The IEC 61970 series of standards by the
International Electrotechnical Commission
The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC; ) is an international standards organization that prepares and publishes international standards for all electrical, electronics, electronic and related technologies. IEC standards cover a va ...
(IEC) deals with the
application program interfaces for
energy management systems (EMS). The series provides a set of guidelines and standards to facilitate:
* The integration of applications developed by different suppliers in the control center environment
* The exchange of information to systems external to the control center environment, including transmission, distribution and generation systems external to the control center that need to exchange real-time data with the control center
* The provision of suitable interfaces for data exchange across legacy and new systems
IEC 61970 is created and maintained by IEC Technical Committee 57 (TC 57).
Set of standards
The complete set of standards includes the following parts:
* IEC 61970-1: Guidelines and general requirements
* IEC 61970-2: Glossary of terms
* IEC 61970-3XX:
Common Information Model (CIM)
* IEC 61970-4XX: Generic Interface Definition (GID)
* IEC 61970-5XX: Common Interface System Technology Mappings
See also
*
CIM Profile
*
IEC 61850
*
IEC 61968
*
MultiSpeak
References
External links
*
CIM Users Group
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