FASTapps™ Feeder Automation

FASTapps Animated Demonstration

Instructions: click the play button to play or restart the animation from the beginning; the stop button halts the animation.

FASTapps offers a number of advantages over competing automation schemes:

• FASTapps adapts to any abnormal network configuration in real–time.
• Works with existing switches and protection schemes.
• Expands to an unlimited number of feeders or devices.
• Slashes restoration times to less than 20 seconds, dramatically improving SAIDI, SAIFI, CAIDI.

Unlike other feeder automation schemes, FASTapps doesn’t rely on pre–defined and scripted solutions that may not suit a particular outage condition. It can act automatically or can be configured for semi–automatic or advisory (manual) operation.

Best of all, FASTapps is built upon proven technology. It is a full–function version of the ACS control–center based FDIR application that has been deployed successfully worldwide.

• Reduce outage durations from hours to seconds through automatic isolation and service restoration, and devise a “return to normal” switch plan that guarantees no violations or further service interruptions.
• Dramatically improve permanent outage statistics - SAIDI, CAIDI and SAIFI, transforming the majority of the service interruptions to momentary outages.
• Reduce voltage losses and improve power factor.
• Launch a Smart Grid strategy with a program that brings practical, proven results.

FASTapps does this by consolidating network intelligence and the power of advanced distribution applications in a substation data concentrator platform. The ACS Connex 30 Substation Manager, integrated with the new FASTapps processor in a distributed architecture, gives command–and–control capabilities, including “self–healing” feeder networks. Optional applications include loss reduction through volt/VAr control and real–time performance index calculation. FASTapps can also support homegrown or third parties applications.

Building the Smart Grid starts with a distributed approach to automation. FASTapps is an open, powerful substation platform—the industry’s first model–based self–healing grid solution.