A Consistent View of the Smart Grid: Bridging the Gap Between IEC CIM and IEC 61850

This work addresses a well known problem in energy informatics under view-based modelling aspects. Two standards that describe partially different aspects of power grid systems, the IEC Common Information Model (CIM) on the control level and the IEC 61850 standard on the field level, are gaining ever increasing importance in the ICT developments for the future Smart Grid. Therefore, modelling approaches for the interoperability of both standards will be highly appreciated and several first proposals can be found in the literature. In the context of the establishment of a large energy research lab we apply IEC 61850 as well as CIM and integrate both in an ontology-based data management architecture where CIM entities are linked to measurement time series and substation configuration documents that belong to the IEC 61850 domain.