Electricity + Control December 2020

TRANSFORMERS, SUBSTATIONS + CABLES

At a glance 

Conet is an LAN network developed to enable plant operators to bring field data back to the control room or supervisor’s office most cost‑effectively.  A primary feature of the technology is its ability to operate on low cost cabling which, in many instances, is already available as a free pair in an existing multi-core or telephone cable.  The versatility of the network means it can be used to link any combination of supported hardware and software for data acquisition and control.

This versatility means the network can be used to link any combination of supported hardware and software for data acquisition and control purposes, as well as critical event- monitoring and remote field devices, in utility metering applications, for example. Whatever the application, using existing cabling and network infrastructure to build a high performance, secure, low-cost local area network is a viable prospect for many businesses. □

Conet incorporates high-performance features that make it a resilient technology. These features, combined with a 16-bit Cyclic Redundancy Checksum (CRC), automatic error detection and retransmission, mean Conet can be used to transmit data securely over a distance of 10 km in noisy electrical environments with a high degree of integrity. What’s more, it will work regardless of the existing cabling setup because it is not reliant on any particular topology. It can work in any configuration, from bus and star networks to redundant-link and ring topologies.

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