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Application integration at electric utilities - System interfaces for distribution management - Part 8: Interface standard for customer support

This part of IEC 61968 specifies the information content of a set of message types that can be
used to support many of the business functions related to customer support. Typical uses of
the message types include service request, customer agreement, and trouble management.
The purpose of this part of IEC 61968 is to define a standard for the integration of customer
support (CS), which would include customer service, trouble management and point of sale
related components integrated with other systems and business functions within the scope of
IEC 61968. The scope of this standard is the exchange of information between a customer
support system and other systems within the utility enterprise.

Integration von Anwendungen in Anlagen der Elektrizitätsversorgung - Systemschnittstellen für Netzführung - Teil 8: Schnittstellen für den Kundenbetrieb

Intégration d'applications pour les services électriques - Interfaces système pour la gestion de distribution - Partie 8: Interfaces pour l'assistance à la clientèle

L'IEC 61968-8:2015 spécifie le contenu d'informations d'un ensemble de types de messages qui peuvent être utilisés pour prendre en charge de nombreuses fonctions métier relatives à l'assistance à la clientèle. La demande de service, l'accord client et la gestion d'incidents constituent des utilisations typiques des types de messages. L'objectif de la présente partie de l'IEC 61968 est de définir une norme pour l'intégration de l'assistance à la clientèle (CS) qui inclurait des composants liés au service à la clientèle, à la gestion des incidents et aux points de vente, ces composants étant intégrés à d'autres systèmes et fonctions métier dans le domaine d'application de l'IEC 61968. Le domaine d'application de la présente norme est l'échange d'informations entre un système d'assistance à la clientèle et d'autres systèmes au sein de l'entreprise de distribution.

Združevanje aplikacij v elektropodjetjih - Sistemski vmesniki za upravljanje distribucije - 8. del: Standard vmesnika za podporo končnim uporabnikom

Ta del standarda IEC 61968 določa informacijsko vsebino nabora vrst sporočil, ki jih je mogoče uporabiti za podporo številnih poslovnih funkcij v zvezi s podporo končnim uporabnikom. Običajni primeri uporabe vrste sporočil vključujejo zahtevo za storitev, pogodbo s končnim uporabnikom in upravljanje težav. Namen tega dela standarda IEC 61968 je opredelitev standarda za vključevanje podpore končnim uporabnikom (CS), ki zajema storitve za končne uporabnike, upravljanje težav in komponente, povezane s prodajnim mestom, ki so povezani z drugimi sistemi in poslovnimi funkcijami v okviru standarda IEC 61968. Področje uporabe tega standarda je izmenjava informacij med podporo končnim uporabnikom in drugimi sistemi znotraj podjetja.

General Information

• Status: Published
• Publication Date: 13-Jun-2016
• ICS: 29.240.30 - Control equipment for electric power systems
• ICS: 35.200 - Interface and interconnection equipment
• Technical Committee: PSE - Power systems management
• Current Stage: 6060 - National Implementation/Publication (Adopted Project)
• Start Date: 02-Jun-2016
• Due Date: 07-Aug-2016
• Completion Date: 14-Jun-2016
• Mandate: M/490 - Standardisation mandate to the European Standardisation Organisations (ESOs) to support European Smart Grid deployment
• Ref Project: EN 61968-8:2016 - Application integration at electric utilities - System interfaces for distribution management - Part 8: Interfaces for customer operations

Standards Content (Sample)

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Application integration at electric utilities - System interfaces for distribution management
- Part 8: Interface standard for customer support
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN 61968-8:2016
ICS:
29.240.30 Krmilna oprema za Control equipment for electric
elektroenergetske sisteme power systems
35.200 Vmesniška in povezovalna Interface and interconnection
oprema equipment
SIST EN 61968-8:2016 en
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

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EUROPEAN STANDARD EN 61968-8

NORME EUROPÉENNE

EUROPÄISCHE NORM
May 2016
ICS 33.200

English Version
Application integration at electric utilities - System interfaces for
distribution management - Part 8: Interfaces for customer
operations
(IEC 61968-8:2015)
Application integration at electric utilities - System interfaces Integration von Anwendungen in Anlagen der
for distribution management - Part 8 : interface standard for Elektrizitätsversorgung - Systemschnittstellen für
customer support Netzführung - Teil 8: Schnittstellen Normen für den
(IEC 61968-8:2015) Kundendienst
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European foreword
The text of document 57/1548/FDIS, future edition 1 of IEC 61968-8, prepared by IEC/TC 57, "Power
systems management and associated information exchange" was submitted to the IEC-CENELEC
parallel vote and approved by CENELEC as EN 61968-8:2016.

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Annex ZA
(normative)

Normative references to international publications
with their corresponding European publications
The following documents, in whole or in part, are normatively referenced in this document and are
indispensable for its application. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For undated
references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies.
NOTE 1 When an International Publication has been modified by common modifications, indicated by (mod), the relevant

EN/HD applies.

