A digital protection and control device is so configured that at least parts
of
a digital data merging unit coupled to sensor units by a transmission medium, a
protection and control unit, a communication unit for component control devices
coupled to component control devices by a transmission medium, and a process bus
communication unit are coupled by a parallel transmission medium, and at least
a part of data exchange is based on a multimaster mode. Transmission based on the
multimaster mode enables each unit to transmit/receive data independently and enables
the reduction in unbalanced communication load. As a result, such a risk can be
reduced that time responsiveness of operation is lowered as the entire digital
protection and control device due to unbalanced concentration of data bus processing
in a particular unit.