CIR Control Room Lab

Overview of Services

The CIR Control Room Lab

• The CIR Control Room Lab is an innovative vision of a large-scale, seamlessly integrated Power System Control Center of the future, featuring an integrated training room and facilities that emulate end-to-end control systems.
• Research activities include control center of the future; big data, particularly integration framework of GIS systems, applications of precise timing provided by GPS system of satellites; synchrophasors and synchronized sampling technology for T&D applications and ;cyber-physical security with emphasis on interactions between different critical infrastructures.
• Capabilities are integrated training room and facilities emulating end-to-end control systems including substations and communication network and; ability to continuously monitor certain sites in various grids through actual or virtual substation equipment.
• Currently, faculty/researchers/consultants can make reservations for:
• Computers in control room
• Display systems in control room
• Training room (in combination with projector and computers)

Leadership

Tom Overbye|Lab Director/Professor
overbye@tamu.edu

Miroslav Begovic|Asso. Lab Director/Professor
begovic@tamu.edu

Location and hours of operation

Links and Resources

1. TAMU Smart Grid Center
2. CIR Control Room Lab

Contacts