IEC 62055-51:2007

Electricity metering - Payment systems - Part 51: Standard transfer specification (STS) - Physical layer protocol for one-way numeric and magnetic card token carriers

specifies a physical layer protocol of the standard transfer specification (STS) for transferring units of credit and other management information between a point-of-sale (POS) system and an STS-compliant electricity payment meter.

General Information

• Status: Published
• Publication Date: 22-May-2007
• ICS: 01 - GENERALITIES. TERMINOLOGY. STANDARDIZATION. DOCUMENTATION
• ICS: 35.100.10 - Physical layer
• ICS: 91.140.50 - Electricity supply systems
• Technical Committee: TC 13 - Electrical energy measurement and control
• Drafting Committee: WG 15 - TC 13/WG 15
• Current Stage: PPUB - Publication issued
• Start Date: 31-Aug-2007
• Completion Date: 23-May-2007

Standards Content (Sample)

INTERNATIONAL IEC


STANDARD 62055-51



First edition
2007-05

Electricity metering – Payment systems –
Part 51:
Standard transfer specification (STS) –
Physical layer protocol for one-way numeric
and magnetic card token carriers

Reference number
IEC 62055-51:2007(E)

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INTERNATIONAL IEC


STANDARD 62055-51





First edition
2007-05


Electricity metering – Payment systems –
Part 51:
Standard transfer specification (STS) –
Physical layer protocol for one-way numeric
and magnetic card token carriers

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CONTENTS
FOREWORD.3
INTRODUCTION.5

1 Scope.6
2 Normative references .6
3 Terms, definitions and abbreviations .7
3.1 Terms and definitions .7
3.2 Abbreviations .7
3.3 Notation and terminology.8
3.4 Numbering conventions .8
4 STS protocol reference model .9
5 POSToTokenCarrierInterface: Physical layer protocol .10
5.1 TCDU .10
5.2 Magnetic card token carrier .11
5.3 Numeric token carrier .15
6 TokenCarrierToMeterInterface: Physical layer protocol.17
6.1 TCDU .17
6.2 Magnetic card token carrier .17
6.3 Numeric token carrier .
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