Prolan became a member of the Smart Future Innovation Cluster!
Smart Future Innovation Cluster aims at forming cooperation on European level in order to help smart metering and smart grid technology prevail in Hungary. The Cluster provides support to its members as a business partnership and sets up a network within which projects as well as long term cooperation can easier be established.
Being a member entails further advantages. Funding allocated by the European Union plays a pivotal role in “smart” innovations owing to the great initial costs and the current economic circumstances under which financial sources are getting harder to come by. Companies and organisations which belong to a cluster have a bigger chance to take part in European innovation programs and can apply for dedicated funds.
The cluster invites SME-s, as well as big companies, research centres, universities and other organizations to join. Current members include GDF SUEZ Energia Holding Hungary Ltd., Siemens Ltd., ABB Hungary Ltd., ALSTOM Hungary Ltd., E.ON, Magyar Telekom, MVM Net Ltd., MAVIR Ltd., and the University of Óbuda to name but a few.
We can inform you about a succesful Prolan project again. A new integrated operational center and network monitoring system was handed over at ÉMÁSZ in Miskolc. Hans-Günter Hogg, member of board at ELMŰ-ÉMÁSZ group emphasized that the system developed by Prolan is state-of-the-art, and will be introduced at ELMŰ in the near future.

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Mr. Szabó Ervin, Deputy CEO at Prolan Co.
and Mr. Hans-Günter Hogg, member of board at ELMŰ-ÉMÁSZ group,
Handover Ceremony Miskolc
Miskolc department of Hungarian Electro technical Association (MEE), Section Of Power Informatics and PROLAN Co. presented “The new IDCS system at ÉMÁSZ” on 20 of March. The interest was increased significantly because of the extreme weather conditions that had happened few days before the presentation. The system showed its stability, usability capabilities and dispatchers could get more experience in IDCS special system restoration functionalities.
Summary of presentations and photos will be available on MEE web page soon.
We are proud of Krisztián Berki, who won the pommel horse competition, winning the gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London.
The Chairman and CEO of Prolan Co. and Deputy-Chairman of Hungarian Gymnastic Federation congratulated to the Olympic Champion.
Prolan Co. is committed sponsor of Hungarian Gymnastic Federation.
Our company was present on the PACWorld conference in Budapest as a silver sponsor, exhibitor and presenter.
We introduced our recent developments:
– the new SCADA system, named IDCS (Integrated Dispatcher Center Solution), which is installed in the ELMŰ-ÉMÁSZ system
– our phase measurement related products, supporting the IEEE C37.118 standard
– and the CMx28 and MFx86 communication modules used in our head and bay machines, supporting IEC 61850 communication protocol
The presentation introduced the SA-Gateway software, which, among its other functions, makes the software base of our new products supporting the IEC 61850 communication protocol.
MÁV permitted the visit for the request of the Interlocking és Automation Group of the Chamber. The event has been organized as a conference, too. The colleagues from Miskolc arrived to Fonyód by train. Mr László Balla, on behalf of MÁV’s Pécs Regional Center and Mr László Marcsinák, on behalf of Prolan’s Railway Automation Division greeted the group of around 30 people.
Prolan held two presentations during the afternoon. Mr Péter Csikós presented about the automatic operation of the Traffic Monitoring Center of the southern Balaton region; Mr József Sáfár, project manager talked about the experience of the construction period and outlined the economic aspects of the project.
Then started the program with viewing of the traffic control in practice. Mr Zoltán Kurucz, system engineer and Gábor Pártai chief dispatcher held a short presentation, and later we visited the system components installed at stations (devices in relay rooms, control cabinets of switch point heating).
The professional public interest turned the presentations into discussions and later progressive and constructive professional debates. There were thoughts about the development of the Hungarian railways, possible future Traffic Monitoring Center projects and of course about present problems.
In our opinion the collegial atmosphere of this visit-conference and the constructive discussions were very useful for the issue of the railways as well as the development of the Prolan’s ELPULT system.
We are glad to announce that our latest project proposal submitted to the New Széchenyi Plan Central-Hungarian Operational Program titled
has gained a funding nearly HUF 25 millions, that covers 65% of the entire project cost.
