IEC 61970
The IEC 61970 series of standards by the International Electrotechnical Commission deals with the application program interfaces for Energy [management system |energy management systems]. 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
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 |Common Information Model]
- IEC 61970-4XX: Generic Interface Definition
- IEC 61970-5XX: Common Interface System Technology Mappings