A CIM Profile is a subset model of the CIM

Common Information Model (electricity)

In electric power transmission and distribution, the Common Information Model , a standard developed by the electric power industry that has been officially adopted by the International Electrotechnical Commission , aims to allow application software to exchange information about the configuration...

 UML

Unified Modeling Language

Unified Modeling Language is a standardized general-purpose modeling language in the field of object-oriented software engineering. The standard is managed, and was created, by the Object Management Group...

 model. These profiles are designated as parts documents in the IEC 61970

IEC 61970

The IEC 61970 series of standards deals with the application program interfaces for energy management systems . The series provides a set of guidelines and standards to facilitate:...

 standard by working group 14. Each profile is itself a self-contained model which can be used for generating specific artifacts, such as CIM RDF

Resource Description Framework

The Resource Description Framework is a family of World Wide Web Consortium specifications originally designed as a metadata data model...

 or XML Schema

XML Schema

XML Schema, published as a W3C recommendation in May 2001, is one of several XML schema languages. It was the first separate schema language for XML to achieve Recommendation status by the W3C...

.

Profile Groups

A CIM Profile Group (e.g., 61970

IEC 61970

The IEC 61970 series of standards deals with the application program interfaces for energy management systems . The series provides a set of guidelines and standards to facilitate:...

-456 Steady-state Solution Profile Group) is a logical grouping of CIM Profiles. In general, each Parts document encompasses an entire Profile group which has one or more profiles in it.

Standards

• IEC 61970-452

  Equipment Profile

• IEC 61970-453

  Schematics Layout Profile

• IEC 61970-456

  Analog Measurements Profile

  Discrete Measurements Profile

  State Variable Profile

  Topology Profile

External links

• CIM EA - A tool written for Enterprise Architect which can manipulate and create profiles.
• CIM Tool - A tool written for eclipse that can manipulate and create profiles.