Advanced Distribution Management

System (ADMS)

Smart Grid Solution for Electricity Distribution Networks

Date: 05 April 2017

 Table of contents
1 INTRODUCTION .............................................................................................................................. 3

2 ADMS ARCHITECTURE OVERVIEW ............................................................................................. 6

3 DYNAMIC MIMIC DIAGRAM ........................................................................................................... 8

4 DISTRIBUTION NETWORK BUILDER ............................................................................................ 9

5 INTEGRATIONS ............................................................................................................................ 10

6 ADMS ANALYTICAL APPLICATIONS SYSTEM........................................................................... 11

6.1 Core DMS Applications ......................................................................................................... 12

6.2 Network Operation Control Applications ............................................................................... 12

6.3 Network Operation Planning and Optimization ..................................................................... 14

6.4 Network Operation Analysis .................................................................................................. 14

6.5 Network Development Planning ............................................................................................ 15

6.6 HV EMS (Energy Management System) ............................................................................... 16

6.7 Mobility................................................................................................................................... 17

6.8 Training .................................................................................................................................. 17

7 OUTAGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM ............................................................................................. 18

8 SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC DMS COMPANY AND REFERENCES ................................................ 19

9 CONTACT ...................................................................................................................................... 20
1 INTRODUCTION
Schneider Electric Advanced Distribution Management System (ADMS) solution is an unique product on
ADMS market which uses the single data model for a six basic fundamental parts: Power Control System,
Energy Management System, Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition, Distribution Management
System, Outage Management and Demand Response Management System.

Advanced Distribution Management System

PCS EMS SCADA DMS OMS DRMS

PCS (Power Control System) DMS (Distribution Management System)

Control and monitoring of production
EMS (Energy Management System)
Transmission network management
SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition)
Remote control and data acquisition
Power network analysis, smart operation, optimization and
planning
OMS (Outage Management System)
Management of outages – planned and unplanned – based
on trouble calls, with support for web field clients

DRM (Demand Response Management)

Optimization and scheduling of demand response resources

Figure 1.1 – ADMS fundamental parts

Such unique solution provides numerous advantages:

 Single software platform, that reduces the cost and effort of system administration;
 Single data model, which reduces the cost of maintenance in utility and reduces inconsistency from
operation point of view,
 Single user interface, that makes easier day in the life of the system operators;
 Single point of integration to external systems, that reduce number of integration nodes in utility,
 Real-time processing of all events that removes completely old style of database applications.
 The most comprehensive set of power applications.
 Closed loop (full automatic 24/7 operation) Volt/Var and Demand Management (Peak shaving),
closed loop Fault Location, Isolation and Supply restoration, Distributed generators and storage
treatment.
 Very advanced solution regarding Adaptive relay protection, Under frequency Shedding, High quality
Check before operate validation and significantly improved security during switching command
issuing.
 Used for operation, development and operation planning, simulation and analysis.
 System is reliable, scalable and highly secure.

This modern ADMS solution provides:

 Real-time network monitor and control,

 Mathematical network model and power applications,
 Efficient management of faults and voltage improvement,
 Network analysis (short-circuits, relay protection, losses, reliability, performances...),
 Optimization and reduction of investments in building power facilities, automation...,
 Reduction of network peak load and power losses,
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 Increase of an Utility's profit and revenue,
 Improvement of power quality and customer services.

Figure 1.2 – ADMS Software User Interface

ADMS is built on Smart Grid Solution concept. It integrates energy efficiency, demand response and
distributed resources technologies to enable grid operators to make intelligent decisions that help them
run the grid more efficiently, reliably and at a lower cost.

Substation
Feeder Automation Transmission
Automation

Real Time Protocols: IEC/DNP/ICCP

Advanced Distribution Management System

PCS EMS SCADA DMS OMS DRMS Web

Enterprise Service Bus: IEC/CIM/XML

Energy
ERP CRM GIS AMI/MDM
Market

Figure 1.3 – ADMS Global architecture – Only integrated solution brings the benefits

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Global ADMS architecture is presented in the Figure 1.3. On one side, ADMS is interfaced to real-time
systems processing high speed operation data while on other side to off-line systems processing low
speed (equipment or accounting) data.

