This book provides an overview of the development of the Common Information Model (CIM), describes which international projects and roadmaps have already been covered and outlines the basic use cases for CIM. Covers both theoretical and practical aspects.

Within the Smart Grid, the combination of automation equipment, communication technology and IT is crucial. Interoperability of devices and systems can be seen as the key enabler of smart grids. Therefore, international initiatives have been started in order to identify interoperability core standards for Smart Grids.

IEC 62357, the so called Seamless Integration Architecture, is one of these very core standards, which has been identified by recent Smart Grid initiatives and roadmaps to be essential for building and managing intelligent power systems. The Seamless Integration Architecture provides an overview of the interoperability and relations between further standards from IEC TC 57 like the IEC 61970/61968: Common Information Model - CIM.

CIM has proven to be a mature standard for interoperability and engineering; consequently, it is a cornerstone of the IEC Smart Grid Standardization Roadmap. This book provides an overview on how the CIM developed,in which international projects and roadmaps is has already been covered and describes the basic use cases for CIM. This book has been written for both Power Engineers trying to get to know the EMS and business IT part of Smart Grid and for Computer Scientist finding out where ICT technology is applied in EMS and DMS Systems. The book is divided into two parts dealing with the theoretical foundations and a practical part describing tools and use cases for CIM.

Introdcution to the IEC 61970/61968 Common Information Model (CIM), one of the core standards of the future smart grid Presents applicable knowledge about the CIM as well as it's theoretical foundations and the history and technology behind the model The most handy possibility to get quick and holistic information about the CIM Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext

Mathias Uslar has studied computer science with a minor in legal informatics at the University Of Oldenburg, Germany form 1999 till 2004. In October 2004, he started working a scientific assistant at OFFIS - Institute for Information Systems in Oldenburg, later on working there as project leader and now as Group manager in the Energy branch of the institute, leading the largest group in OFFIS. Since 2008, he is head of the CISE, the Centre for IT Standards in the Energy Sector. In October 2009, he successfully defended his phd thesis on the Integration of heterogeneous standards in the electric utility domain and smart grids. Mr Uslar is leading OFFIS' national and international work packages with the scope of standardisation and interoperability. He is member of German GI, IEEE, ACM and IEC german mirror committee member DKE K 952, 952.0.10, 952.0.17 and international member of IE TC 57 WG 14 and 16. His research interests are with Semantic modeling and technical interoperability in smart grid architectures. Currently, he is working on modeling DER like CHP oder PHEV using the CIM (IEC 61968) and creating control structures for virtual power plants. Sebastian Rohjans has joined the OFFIS -Institute for Information Systems in late 2008. He holds a computer science degree from the University of Oldenburg with a minor in business and wrote his thesis about ontology based integration. He is now working in industrial setting projects having the same scope. His research interests include semantic web services, the OPC uni ed architecture and ontology based mediation. Michael Specht works since August 2008 as a scienti c assistant at the OFFIS institute. He wrote his diploma thesis about "Ontology based integration of quality codes in the electricity domain". His main working topics are CIM based XML messaging and CIM topology modeling. Jose Manuel Gonzalez Vazquez works since January 2008 as a scienti c assistant and PhD candidate at the OFFIS institute, Oldenburg. His research is on reference models and IT systems in the utility domain (electricity and gas). Further on he is actively involved in national and international standardization and is member of the IEC TC 57 Working Group 14, where he is part of the Common Information Model (CIM) modeling team. Robert Bleiker works since July 2009 as a scienti c assistant at the OFFIS institute. He wrote his diploma thesis about "The word problem for petri nets". His main working topics are automated testing of standard conformance and compliance for IEC 61850 and CIM.

Inhalt
Basic technologies.- The IEC Common Information Model.- Utilization of the CIM.- Examples of using the CIM.- Toolsupport.- Participation in the CIMug.- Perspective.