This work presents a novel use case with Time-Sensitive Networks (TSN) for implementing a deterministic system allowing the joint transmission of all substation communications over the same Ethernet-based infrastructure. This approach streamlines the transition to Smart Grid by simplifying the typically complex architecture of electrical substations, characterized by multiple field buses and bridging devices. Thus, Smart Grid represents a disruptive innovation advancing substations to an ''all-digital'' environment with a uniform interface to access, manage, and update their communications and variables. TSN can serve as its underlying foundation as it is based on open, interoperable standards and enhancements for Ethernet that can establish deterministic communications with bounded end-to-end latency. This is shown with a TSN Proof of Concept (PoC) in a real-life substation that can integrate its most usual signals: digitized analog triggers for critical events or interlocks, GOOSE signaling (IEC 61850), and Best-Effort ''Internet-like'' traffic. This TSN PoC is shown to be versatile enough to propagate digitized critical events around 160 µs earlier than legacy substation equipment while preserving the integrity of background traffic. Furthermore, its flexibility was characterized in-depth in controlled laboratory tests, thereby confirming TSN as a viable alternative for supporting Smart Grid so long as the appropriate configuration is supplied. INDEX TERMS Deterministic communications, digital substation, smart grid, TSN. I. INTRODUCTION. SMART GRID AND THE MOTIVATION FOR THE APPLICATION OF TSN NETWORKS

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The design of the aerospace systems for future aircraft requires the identification of new, suitable communication infrastructures that can overcome the limitations that often come with the use of the legacy, albeit well-proven, protocols that are routinely integrated in aerospace. This allows us to overcome the bandwidth constraints, large deployment costs or the lack in flexibility of other alternatives, like Spacewire, or legacy systems such as the MIL-STD-1553B bus. These protocols can be replaced with new technologies that can fulfill the greater real-time and interconnectivity demands of advanced scientific probes or manned spacecraft. The advent of the new microlauncher systems has all but confirmed this trend. In this context, we describe the design and implementation of a time-sensitive networking (TSN) bus for the avionics of the Miura 1 suborbital microlauncher. TSN represents an appropriate interface for this type of platform given its ability to provide the determinism and reliability expected in space-grade systems in combination with the higher data rates (Gigabit Ethernet) and greater flexibility of standard Ethernet. This has resulted in a TSN platform developed by Seven Solutions S.L. based on the commercially available Zynq-7000 devices from Xilinx. Thus, our design features a light-footprint field-programmable gate array (FPGA) architecture powered by a real-time executive for multiprocessor systems (RTEMS) operating system, which is currently pending its certification from the European Space Agency (ESA) for space applications. All these elements have been successfully integrated and validated for the avionics of the Miura 1 sounding rocket, which represents an illustrative case that verifies their applicability to similar scenarios.

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