IEC 61970

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The IEC 61970 series of standards by the International Electrotechnical Commission (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

Set of standards

The complete set of standards includes the following parts:

• Part 1: Guidelines and general requirements
• Part 2: Glossary
• Part 3XX: Common Information Model (CIM)
• Part 4XX: Component Interface Specification (CIS)
• Part 5XX: CIS Technology Mappings

See also

• CIM Profile
• IEC 61850
• IEC 61968
• MultiSpeak

External links

• "IEC 61970" at International Electrotechnical Commission
• CIM Users Group