EN 61557-15:2014

Electrical safety in low voltage distribution systems up to 1 000 V a.c. and 1 500 V d.c. - Equipment for testing, measuring or monitoring of protective measures - Part 15: Functional safety requirements for insulation monitoring devices in IT systems and equipment for insulation fault location in IT systems

IEC 61557-15:2014 specifies requirements related to functional safety and is based on the IEC 61508 standard series for the realization of Insulation Monitoring Devices (IMD) as specified in IEC 61557-8 and for Insulation Fault Location Systems (IFLS) according to IEC 61557-9, according to phase 10 of the IEC 61508-1 lifecycle. These devices provide safety related functions for IT systems. This part of IEC 61557 is - concerned only with functional safety requirements intended to reduce the functional risk during the use of IMDs and IFLSs; - restricted to risks arising directly from the device itself or from several IMDs or IFLSs working together in a system; and - intended to define the basic safety functions provided by the devices. This part of IEC 61557 does not - deal with electrical safety according to IEC 61010-1 and the requirements of IEC 61557-8 and IEC 61557-9; - cover the hazard and risk analysis of a particular use of the IMD or IFLS; - identify all the safety functions for the application in which the IMD or IFLS is used; and - cover the IMD or IFLS manufacturing process. This part of IEC 61557 is to be used in conjunction with Part 8 and Part 9. Functional safety requirements depend on the application and should be considered as part of the overall risk assessment of the specific application. The supplier of IMDs and IFLSs is not responsible for the application. The application designer is responsible for the risk assessment and for specifying the overall functional safety requirements of the complete IT system and he should select the functional safety level (SIL) of the IMD and/or IFLS when their safety function is part of the functional safety assessment in the IT system.

Elektrische Sicherheit in Niederspannungsnetzen bis AC 1 000 V und DC 1 500 V - Geräte zum Prüfen, Messen oder Überwachen von Schutzmaßnahmen - Teil 15: Anforderungen zur Funktionalen Sicherheit von Isolationsüberwachungsgeräten in IT-Systemen und von Einrichtungen zur Isolationsfehlersuche in IT-Systemen

Sécurité électrique dans les réseaux de distribution basse tension de 1 000 V c.a. et 1 500 V c.c. - Dispositifs de contrôle, de mesure ou de surveillance de mesures de protection - Partie 15: Exigences de sécurité fonctionnelle pour les contrôleurs d'isolement de réseaux IT et les dispositifs de localisation de défauts d'isolement pour réseaux IT

L'IEC 61557-15:2014 spécifie les exigences relatives à la sécurité fonctionnelle; elle se fonde sur la série de normes CEI 61508 pour la réalisation de contrôleurs d'isolement (CPI) tels que spécifiés dans la CEI 61557-8 et de systèmes de localisation de défauts d'isolement (DLD) conformes à la CEI 61557-9 et à la phase 10 du cycle de vie de la CEI 61508-1. Ces dispositifs assurent des fonctions relatives à la sécurité pour des réseaux IT. La présente partie de la CEI 61557 - traite uniquement des exigences de sécurité fonctionnelle visant à réduire le risque fonctionnel lors de l'utilisation des CPI et des DLD; - se limite aux risques résultant directement du dispositif proprement dit ou de plusieurs dispositifs CPI ou DLD collaborant au sein d'un réseau donné; et - vise à définir les fonctions de sécurité de base assurées par les dispositifs. La présente partie de la CEI 61557 - ne traite pas de la sécurité électrique selon la CEI 61010-1 et des exigences des normes CEI 61557-8 et CEI 61557-9; - ne couvre pas l'analyse des dangers et des risques d'un usage particulier de l'CPI ou de l'DLD; - n'identifie pas toutes les fonctions de sécurité de l'application où l'CPI ou l'DLD est utilisé; et ne couvre pas le processus de fabrication de l'CPI ou de l'DLD. La présente partie de la CEI 61557 doit être utilisée conjointement aux Parties 8 et 9. Les exigences de sécurité fonctionnelle dépendent de l'application et il convient d'en tenir compte dans le cadre de l'appréciation globale du risque de l'application spécifique. Le fournisseur des CPI et des DLD n'est pas responsable de l'application qui en est faite. Le concepteur de l'application est responsable de l'appréciation du risque et il lui incombe de spécifier les exigences globales de sécurité fonctionnelle de l'ensemble du réseau IT et il convient qu'il sélectionne le niveau de sécurité fonctionnelle (SIL) de l'CPI et/ou de l'DLD lorsque leur fonction de sécurité fait partie de l'évaluation de la sécurité fonctionnelle du réseau IT.

