IEC TR 61850-80-5:2024

Communication networks and systems for power utility automation - Part 80-5: Guideline for mapping information between IEC 61850 and IEC 61158-15

IEC TR 61850-80-5:2024, which is a Technical Report, specifies the mapping rules for building and configuring a system using both IEC 61850 and IEC 61158-6 (Industrial communication networks - Fieldbus specification, CPF Type 15, Modbus) protocols by utilizing gateways between IEC 61850 and IEC 61158-6 IEDs / subsystems. The objective is to enable operational run-time data exchange among these IEDs / subsystems, and to automate the configuration of a gateway as much as possible.
Please note that for the purposes of this document, "Modbus" is used to represent both serial Modbus (Modbus RTU) and IEC 61158-6 (Modbus TCP).
Within the capability of each protocol, some configuration attributes (IEC 61850-7-3:2010+AMD1:2020 attributes with functional constraint CF) are also mapped in addition to the operational real-time data.
The rules specified in this document are based on the published standards and do not make any proposed changes to IEC 61850 or 61158-6. This standard does not specify any rules for an IEC 61850 IED to directly communicate with a Modbus IED and vice versa, except through a gateway.
This document does not mandate which data items that a particular IED shall support, regardless of whether the implementation uses Modbus or IEC 61850. Instead this document provides rules specifying how a gateway maps any given data item from one protocol to the other, given that the data item is already available and is transmitted using one of the protocols.
Similarly, this document does not mandate which mapping rules a given gateway shall support. When this document is republished as a Technical Specification, conformance requirements will be identified.
This document recognizes that there will be situations in which a user will require that a gateway perform non-standard protocol mappings. Non-standard mappings are outside the scope of this document.
This document also recognizes that gateways typically manipulate the data passing through them in a variety of ways. Some of these functions include alarm trigger grouping, data suppression, interlocking and command blocking. Conformance to this document does not preclude a gateway from performing such functions, even though this document primarily specifies "straight through" mapping of Modbus data to IEC 61850-7-3:2010+AMD1:2020 data. Subclause 7.4 of this document describes how some of these functions may be specified to a gateway by a mapping tool using equation notation in XML. However, some of these functions may be too complex for a mapping tool to specify in an automated manner.
The mapping architecture for the exchange of the run-time information consists of four parts:
1) Conceptual architecture of a gateway and associated use case
2) Mapping of the information model (Assign semantic to the Modbus data)
3) Mapping of the data (which is in fact part of the information model)
4) Mapping of the services (out of scope for this document)

General Information

• Status: Published
• Publication Date: 08-Feb-2024
• ICS: 33.200 - Telecontrol. Telemetering
• Technical Committee: TC 57 - Power systems management and associated information exchange
• Drafting Committee: WG 10 - TC 57/WG 10
• Current Stage: PPUB - Publication issued
• Start Date: 08-Mar-2024
• Completion Date: 09-Feb-2024

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Communication networks and systems for power utility automation –

Part 80-5: Guideline for mapping information between IEC 61850 and

IEC 61158-15
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ICS 33.200 ISBN 978-2-8322-8236-6

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CONTENTS
FOREWORD . 4
INTRODUCTION . 6
1 Scope . 7
1.1 General . 7
1.1.1 Scope statement . 7
1.1.2 Areas of application . 8
1.1.3 Benefits . 8
1.1.4 Published versions of this standard and related namespace name . 8
1.2 Namespace name and version . 8
1.3 Code Component distribution . 9
1.3.1 General . 9
1.3.2 XML schema namespace code component . 9
2 Normative references . 10
3 Terms, definitions and abbreviated terms . 10
3.1 Terms and definitions . 10
3.2 Abbreviated terms . 11
4 Architecture of gateways between IEC 61850 and Modbus . 11
4.1 Overview. 11
4.2 Gateway between a Modbus server IED and an IEC 61850 client/subscriber
IED . 11
4.2.1 General . 11
4.2.2 Gateway device . 12
4.2.3 Handling of communication interruptions between the Gateway Modbus
Client and the Modbus Server . 13
4.2.4 Handling of Mod and Beh. 14
4.2.5 Handling of Health status . 14
4.2.6 Handling of configuration parameters . 14
4.2.7 Handling of substitution . 15
4.2.8 Service tracking . 15
4.3 Considerations on configuring the gateway . 15
5 Modbus to IEC 61850 gateway engineering workflow . 15
5.1 Overview. 15
5.2 Extensions to the SCL engineering process . 16
5.3 Extensions of the SCL schema from IEC 61850-6:2019 . 17
6 Mapping . 18
6.1 IEC 61850 & Modbus addressing schemes . 18
6.2 Logical device mapping . 18
6.3 Object mapping . 21
7 Mapping of data structure . 22
7.1 General . 22
7.2 Mapping principles . 22
7.2.1 General . 22
7.3 Handling of the quality . 23
7.4 Basic conversion functions . 24
7.4.1 Overview . 24
7.4.2 General conversion behaviour . 32
7.4.3 Literals . 32

7.4.4 Unit conversions . 32
7.4.5 Modbus Coil . 32
7.4.6 Modbus Holding Register . 33
8 Time and time synchronization model . 34
9 File transfer . 34
10 Mapping of services . 34
Annex A (informative) Use of SCL (substation configuration language) to include
Modbus information . 35
A.1 SCL schema . 35
A.1.1 Code components . 35
A.1.2 General . 36
Annex B (informative) Example SCL File Showing Modbus Mapping . 37
Bibliography . 47

Figure 1 – Communication between a Modbus server IED and an IEC 61850 client IED . 12
Figure 2 – Architecture of a gateway between a Modbus server IED and an IEC 61850
client IED . 13
Figure 3 – Logical device mapping . 19
Figure 4 – Local vs Proxied functionality . 20
Figure 5 – Object mapping . 22
Figure 6 – Handling of Quality . 23
Figure 7 – Handling of Timestamp . 24

Table 1 – Reference between published versions of the standard and related
namespace name . 8
Table 2 – Attributes of xsd namespace . 9
Table 3 – Modbus exception codes . 23
Table 4 – Conversion functions . 25

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Part 80-5: Guideline for mapping information
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