Gartner reports 2012 - 2016 recommend ADMS solution as the most advanced technology worldwide.

Figure 1.4. – Gartner Magic Quadrant for Advanced Distribution Management Systems 1

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expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

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2 ADMS ARCHITECTURE OVERVIEW
ADMS solution is a heterogeneous, integrated system, which is primarily intended to allow efficient
performing of all operational and analytical tasks in electricity distribution utilities. This system is one of
the key building blocks of the modern Smart Grid environment, and as such can be seen as a service
exposing standards based integration points to allow data exchange with other enterprise systems. The
main features of the system from the functional and architectural standpoint are:

 Covers all sizes of utilities (from smallest to largest),

 Provides high performance,
 System is secure (it is built on top of secure middleware),
 Provides versioning system for network scheme and graphical (display) data,
 Supports multi-site solution,
 Exposes standard interfaces based on IEC 61970 and IEC 61968 suitable for SOA based integration,
 Provides full solution for historian, i.e. stores DMS/EMS calculation results and provides trending,
 Provides both rich client (Windows 7) and web client solutions (IE11, Google Chrome).
Technical Systems

Field Devices AMI /

ERP CIS ... GIS
/ Systems MDM
Adapter Adapter Adapter Adapter Adapter
Internet

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) – CIM/XML Shared

Web Data
users (sftp)
Communication CIM/XML CIM/XML
Web interface Adapter
Protocols Adapter
Web Service
(ICCP, IEC104, )
GIS
Importer

Read-only access to Real-time execution Model Import

Current network & Operations & Validations

ADMS Decision Support ADMS Real-time ADMS QA/Staging

System (DMZ) Data
System Data
System
replication replication
Historian Historian Historian

His Data Replication Model Replication

Simulations, Monitoring Network model

analysis & operations adjusting
& reporting
DMD GUI DMD GUI Network Builder
Application Application GUI Application

Corporate users Operators Model Promoters

Production Systems

Figure 2.1 – Global ADMS system structure

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At the high level, the ADMS architecture application consists of few indipended ADMS sub-systems
typically segmented out into separate environments and kept in synch through data replication:

 ADMS Real-time sub-system – for real-time operations where only limited number of users may
access.
 ADMS Decision Support sub-system – for monitoring, reporting and exhaustive “what if” analysis
without performance impact on the real time system; and
 ADMS QA/Staging sub-system – for network model staging and quality assurance of data model
changes before they are applied to other environments. It comprises a wide variety of data sources
and business processes related to updates of the network model.

Schneider Electric has developed the Model Promotion process to update the network data model in the
control room environment in a safe and controlled way, with a minimal user interruption. The solution
allows easy configuration of this process to satisfy various requirements and utility business process.

Beside abovementioned sub-systems, additional ADMS systems can be deployed to support training,
testing and development tasks.

Each system is typically deployed in a network segment – security zone, separated from other
environments by firewall(s).

All ADMS application server components utilize Microsoft Windows Server operating system. The ADMS
system components leverage many Windows Server features such as the .NET, SQL Server platform,
Windows security infrastructure, and other.

SE ADMS system architecture supports open and scalable configurations and enables smooth expansion
as well as easy maintainability. The solution can be deployed on physical servers and/or it can be
virtualized using Microsoft Hyper-V or VMWare vSphere hypervisors.

High availability of the solution is achieved by utilizing a ‘no single point of failure’ architecture philosophy.
From the software architecture perspective, the failover of any fault tolerant component must be
immediate and seamless to the users.

SE ADMS system is built on recognized and established cyber security standards to provide a highly-
dependable, defense-in-depth security model. The cyber security features are consistent across all ADMS
applications and services and provide a highly secure environment which only allows authorized users to
interact with the ADMS system.

Microsoft Active Directory provides a common platform to manage users, roles, authorities and
permissions, with the highest level of security, reliability and security rules compliance (NIST, NERC CIP).
SE ADMS applies: defense in depth security model, network segmentation, perimeter protection, system
hardening, identity and access management, data confidentiality, logging and auditing, etc.

