The 30 Year Anniversary of IEC 61850 at Omicron in Klaus (Austria) on September 24, 2025, was a BIG success

The IEC 61850 Community has celebrated the 30 Year Anniversary at Omicron in Klaus (Austria) on September 24, 2025, was really a BIG success. Thanks to everybody that contributed to this success: Omicron employees, IEC TC 57 management, IEC TC 57 WG 10 and WG 19 members, many old friends from all-over. Some photos are already posted at LinkedIn ...

I was asked to tell the IEC 61850 Community the history of the standardization process starting in the 1980s with the fight Tokenbus versus Ethernet, MMS versus FMS, ... x versus y, ...

Click HERE to download my presentation [pdf, 6 MB] 

You can see me on the stage during my presentation:

The event was a great opportunity to meet people I have not met for years, e.g., George Schimmel (Tamarack, later TMW):

I guess I met George the first time in 1985 at the GM Techcenter in Warren (Michigan) ... MAP project.

René Troost and Alain Stuivenvolt from The Netherlands are so smart that they were able to move the stack of 7 layers of the Tower of Hanoi from one stick to another - well done.

On the group photo you find me in the first row/center:

I am still wondering that a lot of experts talk about IEC 61850 as a standard for substations! We are shaping more than the future of digital substations ... after the "Klaus Agreement" (see meeting minutes of the Task Force IEC 61850-8-3) we expect that IEC 61850 will be shaping the future of electric power systems far beyond substations as I discussed some 20 years ago: 

Check HERE a paper on this topic I published in the year 2008.

IEC TC 57 WG19 proposes CIM Profiles to JSON schema Mapping

IEC TC 57 WG is discussing the use of JSON for transferring message payload

DRAFT 62361-104:
POWER SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT AND ASSOCIATED INFORMATION
EXCHANGE – INTEROPERABILITY IN THE LONG TERM –

Part 104: CIM Profiles to JSON schema Mapping

The introduction says:

"This standard is one of the IEC 62361 series which define standards that may be used by all
Working Groups within TC57. These standards address areas of interest that impact multiple
standards and provide consistency for implementations.
This part 104 describes a mapping from CIM profiles to IETF JSON schemas and defines the
rules that CIM JSON message payloads must adhere to.
The principle objective of this part 104 is to facilitate the exchange of information in the form of
JSON documents whose semantics are defined by the IEC CIM and whose syntax is defined by
an IETF JSON schema. ..."

JSON is applicable for encoding of CIM (IEC 61968/70) message payload and - as I believe - also for IEC 61850 message payload!

By the way: The post on "IEC 61850-8-2 Versus IEC 61850-8-1" discussing the use of JSON in addition to MMS/ASN.1/BER and MMS/ASN.1/XER has been visited 2,000 times since July 5, 2019 --> or 16 times per day.

Click HERE for additional discussion on the use of JSON ...