Control Center and Energy Management Solutions
General Information
- Description
The forces driving energy market liberalization and privatization are changing the world of energy supply. Consequently, the business focus of the energy supply has shifted from supply reliability and cost minimization to competitiveness and optimization of earnings, which have become today's dominant factors and will remain so well in the future.
Today, energy supply companies are facing major challenges including competition, customer retention and satisfaction, and shareholder value. They must react quickly and flexibly to new requirements and changing market conditions. But they can only meet these challenges by reengineering and optimizing their existing business processes.
Siemens is the leading supplier for energy management and automation solutions in regulated and deregulated markets for:
- Single energy suppliers
- Multiple energy suppliers
- Municipalities
- Generation companies, transmission providers, system operators, and distribution providers in deregulated energy markets
- New participants in the business such as energy traders, balance managers, risk assessors and energy suppliers
- Operators of traction power systems for railways
- Industrial power consumers
Our understanding of your business processes - based on the experience gained from an installed base of more than 1800 control systems - enables us to ensure and consolidate your success. Meeting your needs is our business; we offer a comprehensive range of innovative, integrated and modular solutions, advanced technology, fast delivery and open systems. Our spectrum of solutions encompasses a wide spectrum of needs.
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Spectrum Power™ Shared Architecture
- Description
- Standards
- A Strategic Choice for Utilities
- Availability
Siemens' Spectrum Power™ Shared Architecture provides the infrastructure for a utility to integrate software systems that support reliability and market operations using the principles of a Service Oriented Architecture.
In the typical utility environment, software systems are purchased from different vendors and/or internally developed, resulting in a diverse computing environment with point-to-point interfaces between these systems. Spectrum Power™ Shared Architecture provides a platform that includes an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and an expanded set of Spectrum Power™ Shared Architecture services, which may be used to upgrade the utility computing environment.
Spectrum Power™ Shared Architecture also includes a set of services that are commonly needed for in the operations environment such as support for high availability, system resiliency, cyber security and archive/audit.
Spectrum Power™Shared Architecture was co-developed by Siemens Energy, Inc. and PJM Interconnection, LLC.
Business Service Components communicate via the ESB and adapters supplied by Siemens (Siemens Adapter Framework/Siemens Communications Framework) or by the user.
BSCs may use the following common or shared services:
- The Enterprise Service Bus
- Activation Orchestration Application
- Hardware and Application Monitoring
- Naming Service
- Context and State Management Service
- Cyber Security Services
- Process Orchestration
- Service Manager
- Web Services
- CIM-CIE Standard Messages
Spectrum Power™ Shared Architecture is based on existing and emerging standards that are important to utilities, namely the International Electrotechnical Commission’s (IEC) Technical Committee 57 standards for Power System Management and Associated Information Exchange. These standards include the Common Information Model or CIM series of standards.
Spectrum Power™ Shared Architecture is a strategic choice for utilities that allows improved management of software systems and lower total costs of ownership including maintenance, training, and support as well as initial acquisition costs. Existing legacy systems are “service enabled” and converted to Business Service Components (BSC), which provide data and services to other software systems throughout the utility computing environment using Spectrum Power™ Shared Architecture ESB/web services for communications. Your utility can make use of the services provided in the Spectrum Power™ Shared Architecture instead of expending the time and effort to redevelop them multiple times in each of your operations systems.
Spectrum Power™ Shared Architecture allows your utility to pursue a gradual approach to modernization of your computing systems by service-enabling existing legacy applications and adopting standard interfaces. Legacy applications may be changed out at a later date more simply because they have standard interfaces. This strategy is more manageable and cost-effective than attempts to perform a simultaneous wholesale replacement of existing systems.
The Spectrum Power™ Application Programming Interface is available to the public free of charge and may be downloaded from this website. The API consists of an external document that allow the application developer to develop programs which utilize the services provided by the Shared Architecture.
Spectrum Power™ Shared Architecture binaries may be licensed from Siemens by using the Contact Us feature of this website.