Smart Grid Solutions for Utilities

1. Business-IT Alignment, Business Process Transformation(BPX), Services Oriented,
Automated Metering Infrastructure, Architectural Services (SOA), and SOA
Industrialization service
Implementing A Smart Grid using DATAPOWER
Solutions for the Utilities Industry
David B White
Florida & Georgia Region - Business Development
Manager
Miracle Software Inc.
1107 SW 23rd St
Cape Coral, Fl 33991
Home Office 239-458-2592
Cell Direct 239-333-5641
Cell Georgia 770-508-8259
email dwhite@miraclesoft.com
website w3.miraclesoft.com

2. Converging market forces are driving utilities to seek new approaches
and business models ... driving investment and innovation
Regulatory & Policy
Financial Mkts
Security
Expectations
Escalating Energy /
Customer
Fuel Costs
Expectations
Technological Aging Assets /
Advancements Aging Workforce
Environment
These forces are increasing the need for greater network reliability, efficiency, flexibility and “observability”
... creating the necessity for the Intelligent Utility Network

3. Industry Standards to make integration with utility business systems easier
• Many disparate systems speaking different protocols
• Legacy systems and mergers increase complexity
– Do not want to replace systems
– Must provide flexibility to work with other systems
• Both Industry Standards, EAI and BPI are necessary to integrate systems
– Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) allows connections at application and data
level
– Business Process Integration (BPI) enables business logic to support processes
– EAI and BPI together enable Business Performance Management (BPM)
– Industry specific standards enable EAI, BPI, and BPM to be leveraged for niche
critical applications extending integration throughout the enterprise.
Standards and middleware improve integration efforts
– Common data and service standards help systems talk the same language
– Enterprise middleware provides a logical separation between business logic and data
integration

4. International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) Standards
• Technical Committee 57 (TC57) is responsible for the development of a set
of model-driven standards for the operations side of energy utilities:
– Communications Protocols:
• IEC60870-6 Telecontrol Application Service Elements #2 (TASE.2)
– Time critical data exchange between utility control centers for
ensuring transmission system reliability
– Control center to power plant for economic dispatch
• IEC61850 for substation automation
– Object oriented protocol for intelligent electronic devices
– Integration:
• IEC61970 Common Information Model (CIM) for power systems
• IEC61970 Generic Interface Definition (GID) integration APIs and
services
• IEC61968 CIM and XML messaging for distribution automation

5. Energy & Utility Standards for Integration
• Provide a common agreement on What data is exchanged
– The Common Information Model (CIM)
• Provide a common agreement on Services to exchange the data
• The Generic Interface Definition (GID)
The benefits of using CIM and GID:
• Access to the vendors, applications, sensors, and the general plant environment that
can be connected to the IBM Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) via off-the-shelf
adapters.
• A service oriented adapter can be fed with data from hundreds of devices and
applications with little or no investment or development.
• Object model abstractions organize the data and give structure to the service actions
that are invoked from business applications to provide the consistent integration
method needed to build off-the-shelf adapters.
• Adaptor approach follows industry standards.

6. Solution Architecture for Energy & Utilities (SAFE) allows
E&Us to become an “on-demand” enterprise
SAFE is an architectural blueprint
Scalable framework
Utilizes open standards - component choice freedom and flexibility
Supports latest software technology advances
Leverages cross industry and E&U best practices
Doing it faster – speeding design, development, deployment and on-going operations
of customer’s solution
Protects customer investment
Embraces customer’s leadership applications with middleware infrastructure
Product integration enables interchangeable components and easier migration
Supports Service Orientated Architecture (SOA) - integrating web services and external
process engines
Implementation can be staged as needed

7. Common Information Model (CIM) is an object-oriented information model of
the power system
•
Central Generating Step-Up
Station Transformer
Distribution Receiving Distribution
Gas
Substation Turbine Station Substation Recip
Engine
Distribution
Micro-
turbine Substation
Commercial
Recip Fuel
Engine cell
Photo
voltaics
Cogeneration
Batteries Flywheel
Industrial Commercial
Residential

8. Common Information Model (CIM) and Generic
Interface Definition (GID)
provide industry standard languages and
interfaces for systems to communicate
• The Common Information Model (CIM) for Energy and Utilities defines a utility industry
standard object-model for development and integration of applications used for electric
power systems integration.
• Generic Interface Definition (GID) defines industry standard services for data exchange
across the integration bus.
CIM/GID Application Connector

9. IEC 61850 Substation Automation and CIM
• The power system models of CIM and device models of IEC61850 intersect at the
fundamental driver for most operational energy applications in the control center:
MEASUREMENTS
IEC61970/68 IEC61850
CIM
Device
Power
Models
System
Models
Measurements

10. Utilities Must Manage 2 Infrastructures
1.Power Infrastructure
Central Generating Step-Up
Station Transformer
Distribution Receiving Distribution
Gas
Substation Station Substation Recip
Turbine
Engine
Distribution
Micro-
turbine Substation
Commercial
Recip Fuel
Engine cell
Photo
voltaics
Cogeneration
Batteries Flywheel
Industrial Commercial
Residential

11. Utilities Must Manage 2 Infrastructures
• 1.Power Infrastructure
Data network Users
Central Generating Step-Up
Station Transformer
2. Distributed Computing Infrastructure
Distribution Receiving Distribution
Gas
Substation Station Substation Recip
Control Center Turbine
Engine
Distribution
Micro-
turbine Substation
Commercial
Data Concentrator Recip Fuel
Engine cell
Photo
voltaics
Cogeneration
Batteries Flywheel
Industrial Commercial
Residential

12. Legacy Approach: Ad Hoc Proprietary Links: Expensive
Control Center
• Systems and
Substation Applications
Data
RTUs, IEDs,
Concentrators
and Other
and Masters
Field
Documents, E-
Devices
mail, Generic
Gateways to
Files
Customer
Sites
Multitude of
Legacy
Applications and
Systems Control Center
IT Networking
Databases
and Computer
Energy MarketSystems
IntraNet and
and
Internet
eCommerce
Access
Applications

13. Model Driven Integration Addresses: Cost, Efficiency, and
Complexity
Substation Data
Control Center
Gateways to Concentrators and
Systems and
Customer Sites Masters
Applications
IT Networking and
Computer Systems RTUs, IEDs, and
Other Field
Devices
Common Services/Protocols
Information
Object “Nouns” includes: power system data,
application data, network management
Models
data, security data …
“Verbs” include: request, send, query, authenticate, publish, subscribe …
Energy Market Multitude of Legacy
and eCommerce Applications and
Applications Systems
Documents, E-mail,
IntraNet and
Control Center
Generic Files
Internet Access
Databases
IntelliGrid Architecture http://www.intelligrid.info

14. The Utility Integration Bus (UIB)
Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) for utilities
The UIB leverages the capabilities of the IBM WebSphere SOA to enable
application in operational applications to build a bridge between the business
and operations in energy utilities.
The UIB provides an environment for building off-the-shelf adapters using
IBM WebSphere SOA technology that can be interfaced to operational
applications and reused among multiple systems
Standards based data models (CIM)
Standards based interfaces and services (GID)
CIM aware i