IEC 61970

Short description: A standard which deals with the application program interfaces for energy management systems (EMS)

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