About us…

Merit scada automation pvt ltd ( ISO 9001:2008) is a leading system solutions and electronic Manufacturing company
providing SCADA Solutions for Indian Railways – 25 KVA Traction power Distribution , Substation SCADA for
Substation Automation and Unified Utility wise Traction Monitoring System (UUTMS) Solutions for monitoring and
controlling various Traction load factors(Telemetery). We provide SCADA solutions on turn key basis which includes
Design , engineering , supply , erection , testing and commissioning of RTUs ( Remote Terminal Units ) with RCC
( Remote control center ) along with SCADA-SOFTWARE

Merit is a approved vendor by RDSO for providing SCADA Solutions for Indian Railways , other vendor approved for
scada by RDSO are ABB, CMC, ..etc. So our complete SCADA System technology design and developed in line with
above said approved companies and up to international standards.

Merit scada has been floated by experienced techno crafts who are already providing material handling solutions for
Major Coal, cement and Petro-coke industries from our group company called Merit technologies India limited for the
past 12 years

Merit taken over M/S SANMAR ( Chemplast group ) – Chennai and M/S HART – kolkatta who are in this Scada
business with technology, goodwill..etc to further strength the technical capabilities

Complex project management capabilities

Since its incorporation in 2002, merit has an enviable record of successfully building SCADA Solutions for Railway - 25
KV Traction Power Distribution covering number of Traction substation ( TSS ) along with SP. SSP for long distance
railway network of more than 400 KM controlled by a Single Remote control center(RCC )

We have executed more than 12 SCADA Projects all over india consisting of 12 RCC and approximately around 300
RTU’S to control and monitor 7000 Trction KM Take for instance just three of the many major Turnkey projects
undertaken by us:

SCADA For control and monitor 25 KVA Traction Power line From Sitarmpur-Jaja-Asansol of TAsansol Division of
Eastern Railway for the distance of 260 KM consisting of 32 Substation From Remote control center ( RCC) -
ASANSOL.
SCADA For control and monitor 25 KVA Traction Power line From PALASA to BADHREK and sidelines Of
Kurdha Division of East Coast Railway for the distance of 371 KM consisting of 52 Substation From Remote
control center ( RCC) – KURDHA ROAD.
SCADA For control and monitor 25 KVA Traction Power line From Jarsiguda-Chakraderpur-Tatanager and
sidelines Of Chakraderpur Division of Southeastern Railway for the distance of 371 KM consisting of 46
Substation From Remote control center ( RCC) – CHAKRADERPUR.

End-to-end solutions capability

We manage turnkey projects, and have built, managed and supported our customers for their complete
SCADA Solutions Since we are having the design , Developing and implementation capabilities of
Hardware and software for their requirements and also provide strong service support.

• Our Systems Integration (SI) unit develops applications and integrates them across diverse
hardware and software platforms

• Our project Team perform site erection , testing and commissioning activities

• Our Customer Services Provide after sales support.

• Our Education and Training unit provides IT education and training to users.

Extensive domain expertise and

technological competencies
We have proven expertise in a wide array of applications, including real-time systems, online systems,
embedded systems, process control data communications, networking and parallel architectures.

We achieve this with the help of our Resource pool of engineers trained in diverse technologies;

We also have a large competency pool that works on emerging technologies and competency areas.

We are ISO-9001:2008 certified Company that is what gives us an edge in complex, high technology
products with high Quality.

Strong customer relationships

Merit's customer orientation and service culture lead to enduring bonds with clients. Our distinct value
proposition and service culture, coupled with our track record of successful service delivery, are reflected in
our long-standing customer relationships with dominant players in key infrastructure, services and
government sectors.

In the domestic market, we have established an extensive services network penetrating the remotest
geographical locations. This gives us an unmatched advantage in servicing customers with an all-India
presence, such as the railways and government entities and other organizations with countrywide
operations.

We are providing ON SITE service support for 12 Remote control center ( RCC ) and approximately around
400 RTU installed in various substations Spread in Various Divisions of INDIAN RAILWAYS which is
control and monitoring around 7000 km of RAILWAY – 25 KVA Traction power Line
Our Products …
MERIT has developed dedicated engineering solutions for the power sector. These are specially created to
meet the complex demands of a system operator with the responsibility for ensuring the quality and
reliability of power supply.

Flexible distributed architectures facilitate easy expansion based on the needs of the network. Our
applications are highly parameterized and configurable. They have been field-proven in various
environments, combining different sets of architecture and complexity. Their open architecture makes them
easy to configure for different sets of platforms.

