Guideline Overview

This section is designed for automation architects, power system planners, project engineers, information specialists, and system engineers who wish to understand how best to utilize the IntelliGrid Architecture, including the UML Model and IntelliGrid Architecture website. The specific objectives of this section are to:

§ Describe how, and by whom, the IntelliGrid Architecture is expected to be used.

§ Provide guidelines for using the electronic IntelliGrid Architecture UML Model and website.

Using the IntelliGrid Architecture

The IntelliGrid Architecture project has taken the first steps to frame an enterprise and industry architecture for future distributed computing systems. The framework includes both recommendations that can form the basis for system designs, as well as gaps and seams that were identified in existing infrastructure development.

The IntelliGrid Architecture provides a documentation style and framework that is comprehensive for application development. IntelliGrid Architecture includes a starting set of Use Cases for requirements, functionality, and nomenclature, and provides links from requirements to standards, technologies and best practices. In addition, IntelliGrid Architecture includes in-depth discussions of the state-of-the-art of information engineering and technologies.

The IntelliGrid Architecture is a roadmap that can be used for many purposes by diverse groups of people. An industry and enterprise-level architecture primarily addresses issues related to enterprise integration, data and applications sharing across domains and the implementation of security and management policies. The issues addressed in IntelliGrid Architecture are also concerned with integration with consumers and business entities outside of any given company. These issues are typically handled by systems architects, automation architects or systems engineers that may report to strategic corporate planners and chief information officers. The IntelliGrid Architecture project results are also applicable to power system planners, power engineers and automation engineers to help define functional and information requirements for advanced automation systems and specific implementations in the near term. System engineers or system architects can utilize IntelliGrid Architecture models in the preparation of implementation specifications and in the systems engineering of actual applications.

IntelliGrid Architecture provides several potential jumping off points for different types of users, for example, power system planners may work exclusively with the Use Cases, while project engineers and information specialists can select various environments to review. Specific uses include:

§ Power system planners and project engineers will use IntelliGrid Architecture to help define their functional and information requirements for specific, near term implementations

§ Automation architects and information specialists - Chief Information Officers (CIOs),, vendors, and IT specialists will use IntelliGrid Architecture to develop strategies and migration plans for long range objectives

§ System engineers or system architects can utilize IntelliGrid Architecture models to prepare implementation specifications and in the systems engineering of actual applications.

Individual user groups and their potential use of the IntelliGrid Architecture are depicted in Figure 16 and are discussed in more detail in the following sections.

Figure 16: Ways the IntelliGrid Architecture can be used.

This drawing depicts the four major components of the deliverables set and suggests potential
audiences for each along with suggested uses.

Audience

Using the IntelliGrid Architecture