A novel software architecture for smart metering systems

Abstract

For smart metering systems (SMSs), this study presents a novel architecture, which allows simple, secure and fast integration of SMSs with other software products. Proposed architecture that combines better features of two models [Common Information Model (CIM) and OPC's Unified Architecture (UA)] has proven in practice as a good basis for a commercial Meter Data Management System. In a case study, created using data from a pilot project, 7 experiments determined memory usage of OPC UA and CIM servers, duration of exporting data out of CIM and importing them to OPC UA, and size of XML export file.