IEC TR 61968-900-2015 PDF

Full title and description

Application integration at electric utilities - System interfaces for distribution management - Part 900: Guidance for implementation of IEC 61968-9. This Technical Report provides informative recommendations and implementation guidance for developers and system integrators implementing the IEC 61968-9 interfaces (message profiles, XML schemas and typical message flows), with a focus on common transports such as web services (SOAP) and JMS.

Abstract

IEC TR 61968-900:2015 is a companion document to IEC 61968-9 that explains how to implement that standard in practice. It is written from the viewpoint of software developers and system integrators and describes typical message profiles (XML/XSD), example message exchange patterns, and practical recommendations for using web services or message buses (e.g., JMS) as transport. The report is informative rather than normative and does not replace the formal normative requirements of IEC 61968-9 or IEC 61968-100; instead it clarifies common use cases and suggests implementation approaches for distribution management interfaces.

General information

• Status: Published (Technical Report, active publication).
• Publication date: 29 October 2015.
• Publisher: International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC).
• ICS / categories: 33.200 (Telecontrol. Telemetering).
• Edition / version: Edition 1.0 (2015).
• Number of pages: 139 pages (PDF/IEC publication record).

Scope

The Technical Report provides guidance for implementing IEC 61968-9 interfaces used in distribution management system integration. It concentrates on common IEC 61968-9 interfaces between components such as Customer Information Systems (CIS), Meter Data Management Systems (MDMS), Head-End Systems (HES), and Outage Management Systems (OMS). The document covers message profiles (XML schema definitions), message flows and exchange patterns, and practical implementation considerations for transports like SOAP-based web services or JMS. It is intended to help developers interpret and apply IEC 61968-9 and related implementation profiles (e.g., IEC 61968-100) rather than to change the normative requirements of those standards.

Key topics and requirements

• Explanation of typical IEC 61968-9 message profiles and XML schema (XSD) files used to represent requests and responses between systems.
• Examples of common message exchange patterns and end-to-end flows for meter reading, control operations and data queries.
• Guidance on transport choices and assumptions (primarily web services/SOAP and JMS/message bus) and implications for reliability, security and message correlation.
• Recommendations for mapping CIM-based data items in distribution management exchanges and for integrating with IEC 61968-100 implementation profiles.
• Implementation notes oriented to software developers and integrators: error handling, transaction semantics, payload validation against XSDs, and versioning considerations.

Typical use and users

Target users are utility software developers, system integrators, solution architects, vendor implementers of MDMS/HES/CIS/OMS components, consultants and project teams responsible for integration of distribution management systems. Typical uses include implementing message producers/consumers that conform to IEC 61968-9 profiles, creating adapters between legacy systems and CIM-based interfaces, validating XML message exchanges, and selecting/ configuring transport middleware (web services or JMS) for interoperable deployments.

Related standards

IEC TR 61968-900 is part of the IEC 61968 series (Application integration at electric utilities — System interfaces for distribution management). Key related documents include IEC 61968-9 (the normative definition of the message interfaces), IEC 61968-100 (implementation profiles), other parts of IEC 61968 (for example Parts 1 and 3), and related technical specifications such as IEC TS 61968-14 (CIM harmonization) and IEC TS 62746 series addressing customer energy management interfaces.

Keywords

Application integration, distribution management, IEC 61968, message profiles, XML, XSD, web services, JMS, Common Information Model (CIM), MDMS, HES, OMS, system interfaces, technical report, implementation guidance.

FAQ

Q: What is this standard?

A: IEC TR 61968-900:2015 is a Technical Report providing guidance for implementing the IEC 61968-9 system interfaces used in distribution management and application integration at electric utilities; it is an informative companion to the normative IEC 61968-9 standard.

Q: What does it cover?

A: It covers implementation-oriented guidance: typical message profiles and XML schemas, example message exchange patterns, recommended practices for using transports such as SOAP-based web services or JMS, and developer-focused notes on validation, error handling and message flows.

Q: Who typically uses it?

A: Software developers, integrators, utility IT architects, vendors of MDMS/HES/CIS/OMS systems, and consultants working on integration projects for distribution management.

Q: Is it current or superseded?

A: The Technical Report was published on 29 October 2015 and remains the published guidance document for IEC 61968-9; the IEC publication record lists a stability date through 2026. Users should check the IEC catalogue for any revisions or newer companion documents if they require the absolute latest status.

Q: Is it part of a series?

A: Yes — it is part of the IEC 61968 series (System interfaces for distribution management) and is explicitly a companion to IEC 61968-9; it also references IEC 61968-100 and other parts of the IEC 61968 family for related requirements and implementation profiles.

Q: What are the key keywords?

A: Application integration, distribution management, IEC 61968-9, message profiles, XML/XSD, web services, JMS, CIM, MDMS, HES, OMS.