IEC TR 61850-80-5:2026

IEC 61850-80-5:2026, which is a Technical Report, specifies the mapping framework for building and configuring a system using both IEC 61850 and IEC 61158-6-15 (Industrial communication networks – Fieldbus specification, CPF Type 15, Modbus) protocols by utilizing gateways between IEC 61850 and IEC 61158-6-15 IEDs / subsystems. The objective is to enable operational run-time data exchange among these IEDs / subsystems, and to automate the configuration of a gateway as much as possible.
Please note that for the purposes of this document, "Modbus" is used to represent both serial Modbus (Modbus RTU) and IEC 61158-6-15 (Modbus TCP).
Within the capability of each protocol, some configuration attributes (IEC 61850-7-3:2010 and IEC 61850-7-3:2010/AMD1:2020 attributes with functional constraint CF) are also mapped in addition to the operational real-time data.
The frameworks specified in this document are based on the published standards and do not make any proposed changes to IEC 61850 or 61158-6-15. This standard does not specify any framework for an IEC 61850 IED to directly communicate with a Modbus IED and vice versa, except through a gateway.
This document does not mandate which data items that a particular IED will be supporting, regardless of whether the implementation uses Modbus or IEC 61850. Instead, this document provides a framework specifying how a gateway maps any given data item from Modbus into an IEC 61850 substation, including the control direction.
Similarly, this document does not mandate which mapping framework a given gateway will be supporting. When this document is republished as a Technical Specification, conformance requirements will be identified.
This document recognizes that there will be situations in which a user will require that a gateway perform non-standard protocol mappings. Non-standard mappings are outside the scope of this document.
This document also recognizes that gateways typically manipulate the data passing through them in a variety of ways. Some of these functions include alarm trigger grouping, data suppression, interlocking and command blocking. Conformance to this document does not preclude a gateway from performing such functions, even though this document primarily specifies "straight through" mapping of Modbus data to IEC 61850-7-3:2010 and IEC 61850-7-3:2010/AMD1:2020 data. Subclause 7.5 of this document describes how some of these functions can be specified to a gateway by a mapping tool using XML representations of conversion functions.
The mapping architecture for the exchange of the run-time information consists of four parts:
a) Conceptual architecture of a gateway and associated use case
b) Mapping of the information model (Assign semantic to the Modbus data)
c) Mapping of the data (which is in fact part of the information model)
d) Mapping of the services (out of scope for this document)
This second edition cancels and replaces the first edition published in 2024. This edition constitutes a technical revision.
This edition includes the following significant technical changes with respect to the previous edition:
a) deficiencies / missing text in Edition 1 corrected.