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3 DYNAMIC MIMIC DIAGRAM
Dynamic Mimic Diagram (DMD) is multiple-view user interface aimed to visualization of supply and
distribution substations, HV, MV and LV network, as well as to efficient management and monitoring of
the distribution network state. DMD provides both views of the distribution network: schematic and
geographic diagrams. DMD can be run in:

 Real-time mode (dispatcher clients operating distribution network in real-time)

 Simulation mode (operation analysis and planning engineers, maintenance engineers, network
planning engineers and dispatcher training simulator).

Basic functionalities of DMD are:

 Graphical network presentation (schematic, geographical and SCADA view).

 Panning, zooming, scrolling and pilot window control network navigation.
 De-cluttering levels: a mechanism by which the visibility of graphical elements depends on zoom.
 Easy and quick network search by element name, ID, corporate-wide ID and type.
 Network tree view display and browsing.
 Window management: multiple windows can be used on the same monitor and screen displays.
 Saving / restoring windows layout.
 Ability to visually distinguish substation area or a group of feeders of interest.
 Distinctive network area coloring according to various criteria.
 Detailed view of all network elements: basic, dynamic, catalog data and geographic.
 Displaying DMS analytical application results each time the network state has been modified.
 Issuing equipment manipulation commands using SCADA integrated windows.
 Overview of SCADA-related information.
 “Save case” management – loading and saving specific set of dynamic data values in simulation.
 Action log
 Printing and export of diagrams and reports.

Figure 3.1 – ADMS Software User Interface

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4 DISTRIBUTION NETWORK BUILDER
Network Builder is a set of graphical user interface applications, which are used for creation and
management of an electrical network model. It is aimed for creating, editing and deleting of values of
network elements attributes, their connectivity, and finally, their graphic representation in form of a
network diagram. Network model created with the Network Builder is used by Dynamic Mimic Diagram
(Operating client)

Network Builder consists of the following sub-applications:

 Network View Editor is a graphical tool used for creation of network diagram. Different types of views
are supported: composite, geographic and substation view. With Network View Editor, the user
imports, creates, draws and arranges elements.
 Edit Toolbox provides the following:
o Edit electrical (electrical importing of an element implies that its graphical representative will
be generated at the same time).
o Edit graphical (graphical drawing of an element means that it already has a representative in
the electrical model).
 Catalog Editor is a tool which provides creation, deleting and editing of catalogs. Catalogs are used
for entering data related to power equipment, which were obtained from the Utility.
 Symbol Editor is used for creation of elements presentation. It enables the user to create and modify
shapes of distribution network elements.

Figure 4.1 – Network Builder window

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5 INTEGRATIONS
ADMS data model is an object–oriented power network data model similar to Common Information Model
(CIM), but slightly changed and extended with additional classes and attributes needed for ADMS
algorithms and their graphical representations in views. Solution for various integrations with external
systems is based on:

 IEC 61968 – Basis for developing message payload standards for exchanging information between
independent systems and applications concerned with distribution management and market
operations. XML schemas based on the CIM are defined for each message payload defined in the
61968–x series of standards,
 IEC 61970 – Basis for exchanging power system network models that are used in energy
management systems and market systems. RDF schemas derived directly from the CIM UML models
are used to define the information content for these exchanges as an XML document.

Integrations enable exchange of both static and dynamic data:

 The static data is referred to the network data model and it is mostly related to network connectivity
model and all network elements which are within such model.
 The dynamic data as a subset of model information that include: measurements, statuses of devices,
tags, temporary elements, etc. Also, the results of ADMS function belong to dynamic data.

Integration of ADMS with other applications is usually project specific and mostly depends on customer
needs.

