DNP3 for Water Systems

SUEZ in North America

Suez Water New Jersey DNP3 Use Case

Keith Kolkebeck
 SUEZ
A world leader in sustainable management of resources
WATER WASTE
92 million people supplied with drinking water 52 million people benefiting from waste collection services
1,100 drinking water production sites 44 million tonnes of waste treated
10,000 water treatment plants in 70 countries 11.3 million tonnes of secondary raw materials
65 million people benefiting from sanitation services 46 incinerators for non-hazardous waste throughout the world
2,200 wastewater treatment sites

80,000
employees

€14.3 Billion
revenue in 2014

€74 Million
invested in Research

SUEZ – a single brand serving the circular economy

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 SUEZ in North America
Operating in all 50 States and Canada

3,500 employees 55,000 tons of

15 water utilities waste for recycling
Regulated by State
Utility Commissions

16,000 industrial 7.5 million people 84 public-private

water & wastewater partnerships – municipal
& municipal sites served water systems
for water treatment and Two concession agreements
advanced network solutions investing over $300 million

$
in infrastructure in partnership
with private equity firm KKR

Revenue $1.1 billion Benefiting from $80 million global

Manager of $3.3 billion
3| in total assets in 2014 research & innovation budget
Me!
• Director, Technical Services

• 10+ years of operational technology experience

• Joined SUEZ in 2007

• Responsible for operational technology strategy

for SCADA, GIS, Smart Water DMA, and
Operational Reporting.

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Agenda
• Protocol Overview

• SCADA Project Overview

• Protocol Requirements

• Protocol Demonstration

• Protocol Shootout

• Pilot Results

• Protocol Selection

• DNP3 Benefits and Challenges

• Lessons-Learned
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Monthly Reports
Well #1 Well #3 Well #4
Flow Flow Flow
Daily Avg Daily Avg Daily Avg
GPM GPM GPM
1-Aug-16 491.82 368.75 0.00
2-Aug-16 - - 0.00
3-Aug-16 574.96 290.93 0.00
4-Aug-16 9.20 469.95 0.00
5-Aug-16 652.28 367.20 0.00
6-Aug-16 542.23 50.50 0.00
7-Aug-16 562.00 243.29 0.00
8-Aug-16 533.81 415.22 0.00
9-Aug-16 - 407.06 0.00
10-Aug-16 650.68 350.93 0.00
11-Aug-16 591.86 39.65 0.00
12-Aug-16 643.78 398.66 0.00
13-Aug-16 125.45 - 0.00
14-Aug-16 561.42 331.79 0.00

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Experience

• DNP3
• Who has heard of DNP3?
• Does anyone use DNP3?

• Modbus
• Is everyone familiar with Modbus?
• Who uses Modbus?

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DNP3 Overview

• DNP3 – “Distributed Network Protocol” version 3

• A powerful protocol to transmit data from Point A to Point B using

serial and/or TCP/IP communications.

• Open and public protocol

• Developed in the early 1990s to achieve standards-based

interoperability between Master stations and substation computer
systems in the electric industry.

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Modbus Overview

• Request/Response protocol
MASTER
• A protocol to transmit data from Point A to
Point B using serial and/or TCP/IP
communications.
Serial or Ethernet
• Widely used and accepted

• Developed in the 1979

• Simple
SLAVE

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Project Overview
Remote Sites Overview
• 100+ remote sites monitored/controlled
• 93% of sites utilize a legacy (early 1980s)
RTU
• Combined sites with a legacy RTU with a
PLC
• 7% used a mix of PLC Brands
• Two distinct remote control systems

Long term needs

• Focus on data quality
• Modernize
• Standardize

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Project Drivers
Legacy RTU Risks
• Legacy technology
• Single Source
• Lack of local support
• Data quality
• Not Open

Operational Drivers
• Reliable and accurate data
• Growth
• Need for complex control
• High costs
• No documentation
• Support

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Legacy System

Positives
• Report by Exception
• Poll on Demand
• Redundant Comms.

