Software solutions for the next-generation power system

Unlock the potential of your power system devices.

Reliability. Safety. Efficiency. These objectives remain constant, yet the power system continues to change. Today’s utilities and power system operators face complex challenges, from integrating renewables to supporting the growth of data centers. Meanwhile, they have thousands of devices to manage and an unprecedented amount of data to parse. These challenges demand innovation—solutions that can capture and transform a vast amount of data into actionable insights and intelligent automation.SEL Blueframe is a secure software platform, purpose-built for managing large fleets of devices, visualizing and analyzing their data, and deploying automation and control solutions. It’s a platform that can be installed anywhere, on premises or at the grid edge. And it leverages the 40 years of experience SEL has in engineering digital power system devices and expanding the types of data they produce. 

Explore the software solutions available on Blueframe.

Device Management and Automation (DMA)Streamline device management and automate the collection of device settings, passwords, logs, reports, and disturbance data. The Blueframe DMA solution provides centralized, role-based access to device data and settings to simplify your day-to-day fleet management, compliance, and auditing efforts.
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Distribution Management System (DMS)Control wide-area distribution systems and minimize outages with the Blueframe DMS solution. Easily build and scale automated solutions, such as fault location, isolation, and service restoration (FLISR). Automate configuration using geographic information system (GIS) data, or draw your system with an intuitive graphical interface.
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Wide-Area Monitoring System (WAMS)Improve system visibility and real-time analytics using high-resolution time-series data, including synchrophasors, oscillography, point-on-wave data, and GIS geospatial data. The Blueframe WAMS solution provides powerful visualization and analysis tools for operations control centers, delivering actionable insights that complement traditional SCADA and energy management system (EMS) software.
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Network Management System (NMS)Simplify and centralize the configuration, management, and telemetry monitoring of your operational technology (OT) software-defined networks, all from one intuitive interface. The NMS solution accelerates accurate deployment of proactively traffic-engineered, deny-by-default networks for enhanced performance and cybersecurity.
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Automated Fault Analysis (AFA)Accelerate event analysis through fault locating and data aggregation. Blueframe AFA applies calculations and algorithms to device event records at scale, helping reduce manual analysis effort. Leverage system-wide data and historical trends to identify potential risks, prioritize preventative actions, and streamline regulatory reporting.

Learn more about the individual applications that form our solutions.

