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IIT Roorkee · 27 October 2026 · Free registration

One-Day Workshop

Cyber Security Challenges in Distribution Power Networks

Illustration of a connected smart grid with substations, renewables and a city skyline
Smart Active Distribution NetworkIEC 61850 · IDS

Control, protection and cybersecurity of smart active distribution networks — expert lectures and a hands-on digital-substation demonstration at the PSSPL Laboratory.

Date
27 Oct 2026
Time (IST)
10:00 AM
Registration
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Organized by PSSPL Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Roorkee
in association with DST, India, GE Vernova, India, IEEE UP Section (India) and IEEE Roorkee Subsection
Department of Science & Technology, Government of India GE Vernova IEEE UP Section (India) IEEE Roorkee Subsection

What you will learn

Key highlights

IEC 61850

IEC 61850 implementation and interoperability.

Protection

Advanced protection and monitoring systems.

Configuration

Perform SV, GOOSE, BCU, DS AGILE and IED configuration.

Architecture

IEC 61850 station and process bus architecture.

Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity fundamentals for distribution networks.

Vulnerabilities

Cyber vulnerabilities in power distribution systems.

Detection

Detection of cyberattacks in cyber-physical power distribution systems.

Hands-on

Training demonstration of the developed IDS algorithm, conducted on the digital substation setup (DSS).

IEC 61850 digital substation: station bus, process bus, IEDs, OPAL-RT and the IDS monitoring traffic STATION LEVEL BAY LEVEL PROCESS LEVEL HMI / SCADA GATEWAY IDS · PSSPLINTRUSION DETECTION STATION BUS · MMS / GOOSE IED · PROTBAY 1 IED · BCUBAY 2 IED · CTRLBAY 3 PROCESS BUS · SV / GOOSE OPAL-RTCT / VT → SV SMART CBTRIP · GOOSE OPAL-RTCT / VT → SV PRIMARY SVGOOSEMMSANOMALY
IEC 61850 digital substation architecture — live SV, GOOSE and MMS traffic over station and process buses, and monitoring.
Powering a smarter, safer tomorrow — cyber-secure distribution network illustration
Secure · Reliable · Resilient · SustainableTHE SMART ACTIVE DISTRIBUTION NETWORK

27 October 2026 · All times IST

Workshop schedule

  1. Registration for participants Committee Room, EED
  2. Inauguration of the workshop Committee Room, EED
  3. High tea Committee Room, EED
  4. Expert lecture by GE Vernova team Committee Room, EED
  5. Lunch Break
  6. PSSPL Lab visit and hands-on demonstration on Digital Substation PSSPL Lab, Room 239

Important dates

Registration

Last date of registration
21.10.2026
Confirmation to participants
23.10.2026
Who can attend?
Students, researchers, and industry personnel working on control, protection and cybersecurity aspects of smart active distribution networks.

Patron

Prof. Kamal Kishore Pant
Patron

Prof. Kamal Kishore Pant

Director, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee

Meet the experts

Distinguished speakers

Prof. Balakrishna Pamulaparthy
Speaker

Prof. Balakrishna Pamulaparthy

GE Vernova, India
Er. Vivek Goel
Speaker

Er. Vivek Goel

Central Electricity Authority, India
Prof. Manoj Tripathy
Coordinator & Convener

Prof. Manoj Tripathy

Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Roorkee, India
iitr.ac.in/manojtripathy ↗

About the host

IIT Roorkee

Main building of IIT Roorkee

Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee

Indian Institute of Technology - Roorkee is among the foremost of institutes of national importance in higher technological education and in engineering, basic and applied research. Since its establishment, the Institute has played a vital role in providing the technical manpower and know-how to the country and in pursuit of research. The Institute ranks amongst the best technological institutions in the world and has contributed to all sectors of technological development. It has also been considered a trend-setter in the area of education and research in the field of science, technology, and engineering.

Department of Electrical Engineering building, IIT Roorkee

Department of Electrical Engineering

The Department of Electrical Engineering of the Thomson College was established in the year 1897, and was one of the earliest such specializations in the world when the discipline itself was in its infancy. The first batch of Electrical Engineering students graduated in 1900 from the Thomason College of Engineering. For a few years, between 1923 and 1946, a special committee had recommended that the College may be converted into a purely Civil Engineering Institution, but another special committee favoured the reopening of the disciplines of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering. The present Department of Electrical Engineering came into being in 1946 and the first batch of electrical engineering graduates passed out of this college in 1949.

