Interval Billing
The transactions described in this section are only available if the interval billing module is turned on. This Customer Care and Billing functionality has essentially been deprecated and should be performed within a Meter Data Management system. This functional area remains within Customer Care and Billing exclusively for upgrading customers who currently use Interval Billing within an earlier version of this system.
The interval rating and billing functionality described in this chapter was designed and developed prior to the big data requirements of the smart grid. Implementations should use a meter data management application, such as Oracle Utilities Meter Data Management, for smart grid requirements.
The interval billing functional area is responsible for managing the following:
- Collecting interval data. Any time increment can be supported. For example, electrical meter read data might be recorded in 10 minute, 15 minute, 30 minute, ... intervals; whereas daily gas consumption may have intervals that span 24 hours.
- Maintaining interval prices. Again, any time increment can be supported.
- Deriving billable interval consumption from multiple interval consumption sources. For example, actual interval consumption can be compared against a customer-specific "maximum demand" profile to derive an "excess demand" profile.
- Deriving time-of-use consumption by applying time-of-use maps to a customer's interval consumption.
This chapter describes the above points in detail.
The transactions described in this document are available only if the interval billing modules are not turned off.