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Ensuring real-time processing and high availability in a virtualized environment.
Achieving vendor independence and an open, cooperative ecosystem.
Reducing hardware dependencies while maintaining strict operational requirements (e.g., cycle times of ~10ms for the fist step).
Industrializing and automating deployment across multiple substations.
What is R#SPACE ?
It’s RTE’s new generation PAC System : fully digital, IEC 61850-based and multi-vendor PACS.
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As a long-term goal, R#SPACE aims to virtualize all PAC functions. The first step has been the virtualization of the general substation function using SEAPATH as a real-time and high-availability hypervisor.
The first set of substation functions virtualized are :
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The initial deployment of SEAPATH in a 63kV substation has demonstrated successful operation since late 2023 with multiple the previous functions virtualized.
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Hardware deployed : ADVANTECH ECU 579 with x CPU and X Go of Ram
One additional substation was added deployed in 2024 and three more are planned in 2025. The long-term goal is to have 100 substations by 2030 fully leveraging SEAPATH for PAC virtualization.
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