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Eaton’s Yukon Feeder Automation (YFA) solution is an advanced feeder automation software that focuses on self-healing grid functions such as FLISR (Fault Location, Isolation, Service Restoration). The system is designed to help lower SAIDI and SAIFI metrics by converting sustained outages into momentary outages by means of automated intelligent switching operations. The YFA system leverages real-time data from Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs) on the distribution system, to detect system disturbances such as faults and then automatically reconfigure the system to isolate the disturbance and minimize the total number of customers impacted by an outage. Eaton’s Yukon Feeder Automation solution provides utility engineers with the tools to easily design and implement a self-healing grid solution. The YFA system makes changing the automation settings effortless, thereby streamlining the process of incorporating new IEDs or adapting to changing field conditions. The YFA system ease-of-use empowers utilities to incorporate the self-healing grid as a process rather than treating feeder automation as a project.
Eaton’s YFA is a fault location isolation service resolution solution (FLISR) that enables utilities to quickly reduce the length of outages for customers on an affected feeder—restoring many in under two minutes, some as quickly as 30 seconds.
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| FAULT MANAGEMENT |
Quickly detects and isolates faults so that unaffected load sections can be restored via feeders with capacity |
| VOLTAGE MANAGEMENT |
Detects loss of voltage situations and can isolate those line sections from the feeder, so that the unaffected sections can be restored |
| LOAD MANAGEMENT |
Continuously monitors loading on the system to help prevent overload in the case of an event |
| DISTRIBUTED ENERGY RESOURCE INTEGRATION |
Allows for the integration of Distributed Energy Resources on the system and understands by directional-current flow Can even help to control those resources and manage which feeders to which they are connected |
| MULTIPLE OPEN PROTOCOLS |
Automation System is not locked into a proprietary format |
| FLEXIBLE COMMUNICATIONS |
The system can leverage existing communication networks without the need to establish a new or separate network for automation |
| EASY DEVICE INTEGRATION |
Controls from many different manufacturers are available via pull-down menus to integrate those devices easily in the system. This feature means that YFA software does not lock the utility into a single vendor. We also add new devices to the system upon request so that the automation system is future-proof as new devices are developed. |
| DYNAMIC TOPOLOGIES |
Does not need to be in a "normal" topology to function correctly; this means YFA software can respond in many different situations for a number of different faults |
| SIMPLE CONFIGURATION |
Makes setting up the YFA system straightforward and allows utilities to truly own their automation system |
| MINIMAL LINEMAN AND OPERATOR TRAINING |
A fully automatic restoration system that requires very little interaction with operators Is adaptable to the utility's current work practices and can be disabled via in the field commands such as hot line tag or local mode or via operator commands |
| BUILT-IN SIMULATOR |
The exact same logic that powers the automation engine on a YFA simulation machine also powers the YFA production machine Testing done in simulation can accurately reflect how the production system will operate This is very different from distributed systems where a simulator can only approximate what might happen because each device\agent operates semi-independently on those types of system and the simulator always runs on a PC, not the actual hardware |
| SCALABLE |
Can be deployed to control a system as small as two devices and has operated on systems over 800 feeders in size The simple configuration makes YFA both very scalable, but also easily maintainable as the utility infrastructure evolves |
| CENTRALIZED AUTOMATION TRACE |
Since all of the data for a YFA system comes to a centralized location, it is all logged, timestamped and stored in that one location This makes understanding what happened easy with human readable log events and reports This allows for a system of continuous improvement on the automation system so that it can be optimized to operate exactly how the utility wants it to be |
| OPTIONAL REDUNDANCY |
YFA has the option of having a fully redundant hot standby system, so that if something were to happen to the primary machine, the secondary machine could fill in and take over the system |
| SECURITY |
YFA has undergone extensive security testing and assessments to ensure that it is compliant with the latest best practices in cybersecurity YFA uses Windows Active Directory for Authentication and ties in roles specific authorization based on that authentication This allows different users and groups to access the system, but only allows those with the right privileges to make modifications All of the modifications are tracked and recorded |
| OPERATING SYSTEM |
Windows 7 SP1 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012 R2 Windows 10 Windows Server 2016 |
| WINDOWS 7 SP1, WINDOWS SERVER 2008 R2, WINDOWS SERVER 2012 R2, WINDOWS 10, WINDOWS SERVER 2016 |
x64 |
| MEMORY SPEED |
1333 MHz |
| MEMORY CAPACITY |
8 GB |
| CPU SPEED |
2.2 Gigahertz Intel Compatible |
| SERVER DRIVE SIZE |
500 GB |
| SERVER DRIVE TYPE |
SATA for better performance or RAID if data persistence is required. |
| NETWORK ADAPTER |
Dual Gigabit Network Adapter |
