In this glossary is the main functional capabilities are explained.
Glossary of Customer and Market
CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP AND COMMUNICATION | Covering the digital functionalities supporting customer relationship management and communication. |
CUSTOMER RESPONSE | Covering the digital functionalities supporting customers providing information. |
MARKET PLATFORM GATEWAY | Covering the digital functionalities supporting market participants retrieving and providing information (e.g. providing energy consumption details to energy suppliers). |
METERING AND COMPENSATION | Covering the digital functionalities supporting determination and financially handling realization of market contracts and consequences of system operation. |
Glossary of System Management
FORECASTING | Covering the digital functionalities used to forecast Power system, Market and System variables or subjects to enable signaling, calculation and control (e.g. load forecast per substation). |
MARKET SIGNAL | Covering the digital functionalities used to control system behavior targets like adequacy, |
POWER SYSTEM CALCULATION | Covering the digital functionalities used to calculate targets or variables related to power delivery and system stability. |
SYSTEM CONTROL | Covering the digital functionalities used to control power delivery, system balancing, quality |
Glossary of Asset Management
ANALYTICS | Covering the digital functionalities used to determine causes, draw conclusions and give advice |
ASSET INVESTMENT PLANNING | Covering the planning of the asset investments on strategic, tactical and operation level. |
ASSET REPOSITORY | Covering the digital functionalities used to keep track of asset and asset related information and configuration. |
ASSET SUPERVISION | Covering the digital functionalities used to determine asset status and replacement plans |
FIELDWORK MANAGEMENT | Covering the digital functionalities used to prepare and execute work with the right resources. |
OUTAGE MANAGEMENT | Covering the digital functionalities used to prepare and execute planned and unplanned outages. |
Glossary of Acquisition and Control
AGGREGATION NODE | Covering the digital functionalities of a regional hub (e.g. set of connected substations) |
CENTRAL HUB | A central platform for data collection, monitoring and control equipment and nodes in the smart grid (e.g. SCADA or IoT platform). |
CRITICAL EQUIPMENT | Assets that are vital for the gird (e.g. a line, circuit breaker or transformer). |
DISTRIBUTED NODE | Covering the digital functionalities of a group of assets (e.g. bay, rail, circuit or group of bays). |
EDGE NODE CONTROL | Covering the digital functionalities that are shared amongst all nodes . |
EQUIPMENT NODE | Covering the digital functionalities of a single asset or a small group of the same assets (e.g transformer, set of three circuit breakers in 3-phase system or in case smart meter: a single electricity connection) or |
INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT | A central platform management equipment and nodes in the smart grid remotely. |
LESS-CRITICAL EQUIPMENT NODE | Assets that are non-vital for the grid (e.g. substation door). |
SUBSTATION NODE | Covering the digital functionalities of a substation (e.g. high-voltage substation, mid-voltage substation or low-voltage substation). |
Glossary of Shared
COMMON COMMUNICATION MEDIA | Covering the digital functionalities supporting emergency and crisis management. |
DATA MANAGEMENT | Covering the digital functionalities supporting data retrieval and management. |
IT MANAGEMENT | Covering the digital functionalities supporting IT systems, infrastructure and security management. |
SYSTEMS GOVERNANCE | Covering the digital functionalities supporting systems monitoring, registering and healing to make sure that all systems together establish a grid that is stable, reliable and flexible. |
UNIFIED OPERATOR’S UX COMPONENTS AND FRAMEWORK | Covering the digital functionalities supporting operators in their interaction with systems and stakeholders . |