SIST EN 13757-3:2025

Communication systems for meters - Part 3: Application protocols

This document specifies application services for communication systems for meters, sensors, and actuators, used to provide metering services.
This document specifies application protocols, especially the M-Bus application protocol.
This document is intended to be used with the lower layer specifications determined in the relevant parts of the EN 13757 series.

Kommunikationssysteme für Zähler - Teil 3: Anwendungsprotokolle

Dieses Dokument legt Anwendungsdienste für Kommunikationssysteme für Zähler, Sensoren und Aktoren, die zur Bereitstellung von Messdienstleistungen verwendet werden, fest.
Dieses Dokument legt Anwendungsprotokolle, insbesondere das M-Bus-Anwendungsprotokoll, fest.
Dieses Dokument soll mit den in den relevanten Teilen der Normenreihe EN 13757 festgelegten Spezifikationen der unteren Schicht verwendet werden.

Systèmes de communication pour compteurs - Partie 3 : Protocoles d'application

Le présent document spécifie des services d’application pour les systèmes de communication pour compteurs, capteurs et actionneurs, utilisés pour fournir des services de comptage.
Le présent document spécifie des protocoles d’application, notamment le protocole d’application M-Bus.
Le présent document est destiné à être utilisé avec les spécifications relatives aux couches inférieures déterminées dans les parties correspondantes de la série EN 13757.

Komunikacijski sistemi za merilnike - 3. del: Aplikacijski protokoli

General Information

• Status: Published
• Public Enquiry End Date: 03-Oct-2023
• Publication Date: 08-Apr-2025
• ICS: 33.200 - Telecontrol. Telemetering
• ICS: 35.100.70 - Application layer
• ICS: 35.240.99 - IT applications in other fields
• ICS: 91.140.50 - Electricity supply systems
• Technical Committee: I13 - Imaginarni 13
• Current Stage: 6060 - National Implementation/Publication (Adopted Project)
• Start Date: 08-Apr-2025
• Due Date: 13-Jun-2025
• Completion Date: 09-Apr-2025
• Mandate: M/441 - Standardisation mandate to CEN, CENELEC and ETSI in the field of measuring instruments for the development of an open architecture for utility meters involving communication protocols enabling interoperability
• Ref Project: EN 13757-3:2025 - Communication systems for meters - Part 3: Application protocols

Relations

• Revises: SIST EN 13757-3:2018 - Communication systems for meters - Part 3: Application protocols
• Effective Date: 28-Jan-2023

Standards Content (Sample)

SLOVENSKI STANDARD
01-junij-2025
Komunikacijski sistemi za merilnike - 3. del: Aplikacijski protokoli
Communication systems for meters - Part 3: Application protocols
Kommunikationssysteme für Zähler - Teil 3: Anwendungsprotokolle
Systèmes de communication pour compteurs - Partie 3 : Protocoles d'application
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN 13757-3:2025
ICS:
33.200 Daljinsko krmiljenje, daljinske Telecontrol. Telemetering
meritve (telemetrija)
35.100.70 Uporabniški sloj Application layer
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

EN 13757-3
EUROPEAN STANDARD
NORME EUROPÉENNE
April 2025
EUROPÄISCHE NORM
ICS 33.200; 35.100.70; 35.240.99; 91.140.50 Supersedes EN 13757-3:2018
English Version
Communication systems for meters - Part 3: Application
protocols
Systèmes de communication pour compteurs - Partie 3 Kommunikationssysteme für Zähler - Teil 3:
: Protocoles d'application Anwendungsprotokolle
This European Standard was approved by CEN on 24 February 2025.

CEN 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 CEN
member.
This European Standard exists in three official versions (English, French, German). A version in any other language made by
translation under the responsibility of a CEN member into its own language and notified to the CEN-CENELEC Management
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worldwide for CEN national Members.

Contents Page
European foreword . 5
Introduction . 7
1 Scope . 9
2 Normative references . 9
3 Terms and definitions . 9
4 Abbreviations and symbols . 10
4.1 Abbreviations . 10
4.2 Symbols . 11
5 Selection of an application protocol . 11
6 M-Bus protocol . 12
6.1 General . 12
6.2 M-Bus data record . 12
6.3 Data Information Block (DIB) . 12
6.3.1 General . 12
6.3.2 Data Information Field (DIF) . 13
6.3.3 Data field . 13
6.3.4 Function Field . 14
6.3.5 Storage number . 15
6.3.6 Extension bit (E) . 15
6.3.7 Data Information Field Extension (DIFE) . 15
6.3.8 Tariff information . 15
6.3.9 Subunit information . 16
6.4 Value Information Block (VIB) . 16
6.4.1 General . 16
6.4.2 Primary VIFs (main table) . 17
6.4.3 VIF-codes for special purposes. 18
6.4.4 VIFE-code extension tables . 19
6.4.5 Alternate VIFE-code extension table (following VIF = FB for primary VIF) . 25
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6.4.6 Combinable (orthogonal) VIFE-Code extension table . 26
6.4.7 Generalized object layer . 30
6.4.8 Record errors . 31
6.5 Sensor specific information . 32
6.5.1 General . 32
6.5.2 Sub device type for Sensors . 32
6.5.3 Status bits of specific sensors . 34
6.5.4 Type or class of approval . 38
6.6 Manufacturer specific unstructured data block . 38
7 Application reset and application select . 39
7.1 Application reset . 39
7.2 Application select with subcode . 39
7.3 Overview about CI-fields for application reset and application select . 42
7.4 Rules for application selection . 42
7.4.1 Reset of current slave response . 42
7.4.2 Erroneous application select . 43
7.5 Rules for block selection. 43
7.6 Selected application block in M-Bus application protocol . 43
8 Clock synchronization . 43
9 Report of alarm status (slave to master) . 44
10 Report of application error . 44
10.1 General . 44
10.2 Status field . 44
10.3 General application layer errors . 44
11 Switching baud rate for M-Bus link layer according to EN 13757-2 . 46
12 Synchronize action . 46
13 Manufacturer specific protocols . 46
14 Other application protocols . 46
15 Image Transfer . 47
Annex A (normative) Coding of data records . 48
Annex B (normative) Interpretation of hex-codes A –F in BCD-data fields . 56
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B.1 General description standard reference . 56
B.2 Definition . 56
Annex C (normative) VIF coding for special units . 57
C.1 Non-metric units . 57
C.2 Plain text units . 57
C.3 Remote enablement/disablement of valve/breaker . 58
Annex D (informative) Alarm protocol . 59
D.1 M-Bus according to EN 13757-2 . 59
D.2 Wireless M-Bus according to EN 13757-4 . 59
Annex E (informative) Special sequences for M-Bus devices . 60
E.1 VIF/VIFE/VIFE = FD 97 1D (error flag) . 60
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E.2 VIF/VIFE/VIFE = FD 9F 1D for passing remote control on a node . 62
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E.3 Clock synchronization . 63
Annex F (normative) Transmission of profiles . 66
F.1 The standard load profile . 66
F.2 The M-Bus compact profile . 67
Annex G (normative) Compact M-Bus frame . 72
G.1 General . 72
G.2 CI-fields of the Full and the Compact M-Bus frame . 72
G.3 Calculation of the Full-Frame-CRC .
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