Defining Weather Stations

You use the Weather Station portal to display and maintain weather stations.

Refer to Understanding Weather Stations for more information.

You can access the portal by selecting Admin, select Geographic, then select Weather Station.

The following zones may appear as part of the portal's Main tab page:

  • Weather Station List: This zone lists all weather stations defined in the system. Broadcast a record to display the details of the selected record.

  • Weather Station: This zone displays the selected weather station.

  • Weather Station Characteristics: This zone displays characteristics for the selected weather station.

Importing Weather Stations

Weather stations can be imported along with other facility and network location data such as transformers, feeders, and substations. Refer to Importing Facility and Network Location Data from a Distributed Energy Resource System for more information.

Creating Weather Meters

Weather meters, including device configurations and measuring components, are created automatically when a weather station is created, based on the Device Type selected when creating the weather station.

This process requires the following data be set up prior to creating weather stations.

Measuring Component Type(s)

One or more measuring components used to capture weather data. Each should be defined as follows:

  • Business Object: Interval Channel Type - Physical (D1-IntervalChannelTypePhysical)

  • Measuring Component Business Object: Interval Channel (D1-IntervalChannel)

  • Measurement Business Object: Measurement (D1-Measurement)

  • Service Type: The service type associated with how weather data stored by measuring components of this type will be used (typically "Electric").
  • Interval /Scalar: Interval

  • Consumptive/Subtractive: Consumptive

  • Interval Size: The size of the intervals for weather data values stored by measuring components of this type, represented as hours:minutes:seconds (HH:MI:SS)

  • Value Identifiers: One or more value identifiers for the weather data captured by measuring components of this type (Degrees F, Degrees C, and so on).

Device Configuration Type

A device configuration type that defines the types of measuring components to be created for the weather meter. This should be defined as follows:

  • Business Object: Device Configuration Type (D1-DeviceConfigurationType)
  • Device Configuration Business Object: Device Configuration (D1-DeviceConfiguration)
  • Service Type: The service type associated with how weather data stored by devices of this device configuration type will be used (typically "Electric") This must match the service type defined for the measuring component type.
  • Valid Measuring Component Types: One or more measuring components (defined above) used to capture weather data. Each should be marked as "Required".

Device Type

A device type that defines the type of weather meter to be created. This should be defined as follows:

  • Business Object: Weather Meter Type (D1-WeatherMeterType)
  • Device Business Object: Weather Meter (D1-WeatherMeter)
  • Service Type: The service type associated with how weather data stored by devices of this type will be used (typically "Electric"). This must match the service type defined for the device configuration type and measuring component type.
  • Valid Device Configuration Types: A device configuration type that defines the measuring component types to be created for the weather meter.
  • Characteristics: Characteristics that define the type of data stored by the device (such as temperature)

Batch Processing

The Map Service Points to corresponding Weather Stations (D1-MAPWS) batch process can be used to map service points (including metered service points) to weather stations when and as needed.

The Initial Data Export D1-WTHRSTN (D1WSTNX) batch process can be used to export weather station data when and as needed.

Use the Batch Control portal to view the parameters used by these batch processes.

Importing Weather Data

Weather data can be imported into the system using the Adapter Development Kit (ADK) in the same manner as used for measurement data. When importing weather data, the weather station ID should be used as the Device ID (the Serial Number on Weather Meters is based on the Weather Station ID). In addition, this requires that appropriate Unit of Measure (UOM), Time of Use (TOU), and Service Quantity Identifiers (SQI) values are defined to represent the weather data used in your implementation, and corresponding UOM translation mapping values are defined in the ADK - UOM Code to Standard UOM Mapping (DG-HeadendUOMLookup) extendable lookup.

See About Measurements and Measurement Processing in the Business User Guide, and Configuring Payload Processing for more information.