Substation Synchronization Token System for Data Consistency
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods for synchronizing signal information between substation configuration description (SCD), remote configuration description (RCD), and monitoring backend database in intelligent substations rely on manual operations, leading to inconsistencies and difficulties in maintaining data consistency, which hampers real-time modifications and coordination between these systems.
Innovation Solution
A synchronization system utilizing 'synchronization tokens' and 'modification tokens' ensures data consistency by managing the modification process, where a synchronization token includes necessary signal information and a modification path, and a modification token includes modified information and paths, enabling accurate and efficient data synchronization between SCD, RCD, and the monitoring backend database.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If manual operation is used to modify SCD, RCD, and monitoring backend database, then flexibility in modification is maintained, but data consistency between these files cannot be guaranteed
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a synchronization server as an intermediary component that coordinates modifications between SCD, RCD, and monitoring backend database files. The server receives modification requests, generates synchronized update operations, and ensures all files are modified consistently, thereby maintaining data integrity while preserving operational flexibility through a centralized control mechanism.
2Reliability
If automatic synchronization is implemented between SCD, RCD, and monitoring backend database, then data consistency is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The synchronization system is segmented into distinct functional modules: a synchronization server for coordinate control, SCD synchronization modules for configuration file handling, and monitoring backend database synchronization modules for signal information management. This modular architecture reduces overall system complexity by assigning specific responsibilities to each component while maintaining automatic synchronization across all files.
Solution Approach 2:
The synchronization server acts as a mediator that manages the complexity of automatic synchronization by centralizing the coordination logic. It receives modification requests from any source, generates appropriate synchronization operations, and distributes them to relevant modules, thereby simplifying the overall system architecture while ensuring data consistency.
3Productivity
If real-time synchronization is achieved between SCD, RCD, and monitoring backend database, then coordination efficiency is improved, but time consumption for modification increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-generating synchronization operation sequences and preparing update packages before actual modifications are needed. The synchronization server maintains a ready-state configuration that can be quickly deployed across all files, reducing the actual modification time while ensuring real-time synchronization when changes are required.
Solution Approach 2:
The synchronization system maintains continuous readiness to synchronize by keeping the synchronization server and modules in an active state, with pre-established communication channels and ready-to-execute synchronization logic. This continuous preparedness enables rapid response to modification requests without incurring setup delays, thereby improving coordination efficiency without significantly increasing modification time.
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AI summary
The present disclosure provides a synchronization system and method for a substation monitoring backend database, an SCD, and an RCD. The system includes: a synchronization token management unit, an SCD synchronization module, an RCD synchronization module, and a monitoring backend database synchronization module. The synchronization token management unit is configured to send or reclaim modification tokens, only at most one of which can exist at a time, and send a synchronization token.