Introduction

Energy management systems will more and more become necessary due to change from fossil and nuclear to renewable production and the associated decentralization. Since an appropriate standard for a home and building management is in preparation, this document specifies how sets of products from multiple manufacturers can exchange information with Home and Building / Customer Energy Management Systems, located in a home network or in the cloud.

This document focuses on interoperability of household appliances and describes the necessary control and monitoring. It defines a set of functions of household and similar electrical appliances. The functions in this document cover next to energy-management main remote-control and – monitoring use cases.

This document does not deal with safety and security requirements. Safety requirements have been set in the EN 60335 series [1].

The EN 50631 series will provide interoperability on information exchange among various appliances in the home. The EN 50631 document series will be re-arranged regarding the further development and will be split into 6 parts:

EN 50631 -1: Household appliances network and grid connectivity — Part 1: General Requirements, Generic Data Modelling and Neutral Messages

EN 50631 -2: Household appliances network and grid connectivity — Part 2: Product Specific mappings, details, requirements and deviations

EN 50631 -3-x: Household appliances network and grid connectivity — Part 3: Specific Data Model Mapping

EN 50631 -4-x: Household appliances network and grid connectivity — Part 4: Communication Protocol Specific Aspects

EN 50631 -5: Household appliances network and grid connectivity — Part 5: General Test-Requirements and - Specification

EN 50631 -6: Household appliances network and grid connectivity — Part 6: SPINE Data Model Toolbox

Data communication heavily depends on the environment of appliances. Sometimes low bitrate or energy efficient communication puts strict requirements to selected communication technologies. Therefore, popular and de facto standards had been and will be developed by the industry to fulfil such requirements. To not influence common data modelling for appliances because of such restrictions, the standardized data models and neutral message structures need to be applied to communication technologies.

This standard series therefore is intended to separate data modelling and neutral message structure from the attached communication.

Part 1 defines general requirements, generic data modelling and generic neutral messages without relation to any specific communication technology or any product specific layout.

Part 2 lists and specifies product specific requirements and implementation guidance based on the generic data model and generic neutral messages.

Part 3 defines the mapping of neutral messages to examples of typical data models like SPINE, OCF, and so forth. These data models are neither mandatory nor to be seen as complete spectrum of data models.

Part 4 defines the mapping of neutral messages to examples of typical communication protocols. These communication protocols are neither mandatory, nor do they provide an exhaustive list of communication protocols.

Part 5 defines testing requirements and testing specifications. This part will be covered in the future by a New Work Item Proposal.

Part 6 provides the technical reference specification for the SPINE data model. This part will be covered in the future by a New Work Item Proposal.

BS EN 50631-2:2023

Household appliances network and grid connectivity - Product specific mappings, details, requirements and deviations

Current

Published:

31 Mar 2023