GE Vernova digital panel for IIT Roorkee — the digital substation setup at the PSSPL Laboratory
GE VERNOVA DIGITAL PANEL · PSSPL LAB, IIT ROORKEE

PSSPL · Power System & Signal Processing Lab · Room 239 · 14:30 – 15:30

Hands-on at the digital substation testbed

The afternoon session takes participants into the PSSPL Laboratory for a working demonstration on the digital substation setup (DSS) — a live IEC 61850 environment with protection IEDs, a bay control unit, OPAL-RT and station/process bus networking, on which the laboratory's own intrusion-detection system (IDS) runs in real time.

IEC 61850Station bus & process bus
SV · GOOSELive process-level traffic
BCU · IEDDS AGILE configuration
IDSReal-time attack detection

Demonstration flow

  1. 01

    Walk the
    architecture

    Trace the station and process bus layout on the testbed: HMI and gateway at station level, protection IEDs and BCU at bay level, and OPAL-RT at process level.

  2. 02

    Configure
    BCU & IEDs

    See how the bay control unit and IEDs are configured and subscribe/​publish SV and GOOSE.

  3. 03

    Watch SV &
    GOOSE live

    Observe sampled values streaming from OPAL-RT and GOOSE trip and interlock messages on the process bus, captured and decoded live on the monitoring station.

  4. 04

    Inject a
    cyberattack

    A controlled attack scenario is launched against the digital substation network to show how spoofed or replayed messages can disturb protection and control in real time.

  5. 05

    Detect with
    the IDS

    The intrusion-detection algorithm developed at PSSPL flags the anomaly on the DSS instantly, and participants review how the alert is raised and what the operator sees.

Venue & how to reach

Getting to IIT Roorkee

Map of IIT Roorkee campus with the Department of Electrical Engineering marked
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Entrance of the PSSPL Laboratory, Room 239, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Roorkee
Venue · Department of Electrical Engineering

Two rooms, one building

Morning sessions · 10:00 – 13:30Committee Room, Department of Electrical Engineering (EED) — registration, inauguration, high tea and the expert lecture.
Hands-on · 14:30 – 15:30PSSPL Laboratory, Room 239 (Power System & Signal Processing Lab) — digital substation demonstration.

IIT Roorkee, Roorkee – 247667, Uttarakhand

Get directions
  • 🚆
    By trainRoorkee railway station (RK) is about 3 km from the campus — 10 minutes by auto-rickshaw or taxi. Direct trains from Delhi, Dehradun, Haridwar and Lucknow.
  • 🚌
    By roadRoorkee is on NH-334, about 30 km from Haridwar and 175 km (4 hours) from Delhi. The Roorkee bus stand is roughly 2 km from the institute's main gate.
  • ✈️
    By airJolly Grant Airport, Dehradun (DED) is about 70 km away (1.5–2 hours by taxi). Delhi (IGI) is roughly 190 km, with frequent trains and buses to Roorkee.
  • 📍
    On campusEnter from the main gate on Roorkee–Haridwar Road and head to the Electrical Engineering Department. Morning sessions are in the Committee Room, EED; the afternoon hands-on is in Room 239 (PSSPL nameplate beside the glass doors). Registration desk opens at 10:00 AM.

For any query, please contact

Prof. Manoj Tripathy

Prof. Manoj Tripathy

Convener · Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee – 247667, Uttarakhand, India

Email
manoj.tripathy@ee.iitr.ac.in
Website
www.iitr.ac.in/manojtripathy
Venue
Committee Room & PSSPL Lab (Room 239), Dept. of Electrical Engineering, IIT Roorkee
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Participation is completely free for students, researchers and industry professionals.

Register by
21 October 2026
Confirmation
23 October 2026
  • Expert lectures from GE Vernova and the Central Electricity Authority
  • Hands-on session on the GE Vernova digital substation panel at PSSPL Lab
  • No TA / DA will be admissible
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