Paper title: UNIFYING THE COMMON INFORMATION MODEL (CIM)
Author(s): SRDJAN VUKMIROVIC, ALEKSANDAR ERDELJAN, IMRE LENDAK, DARKO CAPKO,
Abstract: The Common Information Model (CIM) is an IEC standard which defines an object
model for Energy and Distribution Management Systems (EMS/DMS). The OPC
Unified Architecture (UA) is an emerging specification from the OPC Foundation that
utilizes service oriented architecture (SOA) and various other new technologies. This
paper proposes to unify these two architectures by creating the mapping between the
object models of the CIM and the OPC UA. The solution describes the implementation
of CIM variables and objects in OPC UA address space, allowing the use of an existing
and detailed object model (CIM) in a standardized service oriented way (OPC UA). The
proposed architecture brings added value to both “worlds” where the users of CIM
software (e.g. power utilities) would have the most benefits: they would get a secure,
reliable and scalable system based on the latest software technologies allowing them to
lower maintenance costs and make their systems easier to extend. The proposal is
practically tested with a converter application which was developed to transfer model
data from existing CIM based systems to systems which adopted the OPC UA
specification.
Keywords: Smart grid, Unified Architecture, IEC 61970-301 Common Information
Model, Energy and Distribution Management Systems. Year: 2012 | Tome: 57 | Issue: 3 | Pp.: 301-310
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