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Where should you start with substation virtualization?
The answer doesn’t have to be protection and control.
Virtualization promises to reduce dedicated hardware, simplify maintenance and deployment, and give utilities greater flexibility in how substation functions are operated. But moving from conventional architectures towards a fully software-defined substation is not something that happens overnight.
There is a pragmatic place to start: the station level.
In this joint webinar, Anton Krupskii from Welotec and Stefan Hufnagl from COPA-DATA explore how utilities can take their first practical steps into substation virtualization by virtualizing established station-level applications such as HMI and RTU functions with zenon.
We’ll look beyond the individual applications and discuss the bigger picture:
- How conventional, digital and virtualized substations differ
- What virtualization means from station level to process level
- Which station-level functions can already be virtualized today
- How zenon enables virtualized HMI, RTU and automation functionality
- Why the underlying computing platform matters in a long-lifecycle OT environment
- How utilities can move step by step from today’s architectures towards the software-defined substation
The goal is not virtualization for virtualization’s sake. It is to find a practical, manageable path that utilities can start today, while understanding that virtualizing increasingly critical PAC functions brings additional requirements.
Join us to explore how the station level can become the starting point for the substation virtualization journey.
