Utility Application Integration Standards
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IEC TC57 WG14
System Management Interfaces for Distribution
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the auspices of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC),
Technical Committee (TC) 57, Working Group 14 (WG14) is developing a
series of standards (IEC 61968) that facilitate
application-to-application (A2A) and business-to-business (B2B)
integration for electric utilities.
These standards facilitate information exchange among
systems supporting business functions for planning, constructing,
maintaining, and operating the electric transmission and
distribution (T&D) network. Standards play an important role
in establishing markets; they reduce risk for suppliers and
consumers of business automation solutions. These solutions are
vendor neutral and allow business processes to be configurable and
scaleable.
Organizing
the data among applications has always been a convoluted matter for
utilities. Overlapping
information requirements among functional organizations results in
prolonged implementation schedules and higher maintenance costs due
to the complexities in building and maintaining point-to-point
interfaces. This developing series of IEC standards provides a major
integration component that is already being used by several
utilities in concert with Extensible Markup Language (XML) and
Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) technologies. The goal of
an EAI solution is to semantically integrate business processes,
addressing critical integration requirements such as communication
and data integration, real-time analysis, and business process
automation. XML is
human and machine-readable and enjoys large and growing support by
suppliers of automation products.
The
IEC standards provide the “common language” among applications,
which is based on semantics defined in the Common Information Model
(CIM) that is being jointly standardized by IEC TC 57 WG13 (Energy
Management System) and WG14.
An overview
of the recommend standards for enterprise integration is depicted in
the following diagram. These
IEC standards focus on information exchange among systems for the
engineering and operation of T&D networks. To facilitate
seamless integration between these systems and those supporting
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Supply Chain Management, WG14
is collaborating with the Open Applications Group (OAG). WG14 is also collaborating with NRECA’s MultiSpeak
Initiative.
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WG14
has developed the committee drafts for: Part 1, the Interface Architecture
and General Requirements; Part 2, the Glossary; Part 3, the interface
specification for Network Operation; Part 4, the interface specification
for Records and Asset Management. Much
progress has been made on Part 6, the interface specification for
Construction and Maintenance, as well as necessary extensions to the TC57
CIM, which is being released in Part 11.
Work will begin in the remaining parts over the next few months.
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For further information, please refer to:
WG14:
http://support.ces.com/wg14
OAG: http://www.openapplications.org
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By working
with active utility projects, the quality of the resulting IEC standards
are enhanced and industry momentum is improved.
WG14 therefore encourages and welcomes participation by people
involved with integration among distribution applications. WG14 is especially interested in coordinating this
standardization effort with electric utilities deploying integration
projects, either through direct representation or through their product
and service providers that are WG14 members (see list below).
By working
with active utility projects, the quality of the resulting IEC standards
are enhanced and industry momentum is improved.
WG14 therefore encourages and welcomes participation by people
involved with integration among distribution applications. WG14 is especially interested in coordinating this
standardization effort with electric utilities deploying integration
projects, either through direct representation or through their product
and service providers that are WG14 members (see list below).
IEC National Committees Participating On WG14:
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Canada
Finland
France
Germany
Netherlands
Russian Federation
Spain
Switzerland
United Kingdom
United States
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Member Companies Of WG14*:
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ABB
Accenture
Alstom ESCA
CES International
CIM-Logic
Coherent Networks
Compaq Computer Corporation
Convergent Group
Cornice Engineering
East Midlands Electricity
EDF
The Electricity Association
EPRI
GE Smallworld
GPU Power UK
Hydro-Québec
Iberdrola |
ICL
Indus International
Kansas City Power & Light Company
KEMA Consulting
Labein
Miner and Miner
M3i Systems
OPUS Publishing
Schneider Electric Ltd.
Severn Trent Systems
Siemens
SISCO
SNCF
SNC-Lavalin Energy Control Systems
Telegyr Systems Corp.
UCI
Xtensible Solutions |
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* Utilities supporting this work through the above
organizations include: Duke Energy, Florida Power and Light, PacifiCorp,
Southern California Edison. |
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