FAST Engineering partnered with Titan ICT (Titan) to deploy a team of highly experienced SCADA personnel for the communications design, modem configuration, SCADA design and SCADA testing support for intelligent devices in Ergon Energy's distribution network. The distribution devices were to include Automatic Circuit Reclosers, Remote Sectionalisers, Remote Load Break Switches and Line Fault Indicators.

IEC 61850 is a standard for the design of electrical substation automation and is a part of the International Electrotechnical Commissions (IEC) Technical Committee 57 (TC57) architecture for electric power systems.The IEC 61850 standard is an innovative approach to substation automation that will result in improvements in both performance and costs in protection systems and data acquisition.The standard defines the communications interfaces, provides object models for common substation plant and functions and standards within a substation.