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IEC 61968-1:2020
Interface architecture and general recommendations

Official title of the standard: Application integration at electric utilities: System interfaces for distribution management. Part 1: Interface architecture and general recommendations.

EN 3 h 39 minAR 4 h 8 min

Module 1
Foundations of the Interface Reference Modelأساسيات النموذج المرجعي للواجهات (الوحدة 1)

How do utilities connect control rooms, asset registers, customer systems, meters and design tools without losing the meaning of their data? This lesson walks through IEC 61968-1 and its Interface Reference Model (IRM): business functions, business objects and the handoffs between them, with examples from asset, customer, emergency, end-device and engineering-design work.

EN English · 58:45 · 57 shortsWatch on YouTubeBrowse channel Shorts
AR Arabic · 69:02 · 75 shortsWatch on YouTubeBrowse channel Shorts

Arabic lessons: 29

Chapters

  1. 00:00:00Many systems, one grid
  2. 00:07:16The IRM as a map of utility work
  3. 00:15:44An asset has a lifecycle
  4. 00:26:09A customer is more than an account
  5. 00:35:19Practice before an emergency
  6. 00:41:47The end-device boundary
  7. 00:48:43From idea to operable asset
  8. 00:58:25Module recap and what's next

Module 2
Operational and Planning Functionsالوظائف التشغيلية والتخطيطية في IRM (الوحدة 2)

How do utilities hand information between fault management, compliance, markets and settlement, network modelling and operation, forward planning, retail, system development planning and field work? This lesson follows the operational and planning functions of the IEC 61968-1 Interface Reference Model (IRM) and the business objects that cross their boundaries.

EN English · 57:45 · 73 shortsComing: Sunday, 4 October 2026, 15:30 Cairo time. Subscribe on YouTubeBrowse channel Shorts
AR Arabic · 63:59 · 73 shortsComing: Sunday, 4 October 2026, 20:15 Cairo time. Subscribe on YouTubeBrowse channel Shorts

Arabic lessons: 22

Chapters

  1. 00:00:00Fault and compliance management
  2. 00:08:36Market operation and settlement
  3. 00:16:57Network model and network operation
  4. 00:27:25Predictive operation planning
  5. 00:35:08Retail and system development planning
  6. 00:42:36Work management
  7. 00:50:08External actors and cross-function synthesis
  8. 00:57:25Module recap and what's next

Module 3
Interface Profiles and Implementation Guidanceملفات تعريف الواجهات وإرشادات التنفيذ (الوحدة 3)

How does a utility turn the IEC 61968 business map into interfaces that actually work? This final module of the IEC 61968-1 series covers requirements analysis and the interface profile, CIM profiles and message structures (verb, noun and payload), reporting, errors, security and maintenance, applying the series in a utility or a product, performance under storm load and utility data views, ArchiMate concepts and the mapping from the older interface profile, and closes with an implementation roadmap and a recap of the whole series.

EN English · 59:29 · 73 shortsComing: Sunday, 11 October 2026, 15:30 Cairo time. Subscribe on YouTubeBrowse channel Shorts
AR Arabic · 66:19 · 73 shortsComing: Sunday, 11 October 2026, 20:15 Cairo time. Subscribe on YouTubeBrowse channel Shorts

Arabic lessons: 21

Chapters

  1. 00:00:00Requirements analysis and the interface profile
  2. 00:10:13Information exchange and message structures
  3. 00:18:13Reporting, errors, security and maintenance
  4. 00:26:13Applying the series in a utility or product
  5. 00:35:02Performance and data views
  6. 00:43:13ArchiMate concepts and profile mapping
  7. 00:52:40Implementation roadmap and recap
  8. 00:59:09Module recap and what's next

Module 4
Applied Capstone - One Storm, Seven Interfacesعاصفة واحدة، وسبع واجهات (الحالة التطبيقية)

Apply IEC 61968-1:2020 to a fictional storm at Harbor District Utility. Follow one event across the Interface Reference Model, identity ownership, outage evidence, message contracts, field work, security and storm-load testing. The case and identifiers are illustrative, not additional IEC requirements.

EN English · 42:42 · 48 shortsComing: Sunday, 18 October 2026, 15:30 Cairo time. Subscribe on YouTubeBrowse channel Shorts
AR Arabic · 48:27 · 56 shortsComing: Sunday, 18 October 2026, 20:15 Cairo time. Subscribe on YouTubeBrowse channel Shorts

Arabic lessons: 28

Chapters

  1. 00:00:00A storm becomes an integration problem
  2. 00:05:51Identity, ownership and the network model
  3. 00:12:00From evidence to an outage hypothesis
  4. 00:17:58Specify an exchange people can implement
  5. 00:24:11Safe restoration and field work
  6. 00:30:08Security, resilience and evidence
  7. 00:36:13Review the architecture as a student
  8. 00:42:22Module recap and what's next

Note

The utility, storm, times and identifiers in the applied capstone (Module 4) are illustrative examples written by Volt School, not IEC examples. The IEC 61968 standards are © IEC; the courses explain them without reproducing their text. The official text is available from the IEC webstore. webstore.iec.ch