Orion Automation Platform

The Orion Family of Automation Platforms—OrionLX, Orion5rL, Orion5r and Orion5—are designed to perform a range of automation applications in electrical substations. A single Orion may be configured to replace multiple legacy boxes in a substation—reducing hardware, design, wiring, and panel costs.

Pre-configured point pick lists for most vendors' intelligent electronic devices (IEDs), extensive diagnostic LEDs and a built-in communications analyzer reduce integration time and errors. In contrast to other automation processors, Orion software features and configurations are seamlessly transferable from one generation to the next.

Orion's balance of versatility and ease of use have made it the leading flexible substation automation platform* and the choice of 100 new utility customers in the past five years.
* Newton Evans, 2008

Typical Applications

Orion Smart RTU The Orion Automation Platform can be configured as a "Smart" electrical substation RTU. Equipped with SCADA and IED communication protocols, modular communication cards and software features, Orion can obtain nearly all of the discrete and analog data from IEDs and present it to one or more SCADA masters. Rugged Orion Distributed I/O modules are available to connect to inputs and outputs not available from IEDs.

Orion Secure Substation Gateway The OrionLX and Orion5rL models are equipped with powerful security features, including user password groups with varying privileges, firewall, secure protocols, key management and logging, all engineered to meet or exceed emerging NERC CIP requirements. This secure Orion front end can replace expensive secure routers and firewalls.

Orion Math and Logic Controller Orion offers a toolkit to logically and arithmetically manipulate any data point retrieved from any IED, adding intelligence to alarming schemes and reducing the need to process data downstream. The optional Orion LogicPak module provides five preconfigured logic operations: And, Or, Negate, Primary-Secondary, and LocalRemote. Configuration is accomplished using drag-and-drop without any scripting.