PD IEC/TR 61968-900:2015

What is PD IEC/TR 61968-900- Application integration at electric utilities about? 

PD IEC/TR 61968-900 is a safety standard on application integration at electric utilities. 

PD IEC/TR 61968-900, which is a Technical Report is a reference document and, as such, is not always suitable for someone new to the world of meter reading and control. PD IEC/TR 61968-900 assumes significant domain knowledge. 

IEC/TR 61968-900 is a companion standard to the official standard. IEC/TR 61968-900 is written from the viewpoint of a software developer or systems integrator who is tasked with implementing IEC 61968-9. To get the most from IEC/TR 61968-900, the user should have a good understanding of XML technologies, of XML schema definitions and of web services. 

IEC/TR 61968-900 contains informative recommendations which may be used to guide implementations of IEC 61968-9 and IEC 61968-100. IEC/TR 61968-900 focuses on the most common IEC 61968-9 interfaces and assumes the user issuing web services or JMS as the underlying transport mechanism. 

Who is PD IEC/TR 61968-900- Application integration at electric utilities for?  

PD IEC/TR 61968-900 on system interfaces for distribution management is relevant to: 

• Electricians 
• Electrical engineers  
• Software developer  
• Systems integrator 
• Testing authorities 

Why should you use PD IEC/TR 61968-900- Application integration at electric utilities? 

PD IEC/TR 61968-900 is intended to help users to interpret IEC 61968-9:2013. 

PD IEC/TR 61968-900 provides a uniform means for performing meter read and control operations over a distributed network. IEC 61968-9 aims to allow heterogeneous components, produced by different vendors, to interoperate with one another. Such components typically include a customer information system (CIS), an outage management system (OMS), a meter data management system (MDMS), and a head-end system (HES). The messages that are exchanged between the various components are XML documents. IEC 61968-9 defines how these messages are expressed according to the semantics of the operations supported by PD IEC/TR 61968-900. While IEC 61968-9 defines the various data items from which the request and response messages are constructed, it is less prescriptive about the corresponding message flows – that is, how a complete message exchange looks. PD IEC/TR 61968-900 provides examples of typical message exchange patterns. The examples used in PD IEC/TR 61968-900 refer to MDMS and HES systems. These names are used for illustrative purposes only. Other system names such as CIS and MDMS or client and server could just as equally well have been chosen. 

Following are the ways in how PD IEC/TR 61968-900 is organized: 

• Clause 3 of PD IEC/TR 61968-900 describes the basics of IEC 61968-100 as they relate to 
• IEC 61968-9 
• Clause 4 describes more details concerning IEC 61968-100, especially as to what these have to do with formulating request and response messages and how notifications of errors are communicated. This clause also describes how the standard IEC 61968-9 set of messages may be augmented by implementation-specific messages 

• Clause 5 describes how meters and other objects are named in the IEC 61968-9 world 
• Clauses 6 and 7 respectively describe how meter read operations and meter control operations are carried out 
• Clause 8 shows how a MDMS, or HES may be configured with provisioning information 
• Clause 9 discusses some of the less frequently used message exchange patterns, specifically how to schedule actions for execution at some future time and how to cancel them should the need arise 
• Clause 10 provides some details concerning transmitting IEC 61968-9 messages over SOAP (web services) or JMS transports 
• Clause 11 is a detailed reference of the various fields that are used within IEC 61968-9 messages 

Overall, PD IEC/TR 61968-900 is useful as it provides guidance for the implementation of system interfaces for distribution management for application integration at electric utilities.