What is PD IEC/TS 61850-7-7 - Communication networks and systems for power utility automation about?
PD IEC/TS 61850 is a series on communication networks and systems for power utility automation. Communication networks and systems for power utility automation is a group of nodes interconnected by telecommunication links that are used to exchange messages between the nodes. PD IEC/TS 61850-7-7 is a Technical Specification, specifies a way to model the code components of IEC 61850 data model (e.g., the tables describing logical nodes, common data classes, structured data attributes, and enumerations) in an XML format that can be imported and interpreted by tools. The following main use cases are supported:
- Generation of SCL data type templates for system specification or ICD files
- Validation of SCL data type templates
- Definition of private extensions by following the rules of the standard
- Adapting rapidly the whole engineering chain as soon as a new version of IEC 61850 data model (an addendum, a corrigenda or a Tissue) affects the content of the standard
- Provide tool-neutral textual help to users of tools on the data model contents
- Supporting multi-language publication, i.e., enabling the expression of the data model in different languages, through a machine processable format
The purpose of PD IEC/TS 61850-7-7 is limited to the publication of the XML format which should support the data model part of any IEC 61850 related standard. The publication of code components themselves will be part of the related IEC 61850 part.
Who is PD IEC/TS 61850-7-7 - Communication networks and systems for power utility automation for?
PD IEC/TS 61850-7-7 on communication networks and systems for power utility automation is useful for:
- Telecommunication sector
- IT sector
- Administration department
- Management sector
- Design engineers
- Software engineers
Why should you use PD IEC/TS 61850-7-7 - Communication networks and systems for power utility automation?
In order to foster an active tool market with good quality, and at the end to improve IEC 61850
interoperability, a machine-processable file, describing data model related parts of the
standard as input, is needed. This is the purpose of the new language Name Space Definition
(NSD) defined in PD IEC/TS 61850-7-7. This will avoid the need for any engineering tool related to the IEC 61850 data models to get the content of the standard manually entered, with a high risk of mistakes. This will also help to easily spread any corrections to the data model, as requested to reach interoperability. Tool vendors will be able to integrate NSD in their tools to distribute the standard data models directly to end users. PD IEC/TS 61850-7-7 defines one namespace per file, and an additional file expressing the links between all these In this way, there will be one namespace file for each core part of the IEC 61850 series, for extensions and other domains. Using PD IEC/TS 61850-7-7 you can specify a way to model the code components of IEC 61850 data model in an XML format that can be imported and interpreted by tools.