Enhancing Efficiency with Intelligent Substation Control
Altek Solutions provides protection, control, automation, monitoring, and communication capabilities as part of a comprehensive substation control and monitoring solution.
Our systems are designed to seamlessly integrate intelligent electronic devices (IEDs), RTUs, and SCADA platforms, ensuring accurate data flow and real-time decision-making across all levels of your electrical network.
By combining proven technologies from our global partners with deep engineering expertise, we deliver reliable, scalable, and data-driven substation automation solutions that enhance grid visibility, improve asset performance, and strengthen overall system reliability.
Whether for new installations or retrofit projects, Altek Solutions ensures your substations operate efficiently, intelligently, and in full alignment with modern utility standards such as IEC 61850.
Our Approach
We take a data-driven, customer-centric approach to substation automation. Every solution is designed around real operational needs, leveraging proven technologies and international standards like IEC 61850 to ensure interoperability, scalability, and future-readiness.
Our Solutions
At Altek Solutions, we deliver targeted, high-impact automation solutions that strengthen control, visibility, and reliability across power networks. Whether modernizing existing infrastructure or deploying new systems, our expertise spans SCADA integration, protocol implementation, field device configuration, and digital retrofits. Each solution is designed with a data-driven approach and tailored to meet real operational needs — ensuring seamless integration, scalability, and long-term performance for utilities, industries, and EPCs across South Africa and the wider African region.
SCADA System Integration
We design and integrate SCADA systems that provide operators with real-time visibility and control over substation assets and networks. Our solutions enable seamless monitoring, alarm management, and data acquisition from multiple substations, helping utilities and industries make data-driven operational decisions. Whether for a single site or a complex regional network, we deliver reliable SCADA platforms that form the backbone of modern grid operations.
RTU Configuration & Commissioning
As a systems integrator with hands-on field expertise, we configure and commission Schneider Electric RTUs and associated equipment to meet specific operational and network requirements. Our process includes panel design reviews, factory acceptance testing, on-site wiring verification, and live integration with SCADA. The result is seamless communication and reliable data exchange between field devices and control systems, ensuring stable, scalable substation operation.
Real-Time Electrical Power System Integration
Real-time system integration often demands a complex interaction between systems and people. The power and versatility of our
platform combined with the vast knowledge and experience of Altek, we alleviate the complexities involved in orchestrating the
challenges of system integration while guaranteeing a successful implementation of your system automation project.
Integration Services
Altek provide turnkey solutions to tie your existing data acquisition system and metering equipment to our Real-Time applications.
- Integration strategy
- System modeling & development.
- Architecture & technology consulting
- Technology pre-study & piloting
- Enterprise systems connectivity
- Metering hardware evaluation
- Monitoring & control system design
- Visibility studies & system analysis
- Tag database interface implementation.
- Logic controller programming
- ETAP engineering certification
- Operator training
- Hardware installation
- Project management.
IEC 61850 & Protocol Implementation
Modern substations rely on robust communication protocols to function as integrated, intelligent systems. We implement IEC 61850, DNP3, and other industry standards to ensure interoperability between IEDs, RTUs, and control centers. This allows for faster response times, reduced engineering effort, and future-ready infrastructure that can adapt as networks expand. Our expertise ensures your automation architecture is not only compliant but optimized for performance.
Advanced State Estimation
- State estimation of non-observable subsystems
- Comparison of measured vs. estimated values
- Dependable & fast convergence solution
- Minimum system measurements requirement
- State-of-the-art estimation techniques
- Data consistency checking
- Bad data & error detection
- Load distribution
Benefits of our Approach
Automation Applications
- Automatic Voltage Control
- Synchronism
- Tap Position Monitoring
- Load & Bus Transfer
- Load Curtailment
- Capacitor Control Algorithm
- Substation Maintenance Mode
- Sequence of Event Recorder
- Fault Detection
Features
- Automatic supervision of interlocks
- Graphical presentations of safety procedures
- Local & global alarm & warnings
- Detect fault location – useful for distribution systems
- Equipment diagnostics
- Intelligent interlocking system
- Diagnostics of disturbances
- Automation with supervisory & advisory control
- Automatic supervision of interlocks
- Graphical presentations of safety procedures
- Local & global alarm & warnings
- Detect fault location – useful for distribution systems
- Equipment diagnostics
- Intelligent interlocking system
- Diagnostics of disturbances
- Automation with supervisory & advisory control
Address
10 Kingfisher Crescent, Meyersdal, Alberton, 1448
Phone
+27 (11) 439 8620