Our power sector products include:

Traction scada - : Open SCADA kernel for control and monitoring 25 KVA Railway Traction Power line
from remote control center ( RCC ) – Real Time Application Software

Substation scada : Open SCADA Kernel for control and monitoring the Traction Sub Station
( TSS ) from substation itself and on demand transfer the data to the remote location – Real Time
Application Software

UUTMS : Open SCADA Kernel for monitoring instantaneous parameters from all the TSS Spread over
the entire state for controlling the load and share the load between various TSS depending upon the
Load Parameters like Maximum Demand Value ( MD ), Power Factor ( PF ),..etc received from
various make energy meters installed in Various Traction Substation TSS . The communication
between RCC and RTU is through line Modem as well as GSM Modem
Merit’s Traction SCADA for Indian
Railways
Keeping the critical requirements of the Railways in mind, MERIT has developed the standard electric traction SCADA
software (Traction scada) on the Windows platform to control and monitor 25 KVA Traction power line ( more than 30
substation spread over more than 300 km per installation ) by the railway operator from a centralized Remote Control
Center ( RCC ).

Pioneers in Railway SCADA :

MERIT is one of the few organizations who have been supplying Traction SCADA system to the INDIAN
RAILWAYS, since the past 11 years with more than 14 successful installations. Virtually any requirement of
SCADA system in railways is synonymous with MERIT.

Beginning with IRTU 3000/4000 (Technology Transferred from ALS-USA) system, MERIT has progressively
offered the railways, a SCADA system that is the software developed in Latest WINDOWS Platform and RTU
Off latest Phillips Microcontroller based PLC , technologically up to date with the best in the world.

Major Subsystems of SCADA:

Remote control center ( RCC ) : Consisting of 10 computers Named as Master, standby, FEP and OWS ( Operator
work station ) computers connected in dual local area network , The Overall SCADA Software has been split in to
different subsystems and loaded in the above named computers to perform their Specific Task

Remote Terminal Unit ( RTU ) : Merit Make RTU consisting of Micro controller based PLC ( CPU, DI , DO and AI ) ,
Power Supply, Catnery Modules, Contactors, MODEM and Energy Meter installed in various Substation like SP, SSP ,
FP and TSS collect the data relating to substation like Voltage, current , MD, PF, Open or Close Status of BM/CB’S ,
Catnery ..etc and perform the control operation like OPEN/CLOSE the BM and CB’S , Transformer Tape Changing ..etc
as per the requirement of the operator From Remote control center ( RCC). The WAN communication between RCC
and Various RTU is through Line Modem as well as through GSM.

Remote control center ( RCC )

Work Master Front end Line modem/ WAN

station computer processor GSM Modem
N
computer
WAN Remote terminal unit (RTU) at Substations

Line modem/ RTU - CPU DI, DO, Sub

GSM Modem AI Station
MODULE Instrumen
Major Features of Traction SCADA
Systems:
The software consists of a set of closely interacting software modules that carry out the functions of real-time data
acquisition and supervisory control, data processing, handling operator interactions and report generation.

The functions of the SCADA system are:

• Acquiring Analog and digital data from field equipment
• Processing the acquired data Generating online alarms and events
• Control of circuit breakers and Interrupters located in the sub-station and switching stations
• Logging the data relating to the field inputs in to the database
• Presenting the on line Graphical display of BM , CB and Catnery Positions
• Generating alarm, event reports and graphical reports for Voltage, current, PF and MD
• Automatic localization of faults

Traction scada software sub process:

• FEP Process
• Control process
• Network Process
• FTX Process
• DBS Process
• OWS Process

FEP Process:
This sub-system resides in the FEP Computer. It handles data acquisition from and control to the field.
Tele-metered parameters like voltage and current are captured using remote terminal units (RTUs), which
are connected to suitable field instrumentation like meters, transducers, etc. The acquired data is processed
to make it relatively protocol-free and is updated in the local database. The changed data (report by
exception) is sent to the main sub-system.

The dual-redundant FEP provides a high reliability to the field interface. When the host system fails, the
FEP continues to acquire data from the field and buffers it locally. After the re-establishment of
communication with the host, this buffered data is uploaded. This provides the end-user with the exact
timing details of status events.
CONTROL Processes:
Some of the analog, discrete and accumulated values received from the field may be raw values. They are
converted to engineering values, based on pre-defined equations, using linear, non-linear look-up tables.
Each point in the system can have a separate equation depending on its field connectivity. The calculated
values are also checked for their validity. Reasonable values are passed on for further processing.

NETWORK Processes:
This is process control and monitor the data transfer between various subsystems through TCP/IP and
assigning the priory in data transfer between data loging and control output enabling process.

FTX Processes:
The system has a high degree of fault-tolerance, to handle failures at various levels in the hardware and
software modules. Redundancy is provided for all critical modules of hardware, such as FEP, master
system and software modules. If critical components fail — including a critical software task in the active
system — the standby system takes over within a few seconds.