Električna varnost v nizkonapetostnih razdelilnih sistemih izmenične napetosti do 1 kV in enosmerne napetosti do 1,5 kV - Oprema za preskušanje, merjenje ali nadzorovanje zaščitnih ukrepov - 15. del: Zahteve za funkcionalno varnost za naprave za nadzorovanje izolacije in opremo za ugotavljanje mesta izolacijske okvare v sistemih IT (IEC 61557-15:2014)

Standard EN IEC 61557-15 določa zahteve za funkcionalno varnost in temelji na skupini standardov IEC 61508 za realizacijo naprav za nadzorovanje izolacije (IMD), kot je opredeljeno v standardu IEC 61557-8, in za sisteme za ugotavljanje mesta izolacijske okvare (IFLS) v skladu s standardom IEC 61557-9, v skladu s fazo 10 življenjske dobe IEC 61508-1. Te naprave zagotavljajo z varnostjo povezane funkcije za sisteme IT: Ta del standarda IEC 61557: – obravnava le zahteve za funkcionalno varnost, namenjene zmanjšanju funkcionalnega tveganja med uporabo IMD in IFLS; – je omejen na tveganja, ki izhajajo neposredno iz same naprave ali iz več IMD ali IFLS, ki skupaj delujejo v sistemu; – je namenjen opredelitvi osnovnih varnostnih funkcij, ki jih zagotavljajo naprave. Ta del standarda IEC 61557 ne: – obravnava električne varnosti v skladu s standardom IEC 61010-1 ter zahtev standardov IEC 61557-8 in IEC 61557-9; – obravnava analize nevarnosti in tveganj posamezne uporabe IMD ali IFLS; – opredeljuje vseh varnostnih funkcij za uporabo, v kateri se uporabljata IMD ali IFLS; – obravnava proizvodnega procesa IMD ali IFLS. Zahteve za funkcionalno varnost so odvisne od uporabe in naj bi se štele za del splošne ocene tveganja za posamezno uporabo. Dobavitelj IMD ali IFLS ni odgovoren za uporabo. Snovalec uporabe je odgovoren za oceno tveganja in opredelitev splošnih zahtev za funkcionalno varnost celotnega sistema IT ter naj bi izbral raven funkcionalne varnosti (SIL) IMD in/ali IFLS, kadar je njuna varnostna funkcija del ocene funkcionalne varnosti sistema IT.

General Information

• Status: Published
• Publication Date: 15-May-2014
• Withdrawal Date: 18-Mar-2017
• ICS: 17.220.20 - Measurement of electrical and magnetic quantities
• ICS: 29.080.01 - Electrical insulation in general
• ICS: 29.240.01 - Power transmission and distribution networks in general
• Technical Committee: CLC/TC 85X - Measuring equipment for electrical and electromagnetic quantities
• Drafting Committee: IEC/TC 85 - IEC_TC_85
• Current Stage: 6060 - Document made available - Publishing
• Start Date: 16-May-2014
• Completion Date: 16-May-2014
• Directive: 2006/95/EC - Directive 2006/95/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2006 on the harmonisation of the laws of Member States relating to electrical equipment designed for use within certain voltage limits (codified version)
• Directive: 2014/35/EU - Directive 2014/35/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on the harmonisation of the laws of the Member States relating to the making available on the market of electrical equipment designed for use within certain voltage limits
• Directive: 2014/53/EU - Directive 2014/53/EU of The European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 on the harmonisation of the laws of the Member States relating to the making available on the market of radio equipment and repealing Directive 1999/5/EC
• Mandate: M/511 - Mandate to CEN, CENELEC and ETSI relating to harmonised standards in the field of the Low Voltage Directive
• Ref Project: SIST EN 61557-15:2014 - Electrical safety in low voltage distribution systems up to 1 000 V a.c. and 1 500 V d.c. - Equipment for testing, measuring or monitoring of protective measures - Part 15: Functional safety requirements for insulation monitoring devices and for equipment for insulation fault location in IT systems (IEC 61557-15:2014)

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d'isolement de réseaux IT et les dispositifs de localisation de défauts d'isolement pour
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EUROPEAN STANDARD EN 61557-15

