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Smart Grid: 4G LTE Router for secondary substations

Jos Zenner

Published on 06 Jul, 2020

Smart Grid: 4G LTE Router for secondary substations
The integration of distributed energy resources (DER) and electric vehicles into the grid requires reliable and secure automation and connectivity for compact secondary substations. 4G LTE is the easiest solution for large scale rollouts in Smart Grids.

Welotec industrial TK800 Routers are made for the use in power substations

The rugged industrial design with a special focus on immunity in high EMC environments and enterprise IT features make the TK800 4G LTE Routers the first choice for critical applications in the energy sector.
The Welotec Routers are the right solution for high security and reliable connectivity in secondary substations.
 The secondary substation router aggregates traffic from various IEDs and RTUs and routes traffic to both primary and secondary regional Control Centers hosted by the DSO via 4G LTE. The router encrypts the application traffic using OpenVPN and IPSec tunnels for maintaining confidentiality of application data over the public network. The headend router in the DSO Control Center aggregates various secured tunnels from multiple substations and decrypts the encrypted traffic; the traffic is routed after decryption to various SCADA application.

Manage large scale of routers with Welotec Smart EMS

The Welotec Smart EMS is an Element Management System for structured rollout and maintenance of a distributed fleet of router. It allows a secure zero-touch provisioning, centralized security patching, firmware update and configuration management.

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Jos Zenner

Chief Technology Officer at Welotec GmbH

Jos Zenner is the Chief Technology Officer at Welotec GmbH and a member of the steering committee of the vPAC Alliance. He specializes in leading product management and R&D within the digitalization sector, with a particular focus on the electric grid and digital substations. His work leverages technology to accelerate the energy transition. As a thought leader with a profound understanding of the market, Jos Zenner is at the forefront of innovation in this field.

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