NOTE 2 Up-to-date information on the latest versions of the European Standards listed in this annex is available here:
www.cenelec.eu.
Publication Year Title EN/HD Year

IEC 60050 -  International Electrotechnical Vocabulary - -
(IEV)
IEC 61968-1 -  Application integration at electric utilities - EN 61968-1 -
System interfaces for distribution
management -- Part 1: Interface
architecture and general requirements
IEC 61968-6 -  Application integration at electric utilities - - -
System interfaces for distribution
management - Part 6: Interfaces for
maintenance and construction
IEC 61968-11 -  Application integration at electric utilities - EN 61968-11 -
System interfaces for distribution
management -- Part 11: Common
information model (CIM) extensions for
distribution
IEC 61968-100 -  Application integration at electric utilities - EN 61968-100 -
System interfaces for distribution
management -- Part 100: Implementation
profiles
IEC 61970-301 -  EN 61970-301 -
IEC/TS 61968-2 -  Application integration at electric utilities - - -
System interfaces for distribution
management -- Part 2: Glossary

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CONTENTS
FOREWORD . 4
1 Scope . 7
2 Normative references . 7
3 Terms, definitions and abbreviations . 7
3.1 Terms and definitions . 7
3.2 Abbreviations . 8
4 Reference and information models . 8
4.1 Reference model . 8
4.1.1 General . 8
4.1.2 Customer support (CS) . 9
4.2 Customer support functions and components . 9
4.3 Static information model . 9
4.3.1 General . 9
4.3.2 Classes for customer support . 9
5 Customer support message types . 10
5.1 General . 10
5.2 Trouble ticket . 11
5.2.1 General . 11
5.2.2 Message format . 12
5.3 Incident information . 12
5.3.1 General . 12
5.3.2 Message format . 14
5.4 Service request . 15
5.4.1 General . 15
5.4.2 Message format . 16
5.5 Service order . 17
5.5.1 General . 17
5.6 Work request . 17
5.6.1 General . 17
5.7 Customer agreement . 18
5.7.1 General . 18
5.7.2 Message format . 20
Annex A (normative) XML schemas for message payloads . 21
Bibliography . 58

Figure 1 – IEC 61968-8 context model . 8
Figure 2 – Example of trouble ticket exchange between CIS and OMS . 11
Figure 3 – Trouble ticket message . 12
Figure 4 – Example of incident information exchange between OMS and CIS . 13
Figure 5 – Incident information message . 14
Figure 6 – Example of a service request exchange between CIS and WMS . 15
Figure 7 – Service request message . 16
Figure 8 – Example of a service order exchange between CIS and WMS . 17
Figure 9 – Example of a work request exchange between CIS and WMS . 18

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Figure 10 – Example of a customer exchange between CIS and external or third party
systems . 19
Figure 11 – Customer agreement message . 20
Figure A.1 – Trouble ticket XSD . 24
Figure A.2 – Incident information XSD . 28
Figure A.3 – Customer agreement XSD . 35
Figure A.4 – Service request XSD . 57

Table 1 – Document overview for IEC 61968-8 . 6
Table 2 – Business functions and abstract components . 9
Table 3 – Customer support classes . 10

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

Part 8: Interfaces for customer operations

FOREWORD
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International Standard IEC 61968-8 has been prepared by IEC technical committee 57: Power
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The text of this standard is based on the following documents:
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INTRODUCTION
The purpose of this part of IEC 61968 is to define a standard for the integration of Customer
Support (CS), which would include Customer Service, Trouble Management and Point of Sale
related components integrated with other systems and business functions within the scope of
IEC 61968. The scope of this standard is the exchange of information between a customer
support system and other systems within the utility enterprise.
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, by 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, not replace utility data warehouses,
database gateways, and operational stores.
As used in IEC 61968, a Distribution Management System (DMS) consists of various
distributed application components for the utility to manage electrical distribution networks.
These capabilities include monitoring and control of equipment for power delivery,
management processes to ensure system reliability, voltage management, demand-side
management, outage management, work management, automated mapping and facilities
management. Standard interfaces are defined for each class of applications identified in the
Interface Reference Model (IRM), which is described in IEC 61968-1: Application integration
at electric utilities – System interfaces for distribution management – Interface Architecture
and General Requirements.
This part of IEC 61968 contains the clauses listed in Table 1.
Table 1 – Document overview for IEC 61968-8
Clause Title Purpose
1.
Scope The scope and purpose of the document are described.
2.
Normative references Documents that contain provisions which, through reference in
this text, constitute provisions of this international standard.
3.
Terms, definitions and
abbreviations
4.
Reference and information Description of general approach to customer support,
models reference model, interface reference model, customer support
functions and components, message type terms and static
information model.
5.
Customer support message Message types related to the exchange of information for
types documents related to customer services.
Annex A
Sample XML schemas for To provide XSD information for information use only.
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1 Scope
This part of IEC 61968 specifies the information content of a set of message types that can be
used to support many of the business functions related to customer support. Typical uses of
the message types include service request, customer agreement, and trouble management.
The purpose of this part of IEC 61968 is to define a standard for the integration of customer
support (CS), which would include customer service, trouble management and point of sale
related components integrated with other systems and business functions within the scope of
IEC 61968. The scope of this standard is the exchange of information between a customer
support system and other systems within the utility enterprise.
2 Normative references
The following documents, in whole or in part, are normatively referenced in this document and
are indispensable for its application. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For
undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any
amendments) applies.
IEC 60050, International Electrotechnical Vocabulary
IEC 61968-1, Application integration at electric utilities – System interfaces for distribution
management – Part 1: Interface architecture and general recommendations
IEC TS 61968-2, Application integration at electric utilities – System interfaces for distribution
management – Part 2: Glossary
IEC 61968-6, Application integration at electric utilities – System interfaces for distribution

