IEC 60870-5-104
Mohammed Omer
Senior Electrical & Automation Engineer Industrial Automation | Process Automation Systems Integrator |SCADA| PLC | HMI |VFD Industry4.0 | IOT| RTU |Industrial Networks | Electrical Systems Design |Wireless Systems
IEC 60870-5-104 is a protocol for power system monitoring and controlling. Mostly used to communication between substations and control centers over Ethernet (Fiber optics, 2/3/4G, ...).IEC 60870-5-104 protocol is an extension of IEC 60870-5-101 protocol with the changes in transport, network, link and physical layer services to suit the complete network access.
Info about protocol
Telegram Structure
Telegram format with fixed length
Telegram format with variable length
Type identification
Standard IEC 60870-5-104 data types[1-255]
Cause of transmission
Standard IEC 60870-5-101 cause of transmission [0-63]
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2moI think is very similar to dnp3 protocol
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2moWhat a coincidence, i was just now reading about it to expand my knowledge, thanks for this post Eng. Mohammed