Easy to implement because data requirements are simple and easily imported

Integrates to external systems because it supports industry integration standards and protocols

Easy to maintain because it flexibly supports different types of communications networks and third-party LTCs, regulators, and capacitor bank controls

Validates the operation of the communications messages through command response analysis

Integrated to several types of EMS/SCADA systems

Typical and recommended integration is via DNP 3.0 protocol

Will poll DNP data from the EMS/SCADA system via DNP 3.0 Master/Slave integration to retrieve substation data

Supports additional features that enable cost-effective maintenance and administration of an automated system. 

Tracks asset maintenance and troubleshooting information 

Automatically flags capacitor banks for testing, either due to a testing schedule or an identified operational failure

Will test the capacitor bank at light load during the middle-night by cycling the state of the capacitor bank and verifying the operation by monitoring the var value changes. If an unexpected var change is seen on one or more phases, the Yukon Volt/Var Management solution will flag that capacitor as failed

Will tolerate a number of stale device measurements based upon a utility specified configurable percentage

If 10% of the device measurements are stale, and the configurable percentage of stale device measurements is 20%, the Yukon solution will continue to analyze and operate the devices to which it continues to communicate.

If 30% of the device measurements are stale and the configurable percentage of stale device measurements is 20%, Yukon will disable automated control

Provides many standardized reports necessary for system administration

Yukon has a built-in, intuitive reporting interface that can mine any archived data from the database, along with useful configuration information

Report templates exist to present data regarding capacitor bank operations, alarms and conditions, excessive bank operation counts as well as the report identifying failed capacitor banks

Also reports on communications and operational statistics

Eaton recommends deploying Yukon in a three-tier computing architecture as recommended by NIST SP800-82

This architecture separates the database, application and presentation services to independent servers and trusted security levels within the utility

Firewalls are used to set up segregated zones and manage the flow of traffic between these zones

This architecture physically and logically separates the computing functions with the goal of preventing an unauthorized application from accessing field devices, and protecting the enterprise from the field

Can be deployed using the high availability, disaster recovery and backup processes already defined by the utility's IT team

A hierarchal relationship is established between the Yukon Volt/Var Management solution core services that provide a clean application shutdown and organized dependency failover if a failure of some type occurred

Microsoft SQL server 2014

Microsoft SQL server 2016

Oracle database 12c (64 bit)

Windows Server 2012 (with the latest service pack installed)

Windows Server 2012 R2 (with the latest service pack installed)

Windows Server 2016

Microsoft Internet Explorer 11.0

Microsoft Edge

Mozilla Firefox v54, 57

Google Chrome v62, 63