Switch

A generic device designed to close, or open, or both, one or more electric circuits. All switches are two terminal devices including grounding switches. The ACDCTerminal.connected at the two sides of the switch shall not be considered for assessing switch connectivity, i.e. only .normalOpen is relevant.

Type

Class

URI

cim:Switch

CIM standard (perspective)

IEC61970 (Grid)

Slots

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

normalOpen

0..1
boolean

The attribute is used in cases when no Measurement for the status value is present. If the Switch has a status measurement...

n/a

EquipmentContainer

0..1
string

Container of this equipment.

Equipment

aggregate

0..1
boolean

The aggregate flag provides an alternative way of representing an aggregated (equivalent) element. It is applicable in cases...

Equipment

ReportingGroup

0..*
ReportingGroup

Reporting groups to which this power system resource belongs.

PowerSystemResource

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

europeanArticleNumberEAN

0..1
string

The attribute is used for an exchange of the EAN code (European Article Number). The length of the string is 18 characters...

IdentifiedObject

mRID

1
string

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

IdentifiedObject

name

0..1
string

The name is any free human readable and possibly non unique text naming the object.

IdentifiedObject


aggregate

The aggregate flag provides an alternative way of representing an aggregated (equivalent) element. It is applicable in cases when the dedicated classes for equivalent equipment do not have all of the attributes necessary to represent the required level of detail. In case the flag is set to “true” the single instance of equipment represents multiple pieces of equipment that have been modelled together as an aggregate equivalent obtained by a network reduction procedure. Examples would be power transformers or synchronous machines operating in parallel modelled as a single aggregate power transformer or aggregate synchronous machine. The attribute is not used for EquivalentBranch, EquivalentShunt and EquivalentInjection.

URI

cim:Equipment.aggregate

Cardinality

0..1

Type

boolean

Inherited from

Equipment

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

EquipmentContainer

Container of this equipment.

URI

cim:Equipment.EquipmentContainer

Cardinality

0..1

Type

string

Inherited from

Equipment

europeanArticleNumberEAN

The attribute is used for an exchange of the EAN code (European Article Number). The length of the string is 18 characters as defined by the EAN code.

URI

nl:IdentifiedObject.europeanArticleNumberEAN

Cardinality

0..1

Type

string

Inherited from

IdentifiedObject

mRID

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

name

The name is any free human readable and possibly non unique text naming the object.

URI

cim:IdentifiedObject.name

Cardinality

0..1

Type

string

Inherited from

IdentifiedObject

Glossary mappings

has exact match
  • ck:EnergyArea.short_code

normalOpen

The attribute is used in cases when no Measurement for the status value is present. If the Switch has a status measurement the Discrete.normalValue is expected to match with the Switch.normalOpen.

URI

cim:Switch.normalOpen

Cardinality

0..1

Type

boolean

ReportingGroup

Reporting groups to which this power system resource belongs.

URI

cim:PowerSystemResource.ReportingGroup

Cardinality

0..*

Type

ReportingGroup

Inherited from

PowerSystemResource

Used by

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