Unifying Data Types of IEC 61850 and CIM

Author

Byunghun Lee ; Dae-Kyoo Kim ; Hyosik Yang ; Hyuksoo Jang ; Daeseung Hong ; Falk, Heiko

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Oakland Univ., Rochester, MI, USA

Volume

30

Issue

1

fYear

2015

fDate

Jan. 2015

Firstpage

448

Lastpage

456

Abstract

IEC 61850 and IEC 61970-301 (CIM) are core standards in the electrical power domain. IEC 61850 is concerned with control and protection in a substation, while CIM addresses power management. There has been a great attention to unifying these standards to support interoperability in smart grids. However, due to their difference natures and independent evolution, the unification of IEC 61850 and CIM has been a great challenge. A prerequisite to their unification is unifying data types. In this paper, we present an approach for unifying data types of IEC 61850 and CIM. In the approach, the semantics of all the data types in the standards are analyzed to identify matching and non-matching types. Based on the analysis, data types are unified by applying a set of unification principles. We demonstrate tool support for transforming IEC 61850 and CIM data types to unified data types using Query/View/Transformation (QVT).

Keywords

IEC standards; power system management; power system simulation; smart power grids; substation protection; CIM; IEC 61850; IEC 61970-301; QVT; common information model; core standards; electrical power domain; power management; query/view/transformation; smart grids interoperability; substation control; substation protection; unifying data types; Arrays; Compounds; Computer integrated manufacturing; Data models; IEC standards; Semantics; Substations; CIM; IEC 61850; Query/View/Transformation (QVT); data types; unification;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0885-8950

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TPWRS.2014.2326057

Filename

6823183