Measurement

A Measurement represents any measured, calculated or non-measured non-calculated quantity. Any piece of equipment may contain Measurements, e.g. a substation may have temperature measurements and door open indications, a transformer may have oil temperature and tank pressure measurements, a bay may contain a number of power flow measurements and a Breaker may contain a switch status measurement. The PSR - Measurement association is intended to capture this use of Measurement and is included in the naming hierarchy based on EquipmentContainer. The naming hierarchy typically has Measurements as leaves, e.g. Substation-VoltageLevel-Bay-Switch-Measurement. Some Measurements represent quantities related to a particular sensor location in the network, e.g. a voltage transformer (VT) or potential transformer (PT) at a busbar or a current transformer (CT) at the bar between a breaker and an isolator. The sensing position is not captured in the PSR - Measurement association. Instead it is captured by the Measurement - Terminal association that is used to define the sensing location in the network topology. The location is defined by the connection of the Terminal to ConductingEquipment. If both a Terminal and PSR are associated, and the PSR is of type ConductingEquipment, the associated Terminal should belong to that ConductingEquipment instance. When the sensor location is needed both Measurement-PSR and Measurement-Terminal are used. The Measurement-Terminal association is never used alone.

Type

Class

URI

cim:Measurement

CIM standard (perspective)

IEC61970 (Grid)

Class hierarchy

Slots

Associated classes
Figure 1. Associated classes
Name Type Description Inherited from

measurement_type

1
string

Specifies the type of measurement. For example, this specifies if the measurement represents an indoor temperature, outdoor...

n/a

power_system_resource

1
PowerSystemResource

The power system resource that contains the measurement.

n/a

terminal

1
ACDCTerminal

One or more measurements may be associated with a terminal in the network.

n/a

unit_multiplier

0..1
UnitMultiplier

The unit multiplier of the measured quantity.

n/a

unit_symbol

0..1
UnitSymbol

The unit of measure of the measured quantity.

n/a

description

0..1
string

The description is a free human readable text describing or naming the object. It may be non unique and may not correlate to...

IdentifiedObject

m_rid

1
string

Master resource identifier issued by a model authority. The mRID is unique within an exchange context. Global uniqueness is...

IdentifiedObject

names

0..*
Name

All names of this identified object.

IdentifiedObject


description

The description is a free human readable text describing or naming the object. It may be non unique and may not correlate to a naming hierarchy.

URI

cim:IdentifiedObject.description

Cardinality

0..1

Type

string

Inherited from

IdentifiedObject

m_rid

Master resource identifier issued by a model authority. The mRID is unique within an exchange context. Global uniqueness is easily achieved by using a UUID, as specified in RFC 4122, for the mRID. The use of UUID is strongly recommended. For CIMXML data files in RDF syntax conforming to IEC 61970-552, the mRID is mapped to rdf:ID or rdf:about attributes that identify CIM object elements.

URI

cim:IdentifiedObject.mRID

Cardinality

1

Type

string

Inherited from

IdentifiedObject

measurement_type

Specifies the type of measurement. For example, this specifies if the measurement represents an indoor temperature, outdoor temperature, bus voltage, line flow, etc.

URI

cim:Measurement.measurementType

Cardinality

1

Type

string

names

All names of this identified object.

URI

cim:IdentifiedObject.Names

Cardinality

0..*

Type

Name

Inherited from

IdentifiedObject

power_system_resource

The power system resource that contains the measurement.

URI

cim:Measurement.PowerSystemResource

Cardinality

1

Type

PowerSystemResource

terminal

One or more measurements may be associated with a terminal in the network.

URI

cim:Measurement.Terminal

Cardinality

1

Type

ACDCTerminal

unit_multiplier

The unit multiplier of the measured quantity.

URI

cim:Measurement.unitMultiplier

Cardinality

0..1

Type

UnitMultiplier

unit_symbol

The unit of measure of the measured quantity.

URI

cim:Measurement.unitSymbol

Cardinality

0..1

Type

UnitSymbol

Used by

This class is not used by any other classes as the range of a slot.