is actually needed. So it is transported from the generating plant to the end user. Due to that, power is often being transported over long distances throughout power grids, which include medium-voltage power lines, sub-stations, pole-mounted transformers and low-voltage wiring.

Such power networks require extensive controlling technology, like Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems and a variety of Intelligent Electronic Devices (IED) like protection relays, bay controller units, etc. . By and large, to be able to properly detect, identify and solve problems, it is necessary to have your IT-Network synchronized. This enables you to see exactly where and when a problem occurred in your power grid.

Time and Frequency Synchronization in modern Power Grid Networks

Meinberg timing systems has been designed to fulfill the synchronization requirements of modern power grid networks. The modular approach allows configurations to offer a mix of required synchronization outputs for different devices like IEDs and SCADA systems. Being able to select a combination of IRIG time code outputs, pulses and frequencies required by some substation components and the ability to add NTP/SNTP as well as PTP network synchronization interfaces makes the IMS platform (Intelligent Modular Synchronization) a perfect choice for substation automation and smart grid applications like synchrophasors and event recording.

A Meinberg LANTIME system can play different roles, depending on its configuration and module selection. By supporting Meinberg's IRSA (Intelligent Reference Switching Algorithm) technology, a LANTIME server can use GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, BeiDou, 1PPS or IRIG time codes as its synchronization sources but can also accept PTP and even NTP in a user configurable priority.

The PTP implementation supports the PTP default profile (IEEE 1588-Annex J) as well as several power profile versions, including IEEE C37.238-2017. The Utility profile as standardized in IEC 61850-9-3 is also supported. If desired, a second TSU module can be used to synchronize a LANTIME with a remote Telecom Profile Grandmaster over a Wide Area Network link. The performance of the PTP module allows synchronization of hundreds of IEDs or other PTP slaves when operating as a Power Profile or Utility Profile Grandmaster Clock.

Meinberg radio clocks offers a range of solutions to accurately synchronize your IT-Network:

• Reliable monitoring of your power line frequency
• Meinberg products will offer you reliable and accurate frequency control solutions
• System frequency varies as load and generation change. It is therefore important to detect changes in the network-wide frequency -in real-time- to be able to prevent major outages...