IEC 61968-3:2004

Application integration at electric utilities - System interfaces for distribution management - Part 3: Interface for network operations

Specifies the information content of a set of message types that can be used to support many of the business functions related to network operations. Typical uses of the message types defined in this part include data acquisition by external systems, fault isolation, fault restoration, trouble management, maintenance of the plant, and the commissioning of the plant.
This publication is of core relevance for Smart Grid.

General Information

• Status: Published
• Publication Date: 07-Mar-2004
• ICS: 33.200 - Telecontrol. Telemetering
• Technical Committee: TC 57 - Power systems management and associated information exchange
• Drafting Committee: WG 14 - TC 57/WG 14
• Current Stage: DELPUB - Deleted Publication
• Completion Date: 11-Apr-2017

Relations

• Revised: IEC 61968-3:2017 - Application integration at electric utilities - System interfaces for distribution management - Part 3: Interface for network operations
• Effective Date: 05-Sep-2023

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INTERNATIONAL IEC
STANDARD 61968-3
First edition
2004-03
Application integration at electric utilities –
System interfaces for distribution management –
Part 3:
Interface for network operations

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INTERNATIONAL IEC
STANDARD 61968-3
First edition
2004-03
Application integration at electric utilities –
System interfaces for distribution management –
Part 3:
Interface for network operations

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CONTENTS
FOREWORD.4
INTRODUCTION.6
1 Scope.7
2 Normative references.7
3 Reference and information models .8
3.1 General.8
3.2 Interface reference model.8
3.3 Network operations functions and components .8
3.4 Message type terms.10
3.5 Static information model.11
4 Message types – General .14
4.1 Message usage.14
4.2 Compliance.14
4.3 Message formats.14
4.4 Common message type fields.14
5 Network operations message types .20
5.1 Summary.20
5.2 Measurement list message types.20
5.3 OperationalRestriction message types.28
5.4 OutageRecord message types.30
5.5 SafetyDocument message types.32
5.6 SwitchingSchedule Message message types .33
5.7 Message format.33

Annex A (informative) Description of message type verbs.35

Figure 1 – Simplified operational documents model .11
Figure 2 –Generic pattern used for all message types.15
Figure 3 – Example (informative) of a control area used for all message types .15
Figure 4 – Naming class .16
Figure 5 – Document associations .17
Figure 6 – Document Class class details.18
Figure 7 – Person and role played by person relative to a document.19
Figure 8 – Person and role played by person relative to an organisation.20
Figure 9 – Measurement list message format.21
Figure 10 – Continuation of measurement list message format .22
Figure 11 – Measurement list – Measurement details.23
Figure 12 – Continuation of Measurement list – Measurement details .24
Figure 13 – Measurement list – Control details .25
Figure 14 – Continuation of Measurement list – Control details.26
Figure 15 – Operational restriction message format .29
Figure 16 – Outage record message format .31
Figure 17 – Outage record – Outage step details .32
Figure 18 – Switching schedule message format.34

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Table 1 – Document overview for IEC 61968-3 .6
Table 2 – Business functions for network operations.9
Table 3 – Classes for Network Operations .12
Table 4 – Classes related to network operations .13
Table 5 – Recommended measurement names.26
Table A.1 – Commonly used verbs.35

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APPLICATION INTEGRATION AT ELECTRIC UTILITIES –
SYSTEM INTERFACES FOR DISTRIBUTION MANAGEMENT –

Part 3: Interface for network operations

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International Standard IEC 61968-3 has been prepared by IEC technical committee 57: Power
systems management and associated information exchange.
The text of this standard is based on the following documents:
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IEC 61968 consists of the following parts under the general title Application integration at
electric utilities – System interfaces for distribution management:
Part 1: Interface architecture and general requirements
Part 2: Glossary
Part 3: Interface for network operations
Part 4: Interface for records and asset management
The committee has decided that the contents of this publication will remain unchanged until
2006. At this date, the publication will be
• reconfirmed;
• withdrawn;
• replaced by a revised edition, or
• amended.
A bilingual version of this publication may be issued at a later date.

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Under consideration.
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INTRODUCTION
The IEC 61968 series of standards is intended to facilitate inter-application integration as
opposed to intra-application integration. Intra-application integration is aimed at programs in
the same application system, usually communicating with each other using middleware that is
embedded in their underlying runtime environment, and tends to be optimised for close, real-
time, synchronous connections and interactive request/reply or conversation communication
models. IEC 61968, in contrast, is intended to support the inter-application integration of a
utility enterprise that needs to connect disparate applications that are already built or new
(legacy or purchased applications), each supported by dissimilar runtime environments.
Therefore, these interface standards are relevant to loosely coupled applications with more
heterogeneity in languages, operating systems, protocols and management tools. This series
of standards is intended to support applications that need to exchange data every few
seconds, minutes, or hours rather than waiting for a nightly batch run. This series of
standards, which are intended to be implemented with middleware services that exchange
messages among applications, will complement, but not replace utility data warehouses,
database gateways, and ope
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