Smart Substation Emulation for BPL Evaluation

The paper describes the design and implementation of a load traffic generator for evaluation of BPL technology for smart secondary substation applications. Load traffic generators with standard communication protocols are considered. For advanced testing scenarios the complex BPL topology under real conditions in the several substations was considered. The main goal was to find the limits of the BPL technology with emulated devices based on real services for smart substation applications.