Allocation opportunity opened after source rearrangement, this way the originally non-funded tender – even though this tender won first time – became a funded one according to the actual decision.
The purpose of the project is to develop a modern and cost-effective public lighting control system, which makes possible saving up to 30% of the current energy consumption. This economy makes possible to implement a street lighting system which provides additional services beyond the ensured energy saving for our potential customers, the local governments. The new system ensures for our buyers not only to tailor the street lighting services to their needs with even each street lighting area but to receive immediate feedback on operational failures to prevent further accident incidents as well.
Third blood donation event was organized in Prolan this week to support Hungarian Red Cross in their mission. In spite of the flue pandemic period, 26 colleagues joined to this movement. We are ready to organize blood donation occasions twice a year at Prolan headquarters to contribute to social assistance.
In fall of 2006 MÁV published the public tender „Delivery of station interlocking systems reconstruction and remote control systems financed by the Vendor”, which aimed to build up a state-of-the-art control center in Szeged for the more than 300km long lines. The tender was awarded to Prolan, the contract was signed in August 2007. The scope covered the delivery of both the Central Traffic Control and Overhead Line Equipment remote control systems. A second contract was signed for settling the special financing construction: MÁV will be paying the system price over a 10-year-long period, which starts after 2 years from the system go-live date. As the third one, a maintenance agreement was signed for 15 years in order to provide the safe and reliable background for the system operation.
The system was delivered in time, started its operation on 8th June 2009.
The features and functions implemented in the project:
Concerning the 13 remote controlled stations (Kiskundorozsma, Szatymaz, Balástya, Kistelek, Csengele, Petőfiszállás, Városföld, Galambos, Jászszentlászló, Kiskunmajsa, Harkakötöny, Soltvadkert, Pirtó)
• station interlocking systems remote control
• control of station switchyards
• establishment of a safe and redundant data network
• automated passenger information system
• automated point-heating systems
• automated station lighting control
• security systems for the stations with no staff
• installation of 3 local node control center (Szeged, Kiskunfélegyháza, Kiskőrös)
OHLE features:
• control of 7 base sectional posts
• control of 4 substations and connected sectional posts (Kistelek, Kiskunfélegyháza, Kiskunhalas, Szabadszállás)
For supporting the central traffic management:
• 1 CTC center in Szeged station
• 13+28 stations equipped with CTC and CTM terminals
• 7 traffic monitoring workstations on the neighboring stations (Szeged-rendező, Kiskunfélegyháza, Kecskemét, Nagykőrös, Cegléd, Kiskunhalas, Kelebia)
The new system brought significant enhancement in the traffic management and service level esp. with the improved throughput of the line and timetable-punctuality of the running trains.
The sophisticated event manager and logging functions support the efficiency of the maintenance, and also improves operators discipline.
The industrial control devices (Remote Terminal Units, RTUs) installed in the railway stations and substations had been manufactured in the Prolan owned manufacturing company (PEGY), their software has been build by our own software engineering staff.
MÁV Hungarian Railways is still committed to the fleet management based on the Prolan Locomotive Onboard Computers, the newly purchased 25 TRAXX locos are running with our products on their board. The installation was performed in the Kassel located plant of Bombardier based on the Prolan logistic and documentation services.
Our project – funded partly by EU – aims at developing a device delivering both smart metering and ripple control functions. By uniting an RKV and a smart meter in one casing we offer a solution which is not just a compact one but excels also in making tariff, load management as well as billing easy, fast and more effective.
Features of the device to be developed
Installed in 4 locations in Hungary our ripple control centres control street lighting and assist in load management by optimizing load response.
Prolan have supplied 230.000 radio ripple control receivers (called RKV) since 2007. Acknowledging our achievements E.on Hungary awarded us grand prize for being the best supplier of the year both in 2010 and 2011.
The official name of the EU project is Plovdiv-Svilengrad Railway Electrification and Upgrading of Corridors IV and IX.
The goal of the project is to upgrade and electrify the National Railway Infrastructure Company (NRIC) line, from Plovdiv to Svilengrad and to the Turkish and Greek borders. The line is to be upgraded and electrified at 25kV AC, 50 Hz, with an overhead catenary system, capable of operating at a maximum train speed of 160 km/h for conventional trains and 200 km/h for tilting trains.