NORME EUROPÉENNE
EUROPÄISCHE NORM
May 2014
ICS 17.220.20; 29.080.01; 29.240.01

English Version
Electrical safety in low voltage distribution systems up to 1 000 V
a.c. and 1 500 V d.c. - Equipment for testing, measuring or
monitoring of protective measures - Part 15: Functional safety
requirements for insulation monitoring devices in IT systems and
equipment for insulation fault location in IT systems
(IEC 61557-15:2014)
Sécurité électrique dans les réseaux de distribution basse Elektrische Sicherheit in Niederspannungsnetzen bis AC 1
tension de 1 000 V c.a. et 1 500 V c.c. - Dispositifs de 000 V und DC 1 500 V - Geräte zum Prüfen, Messen oder
contrôle, de mesure ou de surveillance de mesures de Überwachen von Schutzmaßnahmen - Teil 15:
protection - Partie 15: Exigences de sécurité fonctionnelle Anforderungen zur Funktionalen Sicherheit von
pour les contrôleurs d'isolement de réseaux IT et les Isolationsüberwachungsgeräten in IT-Systemen und von
dispositifs de localisation de défauts d'isolement pour Einrichtungen zur Isolationsfehlersuche in IT-Systemen
réseaux IT (IEC 61557-15:2014)
(CEI 61557-15:2014)
This European Standard was approved by CENELEC on 2014-03-19. CENELEC members are bound to comply with the CEN/CENELEC
Internal Regulations which stipulate the conditions for giving this European Standard the status of a national standard without any alteration.
Up-to-date lists and bibliographical references concerning such national standards may be obtained on application to the CEN-CENELEC
Management Centre or to any CENELEC member.
This European Standard exists in three official versions (English, French, German). A version in any other language made by translation
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same status as the official versions.
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Turkey and the United Kingdom.

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Ref. No. EN 61557-15:2014 E
Foreword
The text of document 85/465/FDIS, future edition 1 of IEC 61557-15, prepared by IEC/TC 85 "Measuring
equipment for electrical and electromagnetic quantities" was submitted to the IEC-CENELEC parallel vote
and approved by CENELEC as EN 61557-15:2014.

The following dates are fixed:
• latest date by which the document has to be (dop) 2014-12-19
implemented at national level by
publication of an identical national
standard or by endorsement
(dow) 2017-03-19
• latest date by which the national
standards conflicting with the
document have to be withdrawn
This standard is to be used in conjunction with EN 61557-8 and EN 61557-9.

Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent
rights. CENELEC [and/or CEN] shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.

This standard covers the Principle Elements of the Safety Objectives for Electrical Equipment Designed for
Use within Certain Voltage Limits (LVD).

Endorsement notice
The text of the International Standard IEC 61557-15:2014 was approved by CENELEC as a European
Standard without any modification.
In the official version, for Bibliography, the following notes have to be added for the standards indicated:

IEC 60300-3-1 NOTE Harmonized as EN 60300-3-1.
1)
IEC 60335-1:2001 NOTE Harmonized as EN 60335-1:2002 (not modified).
1)
IEC 60335-1:2001/A1:2004 NOTE Harmonized as EN 60335-1:2002/A1:2004 (not modified).
1)
IEC 60335-1:2001/A2:2006 + Corr. 08-2006 NOTE Harmonized as EN 60335-1:2002/A2:2006 (not modified).
IEC 60364-4-41:2005 NOTE Harmonized as HD 60364-4-41:2007 (modified).
IEC 60364-5-55:2011 NOTE Harmonized as HD 60364-5-559:2012 (modified).
IEC 60364-7-710:2002 NOTE Harmonized as HD 60364-7-710:2012 (modified).
IEC 60730-1:2010 NOTE Harmonized as EN 60730-1:2011 (modified).
IEC 60812:2006 NOTE Harmonized as EN 60812:2006 (not modified).
IEC 61010-1:2010 + Corr. 05-2011 NOTE Harmonized as EN 61010-1:2010 (not modified).
IEC 61025 NOTE Harmonized as EN 61025.
IEC 61078 NOTE Harmonized as EN 61078.
IEC 61165 NOTE Harmonized as EN 61165.
IEC 61508-7:2010 NOTE Harmonized as EN 61508-7:2010 (not modified).
2)
IEC 61709:1996 NOTE Harmonized as EN 61709:1998 (not modified).
3)
IEC 61784-3:2007 NOTE Harmonized as EN 61784-3:2008 (not modified).
IEC 61800-5-2:2007 NOTE Harmonized as EN 61800-5-2:2007 (not modified).
IEC/ISO 31010:2009 NOTE Harmonized as EN 31010:2010 (not modified).
ISO 9001:2008 NOTE Harmonized as EN ISO 9001:2008 (not modified).

1)
Superseded by EN 60335-1:2012 (IEC 60335-1:2010, mod.)
2)
Superseded by EN 61709:2011 (IEC 61709:2011).
3)
Superseded by EN 61784-3:2010 (IEC 61784-3:2010).

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Annex ZA
(normative)
Normative references to international publications
with their corresponding European publications

The following documents, in whole or in part, are normatively referenced in this document and are
indispensable for its application. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For undated references,
the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies.

