Title :
UML-based modeling of OPC UA address spaces for power systems
Author :
Rohjans, Sebastian ; Piech, Klaus ; Lehnhoff, Sebastian
Author_Institution :
R&D Div. Energy, OFFIS - Inst. for Inf. Technol., Oldenburg, Germany
Abstract :
Automation technologies are a key enabler to realize the vision of so called Smart Grids. They realize the interface between the power system infrastructure that is used to reliably deliver electric power and the information- and communication infrastructure that is utilized to exchange digital information. Thus, analyzing if and how existing automation technologies can be adopted for the energy domain is of key importance. Furthermore, Smart Grids will be highly heterogeneous systems having to address various interoperability issues and thus have to deal with standardization. Therefore, this paper proposes the integration of the established IT-modeling language UML with the OPC Unified Architecture, which is a future-oriented automation standard (and already established in industry automation). It will be explained how UML-models can be used to generate Address Spaces in general and examples will be given introducing the generation of Address Spaces based on Smart Grid semantics in particular.
Keywords :
Unified Modeling Language; power engineering computing; smart power grids; IT-modeling language UML; OPC UA address space; OPC Unified Architecture; automation technology; digital information exchange; energy domain; interoperability issue; power system infrastructure; smart grid; unified modeling language; Computer integrated manufacturing; Data models; IEC standards; Smart grids; Unified modeling language;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Energy Systems (IWIES), 2013 IEEE International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Vienna
DOI :
10.1109/IWIES.2013.6698587