The total length of the existing line between Plovdiv and Svilengrad and to the Turkish and Greek borders is approximately 162 km, mainly open route with a single non-electrified track. There are currently 24 stations and halts serving passengers as well as freight traffic. The up-grading project commences where the existing electrification of the line from Sofia terminates, just to the east of Krumovo Station, such that the route length to be electrified is approximately 150km.
The Systems part of the project contains the Signalling, Telecommunications and SCADA Systems works for the whole line from Plovdiv to Svilengrad and the Turkish and Greek borders including the appropriate connections to the Bulgarian, Turkish and Greek Signalling, Telecommunications and SCADA Systems.
Prolan is a subcontractor in this project supplying the SCADA System for the whole line.
The scope of the SCADA works is the design, construction, manufacture, supply, shipping and delivery to site, installation, testing, commissioning, setting to work, spares, special tools, testing equipment, training and support during the Defect Liability Period of the SCADA System, the provision of the associated documentation and services.
The SCADA Systems shall include, but not limited to the following:
Prolan Process Control Ltd has been awarded by E.ON Hungary Ltd as “Supplier of the year” in 2011.
As of the beginning of 2012 Prolan will put into place a different company structure where we will consolidate the railway subsidiary and power network business into one entity under Prolan Process Control. With the acquisition of a majority share in IPSOL a smart technologies company earlier in 2011 we look to bolster our efforts in the field of providing energy management solutions to existing and developing markets.
Within Prolan Process Control we will have 3 core divisions:
This will give us greater flexibility and efficiency in the future whilst retaining our dedicated expertise in those fields. Power network automation and Energy Management is an example of a need to bring expertise together in order to develop more complex and integrated solutions, this can also be said for power network automation and railway automation.
We are glad to report that Gábor Bojár, the founder of Graphisoft was our guest on 16th Dec 2011. He spoke about the story of Graphisoft which became a worldwide market leader firm on the architectural CAD field. He shared his company leading experiences with our leaders in a pleasant atmosphere.
Prolan Ltd held an RTU training course on 21th Nov 2011 for the experts of electric power supplying companies, MAVIR Ltd and OVIT Ltd. During the one day presentation series we reported the status of our current developments and the achieved results. We presented our pilot project deployed in the 220kV substation located in Szolnok: the new ProField IED field unit developed for IEC 61850 data transmission and the SAGateway client application running in our ProField-H head unit. In both cases we also presented the applications and processes used for parameterizing these tools.
The railway process controlling division of Prolan Ltd. has proven this time in the Transdanubium. Our team delivered the new dispatching centre of the railway line along the south shore of Lake Balaton in a very fast and efficient way. Prolan Ltd won the right to carry on the investment project on a public procurement procedure and performed it with its highly-trained engineers, products and contractors in 17 months. The modernization of the complete supervisory and remote control system of the 150 km railway line between Szabadbattyán and Nagykanizsa cost HUF 2.3 billion (EUR 7.66 million), done by team of Prolan Ltd as main contractor.
GySEV, the Hungarian railway company opened its renewed 116 km Sopron-Szombathely-Szentgotthárd line, enabling the access to southbound directions at a speed of 120km/h and meeting the European comfort standards. The project has been funded by the European Union in 85%.
Prolan Co. – as a sub-contractor of Thales Rail Signaling Systems Ltd. – delivered its state-of-the-art AKF application, as the front–end system for managing the station train traffic.
Beyond the AKF implementation, Prolan delivered the electric energy remote control system for the whole line, including all the station switchyards and the Körmend transformer sub-station.
All the Prolan systems have been delivered on time and in the highest quality and Customer satisfaction.
Prolan Process Control Co. bought 51% of IPSOL Ltd which makes IPSOL a new memeber of the Prolan Group.
Prolan Process Control Co. and Ipsol Ltd. both renowned suppliers to the Hungarian electrical power industry, and who have huge innovative potential in the rapidly growing energy efficiency sector, are to establish a strategic working alliance. The goal of the cooperation is to offer synergies in the area of research and development to the blossoming smart solutions market in order to serve existing and new clients with complex, state-of-the-art technologies.
