DIN 62056 Electric DIN Standard for electric metering released 2002. Most of the description are used to certificate a common electronic readout from electrical readers, such as private households, industries and power generators over telephone lines or the Internet.

The DIN 62056 has some sub-parts, which describes several protocols.

• DIN 62056-3 Energy data identification code
• DIN 62056-21 Direct local data exchange.
• DIN 62058-42 Physical layer services and asynchronous data exchange
• DIN 62056-46 Data link Layer with HDLC Protocol
• DIN 62056-53 Data exchange for meter reading COSEM Application layer
• DIN 62056-61 OBIS Object identification Code or International Electrotechnical Commission 61107
• DIN 62056-62 Interface objects