Distribution automation is an effective means to enhance power supply reliability and energy quality, and is also an important research topic in power distribution area. Feeder Automation (FA) is one of the important contents of the distribution automation. The remote terminal unit (FTU) is the fundamental control unit for the Feeder Automation, which plays an important role in realizing the Feeder Automation and distribution automation. This paper studied lots of references and recent research works and co...