Customer Provided ADMS Computing

Computing Environment Environment
As-buil d n etwork mo del
(bulk load & incremental upda tes ) NFS
IEC 619 70/619 68
share

Notification – export is read y

GIS Ada pte r

Weather Weather
Ada pte r
Service
ESB (CIM 61968 messages)

Pre dicted outage s

OMS Ada pte r

Switchi ng & ope rati on cha nges
Plan ned & real ou tag es
ADMS
Loa d p rofi les & SE
MDM System load snapshot
Ada pte r CIM/XML
Ada pte rs WCF ADMS
Ops ch anges

Mobile
Ada pte r
Device App
Switchi ng plan & map

eMail
Messag es & notifica tion s
notifica tion Ada pte r
Ser vice

Notification – export is read y

EMS Ada pte r

Sub station export NFS

IEC 619 70
share

Figure 5.1 – Possible CIM based integrations with various external systems.
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6 ADMS ANALYTICAL APPLICATIONS SYSTEM
DMS Analytical Applications System is the "intelligence" of ADMS Software. This system is a fully
comprehensive set of sophisticated software and algorithms that enable the most efficient design, optimal
operation and decision making referring to the whole equipment installed in the distribution network. DMS
Analytical Applications System enables performing practically all technical tasks in Distribution Utilities in
the following modes of application:

 Core DMS applications

 Network Operation Control applications,
 Network Operation Planning and Optimization
 Network Operation Analysis
 Network Development Planning
 EMS applications
 Web based applications (Mobility)
 Training

All analytical applications are developed on the basis of algorithms specially aimed for distribution
networks, which enable performing both analysis and optimization of operation and development of very
large radial and weakly meshed distribution networks. The system is based on the Network Model and
consists of number mutually compatible applications, organized as modular libraries. Such organization
provides very simple individual upgrading, extension with new applications and adjustment to any new
customer requirement.

Figure 6.1 – DMS Analytical applications

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6.1 Core DMS Applications
Network Model is in the background of ADMS applications, providing electrical definitions of all network
elements, connectivity and models for calculation (balanced or unbalanced networks).

Load Flow application is used for the calculation of steady states of radial and weakly meshed primary
MV networks, as well as state of secondary LV networks. The network state consists of: complex voltages,
currents, flows of real and reactive power, voltage drops, losses, etc..

State Estimation provides an assessment of loads of all network nodes, and all other state variables
(current phasors of all sections and transformers, active and reactive power losses in all sections and
transformers, etc.). The load profiles are derived on the basis of historical data, consisted of two groups:
1) Dimensionless daily load profiles for real and reactive power (P-Q) which are weather dependable, and
2) Load weights – peak values, supplied energies or rated powers of the equipment.

Performance Indices is used for detection of violations, alarm states, reports of the overall performances
of the network state.

Figure 6.2 – Performance Indices Report

6.2 Network Operation Control Applications

Switching Validations allows dispatchers to have an insight into the possible consequences of any
switching instruction at any time. This framework consists of tools used for creation, display, modification,
maintenance, validation and execution.

Topology Analyzer provides an accurate insight into the actual topology of the distribution network. It is
a general tool for various topology analyses of the distribution network represented in form of graphs. On
the basis of network model, connectivity and switchgear statuses, application provides the network
topology that is necessary for running all other applications.

Temporary Elements introduces a limited set of temporary changes to the electrical model, for the
purpose of temporarily altering its connectivity. Temporary elements are typically introduced by load
operators which order their placement by a field crew, to temporarily isolate a part of the network being
repaired or re-energize consumers whose supply cannot be restored by other means.

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Tracing performs simple graph analysis on user request. It performs topological tracing from a user-
selected point in the network, and highlights the elements encountered on the path. Methods of tracing
include: trace up, trace down and trace in both directions.

FLISR (Fault Location, Isolation and Supply Restoration) presents collection of tools used for detection,
location, isolation of faults and restoration of supply for all de-energized customers. FLISR can be used
in manual semi-automatic and automatic mode.

Fault Location supports detecting location of the fault. It calculates locations where faults could have
occurred by analyzing the fault pattern, available real-time information acquired from field devices,
including, fault indicator outputs, fault magnitude at various locations on the feeder, and protective relay
tripping.

Element Isolation determines which switching manipulations are needed for isolating selected element.

Supply Restoration used for determining an optimal plan of switching actions for restoring supply on the
de-energized part of distribution network.

