IEC 61850 MMS Client Driver Unlimited Device License + 1 Year License Maintenance
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The TOP Server® IEC 61850 MMS Client driver provides a communication interface for devices used in power distribution supporting the IEC 61850 over MMS protocol, including secure certificate-based connections to OPC DA, OPC UA, and AVEVA SuiteLink client applications.
IEC 61850 is a modern electrical substation communication protocol designed to decrease data management effort. It uses symbolic addresses to reduce time intensive data mapping of numerically addressed protocols, supports self description services for online data configuration and validation, and includes metadata in addition to real measured data.
The IEC 61850 driver offers an easy, secure, and reliable way to read and write data for devices in power distribution applications supporting IEC 61850 over MMS through client applications HMI, SCADA, Historian, MES, ERP, etc.
The driver is available in a lite version for up to 10 devices for tight budgets and a full version with no limit on number of devices. Also available as a standalone real time data driver or as part of the TOP Server Power & Utilities Suite, a vertical industry suite bundling common power and utility drivers.
Only need to connect a handful of devices? See the 10-Device License.
Everything you need to get started, configure, and troubleshoot your driver
Software Toolbox Knowledge Base
- MMS Read/Write Operations – Full support for MMS read/write operations for solicited data access
- Unsolicited Information Reports – Support for MMS unsolicited Information Reports for event-driven data updates
- Unsolicited Information Reports – Support for MMS unsolicited Information Reports for event-driven data updates
- IEC 61850 Control Operations – Special handling for IEC 61850 control operations including reads and writes
- Configurable Reporting – Ability to enable or disable unsolicited reporting from devices with configurable buffer size and playback rate
- High-Resolution Timestamps – Millisecond timestamp resolution preserved from device data for accurate time-series information
- Data Buffering – Buffers incoming reported data to smooth out bursts and prevent data loss on burst events
- ✔Maximum Capacity -Maximum 256 channels and 256 devices per channel (practical limits depend on system resources and architecture)
- ✔Secure SSL/TLS Connections -Certificate-based authentication with central certificate store (supported from v6.16 onward)
- ✔Solicited Data Access-On-demand polling via MMS Read and Write requests for precise data control
- ✔Unsolicited Data Reports – Event-driven updates from devices via MMS Information Reports for real-time data
- ✔Automatic Configuration – Automatic tag/database configuration from device or from imported SCL file (.cid, .icd, .scd)
- ✔Report Control Blocks– Automatic enable/disable of Report Control Blocks (RCBs) on device for efficient data management
- ✓ACSE Authentication – Association Control Service Element (ACSE) authentication support for secure device communications
- ✓Automatic Device Configuration – Auto-build tags by reading device's self-description or import from SCL file (.cid/.icd/.scd)
- ✓Selectable Functional Constraints – Selectable functional constraints for tag generation with option to mark tags as polling-only
- ✓Edition 2 ICD Support – Support for tag generation from Edition 2 ICD files for modern substation devices
- ✓Controllable Object Writes – Advanced control writes with attributes (orCat, orIdent, ctlNum, Test, Check) for IEC 61850 control models
- ✓Object Blocking Support – Support for controlling blocking/unblocking of data objects for maintenance operations
Modern Substation Protocol
IEC 61850 reduces data management effort with symbolic addressing and self-description services
Secure Communications
SSL/TLS certificate-based authentication ensures secure connections to critical infrastructure