Unified Physical Asset Representation via Global Data Model
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Solution Overview
Problem
In the field of power utility automation, supervisory systems employ heterogeneous datasets with conflicting representations of physical assets, leading to inconsistent data and cumbersome consolidated access, particularly due to frequent modifications in the electrical network.
Innovation Solution
A method is developed to generate a unique representation of a physical asset by mapping system-specific datasets into a global dataset using a common data model, merging them based on predefined conflict resolution rules, and utilizing a standardized format like XML, ensuring a coherent and comparable global representation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple supervisory systems use system-specific data models to represent physical assets, then each system can manage its specific aspects effectively, but the representations become heterogeneous and conflicting, leading to data inconsistency
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a universal data model that can represent physical assets in a standardized format while accommodating multiple system-specific perspectives. This universal model serves as a common language that all supervisory systems can use to exchange and integrate data about the same physical asset, thereby maintaining data consistency across heterogeneous systems while preserving each system's ability to manage its specific aspects.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs an intermediary mapping mechanism that translates between system-specific data models and the universal data model. This intermediary layer resolves conflicts by systematically mapping attributes from different system-specific models to the standardized universal model, ensuring that data from multiple sources remains consistent and coherent in the integrated representation.
2Productivity
If each supervisory system maintains independent data sets with frequent modifications, then the systems can respond dynamically to network changes, but conflicts arise between representations of the same physical asset
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a continuous data synchronization mechanism where the universal data model is continuously updated from multiple system-specific data models. This continuous integration process ensures that the unified representation remains current with frequent network changes while automatically resolving conflicts through predefined mapping rules, maintaining both responsiveness and consistency without requiring complex manual intervention.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent establishes preliminary mapping rules and conflict resolution strategies in advance, before conflicts actually occur. By pre-defining how attributes from different system-specific models should be mapped to the universal model and how to resolve potential conflicts, the system can automatically handle frequent modifications and network changes without requiring complex real-time decision-making, thereby reducing operational complexity.
3Ease of operation
If consolidated access to various system representations is implemented, then a unified view can be achieved, but the process becomes cumbersome due to heterogeneous data formats
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms data from heterogeneous system-specific formats into a standardized universal format by changing the parameter representation. This parameter transformation is achieved through automated mapping that converts attributes from various system-specific data models into consistent parameters in the universal model, enabling efficient consolidated access without manual data format conversion, thereby reducing integration time while maintaining ease of operation.
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AI summary
The present disclosure is concerned with generating a unique representation of a physical asset from a plurality of datasets representing information relating to the physical asset. Each dataset is generated by a system that acquires the dataset in a system-specific format. Each dataset that includes information about the attributes of a physical asset is mapped to a corresponding system-specific global dataset, based on a global data model. The global system-specific datasets generated are merged together to generate a global dataset, based on the global data model. The global dataset therefore uniquely represents the physical asset.