Welcome to the IEC 61850-8-1 Training Course, a comprehensive course designed to help engineers, technicians, students, and power-system professionals understand the communication technologies used in modern digital substations. IEC 61850 has become a key standard for substation automation, protection, control, monitoring, and intelligent electronic device (IED) communication. In this course, you will develop a structured understanding of IEC 61850-8-1 and learn how different communication services work together in an IEC 61850-based system.
The course starts with the fundamentals and gradually moves toward practical and advanced concepts. You will learn how ACSI services are mapped to MMS and Ethernet communication, giving you a clear understanding of how IEC 61850 information is exchanged between IEDs and client systems. You will explore MMS communication, Logical Nodes, Data Objects, Data Attributes, Common Data Classes, Functional Constraints, datasets, reporting services, and control services. These concepts are essential for understanding how IEC 61850 represents and communicates substation information.
A major part of the course focuses on GOOSE communication. You will learn the purpose and structure of GOOSE messaging and understand its importance for fast event-driven applications such as protection, interlocking, control, and substation automation.
