IEC 61970
# IEC 61970

The IEC 61970 series of standards by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) deals with the application program interfaces for energy management systems (EMS). The series provides a set of guidelines and standards to facilitate:

* The integration of applications developed by different suppliers in the control center environment
* The exchange of information to systems external to the control center environment, including transmission, distribution and generation systems external to the control center that need to exchange real-time data with the control center
* The provision of suitable interfaces for data exchange across legacy and new systems

## Set of standards

The complete set of standards includes the following parts:

* Part 1: Guidelines and general requirements
* Part 2: Glossary
* Part 3XX: Common Information Model (CIM)
* Part 4XX: Component Interface Specification (CIS)
* Part 5XX: CIS Technology Mappings
