Ethernet as a real-time network in a high performance distributed remote terminal unit

Rogério Paulo; António Carrapatoso; Fernando Gomes; Fernando Xavier

Rogério Paulo EFACEC Sistemas de Electrónica, S.A.
António Carrapatoso EFACEC Sistemas de Electrónica, S.A.
Fernando Gomes EFACEC Sistemas de Electrónica, S.A.
Fernando Xavier EFACEC Sistemas de Electrónica, S.A.

Resumo

The purpose of this presentation is to describe the ongoing work of evaluation and implementation of Ethernet as a real-time network. Ethernet would be integrated into a high performance distributed Remote Terminal Unit (RTU), the RTU500. Results of shared Ethernet performance tests are presented and an upper-layer proprietary protocol architecture is proposed.