A new architecture for virtualized substation control and protection

VIRTEON aims to design a new generation of substation control and protection systems that eliminates structural limitations inherited from legacy architectures. Current systems are complex, rigid, and expensive because each function typically requires dedicated proprietary hardware, leading to multiplication of devices, vendor lock-in, and slow evolution cycles.

VIRTEON replaces this fragmented approach with a unified virtualized environment where multiple protection and control functions can operate on a single standardized computing platform, with redundancy ensuring the required level of operational security.

The system is designed to be significantly more cost-efficient, more flexible in terms of configuration and upgrades, and open to multiple manufacturers. By separating hardware from software, VIRTEON enables protection vendors to deploy their algorithms as applications within a common environment, allowing innovation without requiring replacement of physical equipment.

This approach directly addresses long-standing industry constraints by combining lower costs, greater adaptability, virtualization of functions, and an open ecosystem enabling multiple vendors to contribute protection solutions within the same platform.