Large Area Restoration determines the plan for restoration of the supply of large parts of the network,
which remained de-energized after a fault occurrence on a supply transformer or busbar in supply station
or after isolation of an element for the maintenance purpose in supply station.

Switching Management is set of tools used for creation, display, modification, maintenance, validation,
execution and printing list of switching actions and Switching Orders (SO). Switching validations are
available through whole SO lifecycle and it can be started automatically before execution. SO represents
an official document, with all necessary information needed for performing required switching, issued to
a responsible person in the field.

Crew Management is responsible for the book–keeping of any crew related data. It keeps the in–memory
image of all crews and their respective locations, manages the configuration of valid values for crew types
and statuses, supports the workflows related to crews, and archives the chronological changes of any
crew–related data to the historical database.

Distributed Generator Management is a set of functionalities that are used for management of
distributed generators (DGs) in a distribution network.

Load Shedding manages different types of disturbances which can occur due to lack of generation or
overloads in network. The power value of loads which need to be restored is estimated according to their
pre-estimated values of power. Loads can be disconnected in a prioritized order, where priorities are
configurable.

Work Order Management is intended for management of switching procedures and all activities related
to planned maintenance works, relevant work/safety documents, data storage and requested reports and
displays.

Under-Load Switching simulates the process of under-load network reconfiguration load transfer and
offers possible solution for this operation. The goal of reconfiguration is to transfer load from one feeder
to another through a normally open tie switch, without supply of any consumer on both feeders.

Load Relief provides multiple switching plans to transfer specified amount of circuit loading to adjacent
circuits. Each switching plan is evaluated by using unbalanced load flow analysis to determine if a
particular switching plan would cause any violations.

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Dynamic Equipment Rating is used for monitoring and prediction of network thermal state. It is applied
for calculation of thermal ratings of substation transformers, overhead lines and underground cables,
based on actual or forecasted loading and ambient temperature.

Model Readiness determines level of current distribution network preparedness for advanced ADMS
power applications. The main goal of this application is deriving model readiness quality of observed
network.

6.3 Network Operation Planning and Optimization

Near Term Forecasting is used for forecasting of load diagrams for the next 15 minutes up to 24 hours.
Forecasted load curves of the entire network are provided, or forecast only for the selected areas, down
to feeder measurements.

Short Term Forecasting is used for forecasting of load diagrams for the next 1 – 7 days. Forecasted
daily load curves of the entire network are provided, or forecast only for the selected areas, down to feeder
measurements.

Electrical Vehicle Monitoring is used for monitoring of electrical vehicles and e-car stations located in
the distribution network. This application provides information about number and location of electric
vehicles, their status and active power consumption, so that their impact on distribution network can be
monitored and analyzed.

Volt/VAR Optimization is used for control in distribution network operation. As such, it allows
management of voltages and reactive power flows in distribution network, while operating in centralized
way on the whole considered sub-network (HV substation or HV/MV transformer), rather than on the local
level as it is possible with local controllers.

Network Reconfiguration determines the optimal radial distribution network configuration regarding to
optimization objective (minimal active power and energy losses; maximal reliability; best load balance or
best voltages profiles). Reports about improvement of operation performances and reduction of losses
are provided, as well as switching sequence for transfer from existing to optimal state. Analysis of
influence of every switching action on improvement of network performance is possible, enabling selection
of only limited number of switching actions that give highest improvement.

6.4 Network Operation Analysis

Reliability Analysis is used for calculation of the reliability indices in network. It deals with planned and
unplanned outages, calculating SAIDI, SAIFI, ENSI, CAIDI, CAIFI…

Fault Calculation, for chosen type of fault, provides detailed calculation of all fault parameters (voltages,
fault currents), as well as different network analysis in fault state (simulation of chosen type of fault in all
networks nodes, simultaneous faults, etc.).

Relay Protection is used for analysis of operation and sensitivity, setting/coordination of protection relays,
getting insight into placement of protections, efficient overview of all protection features etc. All analyses
are performed for specified network state, topology and selected location and type of the fault. The
application deals with over-current, over-voltage, under-voltage and bimetal relays, fuses and reclosers
in distribution networks.

