Incoming Measurements - Expanded Filtering and Routing

You can now filter (ignore) unwanted channels of measurements from a head end system as well as route pre-VEE measurements to other systems, such as Oracle Energy and Water Data Intelligence.

Channels that are filtered out or are routed out of the system are defined using "External" measuring components. The Measuring Component Types for these "External" measuring components are marked as "Filtered" or "Pass Through."

"External" measuring components define the channels to be filtered or routed out from the system and the Measuring Component Type for these are "Filtered" or "Pass Through". The measuring component type enables the application to filter at a more granular level than the Unit of Measure (UOM). For example, if all meters are programmed to capture several channels across the entire meter population but only certain channels are actually used for a given set of service points, external measuring components can be created to identify which service points should ignore unnecessary channels. This detailed filtering is compatible with the existing UOM filtering so it is possible to filter out data for UOMs should never be accepted for any meter and use the new more nuanced filtering using external measuring components to identify the particular channels to filter.

For routing of pass through measurements, the application allows you to standardize the data into a common format with a common (non headend specific) set of values before forwarding the data to external recipients with lower costs storage. Data standardization also gives the customer more freedom around the access to the data.

This provides greater accuracy in filtering incoming measurements, resulting to easier handling of unwanted or un-required measurement data and minimizing storage or hardware costs by routing these measurement data to less expensive storage.

Steps to Enable

To enable this feature, complete these steps:

  1. Create a new external measuring component type, for example "Interval Channel Type - External or Scalar Channel Type - External".
  2. Set the IMD Handling to identify whether the data for the new external measuring component type should be filtered or passed through.
  3. Create measuring components of the external measuring component type on the device configuration for all the applicable meters.
  4. Ensure that your Smart Grid Gateway payload processing configuration is set up to leverage "Direct Measurement Processing".
  5. If using pass through meters, use the Payload Processing Monitor Template with Export (D1-PLPSO) batch control.

Tips And Considerations

This feature is only available with "Direct Measurement Processing".