Digital Architecture Planning Model

Abstract

As part of the U.S. Department of Energy's Light Water Reactor Sustainability Program, the Digital Architecture (DA) Project focuses on providing a model that nuclear utilities can refer to when planning deployment of advanced technologies. The digital architecture planning model (DAPM) is the methodology for mapping power plant operational and support activities into a DA that unifies all data sources needed by the utilities to operate their plants.The DA is defined as a collection of information technology capabilities needed to support and integrate a wide spectrum of real-time digital capabilities for performance improvements of nuclear power plants. DA can be thought of as integration of the separate instrumentation and control and information systems already in place in nuclear power plants, which are brought together for the purpose of creating new levels of automation in plant work activities.

Light Water Reactor Sustainability Program Advanced Instrumentation, Information, and Control Systems Technologies Technical Program Plan for FY 2016

“…The development of the planning model as well as the model itself are described in report INL/EXT-16-38220, Digital Architecture Planning Model. [17] During the 2016 annual NITSL meeting, the scope of the digital architecture project was discussed and it was concluded that it would be very beneficial to the industry for the project to focus more on data analytics. Hence, in FY 2017, the project will develop and evaluate use cases for data mining and analytics for employing information from plant sensors and database for use in developing improved business analytics.…”