UCAIug Annual Meeting 2009

November 9th – 10th , 2009EPRI Office

Charlotte, NC

AGENDAUCA International Users Group (Day 1) 0830 – 0900 Registration and Coffee 0900 – 1020 Morning Session

Welcome and Meeting AgendaUpdate on UCAiug ActivitiesPresentation of UCAIug 2010-2012 BoDUCAIug Testing Committee

1020 – 1040 Break1040– 1200 User Communities Reports

IEC61850 Users Group OpenSG Users Group CIM Users Group

1200 – 1300 Lunch

1300 – 1430 User Presentations:Update on NIST Smart Grid Activities

- Aaron SnyderFirst step to harmonise CIM and

IEC61850 for Smart Grid Looking at SCL as a profile

- Andre' Maizener, Jean-Luc Sanson 1430 – 1500 Break

1500–1700 Q&A

All Meeting Participants provide input

AGENDAUCA International Users Group (Day 2) 0900–1020 UCAIug Site Strategy Session

How to Use UCA/CIM/OpenSG/IECTC57/IEC61850 Sites Guidance for Group Leaders (Site Owners) Under-the-Hood with Sharepoint: Examples and Case Studies Upcoming Improvements for Smart Grid Groups

1020 – 1040 Break1040–1200 UCAIug Site Strategy Session Continues1200–1300Lunch 1300 – Bus Tour: McAlpine Substation DG Project

UCAIug Overview

Kay ClinardNovember 9, 2009

UCAIug Corporate Members

UCAIug 2009 User AccountsBy Region

UCAIug Accounts

Linear Trend Line

Membership/Account Observations 1• UCAIug Members are from 49 Countries• Geographically membership falls into five basic regions:

– Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe & Oceania• For our analysis, Africa accounts have been included with Asia • Leaving four regions…

» Americas – 54%» Asia – 12%» Europe - 46%» Oceania – 3%

Membership/Account Observations 2• There has been a nominal turn over in corporate accounts this

year, as has been experienced in past years.• Net Corporate Membership has been increasing at about two

new companies per month• Almost half of corporate members are outside of the

Americas• Newer members include companies like Oracle, Lockheed

Martin, Microsoft…

Google Analytics

GoTo Statistics Sept 3 – Nov 4th, 2009

Membership/Account Observations 3• UCAIug SharePoint accounts are from 82 Countries• UCAIug SharePoint accounts have increased at about four new

accounts per day.• Just under half of the SharePoint accounts are members and

the other half are UCAIug Guests• Typically the UCAIug Guest accounts represent about four

times the number of companies as are corporate members• There is a small underlying trend for folks to register as

UCAIug Guests for a few months prior to joining.

3. We are fortunate to have a number of highly qualified candidates for the one available Vendor Position on the UCAIug Board of Directors for 2010-2012.  Please select the one candidate that you think would be the best choice.

ElectionsBoD 2010-2012

Questions?

November 9-10, 2009 UCA IUG Testing Subcommittee Report

Testing Subcommittee Report

UCAI Users Group MeetingCharlotte, Nc, USA

November 9-10, 2009

Bruce MuschlitzCommittee co-chair

www.ucaiug.org

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Testing SubcommitteeCharter

• Maintain certified product list• Maintain certified tester list• Maintain test procedures• Assist users and vendors in application of test

procedures• Interpret test procedures

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Group InteractionsTesting

Subcommittee

Conformance Test

Procedures

61850Testing

OpenSGConformity

CIMTesting

EdgeConformity

AMI ENTConformity

SecurityConformity

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Testing Subcommittee/ Working Group Membership

• Open to all UCAI User Group Members• Have academic, utility, vendor, testers• Each member has equal voice• Please consider joining one of the Working Groups

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2009 Meeting summary (since 02/2009)

• 61850 Meetings– Met 1 time face-to-face (Pittsburgh, USA)– Met 4 times by teleconference– 3 “informal” single-issue meetings

• Distributech 2009• IEC TC57/WG10 Grenoble• IEC TC57/WG10 Bilbao

• OpenSG Conformity – met once• CIM Testing – meeting this week

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2009 Work Items• Client Test procedure updated to v1.1

– Embeds PIXIT for immediate use!• Merging Unit testing extensively discussed• Templates for PICS/MICS/PIXIT/TICS• GOOSE functionality/performance testing• TCPL (TISSUEs list for test procedures)• Integrating OpenSG Conformity group• Integration CIM Testing group

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Ongoing Work

• Merging Unit Test coordination with TC37 • Product Mark (if still desired by users)• Testing of User tools (ex, configuration)• Remote testing (over Internet)• Application notes outlines

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Future Work• Fully Integrate CIM testing group• New IED types

– Gateways– Ethernet Switch

• Software tool (SCL) testing• Add performance testing• Consider Interoperability testing• Revise tests for 61850 Edition 2• Generate FAQs

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User Questions

Inter-Operability testing expectations for 61850• Do we need it?• Should this be only between pairs of devices?• How do we define the functions to be tested?• Should we expect “no manual configuration”?

(is “tweaking to pass the test” allowed?)• Should we test peer-to-peer communication?

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User Questions (2)

Product Mark (logo for “approved” devices)• Do we need it?• Will it affect your purchasing decisions?• Should vendors pay for it?• Should tester pay for it?

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User Questions (3)

Integration issue feedback• Has there really never been integration problems?• Testing Committee is awaiting the first submission• Should we offer a prize for this?

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Questions?