Digital information exchange technologies at electric power facilities of the railway transport and its cost-benefit

Abstract

Abstract This article provides the economic assessment of the application of digital in-formation exchange technologies at electric power facilities of Transenergo, a branch of the JSC Russian Railways, which is one of the first in the world to implement a pilot project of a specialized traction substation of the railway transport. One of the goals of the Digital traction substation project is a universal and scalable information infrastructure controlled by the uniform operation rules. A significant part of the economic indicators of the digital traction substation is advanced diagnostics of equipment, timely condition-based repair, increased reliability due to duplication of information processes of management and protection, modeling and forecasting of equipment operating modes and condition. In this article, the authors attempt to develop approaches to the economic assessment of the application of digital information exchange technologies at electric power facilities of transport and determine the most effective digitization level for traction substations.