Calculations
Configure and apply complex calculations to streaming power system data.
Configuration Monitoring
Automate checks of active device settings, firmware versions, and device IDs. Securely move collected settings to a settings management repository for a settings version comparison analysis.
Configuration Monitoring Archive
View collected settings versions, firmware, and device ID variances. Identify devices that may not match company records for active configuration and require corrective action.
Credential Management
Automatically rotate device passwords on custom-defined schedules, either directly or through SEL security gateways. Ensure device access security with random and complex passwords and more control over when passwords are rotated.
Credential Management Archive
View Credential Management reports to verify that scheduled resource passwords have been changed to support audit compliance efforts. Additionally, access resource credentials securely to aid emergency restoration efforts.
Custom Monitoring
Schedule automated collection of files or command results from supported devices. Specify which files or relay reports to collect from devices and store in an aggregated location.
Custom Monitoring Archive
Access your files, tagged with user-defined labels, for use by analysis or visualization tools.
Direct Resource Access
Securely connect to individual field devices through permission-based access sessions by using this Blueframe management tool. View device-specific data and settings, issue commands, download files, and more with a secure, remote engineering access interface.
Disturbance Monitoring
Define data collection plans for end-point devices using the Disturbance Monitoring application. Enable automated collection of event oscillography and SOE data for supported resources in a centralized location to quickly initiate fault restoration.
Disturbance Monitoring Archive
Visualize collected data to view past events. Use predefined views and custom filters to select information pertinent to your task and download reports for detailed analysis in event analysis tools.
DMA Diagnostics
System communications and service logs give system administrations complete visibility into Blueframe DMA plan interactions with configured resources. This provides insights into the underlying processes, reducing downtime and improving operational efficiency.
DMA REST API
Gain secure, authenticated programmatic access to a RESTful API for integration with third-party business tools.
DMA Settings
Manage global Blueframe DMA settings related to hard drive storage, data retention policies, and resetting Blueframe DMA-related data.
FLISR
Continuously monitor the distribution system and provide fully automated service restoration. See the system status at a glance using a built-in graphical feeder topology. Additionally, issue behavior controls and view data from field devices.
Meter Monitoring
Streamline voltage sag, swell, and interruption (VSSI) and load data profile (LDP) data collection, and centralize data storage.
Meter Monitoring Archive
Verify up-to-date collection of LDP and VSSI data. Review VSSI records, and download segments of LDP data.
Model Data Import
Import geographic information system (GIS) or common information model (CIM) data to automatically configure your power system model for visualization, analysis, or automatic applications. The Model Data Import application makes it easy to scale and update large systems with numerous assets.
Oneview
Visualize all real-time and historic streaming power system data in one location using customizable dashboarding and panels.
Power System Model
Easily configure a power system model for visualization, analysis, or automation applications. Draw your system, define asset connectivity, and associate measurement points using a simple graphical interface or imported model data.
Protocol Services
Collect and concentrate data from electronic devices and remote systems by using common power system and industrial communications protocols. All collected data are made available for use in Blueframe applications and can be mapped to a server connection for SCADA, HMI, or automation scheme integration.
Resource Management
Organize and manage device resources across the Blueframe platform. Define resource instances and key attributes and configure connection parameters to enable data collection and appropriate association of collected data.
Signal Data Export
Export power system signal data in CSV and COMTRADE formats.
Advanced Visualization and Trending
Visualize real-time and historic streaming data. Advanced visualization panels include: Bar Chart, Data Table, Dial, Histogram, and XY Chart.
Alarming
Receive notifications that provide visibility into active and historic power system conditions.
Base Visualization and Trending
Monitor real-time and historic streaming data. Base visualization panels include: Digital Chart, Numeric, Phasor Scope, and Time-Series Trend.
Custom SVG Diagrams
Visualize custom SVG diagrams that can dynamically update based on real-time or historic data.
CWS Receiving
Collect continuous waveform data for visualization and archiving.
Generation Trip Detection
Detect significant system-wide frequency drops, and identify the closest measurement point to the event. 
Geospatial Visualization
Visualize power system assets and the location of power system conditions geospatially.
Linear State Estimation
Use network configuration and direct measurements to improve observability and calculate the topology and state of the power system to support decision-making.
Modal Analysis
Characterize low-frequency electromechanical oscillations by estimating mode frequency, damping, and relative mode shape from synchrophasor measurements.
Oscillation Detection
Detect and characterize sustained oscillations in power system signals.
Oscillography Viewer
View event records that are time-aligned with streaming data.
Phase Angle Monitoring
Monitor phase angle differences across the power system.
PMU Receiving
Collect IEEE C37.118 and IEEE 2664 STTP data for visualization and archiving.
PT Failure Detection
Monitor three-phase voltage signals for anomalies that may indicate a failing instrument transformer.
Threshold Monitoring
Monitor various power system signal types, such as frequency, voltage, phase angle, power, and other derived quantities, for changes in condition based on configurable thresholds.
Time-Series Historian
Archive all time-series data streaming into a system with configurable data retention parameters.
Virtual Metering
Transform continuous waveform streaming data into actionable metering quantities, power quality indicators, and warning notifications to solve difficult power system problems.

Discover the features and benefits of the Blueframe platform.

Leverage Your Wealth of Data

The Blueframe platform enables you to collect, visualize, and analyze a variety of data, including event reports, synchrophasors, point-on-wave data, load profile data, and device settings and statuses. Seamlessly share this centralized information across multiple solutions, allowing you to control wide-area systems, automate reporting, monitor your system in real time, investigate disturbances, and more. 

Deploy and Scale With Ease

Built for flexibility, Blueframe supports installations of any size. You can deploy it at the grid edge using rugged SEL computing platforms or virtualize it on server-grade hardware at centralized locations. Across all deployment options, Blueframe provides a consistent user interface and seamless data exchange. Using modular applications, the platform scales according to the growing needs of your system.

Lead With Cybersecurity

Blueframe is built on a hardened, Linux-based operating system that minimizes the attack surface and simplifies patch management. The platform includes several measures for preventing unauthorized access and the installation of untrusted applications. Additionally, robust role-based permissions allow you to easily define need-to-know access across your organization.

Simplify System Configuration

To increase efficiency and minimize the risk of entry error, Blueframe shares configuration data between applications. Configure user, system, security, and communications settings once using a shared web-based interface, and those settings are applied across all relevant software solutions. 

Explore the technologies that are driving innovation on Blueframe.

Synchrowave Technologies

Continuously stream, archive, process, and visualize a variety of time-domain data, ranging from synchrophasors to synchro-waveforms. Now integrated into Blueframe, Synchrowave technologies provide advanced streaming and historian capabilities, allowing you to easily navigate between historical and real-time data at any level of time resolution. Seamlessly zoom between year-long trends and live-streamed oscillography, or open triggered event reports for deeper analysis. Synchrowave technologies offer powerful visualization and analytics tools, enabling you to automatically detect power system oscillations, identify impending PT failures, analyze harmonic distortion, calculate energy packet measurements, and more.
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