Data Points

With the IEC 60870-5 protocol, a distinction is made between data transmission in the monitoring direction (status values, real values, discrete values) and in the control direction (commands and setpoints).

Therefore, the IEC60870 protocol contains several data point types (called Pin Group), which were used due to their special functionality:

The Pin Groups are used by adding Data Points which have to be configured to use them.

• Data Point Configuration
  • Mapping to IEC 60870-5-104 type identification
• Data Point Modules
  • Timestamp
  • Group
  • Type