NOTE 1 When an International Publication has been modified by common modifications, indicated by (mod), the relevant EN/HD
applies.
NOTE 2 Up-to-date information on the latest versions of the European Standards listed in this annex is available here: www.cenelec.eu

Publication Year Title EN/HD Year

IEC 61326-2-4 2012 Electrical equipment for measurement, EN 61326-2-4 2013
control and laboratory use -
EMC requirements -
Part 2-4: Particular requirements - Test
configurations, operational conditions and
performance criteria for insulation monitoring
devices according to IEC 61557-8 and for
equipment for insulation fault location according
to IEC 61557-9
IEC 61326-3-1 2008 Electrical equipment for measurement, EN 61326-3-1 2008
+ corr. August 2008 control and laboratory use -
EMC requirements -
Part 3-1: Immunity requirements for safety-
related systems and for equipment intended to
perform safety-related functions (functional
safety) - General industrial applications

IEC 61508-1 2010 Functional safety of EN 61508-1 2010
electrical/electronic/programmable electronic
safety-related systems -
Part 1: General requirements
IEC 61508-2 2010 Functional safety of EN 61508-2 2010
electrical/electronic/programmable electronic
safety-related systems -
Part 2: Requirements for
electrical/electronic/programmable electronic
safety-related systems
IEC 61508-3 2010 Functional safety of EN 61508-3 2010
electrical/electronic/programmable electronic
safety-related systems -
Part 3: Software requirements
IEC 61508-4 2010 Functional safety of EN 61508-4 2010
electrical/electronic/programmable electronic
safety-related systems -
Part 4: Definitions and abbreviations

IEC 61508-5 2010 Functional safety of EN 61508-5 2010
electrical/electronic/programmable electronic
safety-related systems -
Part 5: Examples of methods for the
determination of safety integrity levels

Publication Year Title EN/HD Year
IEC 61508-6 2010 Functional safety of EN 61508-6 2010
electrical/electronic/programmable electronic
safety-related systems -
Part 6: Guidelines on the application of
IEC 61508-2 and IEC 61508-3
IEC 61557-1 - Electrical safety in low voltage distribution EN 61557-1 -
systems up to 1 000 V a.c. and 1 500 V d.c. -
Equipment for testing, measuring or monitoring
of protective measures -
Part 1: General requirements
IEC 61557-8 - Electrical safety in low voltage distribution EN 61557-8 -
systems up to 1 000 V a.c. and 1 500 V d.c. -
Equipment for testing, measuring or monitoring
of protective measures -
Part 8: Insulation monitoring devices
for IT systems
IEC 61557-9 2009 Electrical safety in low voltage distribution EN 61557-9 2009
systems up to 1 000 V a.c. and 1 500 V d.c. -
Equipment for testing, measuring or monitoring
of protective measures -
Part 9: Equipment for insulation fault location in
IT systems
IEC 61557-15 ®
Edition 1.0 2014-02
INTERNATIONAL
STANDARD
NORME
INTERNATIONALE
Electrical safety in low voltage distribution systems up to 1 000 V a.c. and

1 500 V d.c. – Equipment for testing, measuring or monitoring of protective

measures –
Part 15: Functional safety requirements for insulation monitoring devices in IT

systems and equipment for insulation fault location in IT systems

Sécurité électrique dans les réseaux de distribution basse tension de

1 000 V c.a. et 1 500 V c.c. – Dispositifs de contrôle, de mesure ou de

surveillance de mesures de protection –

Partie 15: Exigences de sécurité fonctionnelle pour les contrôleurs d'isolement

de réseaux IT et les dispositifs de localisation de défauts d'isolement pour

réseaux IT
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ELECTROTECHNICAL
COMMISSION
COMMISSION
ELECTROTECHNIQUE
PRICE CODE
INTERNATIONALE
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ICS 17.220.20, 29.080.01, 29.240.01 ISBN 978-2-8322-1406-0

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CONTENTS
FOREWORD . 6
INTRODUCTION . 8
1 Scope . 10
2 Normative references . 10
3 Terms, definitions and abbreviations . 11
3.1 Terms and definitions . 11
3.2 Abbreviations . 22
4 Definition of safety functions embedded in IMDs and IFLSs . 23
4.1 General . 23
4.2 Definition of safety functions . 23
4.2.1 Local insulation warning (LIW) . 23
4.2.2 Remote insulation warning (RIW) . 24
4.2.3 Local location warning (LLW) . 24
4.2.4 Remote location warning (RLW). 24
4.2.5 Remote enabling / disabling command (REDC) . 25
4.2.6 Local transformer monitoring warning (LTMW) . 25
5 Requirements on products implementing safety-related functions .
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