IEC 61968 is a series of standards under development that will define standards for information exchanges between electrical distribution

Electricity distribution

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 systems. These standards are being developed by Working Group

Working Group

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 14 of Technical Committee 57 of the IEC

International Electrotechnical Commission

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 (IEC TC 57

IEC TC 57

IEC Technical Committee 57 is one of the technical committees of the International Electrotechnical Commission .TC 57 is responsible for development of standards for information exchange for power systems and other related systems including Energy Management Systems, SCADA, distribution automation...

 WG14). IEC 61968 is intended to support the inter-application integration of a utility enterprise that needs to collect data from different applications that are legacy or new and each has different interfaces and run-time environments. IEC 61968 defines interfaces for all the major elements of an interface architecture for Distribution Management Systems (DMS) & is intended to be implemented with middleware services that broker messages among applications.

Standards

• IEC 61968-1 — Interface architecture and general requirements [Published]
• IEC 61968-2 — Glossary [Published]
• IEC 61968-3 — Interface for Network Operations [NO] [Published]
• IEC 61968-4 — Interfaces for Records and Asset management [AM] [Published]
• IEC 61968-5 — Interfaces for Operational planning & optimization [OP] [Under Development]
• IEC 61968-6 — Interfaces for Maintenance & Construction [MC] [Under Development]
• IEC 61968-7 — Interfaces for Network Extension Planning [NE] [Under Development]
• IEC 61968-8 — Interfaces for Customer Support [CS] [Under Development]
• IEC 61968-9 — Interface Standard for Meter Reading & Control [MR] [Published]
• IEC 61968-10 — Interfaces for Business functions external to distribution management [Under Development]. This includes Energy management & trading [EMS], Retail [RET], Supply Chain & Logistics [SC], Customer Account Management [ACT], Financial [FIN], Premises [PRM] & Human Resources [HR]
• IEC 61968-11 — Common Information Model (CIM) Extensions for Distribution [Under Development]
• IEC 61968-12 — Common Information Model (CIM) Use Cases for 61968 [Under Development]
• IEC 61968-13 — Common Information Model (CIM) RDF Model exchange format for distribution
• IEC 61968-14-1-3 to 14-1-10 — Proposed IEC Standards to Map IEC61968 and MultiSpeak
  MultiSpeak
  Multispeak is a specification / standard that defines standardized interfaces among software applications commonly used by electric utilities. It defines details of data that need to be exchanged between software applications in order to support different processes commonly applied at utilities...
  
   Standards [Under Development]
• IEC 61968-14-2-3 to 14-2-10 — Proposed IEC Standards to Create a CIM Profile to Implement MultiSpeak Functionality [Under Development]

Packages & Objects for 61968

The CIM model defines the following packages and objects for DMS inline with 61968.

• Common

ActivityRecord
Agreement
Document
ElectronicAddress
GeoLocation
Location
Organisation
PositionPoint
TelephoneNumber
TimePoint
TimeSchedule
UserAttribute

• WiresExt

DistributionLineSegment
DistributionTapChanger
DistributionTransformer
DistributionTransformerWinding
PerLengthPhaseImpedance

• Assets

Asset
AssetContainer
AssetFunction
ComMediaAsset
ElectricalInfo
Seal

• AssetModels

AssetModel
CableInfo
ConcentricNeutralCableInfo
ConductorInfo
DistributionWindingTest
EndDeviceModel
OpenCircuitTest
OverheadConductorInfo
ShortCircuitTest
TapeShieldCableInfo
ToWindingSpec
TransformerInfo
WindingInfo
WireArrangement
WireType

• Work

WorkKind
Work

• Customers

Customer
CustomerAccount
CustomerAgreement
PricingStructure
ServiceCategory
ServiceLocation
Tariff

• Metering

ComFunction
DemandResponseProgram
DeviceFunction
ElectricMeteringFunction
EndDeviceAsset
EndDeviceControl
EndDeviceEvent
EndDeviceGroup
IntervalBlock
IntervalReading
MeterAsset
MeterReading
MeterServiceWork
Pending
Reading
ReadingQuality
ReadingType
Register
SDPLocation
ServiceDeliveryPoint

• LoadControl

RemoteConnectDisconnectInfo
ConnectDisconnectFunction

• Payment Metering

AccountMovement
AccountingUnit
BankAccountDetail
Due
LineDetail
AuxiliaryAccount
AuxiliaryAgreement
Card
Cashier
CashierShift
Charge
Cheque
ConsumptionTariffInterval
MerchantAccount
MerchantAgreement
PointOfSale
Receipt
ServiceSupplier
Shift
TariffProfile
Tender
TimeTariffInterval
Transaction
Transactor
Vendor
VendorShift

See also

• 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:...
  
  
• MultiSpeak
  MultiSpeak
  Multispeak is a specification / standard that defines standardized interfaces among software applications commonly used by electric utilities. It defines details of data that need to be exchanged between software applications in order to support different processes commonly applied at utilities...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• IEC 61850