What is BS EN IEC 61968-4 - Interfaces for records and asset management about?
BS EN IEC 61968-4 specifies the information content of a set of message types that can be used to support many of the business functions related to records and asset management.
Typical uses of the message types defined in BS EN IEC 61968-4 include network extension planning, copying feeder or other network data between systems, network or diagram edits, and asset inspection.
The purpose of BS EN IEC 61968-4 is to define a standard for the integration of Records and Asset Management (AM), which would include Geographic Information Systems and Asset Risk Management Systems. The scope of BS EN IEC 61968-4 is the exchange of information between Records and Asset Management Systems and other systems within the utility enterprise.
Who is BS EN IEC 61968-4 - Interfaces for records and asset management for?
BS EN IEC 61968-4 on Interfaces for records and asset management is useful for:
- Electric Utility management department
- Power plants
- Business Intelligence
- E-commerce
Why should you use BS EN IEC 61968-4 - Interfaces for records and asset management?
BS EN IEC 61968-4 recognizes and models the general capabilities that can be potentially provided by records and asset management systems including asset risk assessment, asset planning, and condition-based asset management.
BS EN IEC 61968-4 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 optimized for close, real-time, synchronous connections and interactive request/reply or conversation communication models. BS EN IEC 61968-4 helps the users by supporting the inter-application integration of a utility enterprise that needs to connect disparate applications that are already built or new, each supported by dissimilar runtime environments. BS EN IEC 61968-4 supports applications that need to exchange data every few seconds, minutes, or hours rather than waiting for a nightly batch run.
BS EN IEC 61968-4 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.
What’s changed since the last update?
BS EN IEC 61968-4:2019 supersedes BS EN 61968‑4:2007. BS EN IEC 61968-4:2019
includes some technical changes with respect to BS EN 61968‑4:2007. These include:
- Informative annexes on how BS EN IEC 61968-4:2019 can be used to enable strategic asset management
- Informative annexes with illustrative examples for the application of BS EN IEC 61968-4:2019
- Scope coordinated with IEC 61968-13 where applicable
- Use cases in IEC 62559-2 use case template
- Traceability of use cases to IEC 62913-2-1 use cases
