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Why this page exists

Naming the equipment, not the capability

A consultant writing a specification names a part. A contractor answering that specification usually names a category. The gap between the two is where most technical clarifications are spent, and it is avoidable.

So this page lists the platforms and the modules we have installed and commissioned on live UAE plant, grouped by the two kinds of work they belong to. Where a project used something specific, that project's own page names it as well.

If your specification names something not on this page, it is worth a conversation rather than an assumption. Much of it is equivalent hardware from the same families, and we will say plainly when it is not something we have done.

Two stacks

Substation work and process work are not the same technology

Substation control and monitoring

Bay control units, protection relays, station gateways and the supervisory layer above them. This is IEC 61850 and IEC 60870 territory, delivered on energised stations for transmission and distribution utilities. The hardware is chosen by the utility far more often than by us.

Process, pumping and irrigation control

PLCs and RTUs in panels we build ourselves, driving pumps and valves through variable speed drives, reporting to a SCADA over DNP3 or Modbus. Here the controller choice is usually ours to recommend, and the panel is built and factory tested in our Mussafah workshop before it ships.

Substation systems

Substation automation platforms

  • C264 bay control units, including 90 units installed and tested at one TRANSCO grid station
  • Schneider Electric EcoFIT substation automation solution
  • PACiS substation automation system, Alstom and AREVA heritage
  • MiCOM protection relays
  • Hitachi Energy MicroSCADA supervisory platform
  • Hitachi Energy RTU500 series remote terminal units
  • REF615 feeder protection relays
  • Redundant station gateways to LDC, ECC and DMS control centres

Where these were installed

Projects that name their equipment

Each of these project pages lists what was actually installed on that job.

See all 19 delivered projects →

Controllers and RTUs

Controllers we have installed and programmed

Schneider Modicon is the platform behind most of our pumping and irrigation work, and we hold Schneider Electric approved system integrator status. These are the specific modules that appear across those projects.

  • Schneider Modicon M340, BMXP342020 processor with Ethernet and CANopen
  • Modicon M340 racks, BMXXBP0400, 0600, 0800 and 1200, including the hardened H variants for extended temperature
  • Modicon M340 power supply, BMXCPS3020
  • Digital input modules, BMXDDI1602, BMXDDI3202K and BMXDDI6402K
  • Digital output modules, BMXDDO1602 and BMXDDO3202K
  • Analogue input modules, BMXAMI0800 and BMXAMI0810
  • Analogue output modules, BMXAMO0210, BMXAMO0410 and BMXAMO0802
  • BMXNOR0200H RTU communication module, DNP3 and IEC 60870 telemetry
  • BMXCRA31200 Ethernet remote I/O drop adapter
  • Schneider Modicon M580 ePAC
  • Modicon Quantum, on legacy substation systems still in service

Common questions

Questions we are asked about this

Do you work with Siemens as well as Schneider?

We have worked alongside Siemens equipment on substation and energy monitoring projects. Our own approvals and the bulk of our programming experience are Schneider Electric, GE Vernova Proficy and PcVue, so if a specification is open we will usually recommend one of those and say why. If it names Siemens we will tell you honestly where that puts us.

Can you work on a platform you have not listed here?

Often yes, because most of this hardware belongs to families that behave alike, and integration work is as much about protocols and interfaces as about a badge. The honest answer depends on the specific model and on whether the vendor restricts configuration tools to their own engineers, which some do for protection relays.

Which SCADA software do you use for pumping and irrigation work?

PcVue most often, and we are a PcVue certified partner. We also work on GE Vernova Proficy, both iFIX and CIMPLICITY, and on Hitachi Energy MicroSCADA in substation work. The choice usually follows what the client already operates, because a control room that has to learn a second package is a cost nobody budgeted for.

Do you supply the drives and instruments as well as the controller?

Yes. Pumping projects typically carry Altivar variable speed drives together with the pressure transmitters, level switches, flow meters and gauges, and the panel that houses all of it. Supplying the chain end to end is what lets one company be accountable when a loop does not read correctly.

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