1
management – Part 6: Interfaces for maintenance and construction
IEC 61968-11, Application integration at electric utilities – System interfaces for distribution
management – Part 11: Common information model (CIM) extensions for distribution
IEC 61968-100, Application integration at electric utilities – System interfaces for distribution
management – Part 100: Implementation profiles
IEC 61970-301, Energy management system application program interface (EMS-API) – Part
301: Common information model (CIM) base
3 Terms, definitions and abbreviations
3.1 Terms and definitions
For the purposes of this standard, the terms and definitions given in IEC 60050-300,
IEC 61968-2, IEC 62051 and IEC 62055-31 apply.
Where there is a difference between the definitions in this standard and those contained in
other referenced IEC standards, then those defined in IEC 61968-2 shall take precedence
over the others listed, and those defined in this document shall take precedence over those
defined in IEC 61968-2.
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3.2 Abbreviations
CIM Common information model
CIS Customer information system
CRM Customer relationship management
CSR Customer service representative
ERT Estimated restoration time
IVR Interactive voice response
NO Network operations
OMS Outage management system
POS Point of sale
UML Unified modelling language
WM Work management
XSD XML schema definition
4 Reference and information models
4.1 Reference model
4.1.1 General
The diagram in Figure 1 serves as a reference model and provides examples of the logical
components and data flows related to the context of this part of IEC 61968.
Figure 1 describes the information flows between the components defined in this part of
IEC 61968 and the components in the reference model defined in IEC 61968-1.
61968 Parts 3-10
(10) External (6) Maintenance and (3) Trouble call
to DMS (EXT-ACT) construction (MC) management (NO)
(5) (3) (4) (2) (1)
(6)
Customer service Trouble call
(CSRV) management (TCM)
Part 8 Customer support (CS)
1. Trouble ticket
2. Incident information
3. Service order
4. Work request
5. Customer agreement
6. Service request
IEC

Figure 1 – IEC 61968-8 context model

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4.1.2 Customer support (CS)
Typical tasks of customer support:
• Customer services may include, but are not limited to, customer enquiries, new service,
program enrollment and service or work request updates.
• Trouble call management may include, but are not limited to, trouble calls reported from
customers and non-customers, outage notifications and restoration updates.
4.2 Customer support functions and components
Table 2 shows these functions and typical abstract components that are expected to be
producers of information for these message types. Typical consumers of the information
include, but are not restricted to, the other components as listed in IEC 61968-1.
Table 2 – Business functions and abstract components
Service requests
Customer support (CS)
Construction billing inquiry
Billing inquiry
Work status
Self-service inquiry
Customer connection
Customer service (CSRV)
Turn on, turn off
Line losses
Service level agreements
Customer information analysis
Customer information management
Customer relationship management
Outage calls
Trouble call management (TCM)
Power quality
Planned outage notifications
Media communication
Performance indices
Restoration projection/confirmation
Outage history

Point of sale (POS)

4.3 Static information model
4.3.1 General
The information model relevant to customer support consists of classes that provide a
template for the attributes for each message.
The classes are defined in detail in IEC 61968-11, Application integration at electric utilities –
System interfaces for distribution management – Part 11: Common Information Model (CIM)
Extensions for Distribution or in IEC 61970-301, Energy management system application
program interfaces (EMS-API) – Part 301: Common information model (CIM) base.
4.3.2 Classes for customer support
Table 3 lists classes used within message types. Usually all the attributes of these classes
are contained within a message type. The descriptions provided describe usage within this
part.
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Table 3 – Customer support classes
Class/Noun Package Description
Customer Customers Organisation receiving services from service supplier
CustomerAgreement Customers Agreement between the customer and the service supplier to pay
for service at a specific service location. It records certain billing
information about the type of service provided at the service
location and is used during charge creation to determine the type
of service
DemandResponseProgram Metering Demand response program
Incident Operations Description of a problem in the field that may be reported in a
trouble ticket or come from another source. It may have to do
with an outage
Location Common The place, scene, or point of something where someone or
something has been, is, and/or will be at a given moment in time.
It can be defined with one or more position points (coordinates)
in a given coordinate system
Outage Operations Document describing details of an active or planned outage in a
part of the electrical network.
A non-planned outage may be created upon:
– a breaker trip,
– a fault indicator status change,
– a meter event indicating customer outage,
– a reception of one or more customer trouble calls, or
– an operator command, reflecting information obtained from
the field crew.
Outage restoration may be performed using a switching plan
which complements the outage information with detailed
switching activities, including the relationship to the crew and
work.
A planned outage may be created upon:
– a request for service, maintenance or construction work in
the field, or
– an operator-defin
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