During the work on volkszaehler.org we used some internationals standards to implement various protocols for smartmeters. We collected these standards with a short description in the following table:

• http://www.edi-energy.de
• http://www.oms-group.org
• http://www.vde.com/de/fnn/arbeitsgebiete/messwesen/Seiten/muc.aspx
• http://www.vde.com/de/fnn/arbeitsgebiete/messwesen/Seiten/zaehler.aspx
• http://www.m-bus.com

• ANSI C12.18: The optical port and PSEM standard for metering
• ANSI C12.19: The data structure (tables) standard for metering
• ANSI C12.21: The modem and PSEM standard for metering
• ANSI C12.22: The network protocol standard for metering

Communication systems for meters and remote reading of meters

• DIN EN 13757-1: Data exchange
• DIN EN 13757-2: Physical and link layer
• DIN EN 13757-3: Application layer
• DIN EN 13757-4: Wireless M-Bus
• DIN EN 13757-5: Wireless relaying
• DIN EN 13757-6: Local Bus

Device Language Message Specification (originally Distribution Line Message Specification)

http://www.dlms.com

IEC 62056: Electricity metering - Data exchange for meter reading, tariff and load control

• DIN EN 62056-21: Direct local data exchange (3d edition of IEC 61107) describes how to use COSEM over a local port (optical or current loop)
• DIN EN 62056-42: Physical layer services and procedures for connection-oriented asynchronous data exchange
• DIN EN 62056-46: Data link layer using HDLC protocol
• DIN EN 62056-47: COSEM transport layers for IPv4 networks
• DIN EN 62056-53: COSEM Application layer
• DIN EN 62056-61: Object identification system (OBIS)
• DIN EN 62056-62: Interface classes

• EDL21: http://www.smarvis.com/EDL21/index.html
• EDL40: http://www.smarvis.com/EDL40/index.html
• EDIS: Electronic Data Information System
• AMR: Automatic Meter Reading
• AMI: Advanced Metering Infrastructure
• MDM: Meter Data Management
• OMS: Open Metering System
• SML: Smart Message Language
• OBIS: Object identification system
• ANSI: American National Standards Institute
• MSCONS: Metered Services Consumption report message
• UTILMD: Utilities Master Data message
• UN/EDIFACT: United Nations Electronic Data Interchange For Administration, Commerce and Transport
• ZVEI: German Electrical and Electronics Industry Association
• MUC: Multi Utility Communication
• eHZ: elektronischer Heimzähler
• EPSEM: Extended Protocol Specification for Electronic Metering
• DLMS: Device Language Message Specification