Adaptive Relay Protection provides changing of active setting group on remotely controlled
microprocessor relays regarding network topology and conditions. Adaptive relaying also provides
sending necessary control signals after network topology changes to relay controllers in supply stations.
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Breaker/Fuse Capacity is used for checking capacity of circuit breakers and fuses in distribution
networks. The main goal of this application is to provide simple and user-friendly checking of the switching
device capacities for the given network topology and considered pre-fault state.

Energy Losses provides calculation of energy losses in network (active and reactive losses) up to LV
busbars, for specified configuration and time period, for a part or a whole network. It includes daily load
curves for all types of loads and measurements for each typical day in a selected period.

Figure 6.3 – Energy Losses – Results in report for selected part of network

Contingency Analysis assesses whether the network could ‘survive’ and operate within technical limits
of state variables without load reduction. It is based on the ‘n-1’ criterion and used for analyzing faults in
specified network elements and testing the possibilities of providing the re-supply to the de-energized
consumers.

Harmonic Analysis application is used for analysis of harmonics influence in MV and LV networks.

The purpose of Phase Balancing application is to find the final phase swapping scheme to balance an
unbalanced feeder system with minimum cost.

ADMS is available on Low Voltage. The following applications are available on LV: Network Model, State
Estimation, Load Flow, Performance Indices, Energy Losses, Fault Calculation, Breaker/Fuse Capacity,
Reliability Analysis, Network Reconfiguration, Planning, Operation Losses and Phase balancing.

Historical application (Historical server and the corresponding Historical database) provides the insight
in the activities and events of the electrical network in the past. The time stamp and the user are recorded
for every activity or event in ADMS system. Historical database is populated with data from ADMS
database associated with the time stamp and user data.

6.5 Network Development Planning

Long-Term Forecasting provides load forecast for the future period of several years, based on sequence
of annual data of entire network. The results of this application are used for long-term planning of the
network development.

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Medium-Term Forecasting is used for assessment of the sequence of annual peak loads of large areas
or entire network, for a future period lasting few months or years. The results are used for medium-term
planning of the network development and assessment of required investment in the future to achieve
sufficient energy quality.

Capacitor Placement is used for determination of optimal locations, types, sizes and switching status of
capacitor banks, which have to be installed in network for the purpose of reactive power compensation,
real power losses minimization, reduction of the reactive power supplied from transmission network,
power factor correction and voltage profile improvement.

Voltage Regulator Placement determines the optimal locations for the placement of additional regulation
resources in order to reduce the voltage drop in critical points of the networks.

Network Development Planning determines an optimal plan of network development for the coming
medium and long-term period on the basis of multiple scenarios and possibility of their comparison. It can
be run on any saved topology on top of real-time data of the network, taking into account the optimal
dynamics of installing new elements.

Network Automation is used for planning of automation of MV distribution networks, necessary for
improvement of the service reliability. Tasks are: to find the optimal solution for selected equipment, how
many equipment and on which location to apply, to achieve selected target, respecting cost/benefit
analysis, available investment budget, selected time period, etc.

Network Reinforcement is used for reinforcement of network elements, including supply substations,
secondary substations and checking of the technical and security criteria.

Customer Connection provides verification of newly added distributed generators or consumption. It

provides insight into network state when new customers are connected to the network. Main resources
for customer connection are generators and consumers.

6.6 HV EMS (Energy Management System)

The EMS and DMS are parts of a single platform. This allows calculations to be part of the same real-
time context, and most of the components, except the calculation algorithms, to be shared. Applications
available on HV network are

EMS State Estimation is assessment of loads of all network nodes and all other state variables,
considering values of telemetered data

EMS Power Flow is used for calculation of steady state of radial and weakly meshed MV and LV networks

EMS Performance Indices provides insight in state of balanced 3-phase transmission network for
particular topology of transmission network and specified generation and load conditions.

