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SISCO’s Utility Integration Bus – UIB
Standardized ESB Extensions for Utilities
Description
The Utility Integration Bus (UIB) is a standards-based integration platform designed to significantly reduce the engineering effort required to integrate data in the utility environment. The UIB extends an off-the-shelf Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) with industry specific extensions for distributed system data models, standards-based interface services and application programming interfaces (API) using XML messaging. The UIB enables your enterprise with model driven business transformation (MDBT) while leveraging existing application investments.
SISCO’s UIB products include off-the-shelf adapters as well as toolkits for building custom adapters for your own applications. SISCO UIB adapters are currently available on IBM WebSphere for the OSIsoft PI System, ICCP-TASE.2, and any communications protocol or application using an OLE for Process Control (OPC) interface. Our OEM partners have developed adapters for power system model management and advanced power applications like power flow, state estimators, etc.
Benefits
- Extensive support for international standards means less reliance on proprietary technology and enables use of off-the-shelf applications:
- IEC61970 and IEC61968 Common Information Model (CIM) including CIM XML full, incremental, and partial model transfer formats.
- IEC61970 Component Interface Specification (CIS) API (or Generic Interface Def’n – GID)
- OLE for Process Control (OPC)
- eXtensible Markup Language (XML)
- Object Management Group (OMG) Benefits(cont’d)
- Model-driven ESB-based architecture minimizes application adapter costs:
- Common data exchange model minimizes data transformations and provides global context for information.
- Isolates integration adapters from application data storage and representation enabling incremental integration of systems.
- Enables merging of application data to create unified views of utility operations.
- Eliminates application specific dependencies that isolate integration adapters from changes in other system components.
- Reduces integration configuration by enabling application adapters to discover data without requiring knowledge of each data source.
