IKA — Platform Overview

IKA (Industrial Knowledge Automation) is a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) AI system that classifies industrial signals and assets for power generation plants — hydro, wind, solar, storage, and hybrid — according to two standards:

• IEC 61850 — the international standard for substation/plant automation, which defines Logical Nodes, Data Objects, Data Attributes and Common Data Classes used to describe what a signal is informatically.
• IEC 81346 — the standard for structuring a plant's functional hierarchy (Main System, Technical System, Component System), used to describe where an asset sits in the plant.

Every signal the platform classifies is reduced to a single, dense 8-field code:

main_sys . tech_sys . comp_sys / lnclass lninstance . do . da . cdc

Field	Standard	Meaning
main_sys	IEC 81346	Main functional system, e.g. a generation unit (M01) or a hydraulic work (L01). Always mandatory.
tech_sys	IEC 81346	Technical subsystem within BL0, e.g. the turbine (MEA00) or the governor (MEX00). - if not applicable.
comp_sys	IEC 81346	Component / measurement type within BL1, e.g. a temperature reading (BT001). - if BL1 is also -.
lnclass	IEC 61850	Logical Node class, e.g. MMXU (measurement), CALH (alarm), XCBR (breaker control).
lninstance	IEC 61850	Numeric instance of that Logical Node (a per-plant routing/client-level convention, not a unit number).
do	IEC 61850	Data Object, e.g. TmpSv, Str, OpAlm.
da	IEC 61850	Data Attribute, e.g. mag.f, stVal.
cdc	IEC 61850	Common Data Class that types the (do, da) pair, e.g. MV, SPS, ALM.

Worked example: a description like "Temperatura cuscinetto turbina unità 2" (turbine bearing temperature, unit 2) resolves to something like M02.MED00.BT001/STMP1.TmpSv.mag.f.MV — unit 2's main system, the turbine bearing technical system, a temperature analogue component, read through an STMP measurement Logical Node.

What you can do in this app

The sidebar is organised in two groups:

• Classify — day-to-day classification work:
  • Classify — classify one signal description at a time, with full reasoning and confidence detail. See Classification Modes.
  • Classify Bulk — upload a CSV or XLSX of signals and classify them all, either hands-off or with operator review of uncertain rows. See Classification Modes.
• Config — knowledge, plant data, and pipeline configuration that make classification accurate over time:
  • Docs — this section.
  • Knowledge Base — the normative and utility documentation that grounds classification. See Knowledge Base & Documentation.
  • Vocabulary — domain term-expansion lists used during pre-processing. See Context Enrichment & Plant Memory.
  • Plants — upload and review plant schematics (P&ID, single-line diagrams). See Plant Schematics Ingestion.
  • Plant Collections — browse and manage each plant's operator-validated signal history. See Context Enrichment & Plant Memory.
  • Reviewed Signals — the cross-session log of every signal an operator has corrected or confirmed. See Learning from Corrections.
  • Vector DB Config — sync the underlying reference/master/validated data into the vector database. See Context Enrichment & Plant Memory.

In short: Classify is where you get results, Config is where the system's knowledge — normative, plant-specific, and historical — lives and grows.

Running inside InfoHub

IKA is also served as an application inside the InfoHub platform, alongside Signals, Assets and the rest. It is the same application and the same pages — what changes is that the platform supplies the frame around them. On the platform's Home page IKA is the card carrying the IKA mark, the same one that sits at the top of its own sidebar.

What the platform provides, and IKA therefore stops showing:

• Who you are. Sign-in, your profile and sign-out are the platform's. There is no separate IKA account and no user chip in the sidebar.
• Language and appearance. The language picker and the light/dark toggle live in the platform's own bar and drive IKA with them.
• Where you are. The trail at the top of the window — for example InfoHub › IEC Classifier › Vector DB Config › Master — is the platform's breadcrumb, and it follows you as you move around IKA.

IKA's own sidebar behaves as it does standalone — the same groups, the same second-level panel — except that it shows only the pages your access lets you open (see the end of this page).

One difference is worth knowing. Inside the platform the address bar always reads /iec-classifier, whichever page you are on — the page you are looking at is named in the breadcrumb instead. So a bookmark or a refresh returns you to the start of the view you were in, not to the exact page. To send a colleague to a particular page, tell them the path through the sidebar rather than copying the URL.

Which parts of IKA you can open depends on the access your administrator has granted you, and the sidebar shows only those pages; a group with nothing you can open is left out altogether.

Access	What you see
Administrator	every page, and every change
Super user	every page; changes everywhere except the few reserved to administrators (deleting a plant or a collection, service settings)
User	Plants and this documentation only, to read
no IKA access	IKA does not appear on the platform's home at all