Eaton has strategically built a targeted set of automation applications that leverage our deep distribution system knowledge. Our grid-edge Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs) help utilities improve reliability, power quality and energy efficiency. Eaton expertise spans the areas of automation software, apparatus, communication expertise and IED management.

Eaton's GridAdvisor optical medium-voltage and current sensor system uses an all-optical measurement platform for unparalleled accuracy and precision of both voltage and current across multiple voltage classes. Available in a variety of easy-to-install packages with a standardized interface, Eaton’s optical sensors are the ideal solution to retrieve real-time site metrology and intelligence on today’s electrical distribution system, substations and underground distribution locations.

Eaton's Yukon Feeder Automation (YFA) software leverages real-time data to detect distribution system disturbances and automatically reconfigure the system for significant reliability improvement.

Eaton’s substation-grade SMP distributed I/O platforms are specially designed to meet the requirement for distributed I/O in modern utility substation automation systems. Both SMP distributed I/O platforms support binary inputs and binary outputs, as well as analog inputs. They operate with AC or DC voltage, and communicate using the DNP3 protocol over serial RS-485 or TCP/IP using fiber or copper Ethernet. Both platforms, the SMP I/O and the SMP IO-2230, can be integrated with the SMP Gateway or used as standalone I/O modules that connect directly to a DNP3 master station.