1. Guillaume Lapierre-Ganivet
CIM Gateway
CIMug Milan 2010, June 15-18th
Guillaume Lapierre-Ganivet

2. Overview The overall goal of this project CIM Object model generation
Applications
Perspectives 2

3. Overall goal:
Exchange data in CIM XML

4. Old vs. New format Breakthrough technology
Extending content of exchange formats
Overall quality is improved 4

5. Exchange data in CIM XML
- frequent
- regular, but not frequent
ENTSO-E
- on request
TSO 6,
TSO 7, …
Other
TSOs
TSO 3, TSO 4
TSO 5, …
Operational
processes
TSO 1, TSO 2
, …
ENTSO-E
Projects
TSO
Consortium
Regions
System studies
processes
Various
studies
DACF
Reference
cases
D2CF
(planned)‏
Planning
Snapshots
System
extension
Others such as
wind integration
Mid-term
Long-term
Others on request 5

6. CIM compliance at stake
IEC standard
CIM XML Model Exchange – (-456)‏
ENTSO-E CIM Model Exchange Profile 6

7. ENTSO-E CIM Model Exchange Profile
Equipment
Topology
State variables
Topology
State
Equipment 7

8. CIM object model generation

9. Requirements & Specifications
Automatically generated CIM Model C++ library
Read / Write XML instances
Useful to check profile consistency
Evolutive on demand and multi-platforms 9

10. XML specifications XML Metadata Interchange Web Ontology Language
Resource Description Framework 10

11. Available tools and technologies
DOM vs. SAX
Apache Velocity
CIMTool
CIMDesk‏ 11

12. Principle scheme 12

13. Applications:
Achieve consistency
& inter-operability

14. CIM profile and internal format
Obtaining 'bijectivity'
Support former fonctionalities
Merged, Partial and ... Incremental
Unique and persistent IDs 14

15. Validation of tools and data
Inter Operability (IOP) tests
ENTSO-E Migration process
CIMDesk
Bug reports 15

16. Perspectives

17. Parser and writer at no cost Large range of profiles
And then …
No more UCTE DEF files
Upcoming CIM versions
Parser and writer at no cost
Large range of profiles 17

18. Any questions?