SAS Laboratory

Central Power Research Institute has established state of the art protocol testing laboratory which is unique in its kind in this part of the world and is being catering to its customers to develop, test and certify communication protocol related to Substation Automation and Metering as per the International and National standards.

IEC 61850 is the first and only global standard that considers all the communication needs for a Substation. The standard defines strict rules for realizing interoperability between IEDs used for protection, monitoring, control and automation in substations environment irrespective of the make of IEDs and client tools.

The protocol laboratory of CPRI is equipped with the facility for conformance testing of IEC 61850 compatible devices. The latest versions of the test tools and test procedures are used for testing for conformance. This test facility is accredited by Utility Communication Architecture International Users Group (UCA IUG) as Level - A which means CPRI is an independent third party laboratory for testing of server devices for IEC 61850 compliance. CPRI is the first and only Institute in this part of the world to get this accreditation status for IEC 61850 conformance testing. The certificates issued by CPRI are accepted world wide.