Setup Procedure an intelligent electronic device

The present invention is concerned with substation automation (SA) systems, in particular with a method and system for configuring an International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) 61850 standard-compliant Intelligent Electronic Device (IED) 104 in SA system 100. Proxy IED 104 is a NCC gateway device enhanced for converting data between non-IEC 61850 and IEC 61850 communication protocols. Proxy IED 104 is configured, based on a set of mappings, which are coded in the SA configuration description (SCD) file. The SCD file includes mappings for data conversion between non-IEC 61850 and IEC 61850 communication protocols.