Challenges
• Communication
• Equipment
• Data Integrity
• Support
• Costs

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Protocol Requirements

• Mandatory
• Supported open protocol
• Flexible communication
• Easy configuration
• Optimized Communications
• Slow the Poll

• Optional
• Time-Stamped data and events
• Provide report-by-exception

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Approach - Controlled Protocol Testing
Basic Test Setup
• Single RTU with Ethernet
Communication
• Programmed to generate a sine
wave
• Push Button Digital Input
• Modbus
 Poll Rate: 1 Second
• DNP3
 Class 1 Poll: 30 Seconds
 Analog Event: Deviation 1 Unit
 Digital Event: Unsolicited

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Test System

• ClearSCADA
• Data Concentrator
• HMI
• Historian

• RTU
• SCADAPack 334E

• Communication
• Digi Connect WAN IA on Sprint Network (It
was 2009!)

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Normal Conditions

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Loss of Communication

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Recovery of Communication

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Back to Normal

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Real World Test – Protocol Shootout

Protocols
 Modbus v. DNP3

Four month test period

Nine identical sites

 New RTU hardware
 Single communication channel

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Protocol Pilot Results
Feature Modbus DNP3
Open  
Active Support  
Multiple Data Types  
Serial Communication  
Ethernet Communication  
Ease of Use 
Data Retention during Comm. Loss * 
Time-stamped data * 
Report by Exception 
Data quality check 
Poll on-demand * 
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*Possible with programming
Pilot Results

• Communication issues

• Realized DNP3 Benefits

• DNP3 is complex

• Understood Modbus

• Able to make Modbus adapt

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Protocol Selection

DNP3
• Exceeded our basic requirements
• Clear Advantages
• Complex
• Our future protocol

Modbus
• Worked as expected
• Still had Data Gaps
• Custom programming required

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DNP3 Advantages

• Robust Communications

• Time Synchronization

• Time-stamped events

• Report by Exception

• Secure

• Communication costs

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DNP3 Flexibility

• Operating architectures • Communication

• Poll-Response • Redundant
• Polled report by exception • Seamless
• Unsolicited responses • Serial and Ethernet
• Peer-to-Peer
• Or any combination • Peer to Peer

• Multiple Masters

• Data Integrity

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However…..

• In over our heads

• Lot to Learn

• Local DNP3 support limited

• Blazing a trail?

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Prepare for Success

• Developed our skills

• Dedicated a resource
• DNP3 experts

• Refined our strategy

• Standardized

• Test, test, test

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Project Update

• 2009 – 2010 - Preparation

• 2011 - 4 year plan for 100+ site upgrade

• 2011 – 2013 – In house work

• 2014 – 2015 - Outside Vendor

• Project 100% Complete

• Keep Adding Sites

• Expand to other BUs

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Benefits

• Reduced communication costs

• Efficient operations

• Alarm management

• Data integrity

• Quick Deploy
• Templates in ClearSCADA
• Templates in RTU

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Here is the data!
Well #1 Well #3 Well #4
Flow Flow Flow
Daily Avg Daily Avg Daily Avg
GPM GPM GPM
1-Aug-16 491.82 368.75 0.00
2-Aug-16 636.91 408.35 0.00
3-Aug-16 574.96 290.93 0.00
4-Aug-16 638.80 469.95 0.00
5-Aug-16 652.28 367.20 0.00
6-Aug-16 542.23 358.38 0.00
7-Aug-16 562.00 243.29 0.00
8-Aug-16 533.81 415.22 0.00
9-Aug-16 645.23 407.06 0.00
10-Aug-16 650.68 350.93 0.00
11-Aug-16 591.86 309.87 0.00
12-Aug-16 643.78 398.66 0.00
13-Aug-16 653.16 360.84 0.00
14-Aug-16 561.42 331.79 0.00

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Lessons Learned

• DNP3 is powerful

• Planning

• STUD - Study, Think,

Understand, Do

• Data does not lie

• Optimization

• Repeat!

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Questions

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