iControl Demo Setup

April 2017
iControl Demo Setup
Please, follow the steps below:

1. Unzip the iControl.DEMO.v5.zip file (password: “igrid”)

2. Execute the “iControl.exe” file located in the “bin” folder (iControl.DEMO.V5\iControl\bin)
3. The following message is displayed:

Select “Cancel”.

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4. The “User Management” window is displayed. Enter the following user & password:
• User: admin
• Password: admin

5. Then press “Ok”

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6. iControl main window will open:

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7. Left-click the “Play” button on the top-left side of the iControl screen and select the “Simulate” option:

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9. The simulate window is then displayed:

10. Set “Value” field to “1”.

11. Click “Send” button.

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12. The demo simulation is started (now you can close the simulate window)

In order to stop the demo simulation, left-click over the “Stop” icon  select the “Simulate” option 
Set “Value” = 0, and the demo will be stopped.

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Click the “Fit to screen” option in the iControl toolbar in order to fit the entire schemas/drawings to
your screen area.

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iControl Demo: Command windows
• Click the components (circuit breakers and isolators) in the “66kV Overview” screen in order to open the command
windows.

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iControl Demo: Command windows & Pop-ups
• Commands will be enabled/disabled depending on the pre-configured logic & interlocking rules.

• In the above command window, the “OPEN” command is enabled (command button with black text color) and the
“CLOSE” command is disabled (command button with grey text color).
• By clicking on the “Interlocking” button in the command window, iControl opens a pop-up window with information
about the configured logic & interlocking rules.
• Command windows can be customized by the user.
• User can configure any schema to be displayed as a pop up window.
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iControl Demo: Change to other schemas
• In order to change to another schema:
• click the top tabs, or
• click the top-right side buttons:

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iControl Demo - Listings
• Open the iControl listings (active alarm lists, sequence of events list, alarms acknowledgment list, etc.) from either:
• the iControl Runtime toolbar, or
• the top-right side buttons

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iControl Demo - Charts
• “Feeder 1 Charts”, “Feeder 2 Charts”, “Feeder 3 Charts”, “Trafo 1 Charts”, “Trafo 2 Charts” and “Bus Coupler Charts”
schemas contain some examples of embedded charts:

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iControl Demo - Charts
• Schemas with embedded charts can also be displayed as pop-up windows.
• For example:
• change to “66 kV Feeder 1”, and click the following image:
• A pop-up window will be displayed with the embedded charts:

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iControl Demo - Charts
• Real-time charts (floating window charts) can also displayed by left-clicking any of the measurement boxes:

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iControl Demo - Charts
• Different measures can be added to the same real-time chart:

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iControl Demo: ALC
• The iControl ALC (Automatic Line Coloring or Topological Coloring) functionality allows easy automatic coloring of
electrical lines based-on topology of the grid and voltage level. Lines (busbars and connections) and graphical
components (circuit breakers, isolators, transformers, etc.) are colored using pre-configured colors, based-on the
energization status: energized (under power), not energized (not feeded), and grounded.

• In the energized case, the lines and elements may be colored using two modes:

• Energy-based: coloring according to voltage level. Lines may be displayed in different colors depending on voltage
level.
• Flow-based: coloring according to the power flow. This mode allows viewing power flows (one single color per
flow) when lines are energized. For example, this mode allows to display the part of the grid being supplied by
the same incoming feeder with the same color.

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• The user can switch between the ALC viewing modes by clicking the “Energization mode” button in the iControl
toolbar:

Energy-based (E) mode is Flow-based (F) mode is

selected. Click this button in selected. Click this button in
order to switch to Flow-based order to switch to Energy-
(F) mode. based (E) mode.

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• By default the iControl demo uses energy-based ALC viewing mode.

• Colors for all energization status are configurable by the user. In

this example we have used the following:
• Green: energized (under power) color for 66kV lines.
• Blinking grey: not-energized (not feeded) color.
• White: grounded color.
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• If switching to flow-based ALC viewing mode.

• Energized (under power) colors used for the different flows in this demo:
• Flow 1 in blue (feeder 1)
• Flow 2 in light blue (feeder 2)
• Flow 3 in orange (feeder 3)
• Blinking grey: not-energized (not feeded) color.
• White: grounded color
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