Cyber Infrastructure for the Smart Grid

Dr. Anurag K. Srivastava, Dr. Carl Hauser, and Dr. Dave Bakken,

Smart Grid Operational Standards

Standards
Learn from industry
best practices
Specify
requirements more
easily
Reduce integration
costs

Utilities
And
Vendors

Lessons Learned,
Innovations,
Application Notes
Test Procedures,
Implementation
Guidelines

Direct
Participation

Standards
Revised more
Rapidly

Prevent single
vendor lock-in
Vendors share a
much larger market

Users
Groups

Access to Working
Drafts

Errors Detected
Consensus Acheived

Credit: Gunther 2009

Standards
Organizations

Standards

Credit: Gunther 2009

Standards
NIST coordinates development of interoperability standards by Standards
Developing Organizations
http://www.nist.gov/smartgrid/priority-actions.cfm

The Internet Engineering Task Force

Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and
Air-Conditioning Engineers
NEMA - National Electrical
Manufacturers Association

International
Electrotechnical
Commission

Standards: Examples
Standard

Description

Application

IEC 61970

Common Information Model

Data Exchange

IEC 61850

Communication Networks and Systems in

Substation

Grid Management

IEC 61968

System Interfaces for Distribution

Management

Network Management

ANSI C12

Revenue quality Metering Standards

AMI

Open AMI

Group of Standards for Advanced Metering

Infrastructure and Home-Area Networks

AMI

IEEE 1547.x

Monitoring and Control of Distributed

Resources Interconnected with Electric Power
Systems

Demand Response/ Distributed

Generation/ Storage

IEEE C37.118.x

Synchrophasor Measurement Devices

PMU

ASHRAE BACnet

Data Communication Protocol for building

Automation and Control Networks

Demand Response Energy

Efficiency DSM

Ref: http://www.iso-ne.com/pubs/whtpprs/smart_grid_report_021709_final.pdf

Synchrophasor Standards
Apps
IRIG-B/PPS

Master/Slave Clock

Application

GPS Receiver

IRIG-B/PPS

Network
PMU

IEEE 1588
s

PMU

WAN

LAN
Local PDC

Substation

Data
Storage

Super PDC

Data
Storage

Credit: Mladen Kezunovic

Smart Grid Infrastructure

Smart Grid Infrastructure: Gaps

Modeling interdependencies of infrastructure accompanying the
power grid, including sensors, control, communication network and
computational components is challenge.
No single tool to model power system, communication and control
system
No single tool to model the system at transmission and distribution
level with attention to all details
Tools needed to combine data that is multi-rate, multi-scale, multi-

data, multi-use, multi-model from multiple heterogeneous interacting

domains
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Smart Grid: Needs

Technical challenges motivated by
domain specific problems in
Ubiquitous exposed
infrastructure
Real-time data
monitoring and
control
Wide area information
coordination and
information sharing

Must be addressed by

Secure and Reliable

Computing
Improved infrastructure for
data collection,
communication and control
Wide-Area Secure
Information Exchange
Better Visualization

Better Analysis

Credit: CS 498 Class UIUC