The installation of the MAVIR Central Dispatching Centre was successfully finished. OVIT Ltd as main contractor and Prolan Ltd as subcontractor installed the Xgram/Zeus SCADA system for the process control of the 28 substation of the main hungarian power transmission system.
The Xgram system of the new dispatching centre was designed for the specific requirements of MAVIR by merging together the earlier regional dispatching centres and uniting the user interfaces. The resulting system is used to supervise the substations with 4 monitor workstations, event logging through database, Java-based event log and automatic switching sequence function.
The employees of Prolan Ltd feel responsible for their fellow people so thus made an appointment to donate blood. Thirty percent of the employees decided to participate and express their commitment to blood donation and assistance.
The appoinment of blood donation is April 12, 2011.
The BME Job Fair was held between March 9-11, 2011 where Prolan Ltd represented itself as exhibitor.
Prolan Process Control Ltd has been awarded by E.ON Hungary Ltd as “Supplier of the year” in 2010.
The renewed railway line between Sopron–Szombathely–Szentgotthárd has been officially opened in a ceremony at the Bük railway station. The reconstruction that is part of a complex development worth 48.6 billion HUF, co-financed by the EU, concerned a total length of 116 kilometres of track.
As a result of the investment, electric traction vehicles will operate on this line as from the timetable change of this Sunday, instead of diesel locomotives. With a speed increase to 120 km/hour between Szombathely and Szentgotthárd planned for the summer of 2011, travel time will significantly decrease on the renewed railway section. The project is expected to be completed in December 2012 with the construction of an underpass in Sopron, an overpass in Szombathely and with the purchase of four electric locomotives.
The catenary power is supplied by a new 120/25kV substation built in Körmend. The new, modern substaion can satisfy all needs including full remote control. The construction of the substation was ordered by GYESEV Ltd and realized by OVIT Ltd as contractor and Prolan Ltd as subcontractor. The constraction process was cost-effective and very fast. The delivery of the substation was held at February 01, 2011 with a speech of Ferenc Sörös Chairman & CEO among others.
National Development Agency website
Orientpress (in hungarian)
We are proud of the fact that Prolan Process Control Ltd. was listed among the 50 most successful SMEs of Hungary in 2010.
We are happy to announce that Prolan Ltd. is found worthy for the first prize of the Pegasus award in
Central Hungary region, market leader category. Ervin Szabó deputy CEO took the award founded by Ernst & Young global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services, White & Case global law firm and Dun & Bradstreet the leading provider of global business information.
The award was handed over for the third time for Hungary’s fastest growing small-and medium-sized enterprises. With the recognition of these companies the donors state example and development model for the others, and value the effort made in current economic crisis.
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Prolan Ltd held a three-day training between 8-10 November 2010 for the experts of the ELMŰ-ÉMÁSZ group of companies to present the software used to configure the parameters of the Prolan IDCS system.
The Telvent DMS Network Builder was presented on the first two days by Imre Lendák, while the newly developed SCT (SCADA Configuration Tool) was demonstrated on the third day by Marianna Mácsai.
We are happy to announce that our latest project proposal submitted to the Central Hungary Operational Program of the New Hungary Development Plan titled
has gained a funding over HUF 70 millions.
The purpose of the project is to integrate and apply the newly accepted IEC61850 standard in the control systems of our company. During the project we will develop a new set of modules that can be used to build bay units and pole mounted RTUs and a new SCADA gateway capable of converting data between recent and former network protocols (and also compatible with our former head unit). Another goal of the project is to develop a Substation Designer tool capable of describing the substation technology, formalizing the process control tasks and providing parameters and information to configure the system.
Our company has recently participated in InnoTrans 2010, the International Trade Fair for Transport Technology, held between 21-24 September 2010 in Berlin.
Prolan presented on the fair:
Prolan Ltd and Prolan Alfa LLC presented itself in Hall 22, Stand 225.
This year Prolan Ltd. celebrates it’s 20th birthday.
Area: AKF and ELPULT remote control systems, OHLE,
point-heating and substation control systems
Line length: 116km
Stations included: 10
Project timeframe: 2004 – 2010
Having the takeover process finished, GySEV aimed the overall renewal of the entire line, including both the open line and railway stations. Because of the increasing the line speed limit to 120 km/h, certain line corrections were necessary. Parallel with this, all the interlocking systems and auxiliary control systems has been replaced, where Prolan was committed with the delivery of it’s professional systems.
