July 19, 2007 - KSGL or Kalki Substation Gateway family of products has been enhanced with a new product model addition: CANOpen Gateway Version. The Kalki CANOpen Gateway is ideal for connecting existing or new CANOpen devices to the Kalki Gateway and then use for control and monitoring functions over IEC 61850, IEC 104, IEC 101, DNP3 and the various other protocols supported by Kalki Gateway.The CANOpen is an open family that provides speeds of 1 Mbps bandwidth on the CAN interface, and one can connect maximum 255 devices on the bus. This provides for very fast data acquisition and an open interface for device connectivity.
CANOpen supported IO devices are readily available in the market from many vendors and are priced very good for automation requirements, compared to integrated controller with IO's.This product provides a suitable open platform for system integrators and OEM's to connect off-the shelf IOs to a protocol gateway and provide integrated solutions to customers. One is no longer dependent on the controller and IO's from the same vendor for your IO requirements as well as controller requirements.
The Kalki Gateway can be easily configured to support remote as well as local LAN communication capabilities, and can be connected to the local HMI on any of the supported protocols or OPC.Currently the protocols supported include IEC 61850 Client and Server, DNP3 Master / Slave, DNP3 TCP Master/Slave, IEC 60870-5-101 Master/Slave, IEC 60870-5-104 Master/Slave, IEC 60870-5-103 Master / Slave, Modbus RTU Master/Slave, Modbus TCP Master/Slave, ICCP Client/Server, SPA Master, Courier Master and many more.
The future support include IEC 61400-25 for Wind Energy Applications.Kalki CANOpen gateway is intended at the Energy market, especially Substation up-gradation and monitoring, Distributed Energy Resources and their monitoring and control applications as well as Oil & Gas automation requirements especially in pipe-lines and remote monitoring applications.