Semantic Interoperability between IEC 61850 and oneM2M for IoT-Enabled Smart Grids

Abstract

In the era of Industry 4.0, pervasive adoption of communication technologies based on the Internet of Things represents a very strong requirement in several domains. In the smart grid domain, there is the need to overcome one of the main limitations of the current electric grid, allowing the use of heterogeneous devices capable of measuring, monitoring and exchanging information about grid components. For this reason, current literature often presents research activities about enabling internet of things (IoT) in smart grids; in particular, several proposals aim to realize interworking between IoT and smart grid communication standards, allowing exchange of information between IoT devices and the electrical grid components. Semantic interoperability should be achieved in an interworking solution in order to provide a common meaning of the data exchanged by heterogeneous devices, even if they belong to different domains. Until now, semantic interoperability remains an open challenge in the smart grid field. The paper aims to propose a novel solution of interworking between two of the most used communication systems in smart grids and IoT domains, i.e., IEC 61850 and oneM2M, respectively. A semantic interoperability solution is also proposed to be used in the interworking scheme here presented.

A Comprehensive Review on Smart Grids: Challenges and Opportunities

“…Their purpose varies from detecting malicious information or attacks to the grid, connection between smart devices, efficient energy management, secure data transmission, overall performance of electrical and smart grid, better periods for sale and buy energy, architecture design, security, and integration of grids. The works of Alonso et al [70] and Cavalieri [89] using the IEC61850 Protocol can be highlighted, showing us an applicable field of research with a view to homogenizing the algorithms and protocols used by Smart Grids and achieve an integration of all elements that conform them. Green-RPL [53] Local positive degree coupling [44] IEE 802.11s [33] Web Of Energy [67] Dynamic Barrier Coverage [68] IEC61850 [70,89] Wind-driven bacterian foraging algorithm [86] Data Slicing [87] TSUBE energy trading algorithm [91] Stochastic Geometry [92] Rectangular quadrature amplitude modulation [37] Policy-based group authentication algorithm [103] Mapping interface integration COIIoT [99,104] Nash Equilibrium (NE) and the Bayesian NE [105] Wireless sensor network protocol [35,50,53,63,73,[76][77][78]98,108,110] Algorithmic Approach [36,37,48,52,93,107,109] Furthermore, Figure 6c shows the Protocols Applied in Smart Grid Algorithms, pointing out that these technologies are varied and abundant, since 46% concentrate 14 different prot...…”

“…Integration of electrical grid's devices represent a challenge in terms of interoperability for allowing IoT technologies performance in the smart grid domain. Cavalieri [89] proposes an inter-working scheme based on the M2M ontology. The authors considered the common ontology between IEC61850 and M2M for giving place to data interchange among devices thanks to the standard one M2M IPE proposed, as well as a definition of common ontology that enriches standard definition of M2M documents.…”

Integration of IoT Technologies into the Smart Grid

“…The current literature presents several studies about enabling IoT in the SG, typically referred as IoT-enabled SG [ 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 ].…”

SiSEG-Auto Semantic Annotation Service to Integrate Smart Energy Data

“…The most common domain-specific smart energy data use cases which have been explored in recent research projects using semantic ontologies are smart home, demand response management, energy managements and micro-grids. The most related ontologies have been summarized in [23][24][25]. In [24], the authors review existing ontologies in the smart energy domain and propose the SARGON ontology which is an extension of SAREF for cross-cutting domain-specific information and engaging smart grid with building energy automation sector.…”