About Route Management

Route management involves managing the order of the Service Points within measurement cycles and routes.

When creating Service Points, each Service Point can reference a measurement cycle, route, and its sequence within the route. Over time, as Service Points are added and removed to and from measurement cycles and routes, it may become necessary to change the sequence of Service Points within the measurement cycles and routes used in your implementation.

• A measurement cycle defines WHEN the Service Point is visited

• A route within a cycle defines a group of Service Points in a cycle that are visited by a meter reader

• A sequence within a route defines the physical position of the Service Point within a route

• A schedule specifies the dates on which Service Points are visited.

Manually read Service Point reference a measurement cycle, route and sequence within the route. A batch process creates SP/Measurement Cycle Schedule Routes for each Service Point, which link the dates on a measurement cycle schedule to a measurement cycle route defined for the Service Point. These define the specific date on which a meter reader will visit Service Points associated with a specific measurement cycle route, and the sequence in which the Service Points on that route are visited.

Measurement Cycles

Measurement cycles define the schedule for manual meter reading of devices at Service Points in that cycle. Measurement cycles can have one or more associated routes used to collect measurements.

Measurement cycles can also be configured to define when to create usage transactions for Usage Subscriptions associated to Service Points in the cycle.

Measurement Cycle Schedules

Measurement cycle schedules define the dates on which devices are scheduled to be read for a given measurement cycle and the routes used to collect measurements for the measurement cycle.