Semantic integration of IEC 60870 into CIM

The transition from distribution and transport power networks into the so-called smart grid vision must cope with many problems, one of them being the large amount of related standard protocols. Bringing them to work together in an standard fashion is the key to this goal. We focus here on the IEC 60870, the Spanish standard for high-voltage meter control and management. Applying the Semantic Web paradigm, we have mapped the IEC 60870 services to CIM in order to achieve interoperability. Moreover, we have enabled SPARQL (SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language) queries to retrieve the information from CIM-compliant meters and, as a proof-of-case we have implemented it with an IEC 60870 meter.