• In general, keep the number of devices to 1,000 per file for optimum usage and event processing through OSB. A lower number of devices, per file, will take more time for processing. A higher number of devices, per file, leads to high growth in garbage collection leading to waits and results in lower throughput. Please note, the optimum number of transactions per file may vary by head-end system.

• Initial measurement payloads should have very selective criterion to get to the exact measuring component (MC). In an ideal case, it should be the MC identifier along with device serial number. If this is not provided, then the UOM/TOU/SQI configured on the MC type is used to retrieve the exact business object (BO) from the Service Provider which might have the same values for multiple channels.

• Populating the raw data section of the IMD record will reduce overall throughput