What is PD IEC/TS 62361-102 - Power systems management and associated information exchange about?
PD IEC/TS 62361 is a series on power systems management and associated information exchange. Power systems management and associated information exchange allows our customers to select important power supply parameters over a digital communication interface. PD IEC/TS 62361-102 is a Technical Specification, outlines a technical approach for achieving effective information exchange between power system installations governed by IEC 61850 and business systems integrated with IEC CIM standard data exchanges, based on a selected specific set of use cases, but also with the goal of creating a framework that will extend successfully to other use cases in the future. PD IEC/TS 62361-102 includes proposals to ‘harmonize’ the two standards by adapting or extending existing information models and/or defining new models, where such changes will enable more effective communication. Both current and future directions of models will be considered. The report will consider existing standards for semantics, services, protocols, system configuration language, and architecture. PD IEC/TS 62361-102 suggests a technical approach by which two of the leading standards for software interoperability that serve the electric utility industry (the Common Information Model, CIM, and the IEC 61850 model) can cooperate in order to enable effective data exchanges between the domains covered by these standards. The aim is to allow the development of tools that perform automatic transformation from an SCL instance file into a CIM based instance model that can then be exported using existing standards such as IEC 61970-552: CIMXML Model exchange format.
Who is PD IEC/TS 62361-102 - Power systems management and associated information exchange for?
PD IEC/TS 62361-102 on power systems management and associated information exchange is useful for:
- Telecommunication sector
- IT sector
- Administration department
- Management sector
- Design engineers
- Software engineers
Why should you use PD IEC/TS 62361-102 - Power systems management and associated information exchange?
The IEC focuses primarily on specifying the payload of various functionally oriented messages or file exchanges. This concept includes configuration files like those developed in all IEC power systems management standards. The different smart grid initiatives in the USA, Europe and Asia have all recognized the necessity to establish solid standards for communicating between all the "smart" devices. For interoperability purposes, it has been recognized, at an early stage, that widely shared semantics would be necessary. Unfortunately, the semantic models used by the technical groups have differed from the start due to the different needs for information exchange within substations and information exchange within control centres. This has led to some gaps between the models within different standards, even though they reflected the same power system entities.
The work leading to PD IEC/TS 62361-102 has considered how exchanges required by commonly understood use cases might be mapped between the standard models in order to determine the harmonizing changes suggested for the relevant models. The report references any papers, reports or other documents that provided data for this harmonization. The approach is to define a transformation of the data governed by IEC 61850 SCL XSD to data governed by CIM UML. The transformations in PD IEC/TS 62361-102 are defined based on the use cases presented in PD IEC/TS 62361-102. Only SCL data relevant to these use cases is transformed. Using PD IEC/TS 62361-102 you can outline a technical approach for achieving effective information exchange between power system installations governed by IEC 61850 and business systems integrated with IEC CIM standard data exchanges.