EMS Contingency Analysis is used to simulates outages in real-time and assesses whether the system
can survive them

EMS Voltage Stability is used to analysis of voltage stability (critical voltage drop) under increased
loading of network or selected corridors.

EMS Fault Calculation is used for calculation of network state with fault.

EMS Optimal Power Flow is used for calculation of optimal control strategy (generation, interchange,
voltage control) to achieve maximal operational benefits

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EMS Optimal Topology Change is used for elimination of violations and optimization of losses in
transmission network by means of switching.

EMS Breaker Capacity is used for capacity checking of switching device in the actual network topology
or for studied states. This function can be used for design and selection of a new circuit breaker.

EMS Reactive Reserve Monitoring monitors individual and total reactive power reserve of specified
transmission network generators and capacitors dividing reserve into three types: spinning, quick start
and replacement reserve.

6.7 Mobility
The Web Dynamic Mimic Diagram is a lightweight, read only version of DMD application, primarily aimed
for use in corporate environment. Web client solution enables user to view current network state, telemetry
data, topology coloring, load flow results, work orders, crew management, and incidents. The application
requires no additional software installation on client machines.

Field Crew module provides dispatching of field crews to Incidents, Switching plans, Safety documents,
as well as maintenance of the crew data.

Figure 6.4 – ADMS Web DMD

6.8 Training
Dispatcher Training Simulator provides a training capability that realistically models the distribution
network and interacts with the trainee, as in dispatcher center. Simulator prepares data and simulates
events during the training. Trainees’ responds to simulated events and his/her actions are tested,
evaluated and possibly improved.
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7 OUTAGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
Outage Management module is organized as the component of ADMS product, which presents single
product on single platform, with single data model, single UI, single Web infrastructure and single
integration platform for all SCADA, Distribution management and Outage management functionalities.

The main dispatchable object in ADMS Outage management component is named Incident:

 Incident contains and represents everything what requires operator awareness and dispatching, i.e.
SCADA sustained or momentary outage, confirmed or unconfirmed outage, non-outage disturbances,
planned work, load shedding outage, unlocated incident (geo information known only), etc.
 Incident collects trouble calls (call center, IVR or any third party source), smart meter events, outage
portal notification, stores the prediction results, tracks affected customers and customer outage
statistics, tracks predicted and confirmed damages or generally speaking problems in field.
 An operator dispatches field crews to Incident record using ADMS Crew management component
with embedded optimal dispatching module. All switching operations performed in incident lifecycle
are recorded and restoration statistic is calculated and tracked down to individual customer location.

Figure 7.1 – Outage Management module’s results

Outage Management can be divided into following logical units:

 Customer Data Management - responsible for storing all individual customer data within the ADMS
and exposing them to the other components. This includes the personal customer information and as
such is often subject to strict auditing and data security,
 Call Management - responsible for recording trouble calls and smart meter events. It keeps the real-
time image of the currently active calls, smart meter events, and callbacks. It keeps and processes a
large number of trouble calls supportin high activity scenarios, without affecting the performances,
 Incident Management - responsible to assist operators in efficient dispatching of outages, non-
outage problems and all other works. It tracks the information about power disturbances in the network,
organizing the response to the disturbance into a user-friendly, efficient and safe workflow.
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8 SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC DMS COMPANY AND REFERENCES
Schneider Electric DMS NS is the company in Schneider Electric covering research, development and
software engineering in electrical power systems, especially devoted to ADMS. Company gathers over
1000 experts in power and computer engineering from Novi Sad (capitol of Vojvodina region, north of
Serbia), with strong relations with University and Power Utilities of Vojvodina.

Figure 8.1 – Schneider Electric DMS Business building

ADMS solution has been deployed in 80 Utilities worldwide.

Figure 8.2 – ADMS references worldwide

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Contact
Company Name: Schneider Electric DMS NS LLC Novi Sad

Address: 25 A, B, C,D Narodnog fronta St.

Zip Code: 21000

City: Novi Sad

Country: Serbia

Phone: +381-21-488-3600

Fax: +381-21-488-3789

E-mail: office@schneider-electric-dms.com

Web site: www.schneider-electric-dms.com

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