Hydro One Networks Inc. (HONI; Toronto, Ontario, Canada) has chosen the Relay Settings System (RSS) by Innovative Organizational Systems Inc. (IOS; Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.) to manage its protective relay settings. As part of this implementation, IOS will provide data migration services, customized security and workflow implementations.

HONI, which is responsible for 97% of Ontario's electricity transmission system, needed a centralized system to store, track and distribute the nearly 130,000 protective relay settings within its territory. HONI will use an enterprise-level implementation of RSS to provide integrated security and workflow, streamlining its settings approval process.

Canadian regulations require specific parties to be involved in the approval process when new settings are issued. RSS enables HONI to automate this task as well as provide accountability by recording audit trails. RSS will be used to provide easy accessibility to internal departments and external customers and agencies, such as the local distribution companies (LDCs). LDCs are accountable for the relay settings protecting HONI's feeders, and will use RSS to review these settings. Web-based access will remove a cumbersome phone, fax and paper-based system often involving three to four handoffs before data is provided to the LDCs.

RSS is a Web-based relay management system that provides users with template-based relay creation, integration with popular relay vendors, as well as integrated workflow and document management. Using XML and Web services, RSS easily integrates into large corporate networks. Hydro One plans to exploit this integration capability to streamline relay testing and storage of test results.

The system is expected to go live in 2004.
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