Beyond the integration of our AKF human-machine interface to Elektra interlocking systems our task was the implementation of a remote control for overhead line system objects, such as transformer substation, base sectional posts and switchyards.
Remote controlling the Elektra systems was established by the Prolan AKF application, which is a proven solution, known from earlier similar projects. In this project two installations are deployed at Körmend and Szentgotthárd stations, from here Ják-Balogunyom, Egyházasrádóc, Csákánydoroszló and Alsórönök stations are remote controlled. Thanks to the architecture provided by the new system the line CTM managers in Sopron have the same overview on the new line as it has been usual on the earlier integrated lines.
The Overhead Line Equipment control system is connected to the Sopron Electric Despatcher Centre, where the manager has the overview and command options over the entire line. Special objects in the system are the two line connecting and energy accounting facilities at the border between MÁV and GySEV the two railway companies, where interoperability in the energy switching was also a requirement.
The Prolan outdoor assembling activities many times fell on winter periods, when we had to work in hard weather conditions and under strict time pressure.
We are proud of Krisztián Berki, who won the pommel horse competition, winning the gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London.
The Chairman and CEO of Prolan Co. and Deputy-Chairman of Hungarian Gymnastic Federation congratulated to the Olympic Champion.
Prolan Co. is committed sponsor of Hungarian Gymnastic Federation.
Substation Remote Control Centres for Hungarian Transmission System Operator Co. Ltd. (MAVIR) was delivered.
Implementation report
MAVIR ZRt. (MAVIR Hungarian Independent Transmission Operator Company Ltd.) decided to merge its five existing regional control centres into one national control centre. The decision was made in 2007, then after the preparation of implementation (design concept, study of implementation, system design) in 2009 the design and construction has started. This Control Centre fulfils three main duties: network management, network operation and transmission system operation, all carried out by independent workstations. The network management and network operation staff use Prolan’s ZEUS SCADA system, while the transmission system operators use the SIEMENS SPECTRUM EMS/SCADA and Prolan’s ZEUS SCADA system together.
The task of Prolan ZRt. was the implementation of such a system that fully supports the reliable remote control and monitoring of the substations. The system has to provide adequate redundancy and has to support smooth transition from the regional control centres to the national control centre, without the need of re-testing the existing substation automation functions and their corresponding screens. That wasn’t an easy task because the former regional control centres have been implemented in five years, in five different locations of the country, continuously taking into consideration the various user needs.
The new national control centre located in a different location than the regional centres is a redundant system that manages a large amount of Input/Output data, namely all data of the substations of the Hungarian grid. Prolan has developed numerous new functions in the ProField RTU and ZEUS SCADA:
Prolan had allocated a team consisting of 10 engineers and a time period of one and a half years to accomplish the task. Deadlines were kept exactly in spite of the significant amount of development. The atmosphere of the commissioning was friendly, the project team of the customer – MAVIR ZRt. – and the general contractor – OVIT ZRt. (OVIT National Power Line Company Inc.) – had confidence in our team and they were near us even if we encountered problems during works. This success was due to the more than 15 years of successful cooperation, which made us feel almost like an external department. MAVIR ZRt. became satisfied with the newly created system and we trust that they count on the engineer team of Prolan ZRt. when preparing their next-generation system.
ProField-C was started to apply as a modernized 3rd generation RTU of Prolan.
Regional Control/Dispatching Centre and Local Dispatching Centres for Southern Hungarian Electric Utility Company (Démász) were delivered
Supplying ProField-C RTUs and 5 regional SCADA centers, covering the whole grid, for the substations of MVM (Hungarian Power Companies Ltd.)
Participation at the project ÜRIK based our brand name in 1995 with installation of ProField-B RTUs for companies Southern Trans-Danubian Electric Utility Company (Dédász), Northern Trans-Danubian Electric Utility Company (Édász), Trans-Tisza Electric Utility Company (Titász) and Hungarian Power Companies Ltd (MVM).
The first Prolan-made ProField-A RTU was delivered in Medgyesegyháza substation DÉMÁSZ.
A prototype of ProField-A RTU was installed at Chinoin.