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FLAG ID - the 3 letter manufacturer IDmyFLAG ID LoginThe purpose of the FLAG ID is to uniquely identify the manufacturer of communicating equipment as specified in the DLMS UA Blue Book and Green Book, and other the relevant standards.
FLAG IDs are assigned and maintained by the DLMS User Association.
What are FLAG IDs for
FLAG ID usages
FLAG IDs are used for electricity, gas, heat and water metering systems in conjunction with one or more of the following standards for meter data exchange; new standards may be added in the future.
- DLMS/COSEM Blue Book and Green Book;
- IEC 62056 DLMS/COSEM (IEC version of the Blue Book / Green Book);
- EN 13757 M-Bus;
- EN 1434-3 Heat meters;
- ISO 22158 Water meters.
- electricity;
- water;
- gas; and/or
- thermal energy.
FLAG ID structure
A FLAG ID consists of three upper case letters taken from the ISO basic Latin alphabet (26 letters).
With this, 17 576 FLAG IDs are available. Currently (July 2018) 1 303 FLAG IDs are registered. With growing number of manufacturers and usages, FLAG IDs are allocated sparingly by DLMS UA alone: the DLMS UA – in partnership with the FLAG Association – applies strict control over FLAG ID registrations.
DLMS US will allocate the FLAG ID and it will include any combination of the three letter sequence registered in upper case and lower case e.g. the registration of ABC implies the registration of aBC, AbC, ABc, abC, aBc, Abc, abc.