Importing Data From External Systems

In addition to importing data from head end systems for meters and other devices, the system can also import data from other types of external systems such as weather systems or from market participants such as an independent system operator (ISO) as part of a settlement market. Data received from these types of systems is stored in standalone measuring components (see About Measuring Components for more information).

When importing data for standalone measuring components, initial measurement processing uses the Standalone Identifier (or Standalone ID) to identify the measuring component for which the measurement data belongs.

Each external system from which data is imported should be defined as an external application. If the data being imported uses units of measure or time of use periods that are specific to the external system, translation methods should be defined to map the specific data to standard codes.