DBS Processes:
Logging the Various field parameters and generating the report as per the requirement is controlled by this process . All
the analog , event and alarm data’s from the field is getting logged in a powerful SQL Database and this process
generates reports on system data. The software supports easy report configuration, with which a set of new
reports can be configured for each application. The operator can create and print reports on any logged
data, on demand. The system can be configured for periodic automatic printing of certain reports.

OWS Processes :

Monitoring and control of the user interactions with the field, is done through the Operator interface console
(OWS ). This full-graphic user-friendly interface provides acquired data through single line diagrams and
tabular formats.

The MMI is based on a Windows graphical user interface (GUI). It supports features like concurrent display
of multiple windows, resizing and positioning of windows, and multiple page display screens with scrolling.

This display consists of a real-time data presentation to the operator in full-graphic pictorial form, single line
diagrams / schematics, tables, lists, icons, graphs, text, user-defined symbols and dynamic data display.
Dynamic data on these pictures and tables are updated with the latest data on change.
SCADA System configuration:

Main Menu

Graphical
display of
substations

Open/close
Operation to breakers
 Report Generation:
Monthly, weekly, daily reports relating to Alarms, events and all
Analog
parameters will be generated from the SCADA System on
request from the scada
Operator. The report can be generated both in tabular form
as well as in the
graphical format

Report generation

Report

Graphical
Report Generation

Graphical report
 Remote Terminal Unit
RTU Back View RTU Side View

RTU Front View

OUR SITE MAP FOR SCADA SYSTEM TO INDIAN RAILWAYS:
Merit’s Power SCADA for
Substation
Open SCADA Kernel for control and monitoring the Traction Sub Station
( TSS ) from The Substation itself and on demand transfer all the stored data to a
Remote monitoring system . The versatility of the SCADA software makes it
appropriate and ideal software for substation automation For Control and monitoring
Various Instruments in the substation and Improved customer information access
relating to the substation.

Typical features of a substation SCADA system

are as under
• Control and monitoring the Breakers, Transformer Taping , Capacitor Bank
from a centralized system

• On line Monitoring Of Substation parameter Like Voltage, Current, Power

Factor, Maximum Demand , Active, Reactive power, Raising demand, Average
Power Factor, KVAH, KWH.

• Display all the above parameters in on line Graph Formet

• Generating Alarms for Instantaneous Parameters Like High & Low Voltages
High Current , High Transformer temperature , OCR, DBR, WBC Alarms from
Feeder CB.

• Generating Alarms for Instantaneous Parameters like PF and Maximum

Demand ( MD) for One third and Two third Values for allotted Values

• Storing all the Events and Alarms in a database and generate the report for
Hourly, Daily, Monthly as per the request

• Storing all the Engineering Parameters In a database and generate the report
for both in Tabular and Graphical Form in Hourly, Daily, Monthly format as
per the request

Additional features of substation control system

• Demand side management
• Volt/VAR control
• Preventive maintenance
 • Fault detection isolation and restoration

Remote control center & substation control

Merit’s UUTMS for Indian Railways
Keeping the critical requirements of the Railways in mind, MERIT has developed the standard UUTMS software on the
Windows platform to monitor all the Energy Parameters from Traction Sub Station (TSS) Spread over entire
division From centralized Remote Control Center ( RCC ).

Technical Description of UUTMS:

The UUTMS System - From Remote control center (RCC) enables the Traction Power Controller (TPC) to monitor the
simultaneous integrated maximum demand of a number of traction sub station ( TSS ) falling with in a state electricity
board. He can also monitor Various Parameters like Instantaneous Voltage (V ), Current ( C) , Maximum demand ( MD
) , Power factor ( PF ) , Raising demand ( RPF ) Average power factor (APF) , Present KWH Reading, Present KVAH
Reading, Present KVARH Lead Reading, Lag Reading from Various Traction Sub Stations ( TSS ) Spread over entire
Division.
Major Subsystems of UUTMS:
Remote control center ( RCC ) : Consisting of 4computers Named as Master, standby, OWS ( Operator work station )
computers connected in dual local area network , The Overall UUTMS Software has been split in to different
subsystems and loaded in the above named computers to perform their Specific Task

Remote Terminal Unit ( RTU ) : Merit Make RTU consisting of Micro controller based CPU and Engry Meter, GSM and
Line Modem collects the data related to TSS like Instantaneous Voltage (V ), Current ( C) , Maximum demand ( MD ) ,
Power factor ( PF ) , Raising demand ( RPF ) Average power factor (APF) , Present KWH Reading, Present KVAH
Reading, Present KVARH Lead Reading, Lag Reading through RS232/485 Port and transmit the online Data to RCC
Through Line Modem / GSM Modem

Major Features of UUTMS Systems:

• Acquiring Analog data from Field
• Processing the acquired data Generating online alarms and events
• Logging the data relating to the field inputs in to the database
• Presenting the on line Graphical display of relating to all Analog Parameters
• Generating alarm, event reports and graphical reports for Voltage, current, PF and MD