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CIM User Group Overview Terry Saxton Vendor Co-Chair. Open Smart Grid AMI-Ent Task Force Meeting July 14, 2009. CIMug Relationship with UCAIug. UCA International Users Group is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting standards usage and development UCAIug: www.ucaiug.org
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CIM User Group OverviewTerry SaxtonVendor Co-Chair Open Smart GridAMI-Ent Task Force Meeting July 14, 2009
CIMug Relationship with UCAIug • UCA International Users Group is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting standards usage and development • UCAIug: www.ucaiug.org • Member groups have individual sites: • CIMug: www.cimug.org • IEC TC57: www.iectc57.org • IEC 61850: www.iec61850ug.org • Open Smart Grid: www.opensmartgrid.org (These are the simplest URLs – bookmark and share them.) • A “federation” of sites – secure, scalable, and reliable MANY SITES - ONE LOGIN
Major Activities Meet Bi-Annually Fall – North America (2009 at EPRI, Charlotte, NC) Focus: Smart Grid, AMI projects Spring – Europe (2009 at UCTE, Genval, Belgium) Focus: UCTE CIM Migration Typical Agenda CIM University Themed Utility Presentations – best if project managers present Activities Provide liaison with other standards groups and assess the impact of other standards on the form, scope and content of the CIM Formal liaison with IEC access to draft standards and input to working groups Provide a central Repository for CIM issues, models, messages, and expertise Promote the CIM standards and other IEC TC57 standards Provide a single point of contact for CIM Model Management and issue resolution. Provide awareness of CIM products and implementations Provide a Help Desk
Organization Standing Working Groups Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) Model Exchange and Naming CIM Tools Compliance and Validation Process and Marketing Ad Hoc Working Groups as needed
GridWise Interoperability Framework Role of CIM
TC57 Reference Architecture Information Model Enterprise Semantic Model Private UMLExtensions CIM UML Bridge Other Information Models Context Profile • Contextual layer restricts information model • Constrain or modify data types • Cardinality (may make mandatory) • Cannot add to information model Message Syntax • Message syntax describes format for instance data • Can re-label elements • Change associations to define single structure for message payloads • Mappings to various technologies can be defined MessageXML Schema
Business Capabilities • Every CIM Users Group Member or Guest Can: • Be known through a User Profile. • Track What’s New on CIMug or other sites (UCA, Open Smart Grid, IEC TC 57, IEC 61850) • Submit help desk requests and get answers. • Search by keyword across any of these sites • Contribute content (documents, discussions, blogs, wikis, etc.) and receive alerts on any activity • Create subsites for projects, working groups, or member-specific activity • All operations are automatically permission-limited