GRIDBEATS™ INTEGRATED DIGITAL SUBSTATION (IDS)

Revolutionize energy management and optimize the grid with GridBeatS™ IDS

GridBeats™ IDS gives you access to the right data and the flexibility to adapt to evolving grid challenges. With IDS, you can simplify the design, configuration, and maintenance of substations. It merges real-time data analytics with OT, helping boost efficiency and reliability, while reducing deployment times by 40%.

GridBeats™ IDS also integrates with an array of technologies, including Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs), controller applications, configuration tools, and cybersecurity — empowering operators where it matters most.

All of this is made possible through substation digitalization — transforming protection, automation, and control functions from hardwired, analog systems into integrated digital architectures.

IDS is part of GridBeats™ — a portfolio of software-defined automation solutions for grid digitalization that’s designed to improve adaptability, visibility, and control over the grid.

Adapt to Inertia Demands

GridBeats™ IDS enables you to manage and rapidly respond to grid inertia demands, mitigate against sudden increases/decreases in power demand, and cope with changes in power supply if a generator goes offline.

Slash Substation Numbers and Upgrades

GridBeats™ IDS helps reduce the need to construct or upgrade substations by enabling you to use your existing infrastructure more efficiently.

Harness Multiple Functions in One IED

GridBeats™ IDS lets you use multiple app functions within one IED — significantly lowering costs and complexity. In the near future, it will also allow operators to remove IEDs and other hardware from substations.

Benefit from Top-down Engineering as Standard

GridBeats™ IDS features top-down engineering tools that help you ensure consistency between solutions and increase control over individual assets.

CONFIGURATION TOOLS

IEC 61850 top-down engineering

CENTRALIZATION

Centralized and hardware agnostic
Applications ready for virtualization

ADVANCED APPLICATIONS

Software-defined for protection, automation & control (PAC) systems

IEC 61850 BASED TOP-DOWN ENGINEERING

GridBeats™ DSS Software delivers an IEC 61850–based, top-down engineering workflow to configure and manage substation automation systems—integrating GridBeats™ SCT, ICT, GridBeats™ Device Management (DvM), and embedded GridBeats™ cybersecurity into one cohesive environment.

GridBeats™ IED Configuration Tool (ICT) is the software for GridBeats™ APS and MU360 engineering. It is used to configure, parameterize, monitor and maintain IEDs, facilitating user operations in the substation.

GridBeats™ System Configuration Tool (SCT) enables holistic configuration of the substation system and communications. Leveraging IEC61850 standard advancements and XML-based specifications, GridBeats™ SCT automates configuration and supports a faster, future-proof engineering process with reduced errors. This approach – driven by both utilities and IEC 61850 standard – -is increasingly becoming the norm in substation engineering.

TURNING GridBeats™ IDS INTO MEASURABLE VALUE

Reduced Capex

GridBeats™ IDS improves the monitoring and performance of aging infrastructure through greater use of non-operational data. This reduces the need for additional hardware and improves maintenance outcomes.

Lower Opex

GridBeats™ IDS allows easy and fast upgrades of new grid automation applications, simplifying engineering in the face of limited resources and an aging workforce while enhancing grid resilience. GridBeats™ IDS reduces engineering time by delivering substation, bay, IEDs templates, along with system & and network configuration.

Standardization

GridBeats™ IDS provides standardization, interoperability, and user experience enhancement. It simplifies the design, deployment, and maintenance of substations through a top-down system configuration tool, while enabling expedited upgrades of communications, cybersecurity, and applications.

Faster Deployment

GridBeats™ IDS utilizes standardized and simplified engineering tools in system design, configuration, and commissioning. By reducing engineering complexity and reducing manual effort, it enables faster, more efficient deployment of substation systems.

Improved Life Cycle Management

GridBeats™ IDS reduces the number of IEDs by centralizing apps in an expedited software development system. The reduced IED count enables better design options and facilitates easy integration of SAS Software Applications (HMI, PLC, GTW).

Increased Workplace Safety

GridBeats™ IDS supports a digital, software-defined environment that reduces reliance on physical interaction with substation equipment. Remote access, centralized configuration, and streamlined workflows limit time spent on-site, lowering exposure to hazardous conditions and improving overall workforce safety.

WE’RE HERE TO HELP YOU

GridBeats™ is a portfolio of AI-powered software-defined automation solutions for grid digitalization, developed by GE Vernova with an unmatched heritage of transforming physical infrastructure with digital technology.  

GridBeats™ gives you the resilience, visibility, and flexibility to solve your challenges today — and meet the demands of tomorrow.  

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