Standards Based Intelligent Approach for Smart Grid Integration

This paper presents main aspects of the design of an intelligent approach to implementing Integrated Power Distribution Systems, which consist of Supervisory Control, Data Acquisition System and Distribution Management System, Outage Management System and Field Force Automation, and Trouble Call System. It addresses System Integration using standards like IEC 61968, Common Information Model and others, which gives the electric utilities a simpler, faster, and less costly method of integrating legacy and new systems. After explaining current industry issues and considerations for integrating islands of information within electric utilities, topics like Middleware (message bus), Business Process Automation, Workflow Integration and industry efforts to standardize the Integration Process will be discussed. Finally, the paper defines the most important integration requirements and recommend technologies and Implementation.