IEC TR 61968-900:2015

Application integration at electric utilities - System interfaces for distribution management - Part 900: Guidance for implementation of IEC 61968-9

IEC TR 61968-900:2015(E) is a companion document to the official standard IEC 61968-9. It is written from the viewpoint of a software developer or systems integrator who is tasked with implementing IEC 61968-9. It is not intended as a complete description of this standard. For full details, please refer to IEC 61968-9. This technical report contains informative recommendations which may be used to guide implementations of IEC 61968-9 and IEC 61968-100. It does not attempt to be exhaustive. In particular, it focuses on the most common IEC 61968-9 interfaces and assumes the user is using web services or JMS as the underlying transport mechanism. If the user is using other systems or the transport services are something other than web services or JMS, the recommendations in this technical report may be less relevant but perhaps still useful.

General Information

• Status: Published
• Publication Date: 28-Oct-2015
• ICS: 01 - GENERALITIES. TERMINOLOGY. STANDARDIZATION. DOCUMENTATION
• ICS: 33.200 - Telecontrol. Telemetering
• Technical Committee: TC 57 - Power systems management and associated information exchange
• Current Stage: PPUB - Publication issued
• Start Date: 31-Dec-2015
• Completion Date: 29-Oct-2015

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IEC TR 61968-900 ®
Edition 1.0 2015-10
TECHNICAL
REPORT
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Application integration at electric utilities – System interfaces for distribution
management –
Part 900: Guidance for implementation of IEC 61968-9

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IEC TR 61968-900 ®
Edition 1.0 2015-10
TECHNICAL
REPORT
colour
inside
Application integration at electric utilities – System interfaces for distribution

management –
Part 900: Guidance for implementation of IEC 61968-9

INTERNATIONAL
ELECTROTECHNICAL
COMMISSION
ICS 33.200 ISBN 978-2-8322-2950-7

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CONTENTS
FOREWORD . 8
INTRODUCTION . 10
1 Scope . 13
2 Normative references. 13
3 IEC 61968-100 basics . 13
3.1 General . 13
3.2 IEC 61968-100 message exchange patterns . 14
3.3 IEC 61968-100 message types . 14
3.3.1 General . 14
3.3.2 Request messages . 15
3.3.3 Response messages . 17
3.3.4 Unsolicited event messages . 18
3.4 IEC 61968-100 message content . 19
3.4.1 General . 19
3.4.2 Verb and noun elements in the message header . 20
3.4.3 Get requests . 20
3.4.4 Other requests . 21
3.4.5 The CorrelationID element . 21
3.4.6 Other elements in the message header . 21
3.4.7 The Message.xsd XSD schema definition file . 22
4 Request and response messages in detail . 23
4.1 General . 23
4.2 Several potential response messages for each request message . 23
4.3 Response messages contain a status indication . 24
4.4 Response messages containing data and error notifications . 24
4.5 Specific error indications in the response messages . 24
4.6 Implicit indication of success . 27
4.7 General error indications in the response messages . 28
4.7.1 General . 28
4.7.2 Setting the element . 28
4.7.3 Multiple response messages . 29
4.8 Multiple , and elements . 29
4.9 Implementation-specific messages . 30
5 The naming of objects. 30
5.1 General . 30
5.2 Naming meters . 30
5.3 EndDeviceGroups, UsagePoints and UsagePointGroups . 32
5.4 Naming of other objects. 33
5.5 Provisioning and interrogating a system . 33
6 Meter read requests and responses . 33
6.1 General . 33
6.2 Message exchange patterns . 34
6.2.1 General . 34
6.2.2 Request message with a single response message . 34
6.2.3 Request message with multiple response messages . 35
6.3 GetMeterReadings request . 37

6.3.1 General . 37
6.3.2 Naming of meters . 39
6.3.3 The ReadingType element . 39
6.3.4 The ReadingQuality element . 41
6.3.5 The TimeSchedule element . 42
6.3.6 Specifying multiple constraints in a request message . 43
6.3.7 Coincident meter reads . 46
6.4 On-demand meter reads . 47
6.4.1 General . 47
6.4.2 Pinging a meter . 49
6.5 MeterReadings response . 49
6.5.1 General . 49
6.5.2 The element . 51
6.5.3 The element . 52
6.5.4 The element . 53
6.5.5 The element . 53
6.5.6 The elements . 53
6.5.7 The EndDeviceType, ReadingQualityType and ReadingType elements . 53
6.6 Unsolicited meter reads . 56
6.6.1 General . 56
6.6.2 Message exchange pattern . 56
6.6.3 Missing reads . 58
6.6.4 Unsolicited MeterReads together with EndDeviceEvents . 59
6.7 More about timestamps and interval data . 60
6.7.1 General . 60
6.7.2 Interval data . 61
6.7.3 The interval block . 62
6.7.4 Raw data . 62
7 Meter control requests and responses . 63
7.1 General . 63
7.2 Message exchange pattern . 64
7.3 Create(EndDeviceControls) message . 65
7.3.1 General . 65
7.3.2 EndDeviceControls element . 66
7.4 Reply(EndDeviceControls) message . 70
7.5 Created(EndDeviceEvents) message . 71
7.5.1 General . 71
7.5.2 EndDeviceEvents element . 71
7.6 Unsolicited EndDeviceEvents Messages . 74
7.6.1 General . 74
7.6.2 Message exchange pattern . 75
7.7 Premises area networks . 75
7.7.1 General . 75
7.7.2 Message exchange pattern . 75
7.7.3 Pairing the Meter and PAN device . 76
8 Configuration and provisioning . 76
8.1 General . 76
8.2 Message exchange pattern . 77

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8.3 Meter configuration . 78
8.3.1 General . 78
8.3.2 Create(MeterCon
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