Application of Common Information Models for integration of rural electric networks information systems

Abstract

Geoinformation systems (GIS), regime and technological software complexes (RTSC), Outage Management System (OMS), Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE), Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA), automated information and measurement systems of power control and accounting (AIMS ECA) and other systems are widely used in the electric-power engineering. All systems have different ways of representation, storage, transformation of information and solve different problems, but initially use the description of the same objects of rural electric networks. A rural electric networks object is described as a set of graphical and semantic information. The information systems duplicate the information about the rural electric networks objects. Thus, the relevance of integration of information systems is obvious. The article considers representation of initial information about rural electric networks objects; variants and expressions describing the integration; application of exchange formats. The solution to integration problems lies in applying a universal format for exchanging the same type of data between different applications. All applications must support the Common Information Model (CIM). CIM is an object-oriented data description using XML terminology and methods. This model will solve the issue of integrating applications from different vendors and ensuring the independence of application users from its developer.