1 Scope

The success of the Smart Grid and Smart Home/Building/Industrial approach is very much related to interoperability, which means that Smart Grid and all smart devices in a Home/Building/Industrial environment have a common understanding of messages and data in a defined interoperability area (in a broader perspective, it does not matter if it has an energy related message, a management message or an informative message).

In contradiction, today’s premises are covered by different networks and standalone devices (see Figure 2).

The scope of this part of IEC 62746, which is a technical report, is to describe the main pillars of interoperability to assist different IEC Technical Committees in defining their interfaces and messages covering the whole chain between a Smart Grid and Smart Home/Building/Industrial area (see Figure 3).

The main topics of this document are:

• To describe an architecture model from a logical point of view;

• To describe a set of user stories that describe a number of situations related to energy flexibility and demand side management as well as an outline of potential upcoming Smart Building and Smart Home scenarios. The set of user stories does not have the ambition to list all home and building (energy) management possibilities, but is meant as a set of examples that are used as input in use cases and to check that the set of use cases is complete;

• To describe a set of use cases based on the user stories and architecture. The use cases describe scenarios in which the communication between elements of the architecture are identified;

• To further detail the communication, identified in the use cases, by describing the messages and information to be exchanged.

This document can also be used as a blueprint for further smart home solutions like remote control, remote monitoring, ambient assistant living and so forth.

This technical report will be regularly revised by introducing new use cases and updating the current use cases. The use cases presented in this document are not going to be included in the IEC Use Case Management Repository (UCMR). The data models of some use cases presented here are defined in the second edition of IEC 62746‑42. The smart grid architecture model presented in this document is created in coordination with IEC TC13, SC23, and TC57.