Alarm and Event Management

Visual T&D provides comprehensive alarm and event processing:

• Use binary state changes to trigger alarms or events
• Trigger alarms or events when analog values move out of their operational range
• Use logical data points to configure multiple ranges or low-low/high-high limits
• Built-in system alarms on loss of data source or time synchronization
• Built-in alarms on loss of data quality

Alarms and Events View

Use the built-in Alarms and Events view for immediate access to all important alarm and event information.

Alarms and Events view features:

• Events tab displays a chronological list of recent events and alarms
• Alarms tab displays a separate color-coded list of all current alarms
• Specify whether alarms should be acknowledged in their order of appearance or individually
• Scaled site layout view quickly determines position, state and acknowledgment status of any alarm
• Additional tabs provide filtered views of Blocked, Silent and Permanent alarms
• Notes tab is used to share information among operators
• Create additional tabs with filtered views of events or alarms
• Attach detail files to alarm sources in order to provide additional information or special operator procedures when an alarm is triggered

Notify users of significant alarms and events

Visual T&D can automatically notify selected users by email, SMS or pager, when alarms and events occur.

The event notification function offers the following capabilities:

• Select event categories—user or system events, alarms, device failures, etc.
• Select sources—internal or external data points
• Trigger notification by appearance, disappearance or acknowledgement of a conditions
• Set up filters to limit the number of notifications in avalanche conditions
• Add sequence of events to notification, directly in the message or as an attached file
• Assign notifications to individual contacts, by email, SMS or pager

Automatically retrieve event files

When used with Cybectec SMP Gateway Visual T&D can automatically retrieve event files from digital fault recorders and relays.

Visual T&D supports the following event processing capabilities:

• Automatically retrieve events from a growing number of devices, including DFRs and relays
• Convert event files to industry-standard COMTRADE format
• Use the search filter to simplify file browsing
• Display multiple channels simultaneously
• Extract channel data for processing and analysis
• Automatically notify selected users by email, SMS or pager, when event files are available